Dexter Story | T’som
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 across northeast Africa. Guided by […]
RuiijiKun | The Quiet Part
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 unfolding more like fleeting thoughts […]
Resavoir | Above the Clouds
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 weightless quality to the record, […]
Henry Solomon | Solo Woodwind
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 unfolding through layered harmonies, fragile […]
Erykah Badu & The Alchemist | Before The World Blows
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 without settling comfortably into any […]