Everyone at Wah Wah is pretty excited this week at The Hollow being album of the week on Gilles Peterson’s new BBC 6 Music radio show.

Gilles played the acoustic version of A Promise Is All It Was and album track Afar, which also features the keys of Jessica Lauren.

If you haven’t listened to the album yet you can right here on this site. Listen to the whole thing on the Scrimshire page.

You can download the full album now including the acoustic versions of A Promise and Home. You can also download Scrimshire singles and “name your price” with no minimum.

So if the double dip is hitting your music budget hard then you don’t have to be deprived of high quality Wah Wah music. Equally, if you have been avoiding taxes or stashing your secret fortune in offshore accounts, you could opt to pay, say, £10,000 for a single- why not?

Either way, go and listen right now.

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With only a week to go until Bev’s debut album we are giving away a special acoustic version of the beautiful album track Private Life Of A Puppet.

Get your copy right here:

You can also pre-order the album right now – you’ll receive 2 tracks immediately and the rest will be emailed to you first thing on the day of the release. You can buy CD or digital versions or the special edition including a Bev Lee Harling poster.

Just visit the shop here.

Compiled by Mat Colman…

1. Central Park North – by The Thad Jones & Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra

2. On The Way To San Mateo – by Lalo Schifrin

3. Chang Chang Chang – by Curtis Fuller with Yusef Lateef Quintet

4. The Jody Grind – by Horace Silver

5. Saga Se Karame – by Dusko Goykovich

6. Mario Molta – by Sergio Mendes

7. Spanish Rice – by Clark Terry & Chico ‘O’ Farill

8. Sunny – by James Brown Dee Felice Trio

9. Fever – by Certain Lions & Tigers

10. Mr Clean – by Peter Herbolzheimer Rhythm Combination & Brass

YES! We are incredibly excited to announce that this year you will find an extensive Wah Wah attendance at one of the summer’s finest festivals – Soundwave Croatia.

This year, beside the seaside, you will be able to hear Scrimshire playing with his full live band including Faye Houston from Resonators and Stac on vocal duties. Scrimshire will be playing new tracks from his album The Hollow along with live remixes and dub versions made perfectly for the sunny setting. Expect afrobeat, house and soul.

Stac returns to Soundwave this year to play classic tracks from Turn That Light Out alongside plenty of exclusive new songs. Last year when a massive storm set in Stac relocated to the warm and intense indoors of Barbarellas and then performed one of the festival highlights to a packed room. A mesmerising set that captivated a rowdy crowd of festival goers.

With her new EP alongside Royce Wood Jnr out now, a week of exclusive session tracks on Mary-Anne Hobbs’ XFM show out of the way and a new album in the making, expect to be mesmerised once more!

Stac will also be running around and putting on stunning performances with the OneTaste collective including the likes of Eska no less!

Celebrating the release of their 2nd album Lightfalls, the Part-Time Heroes will once again be in attendance. Expect several bouncing, beautiful DJ sessions to keep your weekend in exactly the kind of spirits it should be.

Our very own DJ legend Dom Servini himself will also be on board this year to grace the Soundwave decks with his own unique brand of afro funk, soul, beats and boogie and party classics – not to be missed.

And Scrimshire will also be playing a record or two…

And that is not all!

On the Friday Evening Wah Wah 45s will be hosting a KILLER boat party to really heat up your weekend!

Live music, beach bar DJ sets, a boat party, all in classic Wah Wah style! How big is THAT?!

Get tickets for Soundwave Croatia at their website right now, and follow Soundwave on facebook here too.

At the very tail end of last year, rather than wait hopefully for you to send us a Christmas present we pretty much went and got ourselves one. Our Christmas present took the form of signing one of our favourite new artists; Bev Lee Harling.

Bev Lee came to our attention over the last 18 months for not only her amazing melodic songwriting but also her quirky live performance.

It’s not unusual to see a cheese grater, carrot, knife, pot, pan and quite literally the kitchen sink alongside the usual guitar and drums on stage at one of Bev’s gigs. But that doesn’t hide the true quality of these beautifully crafted pop songs that bring you flavours of folk, soul, blues, latin and electronic music in a genuinely uplifting show.

2012 will see Wah Wah release at least 2 singles and Bev’s full length debut which I can promise you is going to be one of the musical highlights of the year.

Check out this taster video from Bev and bookmark her new Wah Wah 45s page as there is many a treat to come in the coming months.

1 Peter Herbolzheimers’ RC&B – “Hip Walk”
2 Stan Getz – “Walk on By”
3 Herbie Hancock – “People Music”
4 Vince Guaraldi – “Little Birdie”
5 Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band – “Strano Sueno”
6 Bill Watrous – “Tiger of St Pedro”
7 Quincy Jones – “Manteca”

With music, words, pictures, lyrics and video, Scrimshire takes you on a guided tour of the album and what made it what it is… All the tracks are embedded in this image so click around and listen as you read about it.

The Hollow is available on iTunes now! Or buy direct from our own shop.

Take the tour

Fifth instalment of the Colman Brothers’ 30 minute mixtapes.

Each one of these is a massive treat so don’t hesitate to dive right in. You can listen to all of them on the Colman Brothers page here on Wah Wah 45s.

1. KENNY CLARKE FRANCY BOLAND BIG BAND – “Kenny and Kenny”
2. BILL WATROUS MANHATTAN WILDLIFE REFUGE – “Fourth Floor Walk-Up”
3. OSCAR PETERSON – “Mas Que Nada”
4. DUKE ELLINGTON AND HIS ORCHESTRA – “Spanish Flea”
5. DIZZY GILLESPIE – “Ole”
6. JIMMY SMITH – “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Part 2)”
7. THE HERBALISER – “Nah’mean Nah’m Sayin”
8. MAYNARD FERGUSON – “El Dopa”
9. HORACE SILVER – “Part Four/Creation”