Agile Experiments | Havana
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 hip-hop slang, De Rose thrusts […]
Saul Williams | Leap Life
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 African rhythmic logic, ambient composition […]
bklyn | favourite things 5.26
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, Flea, Kiri Ra!, Leifur James, […]