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Track: Rising UK jazzers MATTERS UNKNOWN preview new EP with the sweeping ‘I Am The Birds’.
Brass player, multi-instrumentalist and composer, Jonathan Enser’s most recent project MATTERS UNKNOWN highlights the irrepressible fluidity of contemporary UK Jazz. Well known as a key member of pioneering global beat collective that is Nubiyan Twist, his own music travels along a similar afrobeat, soul, funk orbit of that band but also diverts elsewhere. The rated …
Track/Video: Brazilian guitar supremo Fabiano Do Nascimento previews next album ‘Das Nuvens’ with the gliding, nu-beat title track.
After five albums for the global beat connoisseurs Now Again, Brazilian acoustic guitar supremo Fabiano Do Nascimento has sidled across LA to join with the Leaving Records community. The result, the album ‘Das Nuvens’ set for July 21st release and previewed by the title track to signpost what we can expect. The track is a …
Track/Video : Soundscape creator aus previews new album ‘Everis’ with the serene and subtle ‘Landia’.
Creativity and adversity often seem to dance together and the making of ‘Everis’, the upcoming album from Tokyo musician Yasuhiko Fukuzono (AKA aus), more than reinforces this notion. When his home was burgled the loss of a wealth of archive and work in progress forced Fukuzono to re-constitute the developing ideas for his next work …
Album Review: Night Plow/Night Plow : a pulsating electronic offering, beat driven and sonically fresh.
Some things are just meant to happen. For proof just plug into the highly charged self-titled debut from Night Plow, available now from the venerable We Are Busy Bodies. It’s a pulsating electronic offering carved out from the partnership of bassist/beat maker Tim Lefebrve and keyboard afficionado Gregory MacDonald (aka Cola Wars), a spontaneous collaboration …
Album Review: Sam Wilkes & Jacob Mann – Perform the compositions of Sam Wilkes & Jacob Mann: weird and wonderful nu-jazz connections.
You know the crusty old adage ‘it’s a small world’, well tired as it might be it still has resonance for musicians. Take L.A. underground experimenters Sam Wilkes and Jacob Mann, they go back a long way. Meeting as students at USC music school, bass playing, multi-instrumentalist Wilkes and keyboard-centric Mann have been crossing musical …
New Track/Video: Old friends/nu-jazz- Sam Wilkes and Jacob Mann announce collab album ‘Compositions’ with synth funk bubbler ‘Dr T’
What is genre? Is it a help or a hindrance to the maker and listener? LA’s pioneering label Leaving Records have an answer, flying with the strapline pun ‘Genre All’ and nuturing a catalogue that swerves definition, wide ranging in tone but unified by the drive to experiment whatever the starting points. Now comes news …
EXCLUSIVE: FORCE MASS MOTION DROPS AN EXCLUSIVE TAKEOVER MIX FOR BACKSEAT MAFIA AHEAD OF HIS NEW TRACK ‘PIECE OF MIND’
Ahead of the release of his new Track ‘Piece of Mind’, which drops on his Force Mass Motion Recordings label June 24th, we are delighted to present a Takeover Mix from the UK rave, hardcore and jungle legend ‘Force Mass Motion‘. Check it out on the Backseatmafia Mixcloud & Soundcloud accounts below: Backseat Mafia · …
EP: FRESH KILS & MAT LABATT – BUILDING A UFO 12″
Inspired by alien abductee and self proclaimed U.F.O. engineer, the late David Hammel, Fresh Kils & Mat Labatt set out to build their own spinning disc with Building A U.F.O., a symphony of beats in constant motion. It’s a wild ride of sounds & grooves, infectious as they are fleeting. A unique vinyl collaboration between …
Jesse Futerman feat. Beverly Glenn-Copeland – ‘Luckey’: cool Canadian jazz-funk
MONTREAL producer and beatz head Jesse Futerman has signed for Vancouver dance opportunity facilitator (as they style themselves), Pacific Rhythm; and he’s lighting the blue touchpaper on that partnership with the sophisticated jazz-funk breakz of “Luckey” – you can hear that just down there. It’s got smooth groove, but sidesteps the slick with some neat, transporting …
New Music – Jonny Drop – The Only Sound
Jonny’s been busy since his debut LP ‘Sub Plot’ in 2016. As well as being a drummer for Andrew Ashong, The Bongolian and Connie Constance, he’s also had his hands full working with his band ‘The Expansions’, so it’s pretty impressive that he’s found time in his schedule to produce a stunning new solo work …