Results for "Brownswood Recordings"

Various Artists: Indaba Is

by Chris May
January 9, 2021

There are probably several reasons why American jazz made the deep and lasting impact it did on South Africa in the 1950s. One may be that the colonial regime which was imposed on the country during Europe's pan-African nineteenth-century landgrab was among the most vicious of them all, and persisted the longest through the apartheid system ...

Songs Of An Unknown Tongue

By Zara McFarlane

Label: Brownswood Recordings
Released: 2020
Track listing: Everything Is Connected; Black Treasure; My Story, Broken Water; Saltwater; Run Of Your Life; State Of Mind; Native Nomad; Roots Of Freedom; Future Echoes.

Indaba Is

Label: Brownswood Recordings
Released: 2020
Track listing: Bokani Dyer: Ke Nako; The Brother Moves On: Umthandazo Wamagenge; Lwanda Gogwana: All Ok; The Wretched: What Is History; Sibusile Xaba with Naftali, Fakazile Nkosi and AshK: Umdali; The Ancestors: Prelude to Writing Together; Thandi Ntuli: Dikeledi: iPhupho L'ka Biko ft Siyabonga Mthembu & Kinsmen: Abaphezulu.

Zara McFarlane: Songs Of An Unknown Tongue

by Chris May
July 14, 2020

It takes courage for a musician to depart from a successful recipe to the extent that the British singer and songwriter Zara McFarlane does on Songs of An Unknown Tongue. The disc is not a complete shift from the paradigm of her three previous albums, but it is a radical spin on it. ...

Sunny Side Up

By Various Artists

Label: Brownswood Recordings
Released: 2019
Track listing: Banksia; Pick Up /Galaxy; There Is No Time; Bleeding Hearts; Powers 2 (The People); Nice To See You; Eternal / Internal Peace; The Wake-Up; Orbit.

Turn To Clear View

By Joe Armon-Jones

Label: Brownswood Recordings
Released: 2019
Track listing: Try Walk With Me; Yellow Dandelion; Gnawa Sweet; Icy Roads (Stacked); (To) Know Where You’re Coming From; The Leo & Aquarius; You Didn’t Care; Self: Love.

East Of The River Nile

By Zara McFarlane

Label: Brownswood Recordings
Released: 2019
Track listing: East Of The River Nile; East Of The River Nile (Dub Mix); East Of The River Nile Alt. Take; East Of The River Nile Alt. Take (Dub Mix).

Kokoroko

By Kokoroko

Label: Brownswood Recordings
Released: 2019
Track listing: Adwa; Ti-de; Uman; Abusey Junction.

Joe Armon-Jones: Turn To Clear View

by Serena Antinucci
October 2, 2019

Le dita di Joe Armon-Jones sono dieci. Che ovvietà, direte voi. Forse, ma non è così semplice la questione. Le sue dita sono un prolungamento istintuale, potente, reazionario sulla nuova scena jazz inglese. Sembrerebbe affetto da una specie di “morbo musicale di Parkinson," il tastierista inglese. Una convulsione di movimenti che procede verso ...

Joe Armon-Jones: Turn To Clear View

by Chris May
September 11, 2019

A cornerstone of London's underground jazz scene—as well as leading his own band he plays in Ezra Collective and groups led by the tenor saxophonists Binker Golding and Nubya Garcia—the keyboard player Joe Armon-Jones released his first own-name album, Starting Today (Brownswood), in spring 2018. A jewel of nu-fusion which owes almost as much to the ...