JORGA MESFIN - THE KINDEST ONE A 21st century interpretation of Ethio Jazz, mystic and sharp as a white shark's tooth. 2. ÀBASE -...

1. ELUVIUM - WHRRING MARVELS IN CONSENSUS REALITY "Put on your spacesuit and elevate yourself in this beautybath. Listen with a glass of...

Long story short. Colorfield Records is a very fresh and funky new label from the Los Angeles specializing in Ambient Jazz and Electronic...

Everybody loves Pharoah. Pharoah is King. He was the King of all pharaohs, full stop. Not only because his sax was fuming and smoking and...

John and John. Double Goosebump Alert. Haycock on one side, a masterful kora player with electronic sizzles on his palate. Ellis,on the...

There are some albums that have so many stories to write about. And there are some albums that you just have to listen. This is one of...

It feels like a film movie. The whole thing. From the majestic and mystic album title, to the tone and style of music, this is an...

(13 gems, no particular order) 1. Alabaster DePlume - Gold 2.Makaya Mccraven-In These Times 3.Leland Whitty-Anyhow 4.Lambchop- The Bible...

This is where it started for me. A black spiritual jazz journey that keeps on and keeping on till today. The concept. Harry Whitaker (the...

I am a sucker for really weird album covers, but if you manage to make one that's both strange and also misleading to what you're about...

Piero Umiliani. The doppelganger "Ennio Morricone" you never knew existed. Equally inspiring as Ennio, but much more adventurous in his...

I don't usually take interest on live albums. I mean, sound is always mediocre, live shows are for the ones taking part, and most times...

Well, meeting Tenderlonious on a cold night 4 years ago inside the place that was gonna be and still is the anchorage of the New London...

Habibi is an Arabic word that literally means “my love” (sometimes also translated as “my dear,” “my darling,” or “beloved.”) Fakroun's...

Summer's over. New Corona waves start waving around the globe. Stress, psychosomatic issues, fear for the future. Which can only mean one...

SO, NCY IS NOT NYC, IT'S NANCY, PLACE OF ORIGIN OF THESE YOUNG JAZZSTERS. BUT, WHY AM I TYPING IN CAPITAL LETTERS? MAYBE THE EXCITEMENT?...

This is an album which makes you nostalgic. About what, you may not know. You may not (you won’t) even understand what the lyrics are...

Shake Stew. It's not a stew but it does shake. Well, yes, name is kinda of a letdown. Stews are Austrian.From Vienna. And they rock....

Wish I could talk about the Losers for days and days. Their hypnotic, mystic soundz contain multitudes of layers upon layers. Theiir...

We Intend to Cause Havoc! If that's not a powerful mission statement, then what is. Wikipedia's def of Zamrock is "a musical genre that...

How do you know a record is a future gem? Well, other than waiting like a 5 year old for the vinyl reissue for over a year, other than...

"Greekness" is something we, the new generation of Greeks, try to avoid adopting. We seem to not be proud of our heritage and ,hence,...

Oh Kibrom man. What a magnificent array of music history you possess. Ethiopian Folk Music, what a better ingredient to spice it up and...

Finding beauty in music is like discovering a new part of your psyche you never knew existed. It fills your mind with ecstatic thoughts...

An impossible artist, Greg Foat, what with his various musical outfits and his array of genres circulating across the jazz holosphere,...

Remember the Muppet Show? Mah Na, Mah Na, tu , tu, tu ru ru. Kinda. Well, this is the guy who wrote the theme song. But he also composed...

Bubbly, spacey, universal Ethiopian electronica from the 1980s. This album marries folk music to loopy psychedelic beats and...

Smooth. Mellow. Jazzy Mellon. Hidden gem of an amazing collab between two tremendous musicians, a dialogue of colourful melodies in a...

Googling Pedrinho will get you results of a football player I had never heard of. But if you search deeper, you might find this crazy...

This album is the reason why It's Fluffy exists. To resurface gems from the past and music brilliance from the present that's hidden in...

There is a sweetness to this album so moving, it ripples through the skin. Mamman Sani's Unreleased Tapes 1981-1984 turns a centuries-old...

Kenya, 1976. A revolution in society. This short-lived, but exceptional band creates a transfixing album, infused with the atmosphere of...

Melodies surround you, grooves blind you, compositions arranged with care. Jazz music like you've never heard it before. Accessible to...

Slow-building, lemony snippets of smooth, sax-driven electronica. Masin conducts his machine beautifully and with the right doses of the...