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Reconstruction of the Shop part of this website!

Mon Mar 17th 2025 We apologise for any inconvenience! The online 'shop' on this SWP Records website is being updated and will only be working again in 2 weeks time. This so that purchasing any music from our catalogue will be totally secure in accordance with the newest standards. If you cannot wait that long, please go to https://swp-records.bandcamp.com/ and order from there. Thanks for your understanding  

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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,...

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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...

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New Release - 'Resonance Vibration Frequencies'

Wed Sep 20th 2023 SACD album - 96kHz/32bit + surround sound + 44.1kHz/16bit. Release date November 3rd. 68 minutes of fascinating but warm music - Michael Baird plays metal objects and instruments, recording in a special way, capturing every last vibration. Indeed, science tells us: "The resonance theory of consciousness suggests that resonance is at the heart not only of human consciousness but of physical reality in general. All things in our universe are constantly in motion, vibrating. Even objects that appear to be stationary are in fact vibrating, oscillating, reso...

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