Sarathy Korwar | KAL (Real World)
“4/5th August 2020: This was the first time we met and played together with other human beings in the same room in almost a year. It was a hopeful time where for a brief period we believed things were getting better. There was a lot of fondness, camaraderie and kindness in the room and playing […]
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 […]
Twoosty Mayonez | Carmin
Twoosty Mayonez consists of Bartosz Wolert (drums) and Dominik Kaniewski (bass guitar and synthesizers). “Carmin” is their debut album, which is released primarily on vinyl by U Know Me Records. Twoosty Mayonez is something your grandfather would listen to with your younger sister. Non-standard-jazz approach combined with the search for strange sounds, resulted in the […]
Mammal Hands | Gift from the Trees
Mammal Hands fifth album ‘Gift from the Trees’ offers a fresh perspective on the unique trio’s singular music. The first to be recorded in a residential studio, the band enjoyed the opportunity to go late into the night searching for a deeper, more organic experience, closer to both their writing process but also their trance-like […]
Lukas Traxel | One-Eyed Daruma
Swiss artist Lukas Traxel releases his powerful debut album One-Eyed Daruma on We Jazz Records, March 10. The trio features Traxel on double bass, Otis Sandsjö on sax and Moritz Baumgärtner on drums. Compact, deep, and organic to the bone, Traxel & co’s sound echoes the innovations of rhythmically driven avantgarde jazz while keeping things […]
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 […]
Okonski | Magnolia
The studio at 122 West Loveland Avenue was not an unfamiliar space for Steve Okonski, the leader of his eponymous trio Okonski. Ever since the Colemine label set up shop in Loveland, Ohio it has been a host to a number of groups passing through town, including Durand Jones and the Indications who all of […]
Alfa Mist | Variables
“I’ve been focused on who I am in my music, but now I’m exploring where I am,” Alfa Mist says. “I’m asking: how did I get here?” This is the journeying question that underpins Alfa’s fifth album, Variables. Traversing luscious, big band swing, head-nodding boom-bap rhythms and yearning vocal melodies, the record is expansive, soulful […]
Rob Mazurek – Exploding Star Orchestra | Lightning Dreamers
Lightning Dreamers is new work by composer, trumpeter, interdisciplinary abstractivist and modern music mogul Rob Mazurek, who wrote the music for a compacted version of his long-running Exploding Star Orchestra. A follow-up to the acclaimed 2020 Mazurek/ESO release Dimensional Stardust, the album features guitarist Jeff Parker, vocalist Damon Locks, drummer Gerald Cleaver, and pianists Angelica […]
Raffy Bushman | E Minor String Quintet + Rhythm
As musical director of Unit 31 and founder of The NuShape Orchestra, pianist and composer Raffy Bushman has honed his craft among some of the finest like-minded musicians in the London music scene. His debut release ‘Look Up’ – available on a limited run of vinyl for the first time – tells the honest and […]
Charlie Stacey | The Light Beyond Time
Keyboard player and pianist Charlie Stacey fuses jazz-piano virtuosity with dark synth textures and grooves on his first solo project – a direct-to-disc, one take recording for Night Dreamer Records. One of the UK’s leading keys players, Charlie Stacey improvisational skills are unmatched. Known for his work with Yussef Dayes and fellow Tomorrow Warriors alumni […]
Carlos Niño & Friends | Assortment for Susan’s
Special selections and sequences by Carlos Niño, from his (& Friends) Records: Aquariusssssss, Aurorasmushroomtenderness, Flutes, Echoes, It’s All Happening!, Going Home, and Bliss On Dear Oneness + 2 new recordings: “Bioluminescence (featuring Laraaji and Ariel Kalma, with Surya Botofasina)” & “Drum Solo, “Sounds like memory” (featuring Marcus Gilmore, with Devin Daniels, Nate Mercereau, Maia, and […]
Marcin Grochowina | Rhodes Dream
Pianist Marcin Grochowina from Poland released three albums containing improvisations played on his collection of Fender Rhodes Mark I 1975 and Mark V from 1984. Wonderful composed and eased tracks, perfect to work or relax by. Check out his releases on bandcamp. Rhodes Dream by Marcin Grochowina
Svaneborg Kardyb | Over Tage
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 […]
Eyal Talmudi & Rejoicer | The Audience
The Audience is 10 tracks of stripped-down, beautifully flowing free jazz: Talmudi perpetually weaving in and out of cosmic melodies and Rejoicer setting his partner’s sax afloat with echoing pianos and quivering synths. The friends dreamed up the project in late 2020 — a truly minimal sound, ideas distilled to their essence — and recorded […]
Twit One | Venetian Blinds
Next in line is “Venetian Blinds” by Cologne’s music aficionado Twit One. Expect that trademark vibe on 17 slaps full dusty drums and hazy hi-hats paired with laid back loops and melodies. The vinyl edition is limited to 300 copies and comes in a cardboard sleeve. Venetian Blinds by Twit One
Silvan Strauss | Facing
Hamburg-based drummer/composer, Silvan Strauss flips crunchy Madlib-soaked beats with hazed-out contemporary jazz on debut album Facing, forthcoming on artist/producer Farhot’s label, Kabul Fire this November 2022. Featuring UK jazz luminary, Joe Armon-Jones (Ezra Collective, Nubya Garcia) and a medley of Hamburg’s most exciting new jazz talent, Strauss’s Facing connects the dots between Badbadnotgood, Yussef Dayes […]
Sarathy Korwar | Kalak
The follow up to the politically charged, award-winning More Arriving is an Indo-futurist manifesto – in rhythmic step with the past and the present, it sets out to describe a route forward. KALAK celebrates a rich South Asian culture of music and literature, which resonates with spirituality and community, while envisaging a better future from […]