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NE Scotland based Roots Record Label. Sharing our musical cultural lineage and diversity
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The internationalist is a studio and remix project, based loosely around world/vintage dance music, by Andy of The Oxbow Lake Band ("Very very good indeed" Paul Jones BBC radio 2. "A banger! And it's great!" Craig Charles bbc6music radio funk and soul show. "Cool Grooves" Shindig Magazine. "Funky bunch of chaps, we like that" Jazz house bbc radio Scotland.).
The Internationalist’s debut album ‘On my travels’ comes out on 28th March 2025, as a double header with The Oxbow Lake Band album, with the 10" vinyl record including the Internationalist remake of their 'Uprising' track.
3 off album tracks in player above.
Andy has gathered world music influences from his travels (Africa, India, Caribbean, Latin America and even London!) and incorporated them into his unique modernist take on soul, funk, beat and pop, in the hope of bringing some techno colour and tongue in cheek optimism, to this musical journey of escapism.
Please also check out the Internationalists Xmas vintage soul track below....
The Internationalist (with the help of Queen McBean's vocal chords!) released a (Far?) Northern Soul unabashed Christmas record; "It's Christmas!" .
Andy says:
"We've grown up with Xmas songs and I was particularly fond of the Motown Xmas album. Here I'm indulging in that same sentimentality (and hopefully not too much cheese.... Ehm...surely we all love a bit of cheese at xmas!?) and even with a reference to Yule and the solstice for the pagans out there! xx"
pssst! It's a digital release. You can listen here (see player above) or see the links below to spotify, apple music etc.
Background
Internationalists (or Modernists) were a loose group of aspiring youths, who in the late 50’s and 60’s discovered the coolest in global culture, whether;
• The best global music (from the states rising black music of the blues, jazz and soul or latin or Jamaican Ska etc.)
• The coolest clothes from the past or the present
• The most accessible 2 wheel transport in the form of Italian scooters
• And generally anything of a certain good taste
" This open mindedness to culture, regardless of international barriers, has always inspired me and the ability to assimilate cultures, into a groups or individuals perceptions of good taste.
Thanks. Andy xxx"
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