Pauli Lyytinen | Lehto / Korpi
Finnish saxophonist Pauli Lyytinen makes his We Jazz solo debut with Lehto / Korpi, a widescreen environmental jazz ambient album effortlessly bringing together Lyytinen’s saxophone, field recordings and extended instrumentation. Lyytinen’s solo music is built on textural compositions, extended saxophone techniques and electro-acoustic soundscapes and layers. Think albums like Evan Parker’s “With Birds” and “Schwarzwaldfahrt” […]
Tomin | Flores para Verene / Cantos para Caramina
Flores para Verene (“Flowers for Verene”) brings together solo clarinet-and-trumpet versions of compositions by Tomin’s musical paragons — Mingus, Coltrane, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Albert Ayler, Eddie Gale, among others. They were recorded to honour his life’s great hero, his maternal grandmother, Virlenice Diaz Valencia, who’d passed away in late 2019 in her native Colombia. (Tomin’s […]
Apifera | Keep The Outside Open
Psychedelic jazz supergroup Apifera is back for their second album on Stones Throw, Keep The Outside Open. When these musicians – Nitai Hershkovits, Yuvi Havkin, Amir Bresler and Yonatan Albalak – come together, they create a new kind of alternative jazz: a dash of prog, a twist of post-rock, and a heavy dose of psychedelia, […]
Or Kantor | Sarda Sarda
Introducing Or Kantor, a respected tattoo artist and the creative force behind the renowned “Love Light” studio. In a fortuitous encounter, Or Kantor crossed paths with Johnny Sharoni of the band “Garden City Movement” and a prominent A&R at “Anova” label. During a tattoo session, Or Kantor shared musical sketches, capturing Johnny’s interest. Impressed by […]
Hugh B | Brainwashing
“I often leave Sydney feeling bittersweet, exploring the idyllic summer drenched landscapes and the warm hospitality of friends makes me feel like I could almost call Sydney home. It’s a magical place, my proof of that is captured in the world of Brainwashing. Call it Brainwashing, or call it the rare treat of visiting friends […]
Glass Beams | Mahal
Glass Beams have announced their highly anticipated EP ‘Mahal’, out on March 22nd on their new label home Ninja Tune. Released alongside the news is the EP’s titular track “Mahal”. The genesis for the Melbourne-based trio, which formed around founding member Rajan Silva, was through the rekindling of childhood memories relating to his father, who […]
Thandi Ntuli with Carlos Niño | Rainbow Revisited
Liner Notes by Thandi Ntuli: I travelled to Los Angeles and the USA for the first time in 2019. Although I had not met Carlos in person, we connected via Instagram where he saw a video of me playing a piano motif (titled ‘The One’ in this sequence) that he really liked and expressed a […]
Bastien Keb | The Only Angel I Ever Saw Wore Black
“Bastien Keb, the proto-trip-hop of Serge Gainsbourg and Jean-Claude Vannier, the rumbling scores of Bernard Herrmann and the cinematic swagger of Barry Adamson” – The Guardian Bastien Keb announces the release of his highly anticipated fifth album, “The Only Angel I’ve Ever Saw Wore Black” set for release September 8th 2023. The album features 15 […]
Jazzbois | Higher Dimension Waiting Room
Jazzbois is a jazz-hip-hop fusion trio from Budapest, Hungary. Their debut album “Jazzbois Goes Blunt” had a strong impact on both the jazz and hip-hop scene, creating a unique psychedelic-flavored fusion that shook the bones of jazz masters and beat lovers alike. As complete newcomers into the scene they were recognized by many key figures […]
Smote | Genog
The brainchild of Daniel Foggin, Smote has evolved seemingly of it’s own volition. “I had the idea for years” he relates, “I love Pärson Sound, Träd, Gräs Och Stenar, Traditional Irish Folk and all sorts of different Drone and Folk music. It was simply finding the opportunity to sit down and get recording. A very […]
Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin | Ali
Ali Farka Touré is well known as one of the most influential and talented guitarists that Africa has ever produced. His legacy and impact are hard to overstate. Ali’s sound merged his much-loved traditional Malian musical styles with distinct elements of the blues, singing in the local languages of Fulfulde, Tamasheq, Songhay and Bambara. The […]
Charles Stepney | Step on Step
International Anthem is proud to present ‘Step on Step’, a double LP collection of home recordings marking the de-facto eponymous debut album by enigmatic producer, arranger, and composer Charles Stepney (1931-1976). The music that makes up Step on Step was created by Stepney alone, in the basement of his home on the Southside of Chicago, […]
Sun Araw | On Patrol
Sun Araw from Los Angeles, originally released “On Patrol” . A double album in two parts, and the fourth full length album from Sun Araw. An album for heavy-steamin’ late nights in the city, inter-dimensional back alleys, ghost cabs; it creeps and tunes in on a much darker, sparser, and more classically minded channel than its predecessors: […]
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 […]
The Psychedelic Freaks
The Psychedelic Freaks is a new alias of Horatio Luna’s. The aptly titled debut LP ‘Passing Through The Doorways Of Your Mind’ is an introspective 70s fusion space odyssey. An Afrobeat, Psychedelic jazz, funk fusion experience inspired by the Miles Davis’s electric era. Influenced by the genius of Fela Kuti, Miles Davis, Frank Zappa, Dave […]
Mathias Modica | Kraut Jazz Futurism Vol. 2
The Kraut Jazz Futurism compilation shows what’s cookin’ in the new German Jazz scene. Young German bands and a few of the international musicians working in Berlin now. Fresh artists that combine Jazz, Kraut Rock, Afro, Hip Hop and Electronica in a new way. The first part of the compilation came out last year and was described by The Wire as […]
Jitwam | Honeycomb
With his roots in Assam, northeast India, and his hustle now based in Brooklyn, the psychedelic soul-savant known as jitwam. will officially drop his second album on the Copenhagen-based label Tartelet Records in May 2019. To mark its release, a music video to the album’s opener “busstop” was shot in the exhilarating city of Mumbai […]
Contact Field Orchestra | Vol. 1
“In 2008 I came across a box of 7” tapes at an estate sale in Altadena. The woman there said that they had belonged to her father and were “field recordings” of a turn-of-the century orchestra. It took me maybe another year to actually load them up and transfer them to the computer. When I […]