Category: FEATURED RELEASES
New York-based keyboardist, vocalist and Alice Coltrane disciple Surya Botofasina, who was a major contributor on André 3000’s groundbreaking New Blue Sun recording, follows up his breakthrough debut Everyone’s Children with a brilliant new album on the superb London label Spiritmuse Records, titled Ashram Sun.
Beginning with the release of Les Hommes breakthrough debut album in 2000 on Schema Records, titled The Mood is Modal, the East London trio has continued to receive much acclaim through a number of follow-up recordings. In much-anticipation, the group releases their first full-length since 2017, titled Sì, così on Sudded Hunger Records.
The Italian-based label Schema Records has recently released a limited-edition 7” single featuring two tracks that producer, composer, guitarist, DJ, and spiritual jazz dance pioneer Nicola Conte recorded with modern-day jazz vocal great Gregory Porter back in 2011 on Conte’s previously CD/digital-only Impulse! Records album, Love & Revolution.
This week’s BeatCaffeine Record Rundown includes the return of 2023 Mercury Prize winning band Ezra Collective with their highly-anticipated new album, a dancefloor primed EP from Quantic, saxophonist Nubya Garcia’s incredible 12-track Odyssey, and beautifully haunting live album from Polish pianist and vocalist Hania Rani.
The superb new UK-based Echo Chamber Recordings has released a white-label 7″inch” release of a brilliant cover of Airto Moreira’s jazz dancefloor classic “Samba de Flora” by the North Argentinian group Romero Bros.
This week’s BeatCaffeine Weekly Rundown features some incredible boundary-pushing releases, including the brilliant new album from Nala Sinephro, Paradise Cinema’s much-anticipated sophomore release, an adventurous new recording from the Bristol-based Ishmael Ensemble, and a superb new remix 12″ from two of Gondwana Records’ standout artists in Portico Quartet and Hania Rani.
Over the last several weeks, legendary UK-based DJ and radio broadcaster Colin Curtis has continued with his impressive onslaught of essential releases on his imprint label Colin Curtis Presents with four superb 12” records, all of which take aim at the jazz dancefloor.
Co-founded by tenor and soprano saxophonist Søren Skov (also of Debre Damo Dining Orchestra) and keyboardist Peder Vind, Søren Skov Orbit is an experimental Danish quintet that was formed back in 2016. The group has just released their brilliant debut album, Adrift, on the superb New York-based Frederiksberg Records.
We return to BeatCaffeine’s Weekly Record Rundown, featuring some highly recommended new music recordings that have been recently released. This week includes the latest from cosmic keyboardist Greg Foat, the debut from French duo Bolbec, South African pianist Bokani Dyer’s new remix 12″ on Brownswood, and the return of prolific New Zealand-based producer and saxophonist Nathan Haines.
