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Kʒːlu ‘Vol.II Cortis’ (Creeping Curtain Records) - a review

December 2, 2024

The West Cork based guitarist and composer Pat Hatchett returns under his Kʒːlu (curlew) moniker with a fantastic album of introspection, leftfield soul and cosmic Afro-disco. An amazingly eclectic musician, he was hit with a serious and debilitating ear problem that forced him to think outside of the box to fix himself physically and spiritually. Aiming for connection and optimism in a time of personal and geo-political upheavals, Pat has created a sensational record with stellar musicianship and spiritually positive vibes that is as visually rich as it is sonically electrifying. Read / Listen.

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In MUSIC Tags LATEST, Africa, Afrobeat, spiritual, funk, broken beat, Disco, soul, Ireland, cosmic, Fusion, global, independent, Jazz-Funk
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AMAMI 'ISLANDS & ISLANDS DUB EP' (Bongo Joe Records) - a review

November 19, 2024

The Swiss trio AMAMI are back in full effect on their new EP for Bongo Joe Records. Heavyweight future dancehall with tropical and post-punk touches, this stellar package comes with four originals, four monster dub versions (including Mad Professor and Vibronics) and a separate 7” single. Read / Listen.

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Tags LATEST, Switzerland, Dub, independent, Experimental, dancehall, leftfield
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Singular Visions - a random rundown of recent single releases (November 2024)

November 15, 2024

The November rundown of recent singles we have recently discovered. All kinds of music that we may not have time to cover as albums or one time one-offs. This episode includes Da Lata, Khalab feat Kasai Allstars, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, AMAMI, Leah Sinead, Black Flower, Work Money Death, Il Mario & more.

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Tags LATEST, Jazz, folk, alt-folk, Hip Hop, rumba, Dub, Electronic Music, independent

Trees Speak 'TimeFold' (Soul Jazz Records) - a review

November 14, 2024

With nineteen tracks segueing into each each over two sides of vinyl, Tucson duo Trees Speak continue their earthy yet intergalactic run of albums (6 in 4 years!) for Soul Jazz Records. ‘TimeFold’ is a krautrock Blade Runner set in a doomy 1970s horror film castle (filmed on Mars) but with powerful arpeggiated Tangerine Dream synth weapons and disembodied spoken word amongst their heavyweight blend of influences. Intoxicating stuff. Read / Listen.

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In MUSIC Tags LATEST, Experimental, Krautrock, Psychedelic, cosmic, Instrumental, independent, Kraut, library music, Modern Composition, Reviews
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Phil Dawson ٤-tet with Dele Sosimi and Biola Dosunmu - Ilé (Iyesa) feat. Rowland Sutherland (Funkiwala) - PREMIERE!

September 27, 2024

We are delighted to premiere the first single from Phil Dawson ٤-tet’s forthcoming ‘Don’t Waste Your Ancestors’ Time’ album on Funkiwala. ‘Ilé (Iyesa)’ is an absorbing, funky and spiritually charged number that stands up tall next to Airto’s Afro-Brazilian experiments in the 70s and features an outrageous lineup of world class musicians from Nigeria, Brazil and the UK jazz scene. Read / Listen.

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In MUSIC Tags LATEST, Afrobeat, Nigeria, Brazil, cosmic, Jazz, Fusion, independent, Premiere
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Ali Dada 'SUM' (YNFND) - a review

September 24, 2024

The Swiss trio Ali Dada have carved themselves an album of languid cinematic tracks out of late night jam sessions and a few guiding rules: vibes and 'mistakes' as important as intent. Nineties trip hop sounds have been reappearing quite a lot recently and this immersive album of dope beats, psychedelic guitars and atmospheric textures certainly resides in this smoky territory. Read / Listen.

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In MUSIC Tags LATEST, downbeat, cinematic, Switzerland, Instrumental, independent, Hip Hop
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Damian Dalla Torre - I Can Feel My Dreams (Squama Recordings) - a review

July 31, 2024

The second album by Italian composer and multi-instrumentalist Damian Dalla Torre is a sublime ambient-not-ambient jazz-not-jazz record that inhabits its own beautiful meditative space. Inspired by the environment of Santiago, Chile and awash with a painterly quality, ‘I Can Feel My Dreams’ is an experimental record that is somehow also universal in its emotional naturalness. With guests of the calibre of Miriam Adefris, Ruth Goller, Christian Balvig and Jan Soutschek along for the trip, why not tag along? Or just lie down and let it float around you. Read / Listen.

