RELEASES

MÆVEY GATEKEEPER - MAYA YENN REMIX 

Released 23:08:24

Maya Yenn

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Produced By Steve Levine

for Baltic Jazz Recordings Ltd

Remix Maya Yenn

MÆVEY Debut EP RE:VEALED

Released 16:08:24

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Produced By Steve Levine 

for Baltic Jazz Recordings Ltd

Recorded and Mixed at Steve Levine Recording Liverpool

Mastered by Mike Hillier at Metropolis Mastering London

Baltic Jazz Recordings Announces Next Release 

Baltic Jazz Recordings is pleased to announce its next release from MÆVEY. Mævey is a Liverpool based singer-songwriter hailing from the landscapes of West Wales. Growing up in a large family, she and her sisters were encouraged to nurture their creativity. She has always been curious about the complexities and challenges of life and has used music and writing as a vehicle to explore the vulnerable parts of herself. Working with the live musicians on this recording session has allowed her to experiment more with her vocal performance. Her voice is reminiscent of glamorous figures with the softness and allure of many of the heartbreaking jazz icons that have inspired her music. Mævey’s style of blending elements of jazz, neo-soul, pop and electronica, for a world of dark and atmospheric sensibilities has resulted in this, her debut release for Baltic Jazz Recordings / EMI north The Mævey Baltic Jazz  sessions “Baltic Jazz’s commitment to detail from the very first moment we got in the room is something special. Everything you hear on the tracks has been crafted and cared for with sheer excellence - It’s music for people who see life in technicolour”. Mævey 2024 

Plain Sight - This was one of those songs where the lyric comes like a flash. This idea that someone you have known in one particular way is then seen as something entirely different. It happened for me that when I worked through some of my own patterns of relationship, something really amazing happened. I stopped running away from vulnerability and melted into it. 

Maevey Debut Single "Plain Sight"

Released 10:07:24

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Produced By Steve Levine 

for Baltic Jazz Recordings Ltd

Recorded and Mixed at Steve Levine Recording Liverpool

Mastered by Mike Hillier at Metropolis Mastering London

"Baltic Jazz Recordings Presents"

Pheromones featuring Lois Levin

Taken from “REVISIONED EP” 

Searchlight Remix

A soulful remix has been created by Searchlight -Searchlight features two successful Irish drum and bass artists, Zero T and Beta 2, moving away from the heavy beats and bass and into the world of jazz and soul. The band was developed with guidance from Goldie for his boutique Fallen Tree 1Hundred label. Having been commissioned to remix Lois Levin for Baltic Jazz Recordings, Searchlight decided to use the vocals from the original track and build a whole new song around it. While the original Pheromones track has a classic, trad-soul sound to it, with horn sections and hammond organs, the remix loads up the synthesisers and disco beats to turn it into a dancefloor groover

Stripped back Version

Lois recently performed this song at a couple of live events, the feedback was so positive we decided to record a version with the same stripped back arrangement . Cut totally live in the studio without any overdubs with three of the original musicians who played on the single, Jesse Eigen on Acoustic Bass, Jack Hymers, Rhodes Electric Piano and Joseph Smithson onElectric Guitar, Lois Levin on Vocals of course  – we also filmed the session so you can watch this superb performance.

Produced By Steve Levine 

for Baltic Jazz Recordings Ltd

Recorded and mixed at Steve Levine Recording Liverpool

Remix By Searchlight 

Mastered by Mike Hillier at Metropolis Mastering London

"Baltic Jazz Recordings Presents"

The Album REVISIONED

“REVISIONED” is the debut Album release from Baltic Jazz Recordings. 

This album comes off the back of the success of the singles ‘Should I Stay Or Should I Go? featuring vocalist Lois Levin, “Changing Everyday”  features Ni Maxine and “São Paulo” This instrumental track highlights the talents of some of the musicians involved in the project. These tracks have achieved significant air play and all been play listed on Jazz FM.

Album Produced By Steve Levine 

for Baltic Jazz Recordings Ltd

Recorded and mixed at Steve Levine Recording Liverpool 

Dolby Atmos versions mixed by Jonny Solway at Dean Street Studios London

Mastered by Mike Hillier at Metropolis Mastering London

Track by Track 

with comments from the album’s producer 

01 Super Strut - Featuring Paul Von Mertens & The Air Horns

Writer Eumir Deodato De Almeida

“I first heard the Deodato 2 the album that contains the track Super Strut on its original release 1973. I had just received a portable cassette recorder as my christmas gift, it was quite a thing to have back then.

