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Oneohtrix Point Never
Magic Oneohtrix Point Never (LP) [ Warp / 2 LP - released 30/Oct/2020 ] After scoring one of the most unanimously critically acclaimed film scores of recent history Uncut Gems in 2019, the New York artist and producer Daniel Lopatin - whose name has become synonymous with era-defining art - is back with his new album... |
Owiny Sigoma Band
Nyanza [ Brownswood / CD - released 9/Oct/2015 ] 'Nyanza' is the third album from the cross-cultural, boundary surpassing Owiny Sigoma Band. For their third offering, the band travelled to the Nyanza Province of Western Kenya - home of their two members Joseph Nyamungu and Charles Owoko - to... |
Peggy Gou
Once (12") [ Ninja Tune / 12in - released 2/Mar/2018 ] Laying solid foundations in the underground through 2016 and 2017, Peggy Gou is poised to blow up in 2018. In April she will make her debut at the 2018 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California, but she is kicking off the year in... |
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Naturally [ Daptone Records CD / CD - released 18/May/2009 ] The second offering from Sharon and the boys, Naturally is a sharp contrast to the gritty debut "Dap-Dippin". With it's soulful vibe and sophisticated arrangement SJDK took their special brand of funk to the next level with this one. Dig on tracks... |
Shilpa Ray
Is Last Year's Savage [ Northern Spy Records / CD - released 15/May/2015 ] With Last Year's Savage (maybe a nod to Leonard Cohen maybe a nod to Barrence Whitfield) Shilpa Ray has taken the pain and dark funk of earlier sounds and made explicit the sublimity that was always there just below the surface. The conversation has... |
Steve Earle And The Dukes
Terraplane (DELUXE) [ New West Records / CD - released 17/Feb/2015 ] Released on New West Records, Steve Earle's 11-track set is the follow up to the 2013 album THE LOW HIGHWAY and features Earle's longtime band The Dukes, comprised of Kelly Looney, Will Rigby, Chris Masterson and Eleanor Whitmore. The album was... |
Thundercat
Drunk [ Brainfeeder / CD - released 10/Mar/2017 ] Thundercat's most realised vision of soulful jazz-fusion and boogie yet with the absolutely stunning Drunk. Calling on an A-list of who's who within his world to stop by for a drink, guest spots come from Flying Lotus, Kamasi Washington, Pharrell,... |
Thundercat
Drunk (4LP) [ Brainfeeder / 4 LP - released 10/Mar/2017 ] Thundercat's most realised vision of soulful jazz-fusion and boogie yet with the absolutely stunning Drunk. Calling on an A-list of who's who within his world to stop by for a drink, guest spots come from Flying Lotus, Kamasi Washington, Pharrell,... |
Tom Cunliffe
Howl & Whisper [ Lyttelton Records / CD - released 15/Apr/2016 ] Tom describes himself as a story-singer of moonlit folk songs. A little bit raucous Irish ballads, a little bit grim outlaw country, a little bit swinging protest songs. Music for midnight drunks and, the brokenhearted. Used to dragging his guitar... |
Tom Cunliffe
Howl & Whisper (LP) [ Lyttelton Records / LP - released 15/Apr/2016 ] Tom describes himself as a story-singer of moonlit folk songs. A little bit raucous Irish ballads, a little bit grim outlaw country, a little bit swinging protest songs. Music for midnight drunks and, the brokenhearted. Used to dragging his guitar... |
Tom Ludvigson & Trevor Reekie
Roto [ Trip To The Moon / CD - released 30/Aug/2019 ] The Roto sessions took place on Sundays, a creative routine Ludvigson & Reekie (Trip To The Moon) have been observing for over 20 years. Roto is their 7th album together. The album is a collection of live Electro-Acoustic-Ambient improvisations -... |
Trip to the Moon
A Traveller's Tale [ CD - released 19/Aug/2016 ] Trip to the Moon is Tom Ludvigson and Trevor Reekie assisted by a crew of long-term musical friends. Nigel Gavin- glissentar, Greg Johnson- Trumpet, Jim Langabeer- saxophones with Trevor on loops, guitars & ebow and Tom on piano, synthesisers and... |
Troy Kingi
The Ghost Of Freddie Cesar [ Triple A Records / CD - released 11/Sep/2020 ] Multi-award winning artist Troy Kingi take us on a deeply personal discovery through an album dedicated to 70s funk, lost souls and memories. The Ghost of Freddie Cesar is Troy Kingi's most personal work to date - one that invites the listener to... |
Various Artists
Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present: Tea & Symphony: The English Baroque Sound (1968-1974) (Double Gatefold LP) [ Ace Records / 2 LP - released 7/Feb/2020 ] The English baroque sound of the late 60s and early 70s shunned guitar solos for string quartets and woodwind, drenched in summer-into-autumn melancholy, as heard on this collection of the genre's finest moments. |
Various Artists
Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present: The Tears of Technology [ Ace Records / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] At the turn of the 80s, a new generation of musicians appeared who saw synthesisers not as dehumanizing machines but as musical instruments that could be coaxed into creating modern, beautiful and decidedly emotional music. It was almost as if the... |
Various
The Daisy Age (Double Gatefold LP) [ Ace Records / 2 LP - released 30/Aug/2019 ] It wasn't really a movement, barely even a moment, but the Daisy Age was an ethos that permeated pop, R&B, and hip hop at the turn of the 90s. Playfulness and good humour were central to De La Soul's 1989 debut album, "3 Feet High And Rising", which... |
Various
The Daisy Age [ Ace Records / CD - released 30/Aug/2019 ] It wasn't really a movement, barely even a moment, but the Daisy Age was an ethos that permeated pop, R&B, and hip hop at the turn of the 90s. Playfulness and good humour were central to De La Soul's 1989 debut album, "3 Feet High And Rising", which... |
Various Artists
Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present: Tea & Symphony: The English Baroque Sound (1968-1974) [ Ace Records / CD - released 7/Feb/2020 ] The English baroque sound of the late 60s and early 70s shunned guitar solos for string quartets and woodwind, drenched in summer-into-autumn melancholy, as heard on this collection of the genre's finest moments. |
Various Artists
Body Beat: Soca-Dub And Electronic Calypso (1979-98) [ Soundway / 2 CD - released 25/Oct/2019 ] 17 obscure Soca B-side versions, dubs, instrumentals and edits as well as vocal tracks influenced by disco, boogie, house-music, soul and the more conscious lyrics of roots reggae. Owing as much to New York, Toronto and London as to the Caribbean... |
Various Artists
Celestial Blues: Cosmic, Political and Spiritual Jazz 1970 - 1974 [ BGP / CD - released 16/Sep/2016 ] Progressive jazz from the 1970s: music which has influenced Kamasi Washington and the Brainfeeder crew. Something strange happened to jazz in 2015, an album by a previously under-the-radar session saxophonist broke through to international... |
