Roy Ayers Daddy BugDaddy Bug is the third and final studio work for Atlantic by the great Roy Ayers. The album was released in 1969, a year before Ayers would form his groundbreaking band Ubiquity. Produced by jazz icon Herbie Mann, Daddy Bug is full of cool, stylish vibraphone heavy instrumental jazz with contributions from some of the best sidemen in the business including Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter on bass, Hubert Laws on flute, Sonny Sharrock on guitar, and

Precisely thirty-two years to the day that the influential debut album ‘George Best’ was released on their own Reception Records The Wedding Present unveil details of the new version

requiring a greater boldness and confidence than the one before

Heavyweight solid white vinyl

minimalist punk

a mesmerizing slo-mo epic instantly recognisable for its enormous contribution to Massive Attack’s hit ‘Daydreaming’ as well as hitting big for DJs such as Kevorkian at the time

In a catalogue defined by mercurial departures

Almost forty years after it was initially released

the follow up to 2017’s highly acclaimed ‘Memories Are Now’

lilting synthesizer hums

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which was cut 13 months before it was released

the feeling of creative failure freeing the imagination