Amanda Whiting | Can You See Me Now?
Amanda Whiting is a celebrated Welsh harpist and composer who has established herself as a key figure in the UK jazz scene. Supported by major radio platforms like BBC Radio 2, BBC 6 Music, Jazz FM, and more, she has been recognized with nominations, including ‘Instrumentalist of the Year’. In 2023, she joined First Word […]
Goran Kajfeš Tropiques | Tell Us
The Swedish quartet Goran Kajfeš Tropiques share their new music We Jazz Records on May 3rd. Tell Us, an album consisting of three long pieces composed by the group, is “slow music” to the bone, a deep body of work utilising the language of jazz as its core mode of communication but echoing way beyond. […]
Greg Foat | Live at Villa Maximus, Mykonos
Greg Foat’s Greek jazz quartet with Sokratis Votskos, Warren Hampshire and Ayo Salawu, recorded live in Mykonos. Fat synth bass lines with psychedelic guitar, hypnotic bass clarinet, mystical flute and killer drums. Greg Foat · Live at Villa Maximus, Mykonos
BADBADNOTGOOD | Mid Spiral: Order
Today Badbadnotgood released another EP entitled ‘Mid Spiral: Order’. The album is the follow up project to last weeks release ‘Mid Spiral: Chaos’. BADBADNOTGOOD · Mid Spiral: Order
BADBADNOTGOOD | Mid Spiral: Chaos
Titled ‘Mid Spiral: Chaos”, the Toronto jazz trio’s latest project to be released via XL Recordings. The EP features contributions from Felix Fox-Pappas, Tyler Lott, Juan Carlos Medrano and Kaelin Murphy. The six song EP includes tracks such as “Celestial Hands”, “Last Laugh” and “Setima Regra”. In addition to releasing new music, BADBADNOTGOOD will be […]
Tanhai Collective | The Tanifesto
The six-piece London jazz band ‘Tanhai Collective’ draws its inspiration from jazz, broken beat, house and dub. They do this to create their unmistakable, energetic sound. After their second performance, where they were discovered by Norman Jay MBE, they played to an enthusiastic audience at Cross the Tracks 2021, a remarkable start to their burgeoning […]
Habitat Ensemble | Habitat Ensemble
The collective originates deep in the south of the Czech Republic, on the border with Austria, amongst the idyllic hills and fields of a village called Maříž, where a summer school of outsiders and creatives have been gathering since the 1990s. Enriching each other through intercultural exchange, summer school participants have created a unique gathering […]
Kamaal Williams | Stings
Kamaal Williams will release new album ‘Stings’ on September 27th. New LP ‘Stings’ was conceptualised during the pandemic, with the musicality rooted in long solo sessions at an upright piano. Sessions took place in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago, with arrangements from Miguel Atwood-Ferguson. Out on September 27th via his Black Focus imprint, ‘Stings’ […]
Yoni Mayraz | Dybbuk Tse!
Dybbuk, known from Jewish folklore, is a malevolent wandering spirit that enters and possesses the body of a living person. It’s a cursed soul of a dead one that wanders tirelessly for sins committed during their life. The most vulnerable victims are the young and the sinful. Possession can be taken literally or as an […]
Chiminyo | NRG 1
NRG 1 is the first album in a new series from London based drummer/producer, Chiminyo, in which he and members of his musical community exchange (strictly improvised) NRG with audiences and capture the spontaneous beauty to be shared with the world. NRG 1 features an all-star line-up (band members of Jorja Smith, Nubyan Twist, Gary […]
Caytra
Formed in late 2019, Caytra are a London based Jazz trio whose members are Sam Ithell, James Gullis and Conor Cotteril. With London’s diverse nightlife at the heart of their sound and the UK Jazz scene at the forefront of their influence, Caytra’s defining characteristic is their unique blend of technicality and dance-ability tied to each of the […]
The Yussef Dayes Experience Live at Joshua Tree
Welcome to ‘The Yussef Dayes Experience Live At Joshua Tree Presented By Soulection,’ This 5-track EP is inspired by the blissful nature of one of the world’s most iconic nature reserves. In collaboration with Soulection, a global music collective, this sonic journey prompts us to ask, “what is more spiritually uplifting than summer in Joshua […]
Jan Van de Engel | Streams
Jan Van started as a drummer in clubs playing popular greek music (laïka) even before he was 18, a typical first step for a musician in Greece. In this way he experienced the underground and in fact the surrealistic atmosphere of the laïka greek clubs. At the age of 20, he started working as a roadie […]
Foshe & Bentley | Parlour Cucina
Foshe and Bentley are two separate entities who regularly collaborate in their home city of Sydney. Foshe create fully improvised polyrhythmic-afro-Latin-synth-ambient-jazz-house. The trio have been gigging heavily from 2018, engaging in energetic weekly residencies, and supporting artists from Lonnie Liston Smith to the 30/70 collective, Horatio Luna and ZFEX, GODTET and more. Mike Bentley is […]
Mansur Brown | Serious / Kerene
“God bless I’m super excited to announce the release of my double single “Serious / Kerene” they will both be released on my new label Amai Records and is available to buy on bandcamp and stream on all platforms godwilling.” – Mansur Brown Serious/Kerene by Mansur Brown
Coma World | Coma World
Coma World is a new collaboration between Maxwell Hallett, a.k.a. Betamax (The Comet Is Coming/Soccer96) and Pete Bennie (Speaker’s Corner Quartet) bringing together their potent chemistry in an intoxifying debut LP. Betamax drives the duo with his signature ‘rhythmadelic’ drum rapture as Pete elegantly pummels bass tones into an assortment of wonky pockets. Both layer […]