Featured releases
Fresh Sounds: Maxwell House Project – Buena Ventura
The Maxwell House Project is a one-man musical project of trumpeter Max O’Leary, who just shares his first solo song Buena Ventura. After years of touring the globe with various artists (Mestizo Beat, Surefire Soul Ensemble, Mexico68, Tribal Seeds, Natural Vibrations, Save Ferris), Max…
Song of the Day: Nubiyan Twist & K.O.G. – If I Know
Nubiyan Twist unleashes one of the big dancefloor tracks from the record, If I Know featuring guest vocals from Ghanaian dynamo K.O.G. (Onipa / K.O.G. & The Zongo Brigade). The song features hard-hitting Afrobeat horn lines, jazz elements and dubbed-out production…
Song of the Day: Wax Tailor – Just A Candle feat. Mark Lanegan
Renowned producer Wax Tailor just released his new single and music video for Just A Candle featuring Mark Lanegan, the singer from Screaming Trees nad Queens Of The Stone Age, one of the last greats of grunge era. The single…
Album Picks: Kuja Orchestra – 2020 [Jazzagression]
A Helsinki-based instrumental band Kuja Orchestra, whose music combines rap, jazz, reggae, funk, and soul, as well as flamenco rhythms, released a new EP 2020. We provide a musically relaxed atmosphere without rigid genre limitations. The starting point is a…
Fresh Sounds: ŻYŃY – I Do
ŻYŃY new song I Do is a new release from U Know Me Records. The forthcoming album opens the second decade for the label, and a new chapter in the artist’s career. ŻYŃY is a one-man project of Tomasz Woźniak,…
THE BEST REISSUES 2020
Here is the selection of The Wicked Sound favourite reissues, historical releases, and lost albums of 2020. 01. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Just Coolin’ (Blue Note) Blue Note to release Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers long lost album Just Coolin’.…
THE BEST COMPILATIONS 2020
Here is the selection of The Wicked Sound favorite compilation albums of 2020: 01. VA Blue Note Reimagined (Blue Note) Blue Note Re:imagined presents classic Blue Note tracks, including compositions by Wayne Shorter, Bobby Hutcherson, Andrew Hill, Donald Byrd,…
The Regulators – Don’t Look Back In Anger
The Regulators Don't Look Back In Anger is the perfect song to start a New Year with a kick! Hello, welcome back at The Wicked Sound in the New Year 2021. I hope everyone is ok and we are all…
THE BEST LIVE ALBUMS 2020
The year 2020 is coming to the end, it was tough and difficult in any sense, but as always music comes to the rescue. Live concerts were of the things which I missed the most this year. Thankfully we had…
Polish jazz group Piotr Budniak Essential Group released an excellent new album “Heart, Mind & Spirit”.
Polish jazz group Piotr Budniak Essential Group released an excellent new album “Heart, Mind & Spirit”. This is the group's fourth album, with all the music composed by the leader and drummer Piotr Budniak. This time, the band used both acoustic…
Nick Walters & The Paradox Ensemble released new single “The Underdog” on his new label D.O.T. Records.
Nick Walters & The Paradox Ensemble released new single “The Underdog” on his new label D.O.T. Records. The song is promoting the new album “Implicate Order”, third as a Nick Walters & Paradox Ensemble. This 11-piece band continues to break…
Swedish singer-songwriter Matilda Bond shares her new soulful single “To Time From Time”
Swedish singer-songwriter Matilda Bond shares her new soulful single “To Time From Time”. The song is based on “Painted Poem” by Aldo Tambellini, a pioneering experimental artist and film-maker. “To Time From Time” takes shape as a musical exploration of…
Guitarist David Hinckley releases his new double single “Your Man (On The Inside)” / “Western Nights”
Composer/guitarist David Hinckley releases his new double single "Your Man (On The Inside)" and "Western Nights". The tracks are modern takes on 70's instrumental symphonic soul informed by the cinematic sounds of Curtis Mayfield, Isaac Hayes, and Adrian Younge. Great…
London’s rising contemporary soul and funk artist Joel Culpepper shares explosive double video to his latest songs “Return/W.A.R”
London’s rising contemporary soul and funk artist Joel Culpepper shares the explosive double video to his latest songs “Return/W.A.R”, from his forthcoming debut album “Sgt Culpepper”. The concept is a “Jackie Brown meets Matrix” stylized visual from Joel Culpepper’s viewpoint.…
Leeds based trio Gotts Street Park shares a new single with Pip Millett “Changes My Way”, ahead of a release of a new EP “Volume Two”
Leeds-based trio Gotts Street Park shares a new single with Pip Millett “Changes My Way”, ahead of a release of a new EP “Volume Two”. Their music fuse soul, hip-hop, r’n’b, and jazz, and this wonderful mix we can expect…
Pink Freud released two new singles “Pink Sunrise” and “Radio Pink Freud”, from their forthcoming album “[piano forte brutto netto]”.
Polish jazz group Pink Freud released two new singles “Pink Sunrise” and “Radio Pink Freud”, from their forthcoming album “[piano forte brutto netto]” via Mystic Production. Pink Freud is a jazz band founded in Gdańsk in 1998 by Wojtek Mazolewski.…
Hip hop producer Madlib and jazz drummer Karriem Riggins have teamed up as Jahari Massamba Unit with a new album coming
Hip hop producer Madlib and jazz drummer Karriem Riggins have teamed up as Jahari Massambi Unit with a new album coming called “Pardon My French” via Madlib Invazion. The album will debut on Black Friday Record Store Day. Madlib plays…
Allysha Joy from 30/70 Collective announces a new EP album “Light It Again” with a new single “Better”
Allysha Joy from 30/70 Collective announces a new EP album “Light It Again” via First Word Records, with a new single “Better”. The EP album contains 4 songs produced and engineered by Grammy-nominated Hiatus Kaiyote drummer Clever Austin. “Light It Again” features…
Emma-Jean Thackray tonight at EFG London Jazz Festival 2020
Emma-Jean Thackray play tonight at EFG London Jazz Festival 2020 Watch on Friday 13 November, 9:00pm at https://www.mixcloud.com/efglo... Repped by Gilles Peterson, RBMA, Sounds of The Universe and many more, rising mega-talent Emma-Jean Thackray wears many musical hats.…
Loyle Carner delivers a new track “Yesterday” on Madlib beat
Loyle Carner delivers a new track “Yesterday” on Madlib beat. The rapper is talking in this track about black identity today and in the past, while Madlib is providing a jazzy feel in the background. “It’s no secret Madlib is my…
