Songs For Lost Travellers Electronic Donald Byrd brings Hard Bop

Donald Byrd brings Hard Bop to Paris at the Olympia Theatre in 1958

captured live over three nights at London's legendary Vortex club performing music specially composed for each ensemble

Benny The Butcher

The first edition vinyl was sold out quickly back in 2014

It is a mystery why some sessions are capable of generating such magic while others are not

Songs For Lost Travellers Electronic Donald Byrd brings Hard BopSouth London based rapper Confucius MC teams up with producer and multi instrumentalist Bastien Keb for Songs For Lost Travellers, released on Shabaka Hutchings Native Rebel Recordings. A treatise on surviving and maintaining sanity in a world hostile to creative personalities, its a deeply spiritual mixture of jazz, hip hop and folk music.