The Heliocentrics
The Heliocentrics are a London-based music collective formed in 2005. Led by drummer and producer Malcolm Catto, their sound blends funk, jazz, psychedelic influences, and library music. Core members include Jake Ferguson (bass), Jack Yglesias (multi-instrumentalist), and Adrian Owusu (guitar), with contributions from Sylvia Hallett, Daniel Smith, Jason Yarde, Raven Bush, Barbora Patkova and others.
Their debut album, Out There, was released in 2007 on Now-Again Records. They gained wider recognition for collaborating with Ethiopian musician Mulatu Astatke on Inspiration Information (2009), which won Gilles Peterson Worldwide Winner Album of the Year. They also appeared on the UK release of DJ Shadow’s The Outsider (2006) on the track Skullfuckery and released a second album, 13 Degrees of Reality, in 2013 on Stones Throw.
The Mulatu Astatke collaboration was later listed by Jamie Cullum as one of his Five Essential Jazz Albums in 2013. In 2017 they released A World of Masks, featuring Barbora Patkova, and they scored The Sunshine Makers, a 2015 British documentary, with both releases appearing on Soundway Records. Other 2020 releases include Infinity of Now and Telemetric Sounds. In 2023 they issued Legna, a full-length collaboration with The Gaslamp Killer.
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