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The Heliocentrics


The Heliocentrics are a London-based musical collective combining funk, jazz, psych and library influences based around drummer and producer Malcolm Catto, Bassist Jake Ferguson, Guitarist Adrian Owusu and multi-instrumentalist Jack Yglesias.

They released their debut album, Out There in 2007 on Now-Again Records, followed by collaborations with Ethiopian musician Mulatu Astatke on the album Inspiration Information (2009) which was awarded that years Gilles Peterson Worldwide Winner Album of the Year award, Lloyd Miller Lloyd Miller & The Heliocentrics (OST) (2010), and Orlando Julius

They appeared on the track 'Skullfuckery' on the UK release of the DJ Shadow album The Outsider released in 2006.

In 2013 they released their second full album, 13 Degrees of Reality again on Stones Throw.

The album with Astatke was included in a list of 'Five Essential Jazz Albums' chosen by pianist Jamie Cullum in 2013

2007: Out There
2009: Inspiration Information, Volume 3 (with Mulatu Astatke)
2010: Lloyd Miller & the Heliocentrics
2013: 13 Degrees of Reality
2014: Jaiyede Afro (with Orlando Julius)
2014: The Last Transmission (with Melvin Van Peebles)
2016: From the Deep


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