Carlos Niño & Friends | (I’m just) Chillin’, on Fire
While the album compiles live and studio arrangements recorded in places like Venice, Leimert Park and Woodstock over the past three years, it feels harmonious, as if captured in one space with all musicians present. This highlights Niño’s ability as a conductor and producer. That he could winnow such vast experimentation into a seamless set […]
Huw Marc Bennett | Days Like Now
Welsh producer and bassist Huw Marc Bennett is set to release his beautiful new album ‘Days Like Now’. Steeped in organic sounds of jazz, folk, soul, dub and the earthy, psychedelic roots of his homeland; the music has history but also harmonises with the new world around it, understanding the changing landscape. “I feel as […]
EABS meets Jaubi | In Search of a Better Tomorrow
A few years ago, a very interesting relationship began to develop. A bridge was built out of Jaubi’s releases on Astigmatic Records and the increasingly frequent collaborations between musicians from Europe and Asia – out of Latarnik’s trip to Pakistan resulting in the widely acclaimed album Nafs at Peace and Zohaib, Dhani and Ali’s revisit […]
Move 78 | Space For The Kidd / Neuralgia
Move 78 are a Berlin-based band whose signature sound is a balance between free-flowing, improvised jazz and programmed, automated hip-hop. Village Live Records presents “Space For The Kidd” / “Neuralgia”, the new 7” vinyl release by Berlin-based band Move 78 & vocalist Douniah. Both tracks were initially recorded as part of a jam session Move […]
bklyn | favourite things 4.23
bklyn favourite things 4.23 – Kamaal Williams, Najee-Zaid, Jiony, RAMZi feat. Priori, Imaginary Softwoods, Markandeya & Joaquín Cornejo Version, Jasperino, The Cinematic Orchestra, Alfa, Goya Gumbani, Alfa Mist, Caixa Cubo feat. Matthias Schriefl, Lonnie Holley, Julia Gjertsen, Mammal Hands, Les Mamans du Congo,Venna feat. Marco Bernardis, Piero Umiliani, Midan x Flitz&Suppe, Kendrick Scott feat. Reuben […]
John Carroll Kirby | Blowout
John Carroll Kirby’s new album “Blowout” was written on a recent stay in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica. Between 5am wake-up calls from oropendola birds and psychedelic sunsets, he wrote Blowout, inspired by the local people, music and nature. Though its songs are joyful, that joyfulness is tinged with melancholy. Kirby says, “Blowout is about enjoying […]
Bokoya & Gianni Brezzo | Minari
Experimental hip-hop/jazz quartet Bokoya team up with Cologne-based producer/guitarist Gianni Brezzo (Jakarta Records) for collabo album ‘Minari’ on Melting Pot Music. Bokoya describe themselves as a four-headed human drum machine that play impro-vised beat music. You can call it jazz if you like (all four members are graduated jazz musicians btw) but be ready to […]
Yoni Mayraz | Dybbuk Tse!
Dybbuk, known from Jewish folklore, is a malevolent wandering spirit that enters and possesses the body of a living person. It’s a cursed soul of a dead one that wanders tirelessly for sins committed during their life. The most vulnerable victims are the young and the sinful. Possession can be taken literally or as an […]
Coryayo | AUM
“This is a sacred healing album heavily inspired by my experiences with Plant Medicine, Ego Death and Sound Healing. A powerful and meditative exploration of sound, Cory takes you on a journey of sound through the use of many different organic instruments, chants, textures of nature & healing vibrations. Every track is tuned to the […]
Sampology & Charlie Hill | Galaxy
An intergenerational meeting of minds, Galaxy is the first collaborative EP from Meanjin, Brisbane musicians Sam Poggioli aka Sampology and Charlie Hill. Equal parts brain dance and body music, Galaxy’s seven tracks represent a vivid intermingling of 70s jazz-funk, fusion, machine-funk, Latin house and broken beat, accented by flourishes of minimalist composition. Considered as a […]
Yussef Dayes | Black Classical Music
Multi-instrumentalist and visionary artist Yussef Dayes announces his highly anticipated debut solo studio album ‘Black Classical Music’, released on September 8th via the revered Brownswood Recordings, Warners and Cashmere Thoughts Recordings. Alongside this, Dayes shares a first taster of the record, the title track “Black Classical Music” featuring Venna & Charlie Stacey. Dayes introduces Black […]
Chiminyo | NRG 1
NRG 1 is the first album in a new series from London based drummer/producer, Chiminyo, in which he and members of his musical community exchange (strictly improvised) NRG with audiences and capture the spontaneous beauty to be shared with the world. NRG 1 features an all-star line-up (band members of Jorja Smith, Nubyan Twist, Gary […]
Venna | Equinox
Grammy Award winning artist and multi-instrumentalist Venna has released his sophomore EP. ‘Equinox’ was teased by the release of ‘Casa Lopez’ which saw Venna link up with US heavyweights Masego and Mick Jenkins. The new project also contains features from JADA, as well as Yussef Dayes, Marco Bernardis & Rocco Palladino. Venna received a Grammy […]
The Notional Pastures Of Imaginary Softwoods
Time bends for Imaginary Softwoods, the solo guise of producer, songwriter, and synthesist John Elliott. Though he’s working on new recordings daily, Elliott’s process for the construction of his albums moves at a much different interval, stretching out over months of considerate listening, revision, and waiting patiently for the right combinations and clashes of elemental […]
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 […]
Midori Takada | Tree of Life
Originally recorded in September 1998 at legendary Ginza (Tokyo) studio Onkio Haus (founded in 1974 and where Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence” and many more were recorded) and released on CD only for the Japan market in 1999, Tree of Life is Midori Takada’s best kept secret, a lost gem of minimalism and percussive […]
Joel Holmes | Into The Abyss
Once known solely for electronic music, Berlin has quietly gone through huge changes over the past years. While the queues in front of the techno clubs become shorter and shorter, the city is slowly converting into a melting pot for all sorts of musicians and artists with amazing instrumentalists, producers and bands from all over […]
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 […]