Featuring fresh selections from Submotion Orchestra, Kadhja Bonet, and Milo. Guests are Grammy award-nominated trumpeter, composer, producer, and horn designer Christian Scott, and married musical duo The Parlor. Also in the mix: new tunes by Yppah, Raashan Ahmad, Sons of Kemet, and Poppy Ajudha.
Safia Nolin is an artist who has recently experienced a biopic-worthy rise to semi-stardom in the Quebecois music scene, but her inspiration to record comes from isolation. Will Robin talks to Nolin about her striking new album.
Berliners improvising jazz with electronics and scratchy atmospherics, adorned with charming vox by Natalie Greffel.
Two years in the making, the psychedelic unit return with a brutal sledgehammer of an album for Sacred Bones.
Melbourne meltdown! Golden-voiced Faker backed by the classic funky soul sound of Cactus Channel on 7".
From math-rock to metalcore, jazz to afrobeat...
view full profileIt's hard to put a finger on what makes Legendary Skies so unique. Their take on the post-rock genre is both introspective and uplifting, brooding and celebratory.
I'm not sure what they're feeding their talent over at Gondwana Records, but it is producing some of the most innovative and exciting jazz music I've heard in a while.
Feel good horn arrangements, succinct percussive infection, all anchored with slick guitar licks and monumental bass hooks. It gets up in your skin and causes unexpected bodily gyrations!
It doesn't get much more indefinably indie than this. Wonderful. Psychedelic melancholic punk rock fusion.
Strong and hard guitars mixed with eastern traditional tunes, never ceases to please.
Fabulous Afro French sounds. I've listened to this for an entire week non-stop and will listen some more. That's high praise (or indicates that I need other hobbies).