bklyn | favourite things 10.24
bklyn favourite things 10.24 – Flying LotusSYNC.EXE & Soul Food Horns, Silvan Strauss feat. Joe Armon-Jones, Doechii, Amanda Whiting, The Offline, Alabaster DePlume feat. Laith Albandak, Koralle, Francesco Giampaoli & Slim, LESKY & Waywell, Oscar #Worldpeace, Leon Raum, EarthGang feat. Little Dragon, Robohands, Schatterau, Sylvia Yau & FloFilz, Marysia Osu feat. Plumm, Agile Experiments, Wakai, […]
Tenderlonious | Underworld
Tenderlonious follows up his essential ‘Tek-88’ EP with three deep, dream house tracks that nod to mid-90s Larry Heard and smudged, jazzy beatdown vibes in a Theo Parrish/Rick Wilhite/KDJ style. ‘Underworld’ kicks things off on side A with a ten-minute deep house journey filled with classic sounding synth leads and sweeping strings, held together by […]
Matt Wilde | It’s A Delight
Following the widespread success of his debut album ‘Hello World’ last year, which found support across BBC Radio 6, BBC Radio 2, Jazz FM and more, Manchester based-pianist and producer Matt Wilde returns with a new offering taken from his forthcoming ‘It’s A Delight’ EP. A celebration of Manchester’s fertile nu-jazz and soul scene, ‘When […]
SHOLTO | Letting Go of Forever
Having found support from tastemakers including Gilles Peterson, Deb Grant, Jyoty and Tony Minvielle for last year’s EP ‘The Changing Tides Of Dreams’, SHOLTO returns with his forthcoming album ‘Letting Go of Forever’ – a 26-track expansive double LP, scheduled to drop later this year on DeepMatter Records / Funk Night Records. Drawing inspiration from […]
Flock | Flock II
UK supergroup Flock return with their anticipated sophomore album ‘Flock II’. Comprising an exceptional line-up featuring Bex Burch (fresh from her debut solo album on International Anthem), Sarathy Korwar, Tamar Osborn (Collocutor, Dele Sosimi, Unknown To Known), Danalogue (The Comet Is Coming / Soccer96) and Al MacSween (Kefaya), the new recordings showcase Flock’s ability to […]
K15 | Hope Is Perseverance
An album by K15 feels long overdue. Having made music for over 20 years, consistently released for 1o, it’s a fair comment. If you ask him, he’ll tell you that most of his releases he sees and treats like albums; releases laden with coherent themes, concepts and a sense of identity. Hope Is Perseverance is another […]
Leifur James | Magic Seeds
Over the past few years, James has steadily built a reputation as a vital new voice in electronic music on both sides of the Atlantic. He’s played prestigious London venues like the Barbican and Village Underground in London and toured Europe, as well as being named Pitchfork and KCRW’s ‘best new music’ in the US. […]
Silvan Strauss | Flukin’
Ever since Strauss has been working on designing a new sound for a follow up album. After much soul searching and a lot of trial and error he realized that he needed to go back to the source: Get into a great Studio with great artists, prepare a couple ideas – some quite rough, some […]
Kurious | Majician
By his early 20s, Kurious was already an in-demand voice on the mic. His 1994 major label debut album, A Constipated Monkey, is a classic of its style, marked by heavy beats and nimble rhymes that are razor-sharp yet frequently hilarious. Despite being hailed as one of hip-hop’s most compelling lyricists, he didn’t release another […]
bklyn | favourite things 9.24
bklyn favourite things 9.24 – Silk Mob feat. Holy Modee, Madlib, Ezra Collective, The Pro-Teens, El Michels Affair, JD. Reid feat. Joe Armon-Jones, Neue Grafik feat. Brother Portrait, Jerome Thomas feat. SAUL, LayFullstop, Vazesh feat. Jeremy Rose, Hamed Sadeghi & Lloyd Swanton, Lex Amor, Meshell Ndegeocello feat. King Britt, Footshooter feat. Natty Wylah & Brother […]
Ill Considered & Rob Lewis | Emergence
Ill considered are a band comprising of musicians interacting with each other to create freely improvised music, based loosely around simple pre-written themes or composed on the spot. Deep grooves and plaintive melodies ranging from whispered chants to monstrous climaxes, the group react to the mood of the audience and the sonics of the room […]
Agile Experiments | Loukoumades
‘Loukoumades’ is the latest album from the Dave De Rose led international improvisation project Agile Experiments. With 11 prior releases under it’s belt, featuring some of the most admirable musicians across the UK (Ruth Goller, Dan Nicholls & John Edwards to name a few) and Greece (Fotis Siotas, Jan Van, Kyriakos Tapakis) this record was […]
Kinkajous | Heliosphere
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 […]
Eddie Chacon | Lay Low
“Low-key R&B legend” Eddie Chacon returns with Lay Low, out January 31st. Having collaborated with John Carroll Kirby on his last two albums, Eddie Chacon teamed up with Nick Hakim to produce this new collection of songs of loving and letting go. Lay Low by EDDIE CHACON
Nate Mercereau | Excellent Traveler
I consider the music on this album in different ways — as environments, a forest or a city, or some type of new not yet created combination of those things. The album as a place to visit, look around, explore, and travel through … It’s also a type of diary, or a moving sonic photo […]
Marysia Osu | Harp, Beats & Dreams
Brownswood Recordings are proud to present their latest signing, the immensely talented harpist and composer Marysia Osu. A key member of Levitation Orchestra, and graduate of Brownswood’s heralded ‘Bubblers’ academy – Marysia now prepares to unveil her alluring and transcendent debut album ‘harp, beats & dreams. Hailing originally from Poland, Marysia discovered her love for […]
The Pro-Teens | MF TEEN
MF TEEN: Your Concurrence In The Above Is Assumed recognises the legacy of rap’s Illest Villain, traversing MF DOOM’s discography and personas, flipping selections from Madvillain, MM.. FOOD, Viktor Vaughan, Danger Doom and more, taking care to ensure recognisable tunes such as Doomsday and Curls are represented alongside more obscure cuts such as The Gas […]
YAI | Sky Time
NYC dream jazz abstractionists YAI (David Lackner and John Thayer) return with ‘Sky Time’, a mesmerizing mix of woodwinds, waves, and ethereal echo. Moving deftly from ambient soundscapes through fourth world aesthetics, ‘Sky Time’ is a joyful and clear-eyed exercise of stop motion in slow motion. All Songs written and performed by YAIYAI is David […]