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o sótão's #200 playlist, as the #100, showcases the main influences guiding us through our daily search. More than just showing new releases, as we usually do, the #200 pays homage to some of the main names of the music we’re currently diving in. More than just a playlist, the #200 is a note traversing time towards the future.
Read MoreLooking back to what was released and remembered in December, this month’s playlist also opens up the book for what’s to come, right around the corner in 2020. In fact the selection begins and ends with two different projects provoking high expectations
Read MoreWorking with a range of collaborators, aiming to broaden the scope of the Black Jazz Consortium project in terms of the music, ideas, and sound, we find Fred P interpreting Latin and Brazilian music through his own unique lens.
Read MoreTo celebrate its ten year anniversary the compilation Eglo Records, Vol. 2 encompasses the works of many of its incredible featured artists: Steve Spacek, Floating Points, Fatima, Dego, Kaidi Tatham, Henry Wu, K15 just to name a few.
Read Moredownundaground, curated by the Melbourne-based label La Sape, is a compilation comprised of seven tracks made by young up-and-coming Australian instrumentalists and improvisers, directed by the mighty talent of Horatio Luna.
Read MoreJitwam returns to his spiritual home The Jazz Diaries with a new EP and a new sound to unveil a little of what’s to come in 2020. Enchanté effortlessly blends genres into dancefloor music, composed by two originals and an extended mix of “Something to Say” by Anthony Nicholson.
Read MoreJoined by bassist Rocco Palladino and keyboardist Charlie Stacey, drummer Yussef Dayes releases Duality, comprising two tracks in which the trio showcase their endless virtuosity and their magnificent musical intensity.
Read MoreSome of the best projects of 2019 came out in November. Falling like the non-stop rain of these days, newly released works from artists like Douniah & High John, Surprise Chef, Daniel Casimir & Tess Hirst, Kumail, Danvers, Sefi Zisling or Summers Sons deserve our highest praises.
Read MoreTime for Tel Aviv’s top jazz and funk trumpeter Sefi Zisling and his sophomore album: Expanse. Combining the sounds of afro-jazz, psychedelic funk and spiritual jazz, the album echoes great creators while paving a new path through Zisling’s magnificent trumpet performance.
Read MoreThe four track EP draws from a wide pool of influences – touching on jazz, folk rhythm traditions, club-oriented electronics, and progressive experimentalism – generating an organic performance rooted in an intimate musical understanding between performers.
Read MoreConnecting the Afro & Brazilian tropics with the soundscape of London, Da Lata’s fourth album Birds is filled with this infusion of organic grooves and sophisticated funkiness. On ten tracks the Da Lata duo guides us through its extensive musical background
Read MoreFollowing Becoming, released earlier this year, the Porto-based producer and multi-instrumentalist SaiR (a.k.a. Ruben Allen) delivers a two-track EP called Watercolors - full of jazz and soul music textures on a funky-electronica canvas.
Read MoreSurprise Chef are an instrumental soul quartet from Melbourne, Australia. Crossing the group’s unconventional jazz-funk sound, All News Is Good News is a mysterious piece, with a distinct cinematic taste to it, playing with shades of light and dark, tension and release.
Read MoreThese Days fuses traditional jazz sounds into modern compositions, boiling in a specific political and cultural landscape across its twelve tracks. With Casimir playing with a passion and a power that resonates throughout each composition, Hirst has space to deliver not only her music but also her perspective of herself as an artist.
Read MoreNew releases floating by our coast constantly. An eclectic playlist of 60 tracks summarizes all those inputs coming from all over the world. Different paces, moods and rhythms. Plenty of jazz and hip hop, plenty of dancefloor bangers and deep melodies.
Read MoreThe Budapest-based trio Jazzbois smoothly delivers one of the best debuts in 2019. The project entitled Jazzbois Goes Blunt flows effortlessly between jazz and hip hop genres, with bass, keys and drums tuned together through an 11-track trip.
Read MoreAfter four EP’s of VA projects, the French imprint Broken District releases its first mini LP: South Side, by SofaTalk, an Italian producer that has been under our radar for a while, as one of the best new acts in the broken-beat, jazz-house scene.
Read More“I think therefore I jam”. Cogito Ergo Jam, released by Social Joy, is the first LP from the Natural Lateral quintet, drawing inspirations from jazz, through electronic, with deep grooves and mesmerizing psych-synth melodies.
Read MoreJoining the Berlin-based Toy Tonics label, jazz pianist Joel Holmes and stylized producer Cody Currie are preparing the release of a couple of EP’s. The first one, New Chapter, is a delicious 4-track ode to the neo-jazz spirit.
Read MoreMarquis Hill is an award-winning trumpeter, composer, and bandleader - a highly skilled jazz musician with a bent toward soulful post-bop. Assembling a collection of interviews women sharing their perspectives on love and self-love, he builds around the theme to produce the wonderful Love Tape.
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