Tag: New Releases
Catching up on last month’s most essential releases, this edition of BeatCaffeine’s Weekly Record Rundown spotlights major new albums from Ezra Collective and corto.alto, alongside two standout additions to Brownswood’s superb Remix Editions series. There’s Louie Vega’s irresistible reworking of Gilles Peterson’s Havana Cultura Band’s “Roforofo Fight,” plus fresh, dancefloor-focused takes on Jazztronik’s enduring 2003 club classic, “Samurai.”
This week’s BeatCaffeine Record Rundown highlights the brilliant new spiritual jazz album from Tony Burkill’s Work Money Death, a remix release from Italian bassist Rosa Brunello, the Jonny Liebeck Group’s cosmic 7-inch single on Terrasolare, and the celebratory Frisson EP Part 1 on Steve Conry’s superb Ten Lovers Music label.
Listen back to this past Saturday, December 27th BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast included some of our favorite selections from 2025 including music from The Circling Sun, Collettivo Immaginario, Marcello Cassanelli, Gerardo Frisina, The Sultan’s Swing, Ensemble C and much more!
For this edition of BeatCaffeine’s Weekly Record Rundown, we dive into the new incredible genre-defying album from London’s Kokoroko, two brilliant EPs from Buenos Aires-based DFRA Experience Jazz Band and Brazilian pianist Michel Cury (released on Colin Curtis Presents), and the most recent full-length from Leeds-based Ethio-jazz inspired quartet, The Sorcerers.
New Zealand jazz collective The Circling Sun, whom is made up of record collectors, music producers and DJs including bandleader Julien Dyne, follow-up their breakthrough debut Spirits, which was named ‘2023 BeatCaffeine Album of the Year‘ with their highly-anticipated sophomore full-length on Soundway Records, titled Orbits.
Tons of great releases over the last several weeks. For this edition of BeatCaffeine’s Weekly Record Rundown, we dive into the highly-anticipated new album from legendary Brazilian jazz fusion trio Azymuth, the third and final chapter of their cosmic album trilogy from the seventies-era inspired jazz-funk quintet Aldorande, the brilliant debut album from rising star jazz vocalist Tyreek McDole, and a massive vocal jazz dance 7inch from the Super Disco Edits label.
This Saturday, April 12th is Record Store Day 2025, which over the last several years, has greatly become the prime day for many labels to release limited-edition or never-before-released vinyl albums, singles, compilations and reissues — often (even to BeatCaffeine’s disliking) on color vinyl. You can even make the argument that this annual event has become more like “record label day” or “new vinyl collectables day”, given its evolution. While the day usually attracts many hardcore collectors (sometimes camping out for 10-12 hours or more), shops also often see a large influx of casual music fans and even a few that might be buying their first record. Regardless, these are all great things.
This week’s BeatCaffeine Weekly Record Rundown includes the highly anticipated new album from Italian “nu jazz” pioneer Gerardo Frisina, the latest balearic jazz-funk 7inch single from Jazz N Palms, Nat Birchall’s brilliant new dub offering, and the incredible debut album from UK-based group Knats.
In what has become one of the most anticipated albums of the year in many jazz circles, the expansive 11-piece Manchester-based group Ensemble C, led by acclaimed composer and pianist Claire Cope, has released a brilliant new album to coincide with March 8th’s International Women’s Day, titled Every Journey.
This week’s BeatCaffeine Weekly Record Rundown highlights the brilliant new albums from Belgium-based quintet Black Flower, and legendary 86-year-old Italian pianist Mario Rusca, an impressive EP from two of Schema Records’ most notable artists in Gerardo Frisina, and Toco, along with vocalist Luzia Dvorek, and the Far Out Recordings debut of forward-thinking Brazilian multi-instrumentalist and producer Nyron Higor.
Happy New Year! We’ve made it to the final day of 2024. For what will probably be the final BeatCaffeine “best of” list of the year, we dive into some of our favorite tracks over the past twelve months. This one definitely gets the reward for most difficult list to put together out of the bunch. Even though this list stops at 40, this could have easily been a top 100 given how great some of the music was this year.
As we complete another trip around the sun, it’s that time again to start to look back on some of the best releases of 2024. Similar to previous years, we will start with the best new albums and follow it up with a deep dive into some of the standout reissues, compilations, singles, tracks and more.
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.
