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New album by 'Trio CBD' ready in September '25

Fri Apr 11th 2025 Drummer Michael Baird with French guitarists Rémi Charmasson and Philippe Deschepper play Hippie Free-Jazz - shaken and stirred! Catalogue number SWP 073, album title not yet decided. The art of total improvisation by these 3 complementary musicians - density and silence, abstraction and pulse, sound and rhythm. Recorded in the renowned La Buissonne studio by Gérard De Haro. "Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking: get ready for take-off, and we wish you a wonderfully painless flight....."

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Reconstruction of the Shop part of this website

Thu Apr 10th 2025 We apologise for any inconvenience during these past weeks! The online 'shop' on this SWP Records website has been updated, so that purchasing any music from our catalogue will be totally secure in accordance with the newest standards. Thanks for your patience...order away!  

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New album by Michael Baird & friends expected in June '25

Fri Nov 1st 2024 Some themes, collective improvisations, space and freedom. At the beginning of September this year, Michael Baird took some top improvisors into the brand new Le Roy Studio in Amsterdam, which has wonderful natural acoustics, and Mikel Le Roy expertly recorded the two sessions in two consecutive days. Yes, with Michael Moore (USA) on clarinet/bass-clarinet/alto sax, Jon Birdsong (USA) on cornet/cornetto, Hans Hasebos (NL) on vibraphone/soprano sax/percussion, Henk Raven (NL) on tuba/euphonium/tenor sax, and Michael Baird (ZAM/GB) on drumset/percussion, p...

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New release double-CD 'Danceables' coming up

Wed Mar 27th 2024 The most danceable tracks by Michael Baird from 1987-2022. Release date May 1st! Zambia-born drummer/composer/producer Michael Baird was an ‘Afro-futurist’ way before the World-Music Scene and the Hipper than Hip ever came up with that name! This compilation of tracks from between 1987 and 2022 shows that beyond any doubt. But musically he always felt himself just a plain ‘Pan-Africanist’ – aside from his home country Zambia, we have here beats inspired by rhythms from Rwanda, Senegal, Congo, as well as influences from Jazz, Funk, Dance, Lounge. “You bor...

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