Tag: New Releases
One of my favorite twelves released over the past month comes from a collaborative effort from some of the UK’s most forward-thinking musicians in drummer Yussef Dayes teaming up with keyboardist Alfa Mist, guitarist Mansur Brown, and bassist Rocco Palladino.
This was a remarkable year for EP releases, more so than what I can recall from past years. Leading the way were a number of rising artists that are just beginning to make their mark on the international stage.
2018 was an incredible year for music, with many groundbreaking albums, EPs, compilations, and worthy reissues.
Recorded over 30 years ago, Ronald Langestraat’s 1984 soulful leftfield masterpiece Searching has finally been released on vinyl for the first time.
Soundway records has just put out the first release of a brand new 12″ series focused on making obscure and in-demand dancefloor selections from around the globe available on loud DJ-friendly pressings.
The Poland-based Electro Acoustic Beat Sessions jazz collective, better known as EABS, collaborate with London saxophonist and flutist Tenderlonious on an incredible new live EP.
Soul Jazz Records releases volume two of there critically acclaimed Soul of A Nation compilation series. The first volume of the series coincided with the exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power that debuted at London’s Tate Modern museum in 2017.
French multi-instrumentalist, and producer Medline’s new Solstice record features brand new renditions of legendary original soundtrack, library, and jazz funk music.
Licensed from Now-Again Records, Athens Of The North has just released an incredible new forty-five single featuring two heavy-hitting funk jams from the now legendary seventies-era Houston-based high school group, Kashmere Stage Band.
Over the past few years, the Berlin-based Habibi Funk label has released some of the best compilations focused on rare seventies and eighties era Arabic funk and jazz. Most recently, the label has reissued the highly obscure 1979 soulful funk album Jazz, Jazz, Jazz from the Sudanese group The Scorpions.
