Time 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.
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The 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.
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Connecting 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
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Following 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.
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Surprise 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.
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These 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.
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New 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.
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The 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.
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After 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.
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“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.
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Joining 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.
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Marquis 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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Kaidi Tatham returns to 2000black, following last year’s In My Life EP. You Find That I Got It / Mjuvi carries on with Tatham’s legacy - instantly recognizable as his own. After so many years producing, playing, performing, his sound still remains fresh and innovative.
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The world of jazz music eagerly waited for this record. One of the saxophonists of the moment, Binker Golding, delivers his first quartet album, Abstractions of Reality Past and Incredible Feathers, joined by an incredible group: Joe Armon-Jones on piano, Daniel Casimir on bass and Sam Jones on drums.
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Musicians that we’ve been writing about for years, with their immense talent and vision. Confirmations from some of the avant-garde names on today’s contemporary music - crossing a vast sort of genres. New ones that will, surely, keep surprising us. All in an eclectic 50-track selection.
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Producer, instrumentalist and DJ, Neue Grafik joins Total Refreshment Centre to present us a new mini-LP, Foulden Road. With him, an ensemble of gifted musicians, mixing jazz, house and hip hop, an unique geographical flavour of African ethnicity, Parisian roots and a love for London sounds like broken beat & grime.
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Led by producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Mark de Clive Lowe, Tokyo’s Rōnin Arkestra brings together some of the most supreme and innovative players in Japan’s jazz and electronic scene. Formed in 2017, the collective’s debut album Sonkei comes out next friday, via Albert’s Favourites.
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Since the release of his first LP, Kickinit Alone, Kiefer has been producing some of the best jazz infused hip hop music of our time. Superbloom takes a step further, with bright, imaginative sounds, not failing to capture the artist’s essential trademarks.
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Due to come out this week, the sophomore solo album of Joe Armon-Jones is another exhibition of his endless virtuosity. Turn To A Clear View builds on the artist’s foundations - an infusion of jazz, bass-heavy dub and contemporary club culture, flourishing on r&b, hip hop and p-funk influences.
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The visionary musical output of Dego has had an immeasurable influence on the UK dance and electronica music scene, spanning the 90s and early 00s. His new album, Too Much, is the proof that he continues to push boundaries within his signature sound.
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