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Gondwana

Gondwana

Gondwana Records is an independent record label, founded in Manchester in 2008 by trumpeter, composer and producer Matthew Halsall and his brother, graphic designer and artist, Daniel Halsall.

Inspired by a love of deep spiritual jazz and UK club culture, Gondwana initially focused on releases from Matthew Halsall and saxophonist Nat Birchall featuring the cream of Manchester jazz talent. In 2012 Gondwana released the debut albums from acoustic-electronica trio GoGo Penguin and folk-jazz minimalists Mammal Hands, and in 2018 ushered in the return of Portico Quartet to the studio, helping define a strand of progressive electronica and jazz-influenced new music that is one of the label’s defining sounds alongside jazz, neo-classical and ambient music. Subsequently Gondwana has become the home of trailblazing and progressive new artists such as Hania Rani, Svaneborg Kardyb, Vega Trails and Jasmine Myra.

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Trumpeter, bandleader and composer Matthew Halsall announces landmark new album An Ever Changing View, an expansive, immaculately conceived project which presents Halsall’s signature blend of jazz, electronica, global and spiritual jazz influences.

An Ever Changing View

Matthew Halsall
Contemporary Jazz

Like former and present Gondwana Records label mates such as GoGo Penguin and Portico Quartet there’s something strongly cinematic about Kessoncoda’s music, like a narrative arc which unfolds through different themes and moods, with an ebb-and-flow of intensity, as breath-taking swells of melody burst into being, eventually to resolve in a wondrous climax.

Kessoncoda
Contemporary Jazz

Elevating, uplifting and beautifully arranged.

Jasmine Myra
Contemporary Jazz

Confident, exploratory and often jaw-droppingly sublime, this incredible album properly announces Caoilfhionn Rose’s arrival as a fresh creative force for 2024.

Caoilfhionn Rose
Contemporary Jazz

Follow up to Sending My Love debut, and now remasetred and remixed with additional tracks, Mancunian trumpeter Matthew Halsall teams up with labelmate Nat Birchall, pianist Adam Fairhall, bass player Gavin Barras and alternating drummers Gaz Hughes and Marek Dorcik for an album of melodic and often meditative jazz.

Colour Yes (Anniversary Edition)

Matthew Halsall
Jazz

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Portico Quartet announce Monument, the electronic driven follow-up to their acclaimed ambient-minimalist suite Terrain, presenting the band at their most direct.

Portico Quartet
Electronica

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Debut album from Jasmine Myra, produced by Matthew Halsall, it's an elevating debut record of understated beauty.

Jasmine Myra
Contemporary Jazz

Superkilen the new album from Danish duo Svaneborg Kardyb, Nikolaj Svaneborg (keyboards) and Jonas Kardyb (drums), is named after a public park in the ethnically diverse Nørrebro district of Copenhagen.

Superkilen (Black Bio Vinyl)

Svaneborg Kardyb
Contemporary Jazz

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This album is about memories. About a feeling of nostalgia and longing, both beautifully comforting and devastating.

Nostalgia (2 LP)

Hania Rani
Ambient/Modern Classical

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When The World Was One is something of a companion piece to Matthew Halsall’s 2012 album Fletcher Moss Park (much of the music was written at the same time) but draws more explicitly on Halsall’s love of spiritual jazz and Eastern music as well as his own studies in meditation and travels in Japan.

When The World Was One (2 LP Bio Vinyl Repress)

Matthew Halsall
Contemporary Jazz

Matthew Halsall releases a limited-edition vinyl only pressing of Bright Sparkling Light, a luminous three track EP featuring some of his most gorgeous compositions.

Bright Sparkling Light

Matthew Halsall
Contemporary Jazz

Chip Wickham is a jazz musician and producer who divides his time between Spain, UK and the Middle-East and who has made a name for himself with a series of beautifully crafted solo albums that draw equally on the hard swinging spiritual jazz of Roland Kirk, Yusef Lateef and Sahih Shihab, alongside the music of British jazz legends such as Tubby Hayes and Harold McNair and the more contemporary sounds of Jazzanova, Kyoto Jazz Massive and Robert Glasper.

Chip Wickham
Contemporary Jazz

"We're at a point now where playing and writing together can sometimes feel almost telepathic, that as individuals we can tune in to a collective resonance..."

Gift From The Trees

Mammal Hands
Contemporary Jazz

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Saxophonist Matt Cliffe who also performs with Matthew Halsall is a key member and the rotating line-up which includes drums, two bassists, keyboards, harp, violin, cello, two tenors, alto, oboe, flute and percussion.

Ancient Infinity Orchestra
Contemporary Jazz

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UK jazz master Chip Wickham follows last year’s brilliant soulful long-player Cloud 10 with a deftly crafted, reflective EP of beautiful spiritual jazz sounds influenced by the soulful sounds of Yusef Lateef.

Chip Wickham
Contemporary Jazz

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One of the finest British jazz records of the modern era, one that manages to combine the serious and spiritual within a warm, melodic and welcoming musical context.

When The World Was One

Matthew Halsall & The Gondwana Orchestra
Jazz

Halsall draws on a diverse range of influences from Alice Coltrane, Dorothy Ashby, Phil Cohran and Leon Thomas to the more contemporary sounds of The Cinematic Orchestra, Max Richter and Nils Frahm to deliver his most complete recording to date.

Into Forever (Indies Exclusive Transparent Blue Vinyl)

Matthew Halsall & The Gondwana Orchestra
Contemporary Jazz

Monument is one of Portico Quartet’s most accessible, direct records to date.

Monument (2 LP Bio Vinyl Repress)

Portico Quartet
Contemporary

"At the beginning of February 2021, I was invited by the Berlinale Film Festival to record a live set as a part of the EFM sessions which became the motivation to document this live performance.

Live from Studio S2 (Transparent Yellow)

Hania Rani
Ambient/Modern Classical

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Mercury Prize-nominated Portico Quartet has always been an impossible band to pin down. Sending out echoes of jazz, electronica, ambient music and minimalism, the group created their own singular, cinematic sound over the course of three studio albums, from their 2007 breakthrough Knee-Deep in the North Sea and 2010 John Leckie produced Isla, to the self titled record Portico Quartet in 2012.

Art in the Age of Automation (Clear Vinyl)

Portico Quartet
Jazz

Signed to Matthew Halsall's Gondwana Records and championed by DJs from Mike Chadwick to Gilles Peterson and Jamie Cullum, GoGo Penguin's skittering break-beats, telepathic interplay and a penchant for anthemic melody all contribute to a sound that's wholly their own.

V2.0 (Green Vinyl)

GoGo Penguin
Jazz

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Gondwana Records are proud to announce Octava the sublimely beautiful second album from immersive LA deep-jazz masters Phi-Psonics.

Octava (Indies Exclusive Clear Vinyl)

Phi-Psonics
Jazz

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With Fletcher Moss Park, Halsall has nailed a compelling musical identity of his own.

Fletcher Moss Park (Indies Exclusive Dark Green Vinyl)

Matthew Halsall
Contemporary Jazz

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