bklyn favourite things 8.26 – Maarja Nuut, ALA.NI & Adrian Younge, Ali Haghighatpour, Astrid Engberg feat. Nina Maia, Bullion, Children of Zeus feat. KnuckS, Clifford & Noé Mina, Corto Alto feat. Jacob Alon, Devonwho, FKJ, Henry Solomon, Hermanos Gutiérrez, Jeremiah Chiu, Juicy J feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow, KinKai, Laurence Pike,
With Nana Butu, Sissi Rada creates a restless and highly individual world where experimental pop, electronic music, contemporary composition, and improvisation intersect. Her distinctive voice moves through fragmented rhythms, unusual harmonies, and shifting electronic textures, giving the record a sense of constant transformation. There is something both playful and unsettling
With The Shell, bassist, producer, and composer Martin Brugger creates a richly textured world somewhere between contemporary jazz, electronic music, and experimental composition. Rather than placing virtuosity at the center, the music is driven by atmosphere, subtle rhythmic shifts, and an intricate interplay of acoustic and electronic sounds. Brugger’s bass
With Hits Different, Austrian quartet Omasta continue to explore the fertile ground between contemporary jazz and instrumental hip-hop. Deep grooves, warm keys, bass, and tightly locked drums give the music the immediacy of a beat tape while retaining the spontaneity and interaction of a live jazz ensemble. There is an
Ever since his 2015 debut EP, Nocturne, Alfa Mist has effortlessly moved between jazz, hip-hop and classical music and built unique sonic worlds. Across six critically acclaimed albums, the east Londoner has eroded genre boundaries with an expansive vision. On his last album Roulette, the prolific producer, songwriter, pianist and
Six years after Dark Matter, Moses Boyd returns with a deeply personal record shaped by faith, doubt, community, and the musical worlds that have surrounded him since childhood. Rather than treating gospel as a fixed tradition, Boyd opens it up, folding its spiritual intensity into contemporary jazz, Caribbean rhythms, London
Los Angeles-based producer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Dexter Story returns with his sixth album, T’som (pronounced sawm), a deeply personal work inspired by the spiritual practice of fasting. Meaning “fasting” in the Afro-Semitic languages Tigrinya and Amharic, as well as in Arabic, Tsom represents a time of prayer, reflection and discipline
With The Quiet Part, RuiijiKun moves through a hazy space between instrumental hip-hop, ambient music, jazz, and lo-fi electronics. The record favors understatement, building its atmosphere from dusty textures, restrained beats, soft melodic fragments, and plenty of space between the sounds. There is a reflective, late-night quality throughout, with tracks
With Above the Clouds, Chicago collective Resavoir continue to blur the lines between jazz, soul, ambient music, and cinematic composition. Led by producer and multi-instrumentalist Will Miller, the music favors atmosphere and melody over virtuosity, unfolding through warm horns, delicate rhythms, and richly layered arrangements. There is an effortless, almost
With Solo Woodwind, Los Angeles multi-instrumentalist Henry Solomon strips his music back to its most elemental form. Best known for moving between jazz, pop, and experimental music, Solomon turns his attention here to the expressive possibilities of breath, tone, and acoustic space. The result is intimate and meditative, with woodwinds
After sixteen years without a conventional studio album, Erykah Badu returns alongside The Alchemist for a collaboration that feels less like a comeback than two singular musical worlds quietly colliding. Recorded over 18 months between Dallas and Los Angeles, the project moves through soul, jazz, blues, funk and underground hip-hop
Dub Studies – Experiments in Echo and Space by bklyn music. Dub has always been about more than reggae. It’s a way of thinking about sound: stripping it back, opening up space, letting rhythm, echo and delay take over. Dub Studies moves through some of the more adventurous edges of
With Controlled Burn, Chicago poet, musician, and multidisciplinary artist Marvin Tate creates a vivid meeting point between spoken word, experimental soul, jazz, and improvisation. Tate’s distinctive voice sits at the center, turning everyday observations, memories, and social reflections into intimate musical narratives. Loose grooves, expressive instrumentation, and unexpected shifts give
bklyn favourite things 7.26 – Agile Experiments, Alex Nut feat. Sam Crowe, Aramii, Astrid Engberg feat. Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Bonobo feat. Arooj Aftab, Brian D’Souza, Bullion, Chester Watson, Children Of Zeus feat. Anieszka, Corto.Alto, David Versace, Erica Tucceri, FKJ feat. Lucy Park, Free Weed, Gentle Nature feat. Mick Jenkins, Goran Kajfeš
With ‘African Family Laptop Musick’, Dawuna expands his singular sonic universe, weaving together lo-fi soul, experimental R&B, hip-hop, and ambient electronics into a deeply personal and emotionally rich statement. His heavily processed vocals and hazy production create an intimate atmosphere where memory, identity, and vulnerability quietly take center stage. The
Five years after Balance, Manchester duo Children of Zeus return with their third album, As The World Burns…. Across 16 tracks, Tyler Daley and Konny Kon refine their signature blend of street soul, alternative R&B and boom bap hip hop, while weaving in fresh influences that keep their sound evolving.
