When The World Was One 5509089 was released in late 1960

was released in late 1960 and was noted for its varied choice in music from jazz standards to blues numbers to doo-wop and rhythm & blues

notably on the 13-minute opener Mzwandile

and Brian Blade's percussive finesse lays the rhythmic foundation for this dream team

Kinetika Bloco

When The World Was One 5509089 was released in late 1960The Manchester trumpeter, composer and all round northern new music enabler Matthew Halsall might be a man with the open ears and eclectic energy to run a broad based contemporary record label but he's also a disciple of the meditative 1960s music of John and Alice Coltrane, which significantly steers his own ventures. Halsall's personal projects often come close to the Coltranes' most reflective later works, but his Gondwana Orchestra (including