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In MUSIC Tags LATEST, Latin America, Experimental, Jazz, spiritual, independent, Instrumental, cosmic
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Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly 'MESTIZX' (International Anthem / Nonesuch Records) - a review

June 12, 2024

The debut album ‘MESTIZX’ by Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti and Frank Rosaly for Chicago’s influential International Anthem label and in collaboration with Nonesuch Records is an astonishingly potent record that touches on ancestral histories, post-colonial resistance and rage, ancient spells and so much more. Avant-Jazz, Post-Rock, Afro-Latin rhythms and a myriad of influences and inspirations colour this brilliant record. One of the best releases of the year. Read / Listen.

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In MUSIC Tags LATEST, Latin America, Jazz, avant-garde, Experimental, Bolivia, Brazil, independent
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Damos Room 'Commencement // Mineral Blend' (Nudibranch) - a review

April 22, 2024

Weird broken dub for a weird broken world, Damos Room’s new E.P. on Nudibranch is both funny and dark. Eccentric in a very British way, its paranoid rambles and subsonic trembling will shake your speakers and ruin your picnic. With guest remixers such as LA’s hip hop brutalist Gonjasufi along for the ride, be ready. Read / Listen.

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In MUSIC Tags LATEST, London, Dub, Experimental, leftfield, independent
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Arnau Obiols & KAYYAK 'Faith / San Diago EP' (Compost Records) - a review

April 4, 2024

The electronic music producers Arnau Obiols & KAYYAK have a new release on the mighty German label Compost Records and their inspired ability to blend West African inspirations, disco and psychedelia into loose dancefloor anthems continues. With outstanding remixes from Medlar & Dele Sosimi, Prins Thomas and Chicago’s Rahaan also in the package, this is seriously good party business. Read / Listen.

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In MUSIC Tags LATEST, house music, Afrobeat, Disco, independent
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Champagne Dub 'Rainbow' (On The Corner Records) - a review

February 20, 2024

The artwork on this debut album by Champagne Dub seems an appropriately disconcerting image for the kind of ‘dub’ contained. Apocalyptic at times, raw, improvised and very leftfield, the misfit band pulled together by Maxwell Hallett aka Betamax (Soccer96, The Comet Is Coming etc) have delivered a heavyweight dub patchwork that is brimming with post-punk energy and wild cosmic agitation. Ruth Goller, Clive Bell, Ed Briggs (laser bagpipes) and the masked Peruvian performance artist and vocalist, Mr Noodles, have brought flammables to the party. Read / Listen

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In MUSIC Tags LATEST, Dub, Experimental, improvisational, independent, London
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MORRR 'Marrow Weavers' (MFZ Records) - a review

December 5, 2023

The Italian musician MORRR aka Dario Gatto released his EP ‘Marrow Weavers’ on MFZ Records back in July but its aching post-rock beauty stands up better in the cold months of winter in our opinion. Songs of grief and heartbreak shrouded in beautiful melodies and FX heavy drones make this a strangely comforting record. Read / Listen.

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In MUSIC Tags LATEST, Post-Rock, Experimental, Italy, independent, indie

Future Sounds Of Kraut Vol. 1 - Compiled by Fred und Luna (Compost Records) - an interview / review

July 31, 2023

Fred und Luna are two plastic mannequins who live in Karlsruhe, Germany and are the creative muses for their human Rainer Buchmüller, who has compiled this forthcoming and inspired compilation of international artists who make music inspired by the varied ‘Krautrock’ sounds of the 60s and 70s. Psychedelic, groove heavy tracks that are as fun as they are weird-funky. I asked Rainer a few questions about the release but it was Fred und Luna who replied. Read / Listen.

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In MUSIC, INTERVIEWS Tags LATEST, Germany, Krautrock, Kraut, Experimental, independent, cosmic
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Arthur Hnatek Trio 'Uncertainty' (Bridge The Gap) - Premiere!

