TRC releases eclectic album Transmission in collaboration with Blue Note

Community music group Total Refreshment Centre (TRC) will be releasing a new and eclectic album Transmission from Total Refreshment Centre in collaboration with Blue Note on February which brilliantly fuses international and intergenerational music.

The group has played a central role in cultivating London’s jazz and dance music scene by giving the younger generations greater access to music and their album will be a celebration of the music community, drawing from multiple genres such as new school jazz, hip-hop, dub, soul, funk and drill.

The collection features the songs of top players from London, Chicago and Melbourne, including a collaborative single by Soccer96 and MC Kieron Boothe, who were brought together by the founder of TRC, Lex Blondin.

Trumpeter Byron Wallen has brought decades of experience to building a new string arrangement for ‘Closed Circle’ which he wrote in 2002 as a tribute to Stephen Lawrence, an 18-year-old man who was tragically murdered in a racist attack.

The album will also feature a cover of Charles Tolliver’s 1970 classic Plight by Resavoir.

This song evolved from a meeting in Chicago where Resavoir’s Will Miller and TRC’s Lex bonded over the track which they had played at TRC’s sister gig, Church of Sound in 2019.

Other highlights of the album include Jake Long’s Crescent (City Swamp Dub), Matter Unknown’s deep groove Eloquence and Melbourne’s Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange who became a band to watch after their improvised jams at Church of Sound.

Picture: Soccer 96 – Kieron Boothe Picture: Blue Note Records