Jeff Parker | Forfolks
Jeff Parker’s Forfolks – a new album of solo guitar tracks – released via International Anthem and Nonesuch Records. The album features interpretations of Thelonious Monk’s “Ugly Beauty” and the standard “My Ideal,” as well as six original compositions, including “Four Folks” (a piece Parker first wrote and recorded in 1995) and “La Jetée” (a […]
Wadada Leo Smith & Henry Kaiser | Pacifica Koral Reef
“I’m supposed to be writing about Pacifica Koral Reef, this record that I’ve made with my friend Henry Kaiser and his friend Wadada Leo Smith. And while the music it contains is, for me, a miraculous late-career achievement after 50 years of mostly playing in alternative rock bands, writing about it is a downright odd […]
Nick Walters | Singularity
Nick Walters returns to his D.O.T. Records imprint with a suite of forward thinking, cosmic, electronic-jazz experiments, inspired by NASA & the concept of gravitational singularity. Each track on “Singularity”, his first home studio produced album, is built around an audio sample recorded by NASA in space, then expertly transported back to earth by Walters […]
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 […]
Embryo | Auf Auf
The late Christian Burchard, who founded the Embryo ensemble in 1969, loved the slogan “Auf Auf,” German for “Up, Up,” or “Keep On Going.” Anyone with anything more than a passing interest in the German Krautock scene of the 1970s and 1980s knows that Burchard followed that intent all around the world, tirelessly seeking out […]
Unknown To Known | Portico
Improvised extracts from our first encounter in July 2021. Portico Gallery, South London. This group is a culmination of four musicians each active in some of the most prominent musical forces around today including Sting, Van Morrison, Anoushka Shankar, Wild Flower, Ill Considered, Collocutor, Akram Khan, Dele Sosimi, Sarathy Korwar, Joy Crookes and more. On […]
Bremer McCoy | Natten (The Night)
“Natten”, which means “The Night” in Danish, draws inspiration from the end of day, that regenerative time under the constellations when our lives look different. Listeners might be quick to call it escapist—the music might be a reprieve from our busy lives. And while that’s one way to experience Natten, there’s also another, which has […]
Irreversible Entanglements | Open The Gates
Irreversible Entanglements’ third full-length album “Open The Gates” is ethereal shards of jagged onyx, a melancholic exploration of the post-colonial debris that surrounds us. Let’s watch and listen, as this platter snakes through the sandy ashes of possible histories, dialogs with a nervous present, and asks to be birthed into a holographic new future. “Together […]
The Brkn Record | The Architecture Of Oppression Part 1
The Brkn Record is a new project led and produced by Jake Ferguson, the co-founder and bass player for the UK’s foundational deep jazz outfit the Heliocentrics. With fellow Heliocentrics co-founder and legendary drummer Malcolm Catto, Ferguson has been a regular collaborator with globally recognised artists including Archie Shepp, Mulatu Astatke, Melvin Van Peebles, Orlando […]
Aver & Move 78 | The Algorithm Smiles Upon You
Village Live Records is proud to present “The Algorithm Smiles Upon You”, the debut EP by Aver & Move 78. The Berlin-based band consists of Doron Segal on keyboards, Nir Sabag on drums, Hal Strewe on bass and Aver on sampler and production. The eight tracks of their EP are crafted from hours of studio […]
Telemakus | The New Heritage
Northern Californian composer/pianist Telemakus’ long awaited LP ‘The New Heritage’ has finally arrived, and with it the artist takes a step into a new artistic beginning. Telemakus’ work has stemmed to highly creative composition and arrangement, generating a spirited album tackling the themes of exploration, wonder, and innocence. This album’s foundation lies at the intersection […]
The Motion Orchestra | All One
“With this sumptuous journey, The Motion Orchestra have soundtracked a film yet to be made, a film that plays in your head and is a different film every listen. Music as healing. A journey that should be a prescription.” – Jon More aka Coldcut The group formed in 2017 in Hamburg as a studio project […]
Ill Considered | Liminal Space
Free-wheeling live improvisers Ill Considered open a new chapter with their first fully produced studio album on New Soil, Liminal Space, featuring Tamar Osborn, Sarathy Korwar, Theon Cross and more. Having exploded onto the scene with 9 self-released albums between 2017 and 2019, UK-based outfit Ill Considered are breaking new ground with their first fully […]
Makaya Mccraven | Deciphering The Message
With his new remix album, Deciphering The Message, the Chicago-based drummer, producer, and beat scientist Makaya McCraven digs through the vaults of the legendary jazz label Blue Note Records to put a modern bounce on classics by Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Hank Mobley, Kenny Burrell, and Eddie Gale, among others. The album’s lead single “Frank’s […]
Tenderlonious | Still Flute
Tenderlonious has proven himself to be one of the most versatile and uninhibited artists in music today, blending genres and multi-instrumentation with style and ease. Whether it be jazz fusion with his band Ruby Rushton, Hindustani classical with Pakistani quartet Jaubi or deep house, electro funk and ambient electronica in his solo studio productions, he […]
JK Group | What’s Real?
A collective of forward-thinking “jazz” musicians from Australia. We owe our thanks and gratitude to the founding mothers and fathers of the music people call jazz. We respect and continuously study their legacy whilst embracing our current surroundings in making music that honestly reflects our time and space. The second batch of tunes we hit […]
Nala Sinephro | Space 1.8
Caribbean-Belgian composer, producer and musician Nala Sinephro fuses meditative sounds, jazz sensibilities, folk and field recordings. Her musical practice is rooted in the study of frequency and geometry and guided by the premise that sound moves matter. She now released her new album entitled “Space 1.8”. Space 1.8 by Nala Sinephro
Jazzbois | Jazzbois Goes Blunt II
The Jazzbois trio from Budapest released their new album “Jazzbois Goes Blunt II” via Blunt Shelter Records. “So so excited to finally share with all of you what we’ve been working on, in and out of lockdown, this album was our escape for 2020. All tracks, just as with the previous record, were recorded in multiple sessions […]