Tag: ELECTRONIC MUSIC
The London-based trio Still Moving featuring saxophonist Nat Philipps, drummer Pike Ogilvy, and keyboardist Sam Bates have just released a brilliant debut self-titled EP on Lanquidity Records.
This past month, Manchester’s electro-acoustic trio GoGo Penguin released a brilliant new EP on Blue Note Records, titled Ocean In A Drop featuring music excerpts from their original score to Godfrey Reggio’s 1983 cult film, Koyaanisqatsi.
It’s been quite a busy year for Mark de Clive-Lowe. Already he has released two recordings with his brand new Japanese cosmic jazz group Rōnin Arkestra, and two additional albums that made up his Heritage project. For his final release of 2019, the Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist and producer presents his CHURCH Sessions, which MdCL describes as “equal parts jazz club, dance party and live remix experiment.”
Following two incredible releases over the past few years in Art in the Age of Automation and the complimentary album Untitled (AITAOA #2) off of Gondwana Records, the London-based group Portico Quartet return with their fifth studio album Memory Streams that continues to explore the melding of jazz and electronic music.
How do you follow-up an instant classic you ask? Create another one. That’s what producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Mark de Clive Lowe and his Japanese-based electro-acoustic jazz collective Rōnin Arkestra have achieved with the release of the group’s first full-length album Sonkei.
London’s On The Corner label releases the highly forward-thinking full-length debut from Oakland-based poet Tenesha The Wordsmith.
London-based deejay and producer Ash Walker takes listeners on a cosmic deep sea jazz voyage on his third full-length album, Aquamarine.
The London-based quartet Kinkajous has recently released their brilliant cosmic groove-oriented debut album titled Hidden Lines off the Nottingham label Running Circle.
Spaced-out seventies-era inspired jazz-funk quartet Aldorande release their debut self-title recording on the French-based label Favorite Recordings.
The Vinyl Factory, in collaboration with Lonely Table and Anja Ngozi, bring together emerging and established UK-based musicians in different genre-defying combinations for a new compilation inspired by the life and work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, titled Untitled.
Highly acclaimed drummer and multi-instrumentalist Tommaso Cappellato has just released a great new “beat tape” titled Butterflying, off of the recently launched Italian-based label and pressing plant Mother Tongue.
Based out of Denmark’s capitol city of Copenhagen, Nejrup is a self-taught pianist, synth wizard, and producer who has just released an incredible EP, titled Manda on Creek Inc Records.
Pioneering Italian musician, deejay, and producer Nicola Conte has been one of the most forward-thinking artists over the past two decades, creating new music that crosses over numerous genres and influences including jazz, soul, African, Latin, Brazilian, house, and electronic music. On his latest recording, he teams up again with trombonist Gianluca Petrella for their third EP release on Schema Records.
