Shari-Vari Records

Sault ‘Acts Of Faith’ (Forever Living Originals).

11th studio album from prolific UK R&B / Gospel supergroup featuring Cleo Sol

Available at shari-vari.com / State Buildings shop closed today

Laurie Miller ‘True Love’ (Presagi).

Unreleased 1989 gem by Laurie Miller, the freestyle queen from Miami, now on a 7” with a Jackson Bailey aka Tapes version on the flip! Restored from the original master tapes...

Limited copies online / State Buildings shop closed today

Don Glori ‘Paper Can’t Wrap Fire’ (Mr Bongo).

Feel-good, soulful jazz-funk-fusion from Australian-born, London-based multi-instrumentalist & producer on ☀️🎹🎷🐅

Available at shari-vari.com / State Buildings shop closed today

Danny Scott Lane ‘Songs For Sex’ (WRWTFWW).

present their 4th collaboration with New York ambient / jazz / downtempo musician 500 copies worldwide.

‘Songs For Sex’ is a sultry funk, jazz, and ambient exploration inspired by candid conversations about intimacy. Smooth yet messy, uplifting yet off-kilter, this album captures every mood. It’s sensual furniture (leather sofa) music, deep passion minimalism, hedonistic downtempo, glossy and warm soul electronica.

The velvety sonic affair features the lush sounds of Joseph Shabson, David Lackner, and Simon Herody on flutes and saxophones, making it an irresistible modern brand of smooth jazz, the ideal soundtrack for your favourite pastime.

Available at shari-vari.com

Jacy ‘One Kiss’ (Smallville).

4 new, deep Italo-house cuts from Jacy aka Giacy Bozzi from Bari in Southern Italy. You may be familiar with Jacy after his contributions to the amazing “Welcome To Paradise“ Compilation Series on Safe Trip, having featured on Volume I, II and III! The whole EP features the Italian producer’s signature sound - timeless and deep with a balearic feel, nodding to the golden-era of House.

Limited copies online / in store - here til 4:30pm today

Resavoir & Matt Gold ‘Horizon’ (International Anthem Recording Company).

The intimate orchestral warmth of Will Miller’s Reservoir meets the sophisticated sundry string work of longtime Makaya McCraven guitarist Matt Gold, together making a dopamine-soaked daydream of MPB-inflected, breezy Balearic new-jazz grooves.

Short-shipped on these from the supplier, limited copies for now, hope to have more soon.

Phi-Psonics ‘Expanding To One’ (Gondwana).

Top tier ambient/ meditative spiritual jazz from LA-based led by Seth Ford-Young. One of our most-anticipated jazz releases of the year!

“Phi-Psonics is a spiritual exploration of being together and connecting,” says acoustic bassist Seth Ford-Young of the immersive project he initiated in East Los Angeles in 2016. “From the beginning, I wanted to explore a contemplative sound, to create music that can be useful to listen to when you’re in a place of being more meditative, and maybe needing a break from the cacophony of the world.”

For his third long-player under the Phi-Psonics banner, Ford-Young marshalled a series of live recordings at the Healing Force Of The Universe record store in Pasadena, sculpting fourteen tracks, largely composed in the moment with a fluctuating cast of players, which wonderfully transmit his ideals of community and inner peace.

Beauty ✨

Available online and in store (open til 4:30pm)

Indi Zone ‘Natural Habitat’ (Slow Life).

Into this new one from Berlin-based producer Santi Uribe (Slow Life / Ethereal Logic Project). Deep, dreamy, dub-influenced ambient electronic, not a million miles from Yu Su, Khotin, Ramzi, Jura Soundsystem…

Available online (shop closed today)

Night City Life II’ (Spacetalk).

Volume II of London-based digger synth-disco/ boogie compilation on - a second deep dive into Ilan’s distinctive, neon-lit sound world, where European synth-pop rarities, Italo-dance treats, dancefloor-focused post-boogie instrumentals rule. Big comp!

Available online and in store, here 10:00 - 16:30 today, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Pacific Coliseum ‘Voice Wave’ (Noire & Blanche).

Recommended Balearic house/ downtempo 2xLP from Canadian producer Jamison Isaak’s project on French imprint

Disc 1 holds lots of well-produced downtempo and includes a collaboration with UK producer The tempo picks up on disc 2 with more house and dance floor orientated cuts including another hook up with Italian duo 💯👍

Available online and in store - here til 4:30!

Two more highly recommended releases from one of the producers of the moment 🦸

‘Body Singer’ feels like a natural follow up to the ‘Leave Your Life’ & ‘Strings Of Eden’ EPs (also on Pinchy & Friends), this one being another trip down memory lane, heavy on the 80s New Wave / Psyche / Kraut Rock influences. 🫡

‘Orange Coloured Liquid’ follows his excellent E2-E4 remix with a couple of blinding reworks of progressive house outfit Spooky from 1993. Rounded off with a bonus John Beltran remix! 👌

Available at shari-vari.com