Tag: ELECTRONIC MUSIC
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.
As we begin to approach the warmer months of the year, London composer/pianist and long-time BeatCaffeine favorite, Greg Foat has just released a new cosmic jazz live album recorded on May 3, 2023 at Can Rudayla in Ibiza.
Highly-acclaimed London composer, producer and pianist Greg Foat returns with his second outstanding record of 2023 (see ‘Off-Piste‘), this time teaming up with Venetian ambient maestro Gigi Masin for a laid back cosmic full-length on the Strut label, titled Dolphin.
Three of today’s most forward-thinking artists, in Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist/producer Mark de Clive-Lowe, Detroit drummer/producer Shigeto, and Brooklyn/Haitian singer, flautist and sample chopper Melanie Charles have teamed up under an exciting new project titled Hotel San Claudio, which was appropriately named after the Italian countryside stay in which the trio first came together in preparation for performing as a trio at the Fat Fat Fat Festival.
East London-based musician, musical director, and producer Amane Suganami has been very active over the last several years, playing keys with notable UK group Maisha, and serving as Musical Director for Jorja Smith, Amaarae, Ego Ella May and Maverick Sabre, as well as performing alongside some major names like Ed Sheeran, Elton John, and many others. Despite a constantly busy touring schedule, Amane has been able to step out on his own and release an impressive debut EP on Música Macondo, titled Moments Of Solace.
It’s safe to say that if we’ve learned anything over the last decade when it comes to Greg Foat, who has established himself as one of the most forward-thinking composers and pianists, is that you can “box him in” musically. It seems like each release has it’s own concept or identity, and that is certainly the case on his latest solo effort, titled Photosynthesis, which trades in jazz-funk grooves for meditative soundscapes.
Highly innovative and active Panamá-born, Chicago-based drummer and DJ Daniel Villarreal, who also notably plays and co-leads in a number of groups including Dos Santos, has recently released an incredible collaborative cosmic psych-jazz debut (under his own name) on International Anthem.
UK-based DJ, radio broadcaster, and selector Luke Una, who made his mark in the underground scenes of Manchester beginning in the mid-80s, has teamed up with the Mr Bongo label and record shop for a brilliant and wildly eclectic new compilation, titled É Soul Cultura.
Future Jazz Ensemble, which is the innovative solo work of Italian multi-instrumentalist and producer Nicola Penna (aka Nasty Boy), has just released a new outstanding electronic-meets-jazz EP for Ten Lovers Music, titled Rough Time.
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.