Silvan Strauss is back with a new project that takes his musical evolution in a wild new direction. After the dusty, Madlib-soaked beats of his debut FACING and the collaborative live energy of FLUKIN’, the Hamburg-based drummer and producer is diving headfirst into electronic rhythms for his third album, SPRINTING.
A spontaneous musical transmission exploring healing, unity, laughter, and limitless possibility. Recorded in Brooklyn, New York in 2025, Openness is a fully improvised full-length album from legendary ambient pioneer and sonic mystic Laraaji. Created without pre-written compositions or arrangements, the recording captures a rare moment of collective presence, where every
With WATER FINDS ITS LEVEL, London producer K15 continues his exploration of soulful electronic music, blending broken beat, jazz, house, and ambient textures into a deeply immersive listening experience. Known for his understated production and meticulous attention to detail, K15 crafts an album that unfolds with quiet confidence and natural
With A Supreme Blue, Nicholas Payton and Butcher Brown join forces for a vibrant collaboration that bridges generations of jazz while embracing the energy of funk, soul, hip-hop, and fusion. Bringing together Payton’s visionary trumpet work and Butcher Brown’s fearless, groove-driven approach, the album feels both deeply rooted in tradition
With FATHERS, Kiefer, Carrtoons, Nate Smith, and Kenneth Blume come together for a deeply personal and collaborative project that celebrates connection, legacy, and the transformative experience of fatherhood. Blending jazz, soul, hip-hop, and improvisation, the album unfolds with warmth, honesty, and effortless musical chemistry. Built around intimate grooves, expressive piano,
With An Ear In Place Of A Mouth, Bristol duo Run Logan Run push their explosive blend of jazz, psychedelia, krautrock, and experimental rock into even bolder territory. Built around the raw interplay of saxophone and drums, the album transforms a minimalist setup into something immense, driven by relentless energy
bklyn favourite things 6.26 – Bullion feat. L Devine, Agile Experiments, Apollo Brown, Baba Zula, Błoto + Ion D feat. DJ Eprom, Blue Earth Sound, Brian Jackson feat. Black Thought, Conic Rose, corto.alto feat. anaiis, Erica Tucceri, Fink, Greg Spero feat. Noah Allen, Mattia Muller, Jack Kuelling & Joav Ganor,
With No Pressure, No Diamond., Detroit producer Apollo Brown delivers another masterclass in soulful hip-hop production, proving that restraint and patience can be just as powerful as intensity. Built on warm, dusty samples, rich orchestration, and his unmistakable boom bap foundation, the album reflects the idea that growth is often
Better Late Than Never by Michael Benedikt is a five-track EP rooted in spontaneity, expression, and the human touch. Drawing from a jazz-informed approach, the project explores the subtle nuances of phrasing and timing, where each note is placed with intention, reflecting a deeply personal musical identity. Recorded entirely with
In 1961, John Coltrane walked into a recording studio with 21 musicians and made history. Africa/Brass, his first album for Impulse!, captured the spirit of a continent in the midst of revolution, blending soaring saxophone lines, lush brass arrangements, and hypnotic modal passages that would influence artists from Terry Riley
With Nearly, British producer Bullion returns with another effortlessly inventive collection that blurs the boundaries between art-pop, electronic music, and off-kilter soul. Known for his playful approach to production and understated songwriting, Bullion crafts a record that feels intimate, unpredictable, and quietly captivating. Built around warm synths, understated grooves, and
With Caravan, Secret Voices present a richly atmospheric collection that drifts between contemporary jazz, ambient textures, and cinematic composition. The album unfolds with patience, allowing subtle melodies, spacious arrangements, and understated rhythms to create a sense of movement and quiet discovery. Balancing improvisation with carefully crafted sound design, the group
