Song of the Day: Michael Kiwanuka – Beautiful Life
Mercury Prize winner Michael Kiwanuka shares his new song Beautiful Life, from a soundtrack to Orlando von Einsiedel’s new documentary Convergence: Courage In A Crisis, which is out on Netflix on October 12. Kiwanuka is a British singer-songwriter and record…
Michael Kiwanuka Shortlisted for Mercury Prize Album of the Year, and also shared a new video to the song “Light”.
Michael Kiwanuka Shortlisted for Mercury Prize Album of the Year for his third album “Kiwanuka”, it’s the third time in his career following nominations for “Home Again” and “Love & Hate”. He has been already nominated for numerous honors, including…
THE BEST SOUL ALBUMS 2021
The Wicked Sound favorite / best Soul, Neo-Soul and R'n'B albums of 2021: 01. Jon Batiste We Are [Decca] WE ARE is a masterfully constructed and visionary album that represents a completely new sonic chapter for Jon Batiste…
Fresh sounds: Fazer – Cuentro
Munich’s kraut-jazz band Fazer released a second single Cuentro from their forthcoming new album Plex, coming out January 14 via City Slang. Fazer’s music cannot simply be described as Jazz; the Munich band is shaped by the experimental pop music…
Song of the Day: BADBADNOTGOOD – Timid, Intimidating
Canadian ensemble BadBadNotGood shared a new single Timid, Intimidating, from the band's forthcoming album Talk Memory. BadBadNotGood made their name by crossing genre. This seamless movement between style hit hard when they took hip hop into jazz and vice versa.…
Fresh sounds: Kuna Maze – Bill
Brussels-based producer, DJ and multi-instrumentalist Kuna Maze aka Edouard Gilbert shares his new EP My Fish Is Burning including jazz-bruk-banger titled Bill. The lead-single features keyboard player Dorian Dumont, who adds some extra magic touches to Kuna Maze’s layered jazz instrumentation and syncopated broken beat production.…
Song of the Day: Irreversible Entanglements – Lágrimas Del Mar
A free jazz collective Irreversible Entanglement released a third single Lágrimas Del Mar, from the band's forthcoming album Open The Gates. The full-length album will come out November 12 via International Anthem. Irreversible Entanglements are Luke Stewart, the high priest on…
Song of the Day: Kahil El’Zabar Quartet – A Time For Healing
Chicago’s legendary spiritual jazz shaman Kahil El’Zabar returns with a new single Time For Healing, from the band's forthcoming album Time For Healing. Kahil El’Zabar leading an enviable ensemble of young masters from his hometown delivers yet another epic double…
Fresh sounds: Don Kapot – TV
The Brussels-based trio Don Kapot released their new single TV, from the band's new album Hooligan. The band released their first EP on Mr. Nakayasi Records in 2018. They recently teamed up with the Belgian jazz / not jazz label…
Song of the Day: Jamael Dean – Galaxy In Leimert
Jamael Dean returns with Galaxy In Leimert, the new single from his forthcoming debut album Primordial Waters, out October 29th on Stones Throw. The song is a jazzy celestial tribute to Jamael’s rapidly-gentrifying South Los Angeles neighborhood, Leimert Park. Referred…
Song of the Day: Kansas Smitty’s – Water Dance
London-based group Kansas Smitty shared a new single Water Dance, from the band's forthcoming album Plunderphonia. The album will be released on 29th October via !7K. On this essential new collection of forward-looking jazz reinterpretations, Kansas Smitty's bandleader Giacomo Smith delves…
Fresh sounds: Vels Trio – Celestial Greens
Brighton based experimental jazz trio Vels Trio shared a new single Celestial Greens, ahead of the release of the band's debut album Celestial Greens. Vels Trio reap their jazz-fusion crop with a stellar 11-track debut album Celestial Greens on Rhythm Section…
Song of the Day: Ivo Neame – Strega
An award-winning pianist and composer Ivo Neame shared a second single Strega, featuring trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, from his forthcoming album Glimpses Of Truth. The album will be released on 26th November via Whirlwind Records. Ivo Neame’s twisting grooves and harmonic ingenuity…
Fresh sounds: Al-jiçç – Zadar
Lisbon-based jazz/free improvisation band Al-jiçç just released a new album Chants with the brilliant song Zadar. Chants is Al-jiçç's fifth album and represent an aesthetic evolution of the band. It was composed and produced during the pandemic, with the musicians individually…
Fresh sounds: Chelsea Carmichael – Bone And Soil
Chelsea Carmichael shared a new single Bone and Soil from her debut album The River Doesn’t Like Strangers due for release in Shabaka Hutchings' new label imprint Native Rebel Records. Chelsea Carmichael is a saxophonist, composer, and arranger, she played…
Song of the Day: Rude Skøtt Osborn Trio – L’Ombra Blu
International jazz trio Rude Skøtt Osborn Trio shared a new single L’Ombra Blu, from the band’s forthcoming debut album The Virtue of Temperance. Full-length album out early 2022 via El Paraiso Records. Martin Rude & Jakob Skøtt Duo released 2 albums…
Fresh sounds: Bo!led – Blue Room
Italian contemporary jazz quartet Bo!led shared new song Blue Room from the band’s forthcoming debut album Different, Us, coming out on 11th of November via Beat Machine Records. Bo!led is the 4-piece group that has come out of the most…
Song of the Day: Ego Ella May – YoYo
Nu soul London's singer and songwriter Ego Ella May releases a new EP Fieldnotes, including charming new single YoYo. I wrote this because the media was pissing me off. I felt like a lot of things were being exaggerated which resulted…
Fresh sounds: Sercan Debelec, Fırat Ağacık, The Kankas – Draco
Turkish jazz duo The Kankas, which feature Sercan Debelec on piano and Fırat Ağacık on guitar, released the first single Draco on Space Goats Records. The Kankas is an Electronic Jazz Project created by Sercan Debelec and Fırat Ağacık. They…
Fresh sounds: Raquel Martins – Show Me
London-based Portuguese singer/songwriter and guitarist, Raquel Martins released her debut EP The Way, including bossa nova infused single Show Me. Raised under the sun in Portugal, she moved to London when she was only 17. Raquel grew up listening to…
