Jazzego, from Porto, presents PEDRA and its first EP Karimeen. After successive releases of the highest quality (there’s more to come in 2021), the portuguese label bets on a promising artist who designs a contemplative environment reminiscent of London's avant-garde jazz.
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Eikrem and Beautiful Disco provide a magnificently polished mix of jazzy instrumentals, groovy beats and soulful vocals. Over 14 tracks we are progressively taken to a relaxing sound landscape, where jazz survives (will always survive) in the dreams of those who reinvent it.
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February was rich in anthems that we will hear far beyond this month. We composed a playlist of 45 tracks to summarize the best ingredients we used on this special cocktail. Eclectic as always: jazz, electronic, hip hop and soulful music from all over the world.
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A breeze from Salvador, from Praia, from Lisbon comes in, as a spring prelude. That breeze is called Orla, Caravela’s debut LP that is released now by None More Records - deeply attached to Afro-Brazilian rhythms and contemporary jazz approaches.
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This month we have the pleasure of welcoming fico, one of the guys behind the reputable Abysmal Lounge collective. The Japanese DJ, based in the city of Fukuoka, takes us into a soulful and eclectic musical journey showcasing real knowledge behind the decks.
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Dropping next friday, Far Out Recording’s next release introduces us to António Neves and his amalgamation of Brazilian musical expressions. A Pegada Agora É Essa (The Sway Now) triumphs in portraying, with a futuristic and dreamy perspective, Rio de Janeiro’s current music scene.
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Blowing his alto-saxophone, Marcus Joseph is a very promising jazz artist from Leicester (with Afro-Caribbean roots) that presented, last week, his sophomore project released by jazz re:freshed. Connecting jazz to hip hop and neo soul music with ease, Beyond The Dome is a deeply spiritual piece of work.
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SxB explores, with outstanding results, the energy of what it seems a live session, in which the three elements just talk with each other in the form of unbearable levels of groove.
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Emile Londonien's first EP is entitled SxB and it's gonna drop via Dope Tone Records. This 4-tracker is a groovy tribute to Strasbourg's growing nujazz and broken house scene, with remixes from Geoff Roy and Monomite.
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Far Out Recordings presents the debut album of this project, never edited throughout these 35 years that have now passed. The self-titled Marcos Resende & Index, now reissued in vinyl, is an essential contribution to the progressive and instrumental music from Brazil.
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Dan Goldman (a.k.a. JD73) is not a new name for the contemporary jazz fusion fans. On Pyramid, his new album released by Atjazz Record Company, he is backed up by Hamlet Luton (on bass) and Gordon Kilroy (on drums) to form theJD73’s Electrio and deliver eight smooth compositions.
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The Paradox was then conceived as their joint project, now presenting us the mesmerizing Counter-Active, that dropped last friday via Axis Records. Recorded in real-time, the seven compositions that compose the LP, reflect captured spontaneous actions which concede honesty and truth.
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2021 started with many golden releases that are shaping our taste but also exploring new directions in the genres of contemporary jazz, deep house and hip hop, delivering those soulful vibes that transverse most of the features we present.
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Nick Walters & The Paradox Ensemble are back with a new album entitled Implicate Order, which drops tomorrow via D.O.T. Records. On this record the 11-piece band continues to break the mould of big band jazz, combining spiritual and eastern jazz moods with West African rhythms and a fusion of electronics.
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Following the conscious experience Ignite provided last year, The Sultan’s Swing is back with a new album that is a deep and cosmic journey borne from personal struggle amidst the recent events around the globe - Matter of Urgency.
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Andy Baxter and his Robohands project returns to O Sótão to deliver his inventiveness and groove. Following Green and Dusk, released in 2018 and 2019 respectively, Shapes is the third album from the London-based multi-instrumentalist.
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Olindo Records launches a sister label named Música Infinita and presents the reissue of The Message by the Venezuelan living legend Gerry Weil, due to drop tomorrow. It is a pleasure to present this overlooked cornerstone of Venezuelan jazz.
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Following the 2018 Exotic Worlds and Masterful Treasures, via Stones Throw Records, Jones explores in this record the variety of approaches and musical possibilities contained in his hands, crossing jazz, soul music, surf rock, blues, hip hop…
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The fantastic jazz-hip-hop trio Jazzbois partners up with the Australian rap duo INQ for a tasty EP composed by four original tracks and three instrumentals. Mind Connect is the way Blunt Shelter Records ends 2020, and what a way to do it.
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Forty tracks to end the strange 2020. Without live music being played, other than the occasional stream, this year was particularly hard for all cultural workers. Yet they were more important than ever in our lives. Through their work it was actually fine to stay at home. So let’s celebrate it.
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