22-049 Shamal Wind - Chip Wickham Cedar Room Edits Vol.2 Nicolas Houses in Harlem

Nicolas Houses in Harlem

from looking at this unassuming record cover featuring a middle-aged man sporting an impressive pair of glasses you wouldn't expect it to become the fabric to one of the songs from the iconic 'Madvillain’ album

and they are cooped up in a house together

Funk session perfectionists The U

who have both successfully run their own labels in Blacksmith

22-049 Shamal Wind - Chip Wickham Cedar Room Edits Vol.2 Nicolas Houses in HarlemListen: https: youtu. be ryGCVDeKDTY Recorded in Madrid in July 2017, Shamal Wind combines Chip Wickhams globetrotting, spiritual jazz expeditions with hard won schoolings in the funk. Following his critically acclaimed 2017 debut, La Sombra, the record draws on spiritual jazz influences like Yusef Lateef and Sahib Shihab, and rests on Chips many sided experience as a musician, spanning left field beat experiments to hard hitting funk heavyweights.