John Carroll Kirby | Blowout
John Carroll Kirby’s new album “Blowout” was written on a recent stay in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica. Between 5am wake-up calls from oropendola birds and psychedelic sunsets, he wrote Blowout, inspired by the local people, music and nature. Though its songs are joyful, that joyfulness is tinged with melancholy. Kirby says, “Blowout is about enjoying […]
Joel Holmes | Into The Abyss
Once known solely for electronic music, Berlin has quietly gone through huge changes over the past years. While the queues in front of the techno clubs become shorter and shorter, the city is slowly converting into a melting pot for all sorts of musicians and artists with amazing instrumentalists, producers and bands from all over […]
Saint Abdullah & Jason Nazary | Evicted In The Morning
Saint Abdullah consists of Tehran-born brothers Mohammad and Mehdi Mehrabani-Yeganeh, who have been exploring a diverse palette of sounds over their releases to date, including collaborations with Eomac on Nicolas Jaar’s Other People label, and Model Home on Purple Tape Pedigree, as well as their own duo album on Important Records. Jason Nazary is a […]
Conic Rose | Heller Tag
‘Heller Tag‘ is the debut album of Berlin-based jazz collective Conic Rose. The young musicians come from the most diverse musical backgrounds. What connects them is their love toexplore, create, redefine and effortlessly move between abstraction and accessibility, high quality sound and the beauty of the imperfect – interweaving electronic elements, cinematic jazz, vibey soundscapes and […]
Andrew Wasylyk | Parallel Light
With ’Parallel Light’, AndrewWasylyk offers an alternative mix album to 2020’s spiritual-jazz and neo-classical masterclass in melody, ‘Fugitive Light And Themes Of Consolation’. This new LP, his third with Athens Of North Records, is as much a different perspective as a companion piece. The ten songs still circle landscapes for meaning, channelling half-heard melodies and […]
Quiet Dawn | Simple
First Word Records welcomes back Quiet Dawn to the label for 2023, with an all-new 14-track digital beat tape simply entitled ‘Simple’. This follows on from two very diverse EPs, both acclaimed in their own rights. 2018’s organic ambient-jazz project ‘Human Being – The Short Story Of The Reed’, and 2022’s broken-beat influenced EP ‘Movements’, […]
Jonah Yano | Portrait Of A Dog
Jonah Yano is the Hiroshima born, Montreal based singer-songwriter, whose journey into music began with recording music using his cellphone in 2016. Having played piano and guitar as a child, it wasn’t until Yano moved from Vancouver to Toronto in 2016 that he began putting his songs online, catching the eyes of Toronto’s thriving local […]
Mount Kimbie | MK 3.5: Die Cuts, City Planning
MK 3.5: Die Cuts | City Planning shows how Dom Maker and Kai Campos have grown over the past decade, and demonstrates the two sides of Mount Kimbie’s aesthetic coin – each side produced entirely by either member. Dom’s side, Die Cuts, is colourful and melody-led, thriving on the spark of collaboration; Kai’s, City Planning, […]
ifsonever | ifsonever
If you ever wondered what ambient music of the 21st century could sound like, then you should explore the musical spheres of “ifsonever”. This colorful debut-album draws a blueprint of an urban ambient club record of a parallel universe. A collage of beautifully improvised pieces, strictly recorded in “one takes”. A gripping fusion that brings […]
Mansur Brown | NAQI Vol.2
“NAQI Vol.2” is Mansur Brown’s second EP this year. It follows Vol. 1 early this year released on Amai Records. You can now pre-order the vinyl including all tracks via Bandcamp. Mansur Brown is an Artist, Producer and Multi-Instrumentalist, from Brixton, London. Mansur released his debut Album ‘Shiroi’ in 2018, followed by ‘Heiwa’ in 2021, the […]
Mansur Brown | NAQI Vol.1
Mansur Brown is a London-based musician, also known for his collaboration with Yussef Dayes for Love Is The Message. Mansur announced the release of his solo EP called “NAQI Vol. 1” which will be out on September 30th via his own label, AMAI Records. “Rise” is the first excerpt. “Rise is a track about overcoming […]
Saul | Mutualism
SAUL enlist the help of talented friends for their new EP – a feel good, summer-ready soundtrack, bursting with uplifting synths and groove-heavy broken beats. SAUL, is a joint project from the minds of Jack Stephenson-Oliver (keys player of fellow Rhythm Section INTL signee, Vels Trio) and producer Barney Whittaker, aka Footshooter. With the success of […]
VA – Moonlight Is Our Sunshine
Creating new music deep in the night is common for most producers, especially when the music produced is rooted in the slow and beautiful Downbeat and Ambient sphere. Bathurst is a place for these producers just as much as the moonlight; the sunshine for these bats. This twelve-track strong collection is meant to be a […]
John Carroll Kirby | Dance Ancestral
| John Carroll Kirby will release Dance Ancestral on April 8, 2022 – This will be his fifth album on Stones Throw since 2020. Dance Ancestral follows a loose chronology of a day in the life. The opening single is “Dawn of New Day,” featuring Laraaji. For his new LP, John Carroll Kirby “wanted to […]
Culross Close | Pressure
“Pressure” is the third album by Culross Close. “The album opens with the sound of PRESSURE! a world where synths blend with keys and the visceral expressions of city life. Things then move from minimalist expressions to beat-driven fusion. With searing string and trumpet arrangement courtesy of Yelfris Valdes, To Belong straddles beat-driven fusion and jazz […]
Scrimshire | Nothing Feels Like Everything
Adam Scrimshire’s latest full-lenbth excursion – the Albert’s Favourites founder’s third in as many years, is an expansive, adventurous and entertaining affair, with a string of guest vocalists and musicians swinging by to lend a hand. After opening with a touch of Rotary Connection-inspired brilliance featuring Cleveland Watkiss (‘The Pile’), Scrimshsire sashays between soft-focus, semi-acoustic […]
Coldcut & Mixmaster Morris | @0
The release includes new compositions and remixes of music by Imogen Heap, James Heather, Specimens, Nailah Hunter, Coldcut and more. Ninja Tune will be donating their share (50% of net receipts) to three charities: CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably), Mind and Black Minds Matter. Launched with a double single—Suzanne Ciani’s “Morning Spring” & Kaitlyn Aurelia […]
Dave de Rose & Dan Nicholls | Plants Heal
Long-time collaborators Dave De Rose & Dan Nicholls (Agile Experiments / Free Movements / Vula Viel) celebrate the release of their duo LP ‘plants heal’ on this LJF night. Channelling their love for dance and electronic music they immerse themselves into completely improvised live sets with meditative abandonment, delivering passionate sonics and abstractions in rhythm. […]