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Jaga Jazzist is back with “Pyramid”
Jaga Jazzist returns after 5 years with their new album “Pyramid” on 24 April 2020, where the legendary Norwegian eight-piece band takes a deep dive into post-rock, jazz and psychedelia influences. It’s their first album since 2015’s “Starfire”, their ninth album in a career now spanning four decades, but it marks the group’s debut on Brainfeeder, the LA-based imprint curated by Flying Lotus. The band, led by Lars Horntveth and his compositions, took a direct approach to the creation of “Pyramid”. Whereas “Starfire” saw them take the idea of a traditional studio record to extremity, with different members dipping in and out of the booth to write, record and experiment…
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Lianne La Havas shared her new single “Bittersweet”
Lianne La Havas new single “Bittersweet” is here with us. And is such a joy! La Havas is half Greek half Jamaican British born singer-songwriter and guitarist. She just returns after five years with a new delightful single. The song is called “Bittersweet” and has its premiere on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 Future Sounds show this evening. Single is promoting her long-awaited third studio album—the follow-up to acclaimed 2015’s “Blood”. “I’d forgotten how much I love singing. I’ve tapped into the best and worst parts of me and while I didn’t expect this to be the direction of my new music, it’s my reality and it’s driven by emotion”…
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Binker & Moses and Basement Jaxx presents Village of the Sun
Binker & Moses and Basement Jaxx present Village of the Sun: Village of the Sun is the name of a new musical band/project initiated by one-half of legendary electronic dance-music duo Basement Jaxx’s Simon Ratcliffe. Simon invited to collaboration one of the leaders of the new London jazz scene boom – jazz duo Binker and Moses (tenor saxophonist Binker Golding and drummer Moses Boyd). Simon Ratcliffe co-wrote the two tracks with Golding and Boyd and plays all the instruments on them other than saxophone and drums. Two-track single represent stylistic crossover of energetic rhythms, electronic beats, and spiritual jazz-inspired improvisation. Ratcliffe says: “I’ve always liked improvised instrumental music. It has…
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Tom Misch and Yussef Dayes released a first collaborative single “What Kinda Music”
Tom Misch and Yussef Dayes released a first collaborative single “What Kinda Music” and its accompanying music video. The song is a lead single from their forthcoming album “What Kinda Music”. The album will come out on April 24 via Beyond The Groove /Blue Note Records. In the title track “What Kinda Music,” we can here typical sounds of both collaborators mixed into an interesting fusion of jazz, cinematic sounds, electronica, ambient music, and hip-hop. On top of that sound is still Misch’s soulful voice and Dayes’s exceptional drumming. Yussef Dayes is one of the UK's most exciting and innovative young drummers and producers. Best known for his work, alongside…
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Emma-Jean Thackray shared her new song “Rain Dance”
Emma-Jean Thackray has shared a new song “Rain Dance” and launched a new label Movementt. She is a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, singer, bandleader and DJ. Emma was called “one of the UK’s most exciting new jazz artists” by Red Bull Music Academy. She just released her first single “Rain Dance / Wisdom” from a new EP, which will be out 6th of March 2020 via her new label Movementt. “Movementt” is also the name of the closing track from that EP. The song is based on her previous same-titled short track (only 42 seconds) from her latest EP “Ley Lanes”. Song evolved during live performances over time into seven minutes…
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Shabaka and the Ancestors have announced their new album “We Are Sent Here By History”
Shabaka & the Ancestors announce new album “We Are Sent Here By History”, it will be their debut on Impulse! Records. The album is out on 13 March. Shabaka & The Ancestors will make their Impulse! debut with the band’s sophomore album “We Are Sent Here By History”. Their breakout 2016 album, “Wisdom of Elders”, established the band as a sudden force in spiritual jazz. Shabaka refers to the album as a “meditation on the fact of our coming extinction as a species. It is a reflection from the ruins, from the burning.” The album attempt to express the spiritual concerns of improvisational music of the African Diaspora — specifically, SA’s…
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Little Dragon announce new album with a second single “Hold On”
Swedish band Little Dragon announce a new album with a second single “Hold On”. Two years after Lover Chanting EP and 2019’s “Tongue Kissing”. The album is called “New Me, Same Us”, and is out on March 27th via Ninja Tune. The album was entirely self-produced and recorded at the four-piece Swedish band’s home-built studio in Gothenburg. Little Dragon is a group of vocalist Yukimi Nagano, multi-instrumentalists Håkan Wirenstarnd and Fredrik Wallin on keyboards and bass respectively and Erik Bodin on drums and percussion. “New Me, Same Us” represents another chapter in the continuing evolution of Little Dragon, finding a new direction in their unique style of unhurried, off-kilter…
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Polish nu-jazz band Jazzpospolita shared new single
Polish nu-jazz band Jazzpospolita shared a new single from the upcoming album. Jazzpospolita is one of the most interesting musical phenomena on the Polish scene. The band, which in 11 years has released 6 albums and played 400 concerts, from the beginning, in spite of its name, has eluded genre qualifications. With four members – guitar, bass, keyboards, drums – Jazzpospolita has developed its own recognizable sound and gained a large group of fans. The strength of Jazzpo – as fans often say about the group – is constituted by original compositions, situating the band at the junction of jazz, post-rock and electronics. The combination of jazz harmonies, rock sounds…
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Theo Croker shared his new video with Chronixx
Theo Croker shared his new video with Chronixx. Song called “Understand Yourself” is the closing track from trumpeter last record “Star People Nation”. The album received Grammy Award nomination in category Best Contemporary Instrumental Music. With “Understand Yourself,” the album’s closing track, Croker joins forces with Chronixx, a Jamaican singer whose wide-ranging approach to music and innovative sound (what he calls “black experimental music”) made him the perfect choice for the record. The song notably samples Jamaican-born political leader Marcus Garvey’s “Know Yourself” speech. Garvey’s iconic words become the raw material for Croker and Chronixx’s sonic explorations, remixing Garvey’s message of nation-building and taking it into uncharted musical territory. “Understand Yourself”…
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Tony Allen has announced a new album “Rejoice”, recorded with Hugh Masekela.
Tony Allen has announced a new album “Rejoice”, recorded with Hugh Masekela. Two legends of African music released together. Tony Allen, the Nigerian master drummer, member and musical director of Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s band Africa ’70, and the co-founder of Afrobeat. Hugh Masekela, South Africa’s legendary trumpet player, considered to be the father of South African jazz. The two great musicians met back in the ’70s, thanks to their respective close associations with Fela Kuti and they had talked about making an album together ever since. It wasn’t until 2010 when they happened to both be in the U.K. at the same time, and they were able to get together to work…
