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Into The Abyss

by Joel Holmes

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    A1 Broken Styles (feat. Tenderlonious and Roberto Manzin)
    A2 The Universe (feat. DNA and Tenderlonious)
    A3 Brighter Days (feat. Theljon Allen and Cory Baker)
    A4 Hot Sauce
    B1 We Got The Power (feat. Desney Bailey)
    B2 Troublesome (feat. Tenderlonious & Vernon D. Hill)
    B3 Little David (feat. Eldar Tsalikov & Tenderlonious)
    B4 We Got The Power (Emma-Jean Thackray Remix)

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Once known solely for electronic music, Berlin has quietly gone through huge changes over the past years. While the queues in front of the techno clubs become shorter and shorter, the city is slowly converting into a melting pot for all sorts of musicians and artists with amazing instrumentalists, producers and bands from all over the world moving to the German capital to create a new scene. As a result Berlin has come out with some of the craziest, non-conformist types of music. Toy Tonics sister label Kryptox has started to establish itself as a key platform for this new scene.

One of the protagonists of this scene is Joel Holmes, former member of Carl Craig's synthesizer ensemble and keyboarder of (Grammy-nominated) cult band Roy Hargrove. Joel's new album ‘Into The Abyss’ is a perfect capturing of the current moment in Berlin, but it also taps into international talent such as acclaimed flutist Tenderlonious from London.

Few people bridge the gap between jazz and electronic music as successfully as Holmes. Over the past years, he’s been working with some of jazz’s most relevant artists incl. Roy Hargrove, Curtis Fuller, Javon Jackson, Nnenna Freelon, Curtis Lundy and Jimmy Cobb. Once tapped into electronic music too he made records with legends such as Carl Craig. Working with techno artists made him curious about the new dance scene resulting in his moved to Berlin where he quickly starting making music with the likes of Cody Currie and Kapote.

Joel describes the album in his own words as follows: "The next album "Into the Abyss," is the first time I recorded music through the lens of different landscapes and on 2 different continents reflecting the times of today’s music that is mirroring what is happening in our communities and worlds today. From dark colors to light, music is so diverse and I tried to reflect this in my album. This is also the first time I have had this many special guests on an album. So I‘m excited about this.“

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released May 5, 2023

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Kryptox Berlin, Germany

Kryptox is a label and home base for new bands doing new things inspired by jazz, kraut rock, contemporary classical music, psychedelica and electronica. Musicians mainly living in Germany.

New artists creating unique sonic voyages. Inclusion and collective experiences taking over from solitude. Travelling between the styles and universes.
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