Reel to Reel Monthly Mixtape #1 – Summer in Paris

Sven Wunder – Easy Going (2023)

The funky orchestral beat of Sven Wunder’s latest single “Easy Going” comes via the sixth volume of the Mr. Bongo Record Club mixtape-style series curated with contemporary psychedelic cuts from Brazil, Sweden, the USA, South Africa, Portugal, Japan, Trinidad and Tobago, and Canada.

The kind of track that makes you turn the volume control and smile.

Fred Williams & The Jewels Band – Tell Her (1969)

This Soul track is a slow melancholic breath-taking gem.

Few records are coveted by so many rare 45 collectors as Fred Williams only outing on Solo Records. A clean original copy changed hands for 4,477 USD in March 2020.

Jacqueline Taïeb – Ce Soir Je M’en Vais (1967)

Jacqueline Taïeb (born 9 November 1948) is a French singer and songwriter of Jewish Tunisian descent. She achieved her greatest success as a pop and yé-yé singer in France in the 1960s.

The track makes you feel the melancholy of a young lady having to go back home after a thrilling journey.

Tricky – The Love Cats (2003)

The Love Cats by Tricky was written by Robert Smith and was first released by The Cure in 1983.

Tricky released it on the album Vulnerable in 2003.

Cinnamon Soulettes – I’ll Show You How (1970s)

Close to no information is available about I’ll Show You How other than it was published and released in the 1970s as a private press through the late legendary Seattle producer Kearney Barton.

It was repressed by Melodies International in April 2023 (sold out).

V/Z – Habadash (feat. Cathy Lucas) (2023)

Cathy Lucas reunites with her Vanishing Twin bandmates on the dubby indie pop of “Habadash,” adding a bright and catchy hook (“even in the silence I hear the sound”) to the track’s teary organ synth.

The track was released on the album Suono Assente in June 2023.

Blaubird – L’Ombre De Mon Amant (2022)

This partially bilingual song evokes the tear of separation and the inhabited emptiness that haunts those who remain.

A timeless, refined, and baroque song released on the album Le Ciel Est Partout.

Gilberto Gil – Maracatu Atômico (1974)

Maracatu Atômico” (Portuguese for “Atomic Maracatu”) is a song written and composed by Brazilian musicians Jorge Mautner and Nélson Jacobina in 1974, and originally performed by Mautner on his self-titled album released in the same year.

Gilberto Gil was the first one to cover the song, for his 1974 album Cidade do Salvador.

Jay-Jay Johanson – Finally (2023)

With his new album Fetish, Jay-Jay Johanson explores the melancholic, aerial atmosphere that makes the DNA of his music with a cinematographic view.

” Finally ” sounds like a new classic, sampling the famous 3rd Symphony by Brahms, it reminds all the movies of the 50’s calling the phantom of Chet Baker, one of his inspirations.