Tag: Cosmic
Adventurous Italian bassist and composer Rosa Brunello, who often explores everything from progressive rock and jazz fusion to dub and experimental electronic music, is releasing a brilliant new full-length record, appropriately titled Sounds Like Freedom, on Tommaso Cappellato’s new label Domanda Music.
In what has to be one of the most highly anticipated releases of 2022, Berlin’s groundbreaking collective Jazzanova reimagine essential material from the now-legendary and short-lived 70s era Detroit label Strata Records. In association with DJ Amir (aka Amir Abdullah) and 180 Proof Records, who have been officially reissuing material from the label’s vaults for almost a decade, this superb new album will be released on BBE.
Los Angeles-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Mark de Clive-Lowe, who is been one of the pioneering artists to successfully blend together jazz, broken beat, house, and experimental electronic-influenced music for the span of three decades, returns with the third release from his superb Midnight Snacks Ep series.
UK-based record shop and label Mr Bongo have recently reissued a half-speed mastered edition of the iconic 1972 jazz-rock-fusion album Belladonna from British trumpeter great Ian Carr. This groundbreaking recording was a part of Carr’s adventurous shift in sound following a number of years during the late 60s performing and recording with the legendary post-hard bop ensemble, The Don Rendell / Ian Carr Quintet.
London’s Strut Records concludes it’s exploration into Sun Ra Arkestra’s historic recordings in Egypt with a reissue of the 1983 collaborative album with great Egyptian percussionist and drummer Salah Ragab and his large ensemble, The Cairo Jazz Band.
Australian-born, New York-based composer and pianist Barney McAll, who has made his mark playing along side Gary Bartz, Billy Harper, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Maceo Parker, Fred Wesely, Dewey Redman, and so many others, has released a brilliant new uplifting cosmic soul-jazz album on his Extra Celestial Arts label, titled Precious Energy.
Paris-based composer, bandleader and tenor saxophonist Laurent Bardainne returns with his quintet project Tigre d’eau Douce, following the group’s impressive 2020 debut Love Is Everywhere, with a brilliant new cosmic jazz album on Heavenly Sweetness, titled Hymne au Soleil.
French label Favorite Recordings has recently released an incredible new 12inch spaced-out dancefloor heater from producer Björn Wagner’s latest project Magic Source. Known as the mind behind both the Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band and The Mighty Mocambos, this brilliant feel-good single explores the more unusual facets of left-field disco.
South London-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Neue Grafik follows-up his breakthrough 2019 Foulden Road release on the Total Refreshment Centre label with Foulden Road Part II, an equally brilliant EP that speaks to racial injustices and the global pandemic.
Following the success of 2020’s Cosmica Italiana single, Italian DJ, producer and musician Lorenzo Morresi teams up again with producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and 22a label boss, Ed ‘Tenderlonious’ Cawthorne on another brilliant new cosmic jazz 7inch single release, titled Acqua.
