Kessoncoda | Outerstate
West London’s Kessoncoda are the duo of drummer Tom Sunney and keyboardist Filip Sowa. Standing firm between acoustic tradition and electronica, Kessoncoda is founded on a unique blend of melodic ostinato-laced piano and unwavering drums. Drawing on their array of musical interests, Fil and Tom take influence from rock, electronica, ambient, breakbeat and soundtracks for […]
SML | Small Medium Large
SML is the quintet of bassist Anna Butterss, synthesist Jeremiah Chiu, saxophonist Josh Johnson, percussionist Booker Stardrum, and guitarist Gregory Uhlmann. Their debut album ‘Small Medium Large’ began as a collection of long form improvisations recorded during two separate two-night stands at beloved Highland Park, Los Angeles venue ETA. Unfortunately, this major development site for […]
Svaneborg Kardyb | Superkilen
Svaneborg Kardyb are Nikolaj Svaneborg – Wurlitzer, Juno, piano and Jonas Kardyb – drums, percussion a multi award winning duo from Denmark, where they won two “grammys” at the Danish Music Awards Jazz 2019: New artist of the year and Composer of the year. Drawing on Danish folk music and Scandinavian jazz influences, including Nils Frahm, […]
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. […]
Jerk | Mood Swings
Jerk returns to some of their core influences, embracing vulnerability, and an authentic experience of the self on the forthcoming ‘Mood Swings’ album. Releasing on Friday 14th June via DeepMatter Records, the album is an eclectic collection of pieces spanning varying compositional and production styles, captured on analogue instrumentation. Channeling the beatmaking sensibilities of J […]
Kinkajous | Nothing Will Disappear
Mellifluous and rich, the astonishing new studio album from London-based experimentalists Kinkajous – led by drummer/ producer Benoît Parmentier and saxophonist Adrien Cau – is a whirling dreamland of electronic orchestrations and instrumental sensibility. Tentatively titled “Nothing Will Disappear”, on one hand their compositions play like little manifestos against an overstimulated world: an effort to […]
Àbáse | Awakening
Science informs us that while we’re still in the womb, we’re able to hear our parents’ voices; and after birth, as we develop consciousness and memory, we’ll be soothed by these familiar sounds. As humans trying to make sense of our time on this planet, we may wishfully imagine a similarly comforting course to the […]
Don Glori | Don’t Forget To Have Fun
A product of the not-so-underground, genre-bending melting pot that is Naarm (Melbourne, Australia). producer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Don Glori (AKA Gordon Li) prepares to unleash his forthcoming album ‘Don’t Forget To Have Fun’ via DeepMatter Records. Following the release of his much-heralded 2022 LP ‘Welcome’, a subsequent sweep of the Australian festival circuit and an […]
JJ Whitefield & Forced Meditation | The Infinity Of Nothingness
Having plied his trade around the world for more than three decades, German guitarist, bandleader and musical explorer JJ Whitefield has always instilled in his craft a natural aesthetic of authenticity, a key component which has seen him amass a sizeable and varied catalogue of material which has remained timeless where some of his contemporaries […]
BADBADNOTGOOD | Mid Spiral
At the start of 2024 BADBADNOTGOOD were brimming with new creative energy. Having just come off a run of one-off international tour dates and a series of sessions for projects with artists Daniel Cesar, Charlotte Day Wilson, reggie, Baby Rose, and Turnstile, the Canadian-trio of Al Sow, Chester Hansen and Leland Whitty were eager to […]
Low Leaf | Red Moon
Low Leaf is the long-running and multivalent project of Los Angeleno and multi-instrumentalist Angelica-Marie. Riding the wake of 2023’s Microdose—melding/channeling free jazz, astrology, hip-hop, eco-spirituality, and geo-political anger—Red Moon (out May 24th 2024 on Leaving Records) is a tight, three-song release, a snapshot of Low Leaf during an especially dynamic period. Having received training in […]
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
Jonathan Bäckström Quartet
Jonathan Bäckström Quartet is an acoustic improvising quartet based in Helsinki with members from Finland and Sweden. Bassist/composer Jonathan Bäckström leads the quartet and they are set on a mission to navigate and discover the music that is being created in the moment. The quartet’s expression consists of minimalistic landscapes and explosive, multi-layered free improvisation […]
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 […]
Kiefer Trio | Something For Real
Kiefer‘s Kiefer Trio featuring Luke Titus and Pera Krstajic returns with a new live album Something For Real, out May 10th on Stones Throw. The first track from the project is “Cute”, originally from Kiefer’s 2019 EP Bridges. This version was performed live from Los Angeles in April 2023. Kiefer chose not to tell his […]
Tom Skinner | Voices of Bishara Live at “mu”
In January 2023, Tom Skinner and his ensemble performed material from his recently-released album ‘Voices of Bishara’ (Brownswood, IARC & Nonesuch, 2022) at London club “mu”— a venue founded by the curators at Brilliant Corners and named after the seminal Don Cherry live album. Their performance was augmented by three pieces by Abdul Wadud, whose […]
Juha Mäki-Patola, Tapani Rinne | Decaying Light
‘Decaying Light’ is the second collaborative release between Juha Mäki-Patola and Tapani Rinne. Their debut album ‘Open’ was released March 2022 by Hush Hush Records. In the new EP ‘Decaying Light’ the duo share more their sonic visions and moments from the Nordic atmospheres and soundscapes. They are creating hovering layers, drone based minimalism and […]
Cassie Kinoshi’s seed. | Gratitude
In March of 2023 composer, arranger & alto saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi premiered a commissioned suite of music in front of a sold out crowd at London’s Southbank Centre. She wrote the piece – gratitude – for her flagship large ensemble seed., in a special augmented formation that also featured turntablist NikNak and the London Contemporary […]