“SOME SMALL FORTUNE” finds Shortall at his most expansive and unpredictably exciting. It showcases his widest range of features to date, additionally collaborating with the likes of Mick Jenkins, anaiis, Oscar Jerome, Jacob Alon, BINA., Terra Kin and Eriff alongside his longtime Glaswegian band, to produce an electronic, classical, pop
With ‘Havana’, the thirteenth entry in his shape-shifting Agile Experiments project, multi-instrumentalist/producer Dave De Rose channels the heat-hazed, tympanic pulse of Cuba’s capital into a document of joyous collective improvisation, ecstatic groove alchemy and meticulously original choices of post-production. Following 2024’s ‘Loukoumades’ album, forged of Athenian experimental sound-art within a
With his upcoming record, ‘Leap Life,’ Williams expands the definition of what music itself can be, operating on the philosophy that “the voice is the instrument.” Throughout the album, Williams speaks, chants, improvises and testifies over fluid arrangements that blur the lines between spoken word, jazz abstraction, hip-hop cadence, West
bklyn favourite things 5.26 – Agile Experiments, Aja Monet, Alden Hellmuth, Błoto & Ion D, Boards of Canada, Bolbec, Brian Jackson, Masters At Work, Kenny Dope & Louie Vega feat. Moodymann, Chiminyo, Kaidi Akinnibi, Oscar Jerome, Charlie Stacey, Rudi Creswick & Magnus Mehta, Ezra Collective feat. Pa Salieu, Fink, FKJ,
With ‘Frozen Flashes’, Swiss duo Okvsho continue their journey through the outer edges of contemporary jazz, blending intricate rhythms, electronic textures, and improvisational freedom into a vibrant and forward-thinking sound. Built around the intuitive interplay of brothers Georg and Christoph Kiss, the album balances technical precision with a playful sense of
‘Tapestry of an Echo’ is the debut EP by Nomieye – the modular-synthesizer alias of London-based jazz-adjacent and improvising trombonist Rosie Turton. An ode to the memory and history embodied in mountains and nature, and our relationship to the more-than-human-world: ‘Tapestry of an Echo’ explores our memory of nature and
With Nuclear War, The Heliocentrics revisit and reinterpret one of the most powerful protest songs in modern music, transforming it into a sprawling, genre-defying statement. Known for their fearless approach to blending jazz, psychedelic funk, world music, and experimental grooves, the London collective injects new urgency and depth into the
With Tyber, French multi-instrumentalist and producer FKJ continues to blur the boundaries between jazz, soul, electronic music, and improvisation. Built around his trademark blend of live instrumentation and meticulous production, the album feels both intimate and expansive, capturing moments of spontaneity while maintaining a strong cinematic flow. Warm keyboards, fluid
With Shinrin Yoku, acclaimed trumpeter and composer Yazz Ahmed invites listeners into a meditative world inspired by the Japanese practice of “forest bathing” — the act of immersing oneself in nature to restore balance and well-being. Blending her distinctive fusion of contemporary jazz, Arabic influences, and atmospheric sound design, Ahmed
On ‘Watch Out For The Horse Behind You’, Australian trio Lisathe continue their exploration of spacious, cinematic instrumental music, blending ambient jazz, post-rock, and improvisation into a deeply immersive listening experience. Built around the interplay of guitar, bass, and drums, the album unfolds with patience and subtlety, allowing melodies to
Hermanos Gutiérrez presents a new world of sound on their latest album Los Ojos Del Cóndor, leaving behind the cosmos for the coastal mist of Lima, Peru, where the brothers’ lineage takes root. On their third collaboration with Easy Eye Sound, Alejandro and Estevan Gutiérrez craft an odyssey through lush
On the color of rain, poet, musician, and activist aja monet delivers a powerful blend of spoken word, jazz, soul, hip-hop, and experimental sound. Following her Grammy-nominated debut, this ambitious second album expands her artistic vision, exploring themes of love, resistance, identity, and collective liberation through a deeply immersive sonic
Ascending is the fourth album from Clear Path Ensemble. In the past, bandleader Cory Champion tracked his first three albums, Clear Path Ensemble (2020), Solar Eclipse (2022), and Black Sand (2025) with a cast of some of the finest jazz musicians in Aotearoa New Zealand. This time around, he chose
