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…
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: Shunaji – Black Girl Blues
Nigerian-born rapper and producer Shunaji released a new song Black Girl Blues, the first single from the artist's fourth EP out in early 2022. Shunaji is a Nigerian-born producer and songwriter from Rome based in London, pushing boundaries. Black Girl…
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…
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…
Fresh sounds: Matthias Lindermayr – Sanctuary
Fazer's trumpeter Matthias Lindermayr shared his new single Sanctuary from his forthcoming album Triptych on the 5th November via Squama Recordings, a mesmerizing body of work that has rich, magnetic power. Munich’s Matthias Lindermayr is one of Germany’s leading jazz trumpet…
Fresh sounds: Alex Hitchcock feat. midori jaeger – Wolf and Nina
London saxophonist and composer Alex Hitchcock presents Wolf And Nina, a first single featuring Midori Jaeger, lifted from his upcoming album Dream Band, due on the 19th of Nov via Barcelona-based label Fresh Sounds New Talent. A Dream Band is…
Fresh sounds: Telemakus, Phøn, Javier Santiago, Tamuz – City Dreams
Telemakus shares a new song City Dreams and a full new album The New Heritage. He invited three other artists - Phon, Javier Santiago, and Tamuz to collaborate with him on that song, and the effect is magnificent. City Dreams…
Song of the Day: Ill Considered – The Lurch
London's free-wheeling live improvisers Ill Considered released a new single The Lurch featuring Tamar Osborn, Sarathy Korwar, Theon Cross and more. The band open a new chapter in their career with their first fully produced studio album Liminal Space out…
Fresh sounds: corto.alto – Brotherhood
Glasgow jazz sensation corto.alto releases a lead single Brotherhood from their forthcoming mini-album Not for Now. New song features the spoken word talents of Franz Von, MC and frontman for K.O.G & The Zongo Brigade, delivering effortlessly over irregular time signatures…