July 19, 2023

We are pleased to premiere the new single from the award-winning Swiss drummer, composer and producer Arthur Hnatek. Like Sons Of Kemet in a rhythmic duel with Steve Reich, Arthur, saxophonist Francesco Geminaini and bassist Fabien Iannone manage to become a single pulsating organism, somehow creating a soothing meditative track that also contains a powerful organic groove. Read / Listen

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In MUSIC Tags LATEST, Jazz, Jazz-Rock, meditative, Modern Composition, Experimental, independent, Instrumental, Switzerland, Premiere
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Woxow 'How Many Ancestors Do We Have' (Little Beat More) - a review

June 28, 2023

DJ and beatmaker Woxow’s new E.P. for his own label Little Beat More is a hip hop-jazz-dub release that hits all the right notes. Boom bap drums, live horns and bass with masterful vocal turns from Reggae Roast MC Natty Campbell, US MC’s Azeem and Raashan Ahmad alongside remixers Luke Beats, Deela, Koralle and Paolo Baldini Dubfiles make this a must for fans of Fat Freddy’s Drop, Roots Manuva or Doom. Read / Listen.

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In MUSIC Tags LATEST, Italy, Switzerland, Hip Hop, Dub, Experimental, independent, Beats
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Error Subcutáneo 'Temporada Ciclónica' (Running Circle) - a review

June 21, 2023

The new 7 track E.P. that Dominican Republic duo Error Subcutáneo have released today on Summer Solstice is a provocative and wild ride of free jazz, soundscape interventions and modular experimentalism fueled by the chaos of life in the Caribbean and the wider uncertainties of our world right now. Band member Mauro Ferreiro is a frequent contributor to our magazine and this record is released on Nottingham imprint Running Circle so somehow, a kind of harmony has arrived from the chaos. A lot like the music. Read / Listen

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In MUSIC Tags LATEST, Dominican Republic, Experimental, Fusion, free jazz, Electronic Music, Caribbean, free, independent, improvisational
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Yandl Shyr 'EAD Vol. 1' (Phlexx Records) - a review

April 26, 2023

Yandl Shyr’s new album for Nottingham’s Phlexx Records is a sprawling and surprising record of psychedelic-indie-electronica initiated by a 6 month journey across Europe and the entwined connections that revealed themselves to him. Not an artist easy to pigeonhole, fans of Tame Impala, Beta Band, UMO, Deerhunter et al will surely find something here to love. Read / Listen

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In MUSIC Tags LATEST, independent, indie, Psychedelic, Psyche, Experimental, Electronic Music, dream pop
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Alex Figueira 'Mentallogenic' (Music With Soul) - a review

April 24, 2023

Considering the amount of other projects he has headed, it is surprising how it is only now that we have a debut solo album from the Tropical-Punk auteur Alex Figueira! Written, performed and recorded over a nine day sleepless session, the Venezuelan Amsterdam-based one-man bandito has created an hallucinogenic funk album that draws as much from African, Caribbean and South American music as it does weirdo European cinematic and krautrock ingredients. Read / Listen

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In MUSIC Tags LATEST, Venezuela, Amsterdam, tropical, Cumbia, Psyche, Psychedelic, independent, Experimental
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Tell No Lies 'Hide Nothing' (Aut Records) - a review

February 9, 2023

Tell No Lies are an Italian avant-jazz outfit led by pianist and composer Nicola Guazzaloca and they have a new studio album that traverses modal, free and South African inspired jazz with ease, fire and substance. We asked our friend Mauro Ferreiro, a producer and writer from Dominican Republic to share his thoughts on this excellent new recording. Read / Listen.

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In MUSIC Tags LATEST, Jazz, free jazz, South Africa, Italy, Experimental, independent, improvisational, Instrumental
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Artwork by Lewis Heriz

Insólito UniVerso 'Ese Puerto Existe' (Olindo Records) - a review

February 8, 2023

For their second album for Olindo Records, the Venezuelan trio Insólito UniVerso have gone deep into their country’s musical heritage, exploring rhythms and musical strains whilst adding their own psychedelic, experimental vision. With guests including Stereolab’s Lætitia Sadier, the trio have produced a brilliantly written and produced record that is our favourite album of the year so far and one likely to stay in our boxes for a long time. Read / Listen

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In MUSIC Tags LATEST, Latin America, Venezuela, folkloric, Experimental, Fusion, global, independent
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