Ninja Tune
SEE: Marie Davidson & L’Oeil Nu – ‘Renegade Breakdown’: electro chill and strength
MONTREAL’S Marie Davidson, veteran of that city’s DIY scene, musical polymath, fierce declaimer; like Grace Jones, you wouldn’t mess, frankly. Have a watch of the lyric video for the latest track “Renegade Breakdown”, which she’s just dropped for Ninja Tune and see if you’d dare. It’s a pulsing, dirty slice of electro-house over which Marie …
SEE: Jaga Jazzist – ‘Tomita’: jazz collective quest towards the ‘Pyramid’
THE SMALL Norwegian city of Tønsberg, 100km south-west of Oslo, isn’t somewhere you necessarily think of when you think of grand centres of jazz. New Orleans, yep, New York City? Of course; but Tønsberg? Yes, Tønsberg: which is where, back in the ’90s, a 14-year-old Lars Horntveth, his brother Martin and early fellow traveller Ivar …
ALBUM REVIEW: Jaga Jazzist – ‘Pyramid’: graceful, off-world jazz suites remind us how 2020 should be
JAZZ is back in a big way on these shores, with The Comet is Coming, BCUK, Nubia Garcia all absolutely tearing it up with triumphant, high-profile shows – at least until it descended. (Shows: they were a thing, right?) But over at labels like the eternally cool and crisp British breaks imprint Ninja Tune, jazz …
ALBUM REVIEW: Romare – ‘Home’: fashioning broken beat into a cerebral confection
HE’S been around a bit, has Archie Fairhurst, the artiste who releases cerebral and multifaceted grooves for Ninja Tune as Romare. It’s an overused trope, but Archie really has: he spent his childhood travelling constantly with his family as his parents moved around the world for work, before finally settling in the UK. All that …
TRACK: Romare – ‘The River’: insistent, layered Ninja groove
A ROLLING broken beat steps forth, announces a swaying Afro groove. It’s joined by a stabbing piano figure that seems to pin the deep, oceangoing roll of the break, force it to take a new rhythmic shape; a little bassy snippet hints at 70s’ funk. The beat shifts again, gets more insistent. Layers of sourced …
TRACK: Park Hye Jin releases title track How Can I
Ahead of her highly anticipated new record – How Can I which is released June 26th on Ninja Tune, Park Hye Jin has shared the EP’s title track ‘How can I’. Unlike the dream like track ‘Like This’ released in May. ‘How Can I’ is more grounded with stronger rhythmic notes. It starts with a fairground sounding …
Track: Romare -Sunshine
Taken from his forthcoming new album ‘Home’, out on July 31st via Ninja Tune, Sunshine is the new single from Romare aka Archie Fairhurst, and is a follow up to his recent Gone / Danger 12”. With inspiration taken from a move to the country, and settling down after a somewhat nomadic childhood, Home is …
See: Jayda G releases new video for ‘Both Of Us’
Jayda G has released a new video for Both Of Us, part of her new EP ‘Both of Us / Are U Down, which comes out on 3rd July via Ninja Tune. It’s her first new material since her 2019 debut album ‘Significant Changes’ and her first since moving from Berlin to London and immersing …
Track: Park Hye Jin – Like This
Recently hailed as “one of the breakout stars of the past year” by Mixmag. 26 year-old rapper, singer, DJ and producer from Seoul, Park Hye Jin will release her new EP “How can I” on June 26th via Ninja Tune. She has released a glimpse of the EP with track ‘Like This’. A daydream of …
See: Julianna Barwick releases video for Inspirit
Julianna Barwick has resurfaced with new music, a new album and a new home. Inspirit is taken from her forthcoming album Healing is a Miracle, out on July 10th via the ever-brilliant Ninja Tune label. Of the album, Barwick talks of a return to the creative process, saying it had been so long since I …