Every person we meet, every moment we live through, all the love we feel, and the losses we endure, add another layer to the intricate pattern of our lives. Like multicolored threads, these layers twist together to form a complex, vibrant tapestry — a reflection of our life journey until this point. On his new album Layers, Khalab acknowledges and celebrates the encounters that have shaped his ever-evolving musical vision. The record, out on August 25th with his own Hyperjazz Records, represents the culmination of a creative journey that began with his Eunoto EP (Black Acre Records, 2015), evolved with the Afro-Futuristic soundscapes of 2018’s highly acclaimed album Black Noise 2084 (On The Corner Records/!K7), and has since developed further through a series of experiences and deep musical collaborations. Layers summons all the alchemy of Khalab’s live performances, and embodies the transcendental power of music making as a collective art form. Over the past five years, Khalab has shared the stage at Italian and International festivals with many exceptional musicians, an experience which has sharpened the musicality of his compositions and enhanced the depth and complexity of his sound. “Since the release of Black Noise 2084 I’ve increasingly developed the stage and band dynamic, focusing on arranging with the musicians in mind, and this album was almost entirely conceived together with musicians I’ve collaborated with” says Khalab. In a testament to the label’s close-knit and highly collaborative nature, Khalab's live band includes a cadre of musicians from the Hyperjazz family, including David Paulis and Enrico Truzzi of Phresoul, as well Pietro Santangelo, Fabio Sasso, and longstanding creative-partner Nicola Guida. The album’s nine tracks feature an impressive lineup of collaborators old and new, including UK drummer and producer Emanative, Burkinabe singer, guitarist, and m’bira player Gabin Dabiré (passed away a few weeks ago), Italian producer Clap! Clap!, multi-wind instrumentalist Tamar Osborn, drummer and producer Tommaso Cappellato, British-Bahraini trumpeter Yazz Ahmed, Bristol’s vocalist and producer Grove, multi-instrumentalist Tenderlonious, Italian jazz singer Alessia Obino and British-born Nigerian spoken-word artist Joshua Idehen. Layers still revolves around the key components of Khalab’s sound — dark and trancey electronics and his research into Black music and all its evolutions — but with a bigger emphasis on harmonic arrangements. Across the album, Khalab’s productions twist and pulsate into mesmerizing motifs, as the interplay between different instruments coalesce into focused melodies and rich, complex textures. Khalab and his collaborators masterfully blend gloomy and radiant tones, eliciting feelings of both doom and hope. The album will be preceded by three lead singles: “Layers” feat. Joshua idehen, “Tunnel Of Jealousy” feat. Lady Blue Eyes, and “Female Side” feat. Tommaso Cappellato.
For Khalab, Layers represents the end point of a journey that began with the synthesis of ancestral rhythms and electronic experimentation on Black Noise 2084, and has taken him on a meandering route through a Mauritanian refugee camp (M’berra, Real World Recordings, 2021), and deep into the catalogs of legendary Italian labels Soul Note and Black Saint (for the Hyperituals compilations, released on his own Hyperjazz label). In Khalab’s own words: “For me this feels like coming full circle, because everything will be more experimental going forward”.

A1 - Drone Ra feat. Yazz Ahmed & Alessia Obino
A2 - Conscious Friendship feat. Emanative, Tamar Osborn & Grove
A3 - Tunnel Of Jealousy feat. Lady Blue Eyes
A4 - Acid Vaccine feat. Clap! Clap!
A5 - Layers feat. Joshua Idehen
B1 - Female Side feat. Tommaso Cappellato
B2 - Mental Coach feat. Gabin Dabiré
B3 - Romantic Loco feat. Tenderlonious
B4 - Tribal Noise More

