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On flute & synthesisers Tenderlonious commands the 22archestra, a dream team of top talent. Harmony all over this one. The Shakedown is his debut album, with a groove of its own, subtly meandering jazz, to hip hop, afrobeat, latin and exhilarating free forms.
Read MoreArguably the biggest name currently in the jazz scene, Kamasi Washington has a long odyssey that plays long and beautifully into a summer night. Heaven and Earth is his second full-length album, unfolding over two halves that each run over an hour.
Read MoreThe second recap of June summarizes the best sounds that cruised around here during this month. For now, 61 tracks that can please different moods and tastes.
Read MoreWhile on working on his latest album - the magnificent Mind Games -, Ol' Burger Beats left behind some golden beats, songs and remixes. They deserve to be listened after all. Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind is, like Mind Games, a work of art.
Read MoreFollowing his debut - and acclaimed - album Kickinit Alone on Leaving Records last year, Kiefer is back with a new full length album. Happysad is a masterful piece of thirteen tracks that, again, blends instrumental hip hop beats with magnificent piano chords.
Read MoreThe first recap of June comes before some crucial releases that are coming our way. Very soon we'll be listening to new stuff from Kiefer, Bluestaeb, Ol' Burger Beats, Iman Magnetic or Havana Cultura. We take this chance to introduce these new projects to you.
Read MoreThe London underground scene is evident in Xover. And we're all over Blue Lab Beats at the moment. It took some time until we were relaxed enough and peacefully listening to this amazing first full-length album that sums up a couple of years of original creations.
Read MoreIn May o sótão was influenced by different paces, moods and rhythms. A 60-track selection sums up the best we've heard and talked about during this month. We hope you enjoy. It was carefully built - sometimes accompanied with wine, others with coffee.
Read MoreNuova Napoli is the result of a long musical research on the sound that shaped Napoli during the ‘70s and ‘80s, mixing the prevailing genres (disco, jazz-funk, African rhythms), which ended up in Nu Guinea’s DNA.
Read MoreKamaal Williams (a.k.a. Henry Wu) is back with The Return, a vast ten-track recording of ‘70s-inspired funk-fusion, electronic bounce, straight-ahead jazz, and atmospheric keyboard solos.
Read MoreGreen is a 10-track LP of smooth, ambient jazz by Robohands (a.k.a. Andy Baxter), and is the newest release by Village Live Records - the first album of the genre to drop on this label. In charge of drums, guitar, bass, piano, and synths, Andy Baxter experiments with hip hop and jazz to deliver something completely original.
Read MoreThis month's new entries come from some of the best new releases - Bluestaeb, Yadava, Fitz Ambro$e & Submerse -, others are simply memories that we saved to revisit - from the east to the west with Gang Starr's "Jazz Thing" and Naughty by Nature's "Mourn You 'Til I Join You".
Read MoreHavana Cultura is back with another release scheduled for June. "¡Súbelo, Cuba!" showcases an extended network of like-minded, forward-thinking musicians driving Cuba’s music forward.
Read MoreMay just started and already we stop time to recap on what has been playing around here. The voice of Billie Holiday is subject of reinterpretations by master Wun Two - the mesmerizing samples of "Gone With The Wind" in "Noite". Some world-jazzy vibes come with Kamasi Washignton…
Read MoreThis week Gilles Peterson's Brownswood Recordings drops the first full release coming out through the keys of Joe Armon-Jones. "Starting Today" follows the acclaimed "Idiom" EP released with Maxwell Owin in 2017 and Ezra Collective's (of which he’s a co-founder) "Juan Pablo" EP.
Read MoreIn May two brilliant pianists, composers and trend-makers will be dropping full albums.
Read MoreWith more than three years of history o sótão has been a secret platform dealing some of the highest carat underground music released by independent artists and labels. It focuses on music made by people that understand it or play it on a superior level.
Read MoreA saxofonista, compositora e bandleader Nubya Garcia está de volta com o capítulo seguinte da sua viagem musical. "When We Are" conta com dois originais e mais duas mix's a cargo dos finissímos produtores K15 e Maxwell Owin. Depois de "Nubya's 5ive" e de inúmeras excelentes colaborações em outros projetos, no novo EP escutamos Garcia a dar passos seguros dentro de territórios experimentais de música eletrónica.
"When We Are" conta com as fabulosas teclas de Joe Armon-Jones e o virtuoso Femi Koleoso na bateria. O subtil baixo está a cargo de Daniel Casimir. Os três complementam a personagem principal. No seu saxofone, Garcia comanda as emoções... Uma verdadeira dream-team oriunda da capital Londres. Capital da cena jazz mundial.
O lado B traz os remixes que abrem a porta a novas possibilidades sonoras para as duas composições. Abrem-lhes também a porta das mais edificantes pistas de dança londrinas.
Em quatro faixas, "When We Are" é um impressionante novo capítulo de uma das principais artistas muscais de Londres no momento. Senhoras e senhores, Nubya Garcia.
A Brownswood Recordings, com a curadoria de Gilles Peterson, introduz "We Out Here". Um sumário da nova cena jazzística de Londres, esta nova compilação reúne uma coleção de alguns dos seus talentos mais afiados. Com um conjunto de nove faixas recém-gravadas, "We Out Here" captura momentos em que as etiquetas e o enquadramento em géneros musicais importaram menos que a energia crua que atravessou as sessões. Uma vista de olhos pela ordem dos artistas no álbum, facilmente serve como um exercício de verificação de alguns dos nomes que, vindos de Londres, mais produziram artisticamente nos últimos dois anos. Gravado em três longos e frutíferos dias num estúdio da capital britânica, os resultados falam por si mesmo: uma autêntica janela para o futuro risonho do underground musical de Londres.
O álbum contém algumas das ideias e temas vitais que emanam deste movimento em expansão. Um reflexo de como a música influenciada pelo jazz de Londres alcançou novos espaços. Há uma infinidade de cruzamentos entre cada um destes nomes que "We Out Here" apresenta. Ezra Collective, Nubya Garcia, Joe Armon-Jones, Shabaka Hutchings, são alguns dos preferidos neste sótão. E algo do álbum transmite essa sensação de cooperação mútua e de espírito "do it yourself" sem limites inultrapassáveis. Tudo neste círculo de incrível de talento que a Brownswood Recordings tem a gentileza de nos apresentar. Enjoy!