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Yussef Kamaal
Black Focus [ Brownswood Recordings CD / CD - released 25/Nov/2016 ] Yussef Kamaal are shaped by the sound of London. Growing up in the capital, they frame jazz within the bass-saturated, pirate radio broadcasts of the UK capital. The pair, made up of Yussef Dayes and Kamaal Williams (aka Henry Wu), have had little in... |
Ahmedou Ahmed Lowla
Terrouzi [ Sahel Sounds / CD - released 30/Aug/2019 ] Ahmedou Ahmed Lowla plays instrumental electronic keyboard in a style known in Mauritania as WZN, or in Arabic simply "music." Born into a musical family tradition (his father is a renowned tidnit player from Traza), today Ahmedou Ahmed Lowla is one... |
Chris Cohen
Chris Cohen [ Captured Tracks / CD - released 29/Mar/2019 ] Ritual Howls create a cinematic blend of twangy industrial-rock that could fuel a post-apocalyptic dancefloor. A collaboration between Paul Bancell (vocals, guitar), Chris Samuels (synth, samples, drum machine), and Ben Saginaw (bass), the Detroit... |
Hama
Houmeissa [ Sahel Sounds / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Nigerian composer Hama presents a groundbreaking album of traditional electronic desert folk songs, hovering somewhere between early 90s techno and synthwave. Nomadic herding ballads, ancient caravan songs, and ceremonial wedding chants are all... |
Hama
Houmeissa (LP) [ Sahel Sounds / LP - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Nigerian composer Hama presents a groundbreaking album of traditional electronic desert folk songs, hovering somewhere between early 90s techno and synthwave. Nomadic herding ballads, ancient caravan songs, and ceremonial wedding chants are all... |
Kate NV
Room for the Moon (LP) [ Rvng Intl. LP / LP - released 12/Jun/2020 ] On Room for the Moon, Kate NV follows the muse of music from one chamber of illusion to the next, harmonizing lunar lullabies with a starry compositional choreography. Conjured from unlived memories of '70s and '80s Russian and Japanese pop music... |
African Head Charge
In Pursuit of Shashamane Land (Double LP) [ On-U Sound / 2 LP - released 6/Mar/2020 ] Originally issued in 1993 and the last African Head Charge album on On-U Sound for 12 years, released at the height of the band's popularity as a staple of live music festivals. Continuing the skillful fusion of styles they had explored on Songs of... |
American Aquarium
Lamentations (LP) [ New West Records / LP - released 8/May/2020 ] On American Aquarium's new album Lamentations, BJ Barham shines light on dark American corners with heartbreaking conversations, long looks in the mirror, and empathetic questions, all through songwriting that is clear without sacrificing its poetry,... |
Anderson .Paak
Malibu [ CD - released 16/Apr/2016 ] After making waves in in the industry following his 6 track appearance on Dr. Dre's latest album "Compton" Los Angeles's Anderson .Paak returns with his brand new LP, Malibu. After a whirlwind of press, accolades, performances and studio sessions... |
Antibalas
Where The Gods Are In Peace [ Daptone / CD - released 6/Oct/2017 ] Imagine a world where every person is temporarily transported to outer space for the sole purpose of looking back on earth to experience its sheer beauty. For a brief moment, we could all escape the greatest atrocities of our time and take in an... |
The Ar-Kaics
In This Time (Coloured LP) [ Wick / LP - released 26/Oct/2018 ] Wick Records is honored to release the sophomore long player from Virginia's Troglodytic Troubadours, the group with the antediluvian je ne sais quoi: The AR-KAICS! Recorded in three days at Adrian Olsen's Montrose Studio and Produced by Wayne Gordon... |
Aziza Brahim
Abbar el Hamada [ Glitter Beat CD / CD - released 24/Oct/2016 ] Western Saharan musician/activist Aziza Brahim's new album Abbar el Hamada (Across the Hamada), is a commanding and compassionate musical statement about, and for, the tumultuous age in which we live. Raised in a Saharawi refugee camp in the... |
Bibio
Ribbons [ Warp / CD - released 12/Apr/2019 ] "This album has been made very much in admiration of nature yet through a tinted window of manmade escapism. Spending more time in the british countryside, walking, photographing, listening and recording has certainly affected how I've been thinking... |
Bob Brown
Willoughby's Lament [ Tompkins Square / CD - released 1/May/2016 ] Reissue of the classic 1971 album. |
Various Artists
Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs present Paris In The Spring (Double Gatefold LP) [ Ace / 2 LP - released 25/May/2018 ] In May 1968, Paris was burning. Out of the student uprising came a new wave in French music that matched the country's mood - darker, and more introspective than yé-yé, France's cultural revolution allowed the previously separate worlds of chanson,... |
Various Artists
Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs present Paris In The Spring [ Ace / CD - released 25/May/2018 ] In May 1968, Paris was burning. Out of the student uprising came a new wave in French music that matched the country's mood - darker, and more introspective than yé-yé, France's cultural revolution allowed the previously separate worlds of chanson,... |
Budos Band
V [ Daptone / CD - released 12/Apr/2019 ] New York afro-soul/psychedelic favorites The Budos Band return with their fifth studio album, Budos Band V. |
Charles Bradley
Changes [ Daptone / CD - released 22/Apr/2016 ] Rolling Stone named Changes one of the "Most Anticipated Albums of 2016," stating "The ageless, limitless 'Screaming Eagle of Soul' swoops back with 'Changes,' an album named after Charles Bradley's affected rework of Black Sabbath's 1972 piano... |
Chelsea Wolfe
Abyss [ Sargent House / CD - released 7/Aug/2015 ] On Abyss, Chelsea Wolfe brings the heaviness in her music to the fore in a way that's more natural, and more compelling, than merely "going metal." Given the darkness and drama present even on her unplugged album Unknown Rooms -- as well as tours and... |
The Comet Is Coming
Channel The Spirits [ Leaf / CD - released 27/May/2016 ] Channel The Spirits is a cosmic odyssey. With psychedelic intensity, the band evokes the ghosts of bold experimentalists like Sun Ra, Funkadelic and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Here is the universe in a microcosm; the life-force distilled down to... |
