Category: FEATURED RELEASES
As we enter the cooler Fall/Winter months, iconic DJ Paul Murphy and his Jazz Room Records label continue to bring the heat with a very welcomed reissue of Tata Vasquez’s extremely rare New York-style Latin jazz dance floor masterpiece, titled Ecstasy.
Highly innovative London-based singer, songwriter, producer, and DJ, Adam Scrimshire, who is also one of the minds behind both Wah Wah 45s and the Albert’s Favourites labels, returns with an incredible new atmospheric and deeply meditative full-length album, titled Nothing Feels Like Everything.
Italian-based percussionist, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer Gabriele Poso follows up his 2019 breakthrough album Batik (Soundway) with a brilliant new uptempo Latin percussion dance full-length on New York’s Wonderwheel Recordings, titled Tamburo Infinito.
Being based in the Bay Area in Northern California, I’ve been hearing some buzzing locally over the last several years about a rising young teenage pianist and producer known as Telemakus. Over the last couple of years, the now 19-year-old self-taught musician’s acclaim has quickly grown well beyond the South Bay, which is where he grew up, receiving strong notable praise from the likes of Flying Lotus, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Tommaso Cappellato, Música Macondo label, Music Is My Sanctuary, and others. He has now released his much-anticipated full-length album on the German-based label Radio Juicy, titled The New Heritage.
The German-based Analog Africa has just unearthed a collection of incredible DIY seventies recordings from an adventist church in Cameroon’s capital city of Yaoundé, and released them together on an essential new compilation, titled Cameroon Garage Funk.
Bristolian cosmic jazz duo Run Logan Run, which features drummer Matt Brown and Neil Hayes on saxophone and electronics, has teamed up with producer Riaan Vosloo from Nostalgia 77 to release an incredible new album, titled For A Brief Moment We Could Smell The Flowers on the superb Bristol label Worm Discs.
Highly innovative Los Angeles-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Mark de Clive-Lowe, who is always blurring the lines between jazz, broken beat, and experimental electronic-influenced music, has just released volume two of his new and brilliant Midnight Snacks Ep series.
Originally released back in March of 2015 to help raise awareness and funds for the Steve Reid Foundation, which is a non-profit organization that aims to help people working in music who are in crisis, the highly collaborative album led by drummer and producer Emanative (aka Nick Woodmansey), titled The Light Years Of The Darkness, featuring new renditions of music by Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry, Sun Ra, Joe Henderson, Arthur Blythe, and Mary Parks is now being reissued with a secret bonus record.
London-based Soccer 96 is a futuristic duo featuring keyboardist Danalogue (Dan Leavers) and drummer Betamax (Maxwell Hallett), which makes up two-thirds of The Comet Is Coming (with Shabaka Hutchings). They have just released their highly-anticipated fourth full-length album, titled Dopamine, which is inspired by a sci-fi theme in which robots have taken over the world, and humanities attempt to destroy them.
Earlier in the year, two legendary artists in producer, DJ, and radio broadcaster Gilles Peterson and multi-instrumentalist Jean-Paul “Bluey” Maunick teamed under the name STR4TA to release one of the most groundbreaking records of 2021. This incredible full-length album, titled Aspects, has helped shine a bright light on the Brit-funk sound of the late 70s and early 80s. Fast forward a number of months later, producer and Z Records label boss Dave Lee, who is a legend in his own right, has remixed one of the many standout tracks in “After The Rain”, which is out now on a 12inch single via Brownswood.