I used to listen to it every night on headphones and so I had to include it here, it’s one of my all time favourite Deodato tracks”

02 Sao Paulo  Featuring Paul Von Mertens & The Air Horns

Writers Bernard Edwards, Kenny Lehman, Nile Rodgers

“I’ve always loved this Chic album track, I have very fond memories of when I heard it on my very first trip to Los Angeles, just after the albums initial release. It’s never as far as I know, been a single. It’s also the least “Chic” sounding Chic record. The classic Nile Rodgers guitar style is absent and indeed so are the normally very funky bass lines from Bernard Edwards . The song always evokes in me the sound of summer, I think we have captured that same feeling on this new arrangement”.

03 Should I Stay Out Should I Go Featuring Lois Levin

Writers Joe Strummer, Mick Jones

“As a Tape Op & Junior engineer I worked at CBS studios in London with Simon Humphrey, we recorded all the Clash songs up to White Man in Hammersmith Palais. I’ve alway been fond of their lyrics and thought what if I could …..”

04 Luv Pact Featuring Paul Von Mertens & The Air Horns

Writers Jussi Halme, Mika Kurvinen

“I was driving home from the studio when I heard this track on a random Lo-Fi Jazz Spotify playlist, I loved the tune instantly. It sounded to me like they had used lots of samples on their version and I thought perhaps I could try it it with my musicians rather than samples.  

I’ve never heard of this act or of the writers before and haven’t found much about them. The track Itself is only a couple of years old but I’ve given it a make over and I’m thrilled with our version…hope it’s well received! “

05 Changing Everyday - Featuring Ni Maxine

Writers George O’Dowd, Roy Hay, Micheal Craig, Jon Moss

“This is one of my favourite Culture Club tracks. I produced the original multi platinum Album Colour By Numbers 40 years ago, I was keen to see if I could push it even further into a Jazz arrangement , it was always one of the band’s more ‘jazzier’ tracks. I Know the band are thrilled with the way it has turned out.”

06 P.C.M. Interpolation

Writers Steve Levine, Ian Ritchie

“Originally the B side of ‘Believin’ it all’ in 1984 I’ve always thought there should be a new version. I’ve taken the 80’s version and re-visioned everything to a more contemporary production to fit into the style of the album.”

07 Spiral Featuring Paul Von Mertens & The Air Horns

Writer Joe Sample

The Crusaders were always on my car cassette machine when originally released. Driving to the sound of The Crusaders always make me think of California even if I’m in the UK.

08 Never Be The Same Featuring The Air Horns

Writers Ronnie Laws, Mike Cavanaugh, Roland Bautista

“Pressure Sensitive" is one of my all time favourite Albums and in my opinion one of the best Ronnie Laws albums.

I really remember when CBS studios mastering engineer Tim Young first played it to me as an import… I had to have a copy immediately ! I’ve chosen this track as it’s one that doesn’t get as much attention as the more famous tracks on the album ”i feel we have captured a great vibe on this new arrangement.  The Alto Sax,  played by Mike Smith from the Air Horns, is so sweet and soulful sounding, it pays great respect to the original”.

'CHANGING EVERYDAY' 

Released 3rd April 2023

Hailed a ‘Black Woman at the forefront of the UK Jazz Scene’, Ni Maxine is a Neo-Jazz Singer-Songwriter; a Black British woman sparking intergenerational conversations for change, exploring themes of home, identity, self-esteem and belonging. 

With main stage performances, a ‘2022 Highlight’ BBC Introducing Merseyside session under her belt and her debut single ‘Strange Love’ played across Jazz FM, Radio 1, 1Xtra and Selector Radio (internationally) Ni Maxine is one to watch.

Teaming up with Baltic Jazz Recordings, Ni Maxine features on this 2023

reimagining of Culture Club’s iconic ‘Changing Every Day’, 40 years on from its original release, with a heartfelt vocal giving the song an all-new perspective and meaning. Effortlessly cool, this new rendition of the timeless classic is sure to find a place in your so.

SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO ? Dolby Atmos Mix

Director: Kieran Irvine

Creative Director: Ni Maxine

Producer: Kieran Irvine

Editor: Kieran Irvine & Ni Maxine

Production Company: The Wombat Agency