The Heliocentrics

Formed in London, England in 2005, the Heliocentrics is a jazz fusion collective that combines jazz, funk, psychedelia, electronica, hip-hop, ethnic, Sun Ra- inspired space rock and library music influences. While players come and go, the band is based around core members Malcolm Catto (drummer/producer), Jake Ferguson (bass), and Jack Yglesias (organ/percussion). The Heliocentrics released Out There, their debut album, in 2007 and then collaborated with Mulatu Astatke, the father of Ethio jazz, on the 2009 album Inspiration Information. In 2010, the Heliocentrics collaborated with jazz maestro, ethno-musicologist, and multi-instrumentalist, Lloyd Miller on the album Lloyd Miller & the Heliocentrics OST. After the release of 2013’s 13 Degrees of Reality, they collaborated with American actor, playwriter and Black cinema icon Melvin Van Peebles on the album The Last Transmission (2014). That same year, they backed Nigerian saxophonist and singer Orlando Julius on the album Jaiyede Afro. The group’s next album was 2016’s From the Deep followed by A World of Masks with vocalist Barbora Patkova (2017), the soundtrack to the British documentary The Sunshine Makers (2017), and two albums in 2020 – Telemetric Sounds and Infinity of Now.

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