E. Lundquist | Art Between Minds
While Eric Lundquist song “Multiple Images” only dropped last year, he’s is already back with another ample helping of his hallucinogenic sonics. The project is titled “Art Between Minds” and it finds him utilizing a bevy of vintage gear to replicate that warm glow of ’70s jazz-funk. From the Fender Rhodes MKI to the ARP […]
bklyn | favourite things 1.24
bklyn favourite things 1.24 – Clément Bazin, Clever Austin, Max Richter, Joshua Van Tassel, Off World, Ceitidh Mac, Rupert Cox, Adult Jazz, Four Tet, DARGZ feat. Charlie Stacey & Moses Boyd, Louis VI, Dabrye, Blundetto, Khruangbin, Gaussian Curve, ML Buch, Greg Foat, Atreis Vogue, Bullion, Alice Russell, Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer, […]
Astrid Sonne | Great Doubt
“Great Doubt” is the third full length LP by Danish composer Astrid Sonne. Throughout her acclaimed discography, Astrid Sonne has been carefully crafting different moods through electronic and acoustic instrumental endeavours. On “Great Doubt” this skill is refined, now with the distinct addition of the composer’s own vocal in front. The tone of each track […]
Fatima | Love On Acid EP
Fatima returns with a new 4 track EP ‘Love On Acid’, her first official solo release since 2018’s ‘And Yet It’s All Love’ LP. Four tracks of straight up RnB produced in its entirety by East London rapper/pianist Harvey Whyte. The London by way of Stockholm, Sweden export made her mark through game changing collaborations […]
Mo Kolours | Original Flow: Chapter Two
The singular musical spirit Joseph Deenmamode aka Mo Kolours presents an exciting new body of work. A catalog of critically acclaimed records, including his self-titled debut (2014), ‘Texture Like Like Sun’ (2015), 2018 album ‘Inner Symbols’ and three companion EPs, established Deenmamode as a prodigious musician and vocalist. Pitchfork extolled his “hypnotic, tribal-infused dance grooves”, […]
Bullion | Affection
Bullion has announced a new album, his debut for Ghostly International, with a lead single featuring Carly Rae Jepsen. Listen to “Rare” below. The album, Affection, is out April 26, and it also features Panda Bear and Charlotte Adigéry. Bullion, the British producer, singer, and songwriter born Nathan Jenkins, has sporadically released music under his […]
Jahari Massamba Unit | YHWH is LOVE
Madlib and Karriem Riggins are Jahari Massamba Unit, a collaboration between two beacons of modern music joined by an unwavering passion for pushing the boundaries of traditional music. Beginning as a genuine friendship and mutual admiration for one another’s craft, Jahari Massamba Unit became a project with no rules or guidelines. The result is […]
Tanhai Collective | The Tanifesto
The six-piece London jazz band ‘Tanhai Collective’ draws its inspiration from jazz, broken beat, house and dub. They do this to create their unmistakable, energetic sound. After their second performance, where they were discovered by Norman Jay MBE, they played to an enthusiastic audience at Cross the Tracks 2021, a remarkable start to their burgeoning […]
Dabrye | Super-Cassette
Tadd Mullinix returns to his Dabrye alias for Super-Cassette, his first release of new material since 2018. Comprised of intentionally instrumental hip-hop tracks, referential yet modern, it’s both a back-to-basics beat tape and a multi-styled update to the minimalist sound he’s crafted since his breakthrough 2001 One/Three album on Ghostly International. Fans have long hoped […]
Joshua Van Tassel | The Recently Beautiful
The ambient music upon which Joshua Van Tassel has built his reputation has often been pushed by large concepts: the life cycle of a giant squid, a sci-fi folk tale, a custom score for craniosacral therapy. Those compositions lean long, psychedelic, grandiose—music for the sonic intellectual. For the follow-up to 2020’s Dance Music Volume II, […]
Khruangbin | A LA SALA
“‘A La Sala,’ I used to scream it around my house when I was a little girl, to get everybody in the living room; to get my family together. That’s kind of what recording the new album felt like. Emotionally there was a desire to get back to square-one between the three of us, to […]
bklyn | favourite things 12.23
bklyn favourite things 12.23 – Yussef Dayes, Kamaal Williams, Emile Mosseri, Yazmin Lacey, Penguin Cafe, Louis VI, Joe Armon-Jones & Mala feat. Andreya Triana, Niecy Blues, Andra Ljos, Fid Mella, Akthesavoir & Sagun feat. Mick Jenkins, Philipp Johann Thimm, Lect Drecs, Dawuna, Khukzuk Zendogiu, Maston, The Pretty Things, Alessandro Alessandroni, Alpman, Master Wilburn Burchette, Athlete […]
Yussef Dayes | Live From Malibu
Multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer Yussef Dayes releases ‘The Yussef Dayes Experience (Live from Malibu)’, featuring music from his critically acclaimed debut solo album, Black Classical Music, and more, on vinyl and digitally on January 26 via Brownswood Recordings, Warner Music, and Cashmere Thoughts Recordings and in the US on Nonesuch Records. Dayes is joined by […]
Kamaal Williams | Everything in its Right Place
‘Everything in its right place’ the new EP by British musician and record producer Kamaal Williams. The new songs featuring. Peezy on Drums and Marquinn Mason on Sax. Recorded at Malcolm Catto’s Studio Mastered by Beau Thomas. Released on Black Focus Records. Available on Bandcamp – All Proceeds to towards independent Music. […]
The Closest Thing to Silence
In August 2022, Australia-based, French born fourth-world music legend Ariel Kalma was invited to participate in BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction series of special collaborations. The program pairs artists who have not previously worked together to create new music cooperatively. Kalma was quick to suggest working with two musicians whom he had never met – […]
Medusozoa Vol. III
In a now annual tradition, Tartelet leans into the introspective mood of the winter months with its third compilation of downtempo and ambient titles. The artists involved on this 24-track collection include recent frontliners as well as long-standing extended family and breakthrough talents. Medusozoa Vol III offers a perfect opportunity to dig into the dimensions […]
Aus | Everis
Tokyo-born composer and producer aus has announced the release of a brand new album via London independent label Lo Recordings x FLAU. Everis features 10 songs performed on piano, strings, clarinet, flute, voice and electronics that encompass ideas plucked from disparate genres such as classical, spiritual jazz, indie, avant-garde and folk. Vibrations of everyday life […]
Ben Lumsdaine | Murmuration Without End
Murmuration Without End is a collection of rhythmic studies by producer, composer, percussionist & multi-instrumentalist Ben Lumsdaine. Whereas the tracks began as meditative synth drones recorded by Lumsdaine when quarantined in the basement studio of his friend’s home, over time they became multi-textural, poly-rhythmic sound worlds as he disrupted the meters and pulses implied by […]