Khalab’s ‘Album of The Year’ has been re-worked! Ahead of a full remix LP (Summer 2019) On the Corner have opened the vault on 2019 hitters.
This 12” scorches the terrain built by ‘Black Noise 2084’. Hieroglyphic Being dominates the dancefloor with his 10 min sweater. Afrikan Sciences launch off from Khalab’s afrocentric soundscapes into a futuristic cosmos. Blood, Wine or Honey strip it back, break it down and leave bassments trembling with the
weighty jungle blows. After a stellar year for Khalab and On the Corner these three remixes bring knock-out blows for 2019 dancefloors.Hieroglyphic Being’s 10 min sledgehammer shakes the floor as the mythical producer runs a profound groove with three 808s pummelling the spine of Khalab’s track.
On the B side, Afrikan Sciences uses the Afrocentric theme of the original to strip it back and propel it into the cosmos. Khalab’s ‘Black Noise 2084’ has already racked up ‘Album of the Year’ status and we’re giving you a first glimpse of this earth scorching, dance destroyer that will prepare an onslaught for
2019.
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Woke rhythms and high-spirited grooves from the vaults of two seminal Italian jazz labels, between the 70s and 80s. Intensely curated by Khalab.

Hyperituals is a philological investigation that deeply delves into the possibilities of sound, rhythm, remix, and endless sampling. Inspiring listening, interpretation, and reinterpretation.
This volume is dedicated to the catalogue of the Italian Black Saint. Thanks to a constant, cutting-edge, and meticulous commitment, Black Saint & Soul Note established themself as two of the most important imprints for international jazz. They always placed the artists, their visions, and their music at the centre, giving them total freedom of creative expression. By combining jazz tradition with the political vanguard sentiment of the time, the two labels were able to press and produce more than five hundred records, many of which are by some of the brightest names in creative jazz or the ‘avant-garde’ of the era.
Curated by Khalab, the selection - focused on rhythms, grooves, and Afrocentric traditions - blends moments in which the rhythmic aspect is powerfully explicit, with others in which the kinetic aspect dialogues on different levels with African American cultural contexts.

A1 - The Leaders - Wait a Minute
A2 - Archie Shepp - Song For Mozambique
A3 - Oliver Lake Quartet - Tap Dancer
A4 - Karl Berger And Friends - Guitar Vibes
B1 - Sun Ra Arkestra - Mayan Temples
B2 - Muhal Richard Abrams Octet – Laja
B3 - Andrew Cyrille & Maono - Metamusicians’ Stomp
C1 - The John Carter Octet - Ode To The Flower Maiden
C2 - Diedre Murray, Fred Hopkins - Zebra Walk
C3 - Joseph Jarman, Don Moye feat. Johnny Dyani - Mama Marimba
D1 - Sun Ra Arkestra - Love On A Far Away Planet
D2 - The Don Pullen Quartet - The Sixth Sense
D3 - World Saxophone Quartet More

Woke rhythms and high-spirited grooves from the vaults of the seminal Italian jazz label, between the 70s and 80s. Hyperituals is part of the new research path undertaken by Hyperjazz Records. Entirely curated by Khalab - Raffaele Costantino, HJ's founder and head of A&R - Hyperituals is a philological investigation that delves deeply into the musical influences and cultural roots of the young Italian label. The theme that runs through Hyperituals is the exploration of the possibilities of sound, rhythm, remix, and endless sampling. Inspiring listening, interpretation, and reinterpretation. Is it an exercise in cratedigging that explores the past of some of the most important yet sometimes forgotten record labels and aims to bring to light music that is contemporary both in its sound and its message. Khalab's Black Saint / Soul Note universe (which also draws on some work from the 1990s, when the label was going through a less vital period, but without losing its vision) is a colourful one, dotted with rhythmic galaxies in constant motion. It is a true feast for the ears and a bewitching siren for the most curious and seasoned diggers. More

Go Dugong is back on Hyperjazz Records! The new album "Meridies" is the result of his ongoing investigative work into traditional Apulian music from the south of Italy, inspired by his hometown, Taranto, and the phenomenon of the Tarantella - started with TRNT (2019, Hyperjazz). On a quest to push the boundaries of traditional Apulian music, Go Dugong's research has allowed him to rethink and rework these musical traditions of his homeland, leading to the creation of a soundtrack for an imaginative and futuristic ensemble of peasants and farmers. The brainchild of Italian electronic artist and producer Khalab, Hyperjazz Records is the product of the ever-changing language that is modern music, of its frantic and unrestrained evolution. A crossroads between past and present, and where jazz attitude meets new sounds and aesthetics. More