Record Shopping Etiquette
The do’s, the don’ts, and best practices when it comes to shopping for vinyl.
Jazz dance pioneer Gerardo Frisina returns with brilliant new rhythmic album ‘Moving Ahead’
For over the last 20 years, Italian musician and producer Gerardo Frisina has been at the forefront of some of the best jazz dance recordings of this century, blending together jazz melodies with Latin, African, Brazilian, deep house rhythms and more. He returns with quite possibly his most complete album to date in Moving Ahead.
UK’s Andrew Ashong & Kaidi Tatham team up for highly-anticipate EP ‘Sankofa Season’
British-Ghanaian soul singer, songwriter, and producer Andrew Ashong joins forces with one of the most innovative and influential UK broken beat artists over the past two decades in keyboardist and producer Kaidi Tatham to release a brilliant new EP, titled Sankofa Season.
Long version of Family of Swede’s 1976 cosmic soul gem ‘Set You Free’ released for the first time
Earlier in the year, London’s Cordial Recordings put out a full-length album featuring previously unreleased material recorded in the 70s from an Oakland based funk and soul group Family of Swede, titled Family Album. Due to high demand and heavy rotation from Gilles Peterson and others, the long version of the brilliant soul track “Set You Free”, which was originally only included on the CD version, has been released as a twelve-inch single.
Soundway releases South African Bubblegum pop influenced album by Thaba
Beginning as just a single track collaboration, and blossoming into it’s own project, Soundway has recently released the debut full-length album by Thaba, titled Eyes Rest Their Feet. This is a collaborative effort between the late South African singer/songwriter Khusi Seremane and American producer/musician Gabriel Cyr.
Mexican jazz great Tino Contreras releases new hypnotic jazz album ‘La Noche de los Dioses’ on Brownswood
Earlier this year, Gilles Peterson‘s new reissue label Arc Records re-released, for the first time, Tino Contreras‘ independent 1978 psych-jazz recording Musica Infinita, introducing the 96-year-old Mexican artist to new generations of listeners. The musical relationship between Gilles, Tino, and musician/record collector Carlos Icaza, who first introduced the two, has continued with Gilles’ other label, Brownswood Recordings, releasing a great new album from the prolific composer and drummer, titled La Noche de los Dioses.
Chilean Enrique Rodríguez and the Negra Chiway Band release Latin spiritual jazz debut on Soul Jazz Records
Chilean composer, percussionist, keyboardist, and producer Enrique Rodríguez and his Negra Chiway Band have released an incredible spiritual jazz album on London’s Soul Jazz Records, titled Fase Liminal.
Trumpet & percussion duo Aquiles Navarro & Tcheser Holmes release adventurous debut on International Anthem
Over the past couple of years, New York City’s avant-jazz-meets-spoken word collective Irreversible Entanglements has stormed on the scene and have been one of the most creative and thought-provoking bands in jazz. Two of the group’s closest members in trumpeter Aquiles Navarro and drummer Tcheser Holmes have come together again to release a brilliant and wildly adventurous duo album titled Heritage of the Invisible II on Chicago’s International Anthem label.
Listen Here: Worldwide FM’s ‘America 2020’ w/ Kahil El’Zabar
In the run up to the US Election on November 3rd, Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide FM has put together an incredible thought-provoking series America 2020, which explores the theme of ‘What it means to be American in 2020’. The series has included mixture of inspired music and spoken word interviews from some of the most groundbreaking artists across all genres including Lady Blackbird, Algiers, Pan Amsterdam, Tune-Yards, Kahil El’Zabar and more.
Afro-futurism pioneers Sun Ra Arkestra release ‘Swirling’, first new studio album in 20 years
Afro-futurism pioneers, and still the greatest band in the universe, under the direction of maestro Marshall Allen, who has been leading the Arkestra since Sun Ra left the planet in 1993, have just released their first studio album in over twenty years, titled Swirling on Strut Records.
Mark de Clive-Lowe releases cosmic electro-acoustic trio album ‘Dreamweavers’
Los Angeles-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Mark de Clive-Lowe has teamed up with two incredible Italian musicians in bassist Andrea Lombardini and drummer Tommaso Cappellato (Astral Travel) to release his first trio album since 1996, titled Dreamweavers on Mother Tongue Records.
