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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    A1. The Creator Has A Master Plan (4:57)
    A2. Strings (5:25)
    A3. MFT (3:32)
    A4. Bushido (6:19)
    A5. Interlude (Contorni) (1:10)

    B1. Kanazawa (3:54)
    B2. Love is Everywhere (5:22)
    B3. Interlude (Digestivo) (0:32)
    B4. The Creator Has a Master Plan Part II (4:57)

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    A1. The Creator Has A Master Plan (4:57)
    A2. Strings (5:25)
    A3. MFT (3:32)
    A4. Bushido (6:19)
    A5. Interlude (Contorni) (1:10)

    B1. Kanazawa (3:54)
    B2. Love is Everywhere (5:22)
    B3. Interlude (Digestivo) (0:32)
    B4. The Creator Has a Master Plan Part II (4:57)

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    1. The Creator Has A Master Plan (4:57)
    2. Strings (5:25)
    3. MFT (3:32)
    4. Bushido (6:19)
    5. Interlude (Contorni) (1:10)
    6. Kanazawa (3:54)
    7. Love is Everywhere (5:22)
    8. Interlude (Digestivo) (0:32)
    9. The Creator Has a Master Plan Part II (4:57)

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Strings 05:25
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MFT 03:25
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Bushido 06:18
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Kanazawa 03:54
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Revered composer, pianist, DJ and two decade-long bridge between jazz, dance and hip-hop, Mark de Clive-Lowe (MdCL), links up with influential drummer/producer/DJ, Shigeto and Brooklyn-based, Haitian-rooted, flautist/songwriter and Verve Records artist - Melanie Charles on Hotel San Claudio, a collaborative LP of spiritual jazz, live deconstructed beats, and a three-track set of Pharoah Sanders reinterpretations.

'Strings' speaks to the group’s love of hip-hop, with Shigeto’s Dilla-esque ‘hanging off the beat’ slap and Melanie Charles’ deft rhymes and MdCL’s sample-chops, whilst 'Kanazawa' references a love of soulful house, with Charles’ 70s disco/fusion-tipping flute solo, leading into a euphoric and climactic club outro. The warrior-themed Bushido, first heard on MdCL’s album Heritage, leans even heavier on 70s jazz fusion as MdCL’s unruly synth impulsions and Donald Byrd-leaning soul-jazz production strides the line between atmospheric and experimental. MFT showcases Charles’ jazz vocals, treated here with big reverbs and delays, affording a vast, celestial quality that stands present throughout Hotel San Claudio.

One musician the group kept circling back to as a major influence was saxophone titan and cosmic sage, Pharoah Sanders. The trio’s absorbing 2-part versioning of Sanders’ 30m-long classic ‘The Creator Has A Master Plan’ as well as his iconic ‘Love Is Everywhere’ become the centrepiece of Hotel San Claudio’s spiritually-focused, reimagined jazz core.

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released March 24, 2023

2022, Soul Bank Music - a division of K7 Music GmbH

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Mark de Clive-Lowe Los Angeles, California

"Way before jazz hybridity became a worldwide phenomenon, de Clive-Lowe was busy designing its blueprint.” - Jazziz

"Connecting eras, sharing ideas. Yes indeed CHURCH sessions coyly alert the new Jazz consortium, in the most ebullient way. WE bEEN Out HeRe." - 48hills
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