The Heliocentrics
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Biography
Formed in London, England in 2005, the Heliocentrics is a jazz fusion collective that combines jazz, funk, psychedelia, electronica, hip-hop, ethnic, Sun Ra- inspired space rock and library music influences. While players come and go, the band is based around core members Malcolm Catto (drummer/producer), Jake Ferguson (bass), and Jack Yglesias (organ/percussion). The Heliocentrics released Out There, their debut album, in 2007 and then collaborated with Mulatu Astatke, the father of Ethio jazz, on the 2009 album Inspiration Information. In 2010, the Heliocentrics collaborated with jazz maestro, ethno-musicologist, and multi-instrumentalist, Lloyd Miller on the album Lloyd Miller & the Heliocentrics OST. After the release of 2013âs 13 Degrees of Reality, they collaborated with American actor, playwriter and Black cinema icon Melvin Van Peebles on the album The Last Transmission (2014). That same year, they backed Nigerian saxophonist and singer Orlando Julius on the album Jaiyede Afro. The groupâs next album was 2016âs From the Deep followed by A World of Masks with vocalist Barbora Patkova (2017), the soundtrack to the British documentary The Sunshine Makers (2017), and two albums in 2020 â Telemetric Sounds and Infinity of Now.
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Top Tracks
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- Space Time Girl
- Ch. 8-Telepathinc Routine by The Heliocentrics
- Calabash
- Ch. 9-The Dance by The Heliocentrics
- Ch. 10-Trust the Cosmos (Believe in the Universe) by The Heliocentrics
- Ch. 11-Infinite List (Toss the Dice) by The Heliocentrics
- Ch. 12-Epilogue by The Heliocentrics
- Distant Star
- Nava
- Sirius B
- Left to our own devices
- Cha Cha by The Heliocentrics
- The Opening
- Shattered Mind
- Rehearsal 24
- Phantom of the Panther by The Heliocentrics
- Night and Day
- Dewel by The Heliocentrics
- Modality
- Vibration of the Fallen Angels
- Before I Die
- Chik Chikka
- Lloyd's Diatribe
- Space Cake
