Neue Grafik | Foulden Road Part Two
South London based producer and multi-instrumentalist Neue Grafik announces his new EP ‘Foulden Road Part II’ from his Neue Grafik Ensemble band, released 25th March on Total Refreshment Centre. The sequel to their impressive 2019 release ‘Foulden Road’, Neue Grafik continues to incorporate 100% live takes with the ensemble, as well as solo productions that […]
Culross Close | Pressure
“Pressure” is the third album by Culross Close. “The album opens with the sound of PRESSURE! a world where synths blend with keys and the visceral expressions of city life. Things then move from minimalist expressions to beat-driven fusion. With searing string and trumpet arrangement courtesy of Yelfris Valdes, To Belong straddles beat-driven fusion and jazz […]
bklyn | favourite things 1.22
bklyn favourite things 1.22 – Carrtoons feat. Jaedon Alvira, Ivan Ave, Sean Price feat. Madlib, JuJu Rogers, Styles Davis, LNDFK feat. Chester Watson, Jonny Shredder, J.I.D. feat. 21 Savage & Baby Tate, Azizi Gibson feat. Freddie Gibbs, Astronote, Corto.Alto, Tenda Senda & PiPou, OOF feat. Mike Ladd, FloFilz feat. Alfa Mist, Telemakus, Quiet Dawn, Khruangbin, […]
Kahil El’Zabar Quartet | A Time For Healing
Kahil El’Zabar delivers yet another epic double LP’s worth of ancient/future music for the mind, body and soul. From swinging jazz that sings of his Chicago pedigree, to talking drums and soothing spiritual grooves that reconnect Black Classical Music with its African roots. Multi-percussionist, band-leader, vocalist, composer, conductor and educator, Kahil El’Zabar has been at […]
Unknown To Known | Live at the Crypt
Unknown to Known offers an intimate dialogue of meandering melodies and textural grooves over resounding harmonic landscapes. At times euphoric and often dynamic, this music is always interactive, honest and raw. Following the release of their first EP “Portico” which found support from music lovers and DJs worldwide including the likes of Gilles Peterson, “Live […]
Houeida Hedfi | Fleuves de l’Âme
Originally a percussionist, Hedfi first met Dreijer when he visited Tunisia and produced her contribution to a 2011 compilation of female Tunisian artists. This kindled a nine-year collaboration which culminates in ‘Fleuves de l’Âme’, an elegant marriage of traditional folk music and contemporary sound design drawing references from Hedfi’s drumming expertise and the textures of Tunisian music […]
bklyn | favourite things 12.21
bklyn favourite things 12.21 – Gabriels, Jamire Williams feat. Corey King, Oscar #Worldpeace, Curren$y, Teis Ortved, Delphi, Wandl, Lance Skiiiwalker feat. SiR, Mackwood, Radius, Tristan de Liege & Ash Walker, Nick Walters, Soul Sugar feat. Booker Gee & Blundetto, Embryo, Dexter & Yosa Peit, Awkward Corners & Hector Plimmer Remix, feat. Tamar Osborn, Nubya Garcia […]
IAMPAUL | Loose Thoughts
After the release of “DaydreamNightwalk” EP back in 2018, “Loose Thoughts” is IAMPAUL’s new instrumental beat-jazz/fusion album. All instruments played, arranged and mixed by himself. Loose Thoughts by IAMPAUL
Shay Hazan | Reclusive Rituals
The multi-talented Shay Hazan fuses rubbery North African Gnawa grooves, with haunting jazz horns and hip hop inflected beats on ‘Reclusive Rituals’. His first project for international groove artisans, Batov Records. Tel-Aviv based musician Shay Hazan is a composer, producer, bassist & bandleader. His versatile bass is frequently heard on national radio, providing the hits […]
Jeff Parker | Forfolks
Jeff Parker’s Forfolks – a new album of solo guitar tracks – released via International Anthem and Nonesuch Records. The album features interpretations of Thelonious Monk’s “Ugly Beauty” and the standard “My Ideal,” as well as six original compositions, including “Four Folks” (a piece Parker first wrote and recorded in 1995) and “La Jetée” (a […]
bklyn | favourite things 11.21
The Brkn Record, Apifera, Àbáse, , Alfa Mist, Scrimshire feat. Miryam Solomon, Awkward Corners feat. Tamar Osborn, Chip Wickham, Bobby Oroza feat. Cold Diamond & Mink, El Michels Affair feat. Piya Malik, Betamax Vs Clive Bell, Miryam Solomon, Jeff Parker, Shay Hazan, Koma Saxo & Petter Eldh feat. Christian Lillinger, Ben LaMar Gay, Daedelus & […]
Wadada Leo Smith & Henry Kaiser | Pacifica Koral Reef
“I’m supposed to be writing about Pacifica Koral Reef, this record that I’ve made with my friend Henry Kaiser and his friend Wadada Leo Smith. And while the music it contains is, for me, a miraculous late-career achievement after 50 years of mostly playing in alternative rock bands, writing about it is a downright odd […]
Nick Walters | Singularity
Nick Walters returns to his D.O.T. Records imprint with a suite of forward thinking, cosmic, electronic-jazz experiments, inspired by NASA & the concept of gravitational singularity. Each track on “Singularity”, his first home studio produced album, is built around an audio sample recorded by NASA in space, then expertly transported back to earth by Walters […]
Scrimshire | Nothing Feels Like Everything
Adam Scrimshire’s latest full-lenbth excursion – the Albert’s Favourites founder’s third in as many years, is an expansive, adventurous and entertaining affair, with a string of guest vocalists and musicians swinging by to lend a hand. After opening with a touch of Rotary Connection-inspired brilliance featuring Cleveland Watkiss (‘The Pile’), Scrimshsire sashays between soft-focus, semi-acoustic […]
Coldcut & Mixmaster Morris | @0
The release includes new compositions and remixes of music by Imogen Heap, James Heather, Specimens, Nailah Hunter, Coldcut and more. Ninja Tune will be donating their share (50% of net receipts) to three charities: CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably), Mind and Black Minds Matter. Launched with a double single—Suzanne Ciani’s “Morning Spring” & Kaitlyn Aurelia […]
Embryo | Auf Auf
The late Christian Burchard, who founded the Embryo ensemble in 1969, loved the slogan “Auf Auf,” German for “Up, Up,” or “Keep On Going.” Anyone with anything more than a passing interest in the German Krautock scene of the 1970s and 1980s knows that Burchard followed that intent all around the world, tirelessly seeking out […]
Unknown To Known | Portico
Improvised extracts from our first encounter in July 2021. Portico Gallery, South London. This group is a culmination of four musicians each active in some of the most prominent musical forces around today including Sting, Van Morrison, Anoushka Shankar, Wild Flower, Ill Considered, Collocutor, Akram Khan, Dele Sosimi, Sarathy Korwar, Joy Crookes and more. On […]
Bremer McCoy | Natten (The Night)
“Natten”, which means “The Night” in Danish, draws inspiration from the end of day, that regenerative time under the constellations when our lives look different. Listeners might be quick to call it escapist—the music might be a reprieve from our busy lives. And while that’s one way to experience Natten, there’s also another, which has […]