Gary Bartz and new London ensemble Your Brother‘s Keeper collaborate on Where Rivers Meet, a deeply intuitive new studio album capturing a rare meeting between generations of jazz musicians. Released on June 19, 2026 via Brownswood Recordings, as the label celebrates its 20th anniversary, the record brings together Bartz’s jazz
bklyn favourite things 4.26 – The Heliocentrics, 14KT, Aja Monet feat. Mick Jenkins & Vic Mensa, Al Rogers Jr. feat. Zadia, Ash Walker, Chiminyo, Oscar Jerome, Charlie Stacey & Kaidi Akinnibi feat. Rudi Creswick, Magnus Mehta & Sunshine The Afrooist, Conic Rose, Dagmar Zuniga feat. Hayes Hoey, Elori Saxl &
Kalia Vandever expands her introspective solo language on Mana, a spacious and emotionally direct record that moves between ambient jazz, electroacoustic textures and intimate songwriting. Released through International Anthem, the album continues the dreamlike atmosphere of We Fell In Turn while opening a more personal and vocal-centered chapter. Built around
Amsterdam-based quartet RADIOHOP push deeper into their raw, groove-driven sound on HARD TO HANDLE, a loose but tightly connected blend of jazz fusion, hip-hop and beat tape aesthetics. Released through Melting Pot Music, the album captures the energy of a band more interested in atmosphere and instinct than polish or
Boards of Canada return with Inferno, their first album in thirteen years and perhaps their darkest, most immersive work yet. Built around decaying analog textures, haunted melodies and cryptic transmissions, the record expands the duo’s familiar world into something even more apocalyptic and surreal. Across its eighteen tracks, Inferno drifts
Recorded live at Peckham Levels, ‘NRG 5’ channels the intensity of the intimate urban space, where concrete, sweat, energy, and electricity all bleed into the music – amplifying the collective momentum of the room. For this fifth edition, Chiminyo assembled a formidable lineup of some of the UK’s most distinctive
Błoto return in 2026 with Atmosfera, a bold reinvention sparked by their collaboration with Romanian artist Ion D. Shaped between Wrocław and Bucharest, the album abandons the jazz tag in favor of a hypnotic blend of techno, dub, hip-hop, and Eastern European textures, pushing the band into more club-driven, psychedelic
Lau Nau (Laura Naukkarinen), Linda Fredriksson and Matti Bye enter the We Jazz Records realm as Kiri Ra! with their new album nen (out 22 May 2026). Kiri Ra! is a trio that creates their sound slowly, in a process of improvisation and discovery. Filtered through the musicians’ long-standing friendship and
Nearly three years on from their self-titled debut, Psyché return with a new album that reinvigorates and expands their singular blend of groove and psychedelia. The band’s name itself—the ancient Greek word for ‘mind’ or ‘soul’—signals a deep-rooted love for psychedelic funk, while pointing towards a vast array of Mediterranean
bklyn favourite things 3.26 – 14KT, Anenon, Ash Walker, Bazaar, Błoto feat. Ion Din Dorobanti & Plevna, Blue Lab Beats, Booker Stardrum, Chiminyo feat. Kaidi Akinnibi & Magnus Mehta, Conic Rose, Ego Ella May, Elvis Presley & Jamieson Shaw, Fink, Flea, Greg Foat, Jerk, KOKOROKO, Laura Misch, Los Retros, Moderator,
Moderator returns with Silent Cinema, a moody, slow-burning collection that leans into his signature blend of trip-hop, downtempo and dusty cinematic textures. As the title suggests, the album plays like a soundtrack without images, built on atmosphere, pacing and understated tension. Crackling samples, heavy drums and shadowy melodies set the
Carlos Niño & Friends return with Bubble Bath for Giants, a warm, immersive record that leans fully into their signature blend of spiritual jazz, ambient textures and communal improvisation. Built around a rotating cast of close collaborators, the album feels less like a fixed project and more like a living,
Greg Foat and Sokratis Votskos join forces on Impressions of Samos, a sunlit, transportive album shaped by the landscapes and atmosphere of the Greek island. Backed by The Giorgos Pappas Trio, the record blends Foat’s cinematic jazz language with Votskos’ roots in Greek traditional music, creating a sound that feels