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Various Artists: Sunny Side Up
by Chris May
London DJ Gilles Peterson's worldwide touring produces some singular jazz and near-jazz experiences, the best of which he documents on his Brownswood Recordings label. Modern Cuban music figures prominently in the catalogue, and there have been several Japanese jazz albums, most memorably the Toshio Matsuura Group's Loveplaydance: 8 Scenes From The Floor (Brownswood, 2018). The label ...
Kokoroko: Kokoroko
by Chris May
If you ask an Afrobeat fan to name their favourite bands--excluding lineups led by Fela Kuti during his lifetime--the probability is that their top five choices will include Seun Kuti's Egypt 80 and Femi Kuti's Positive Force, both based in Lagos, along with Dele Sosimi's Afrobeat Orchestra, based in London. Other credible outfits have emerged, but ...
Zara McFarlane: East Of The River Nile
by Chris May
As a teaser for her upcoming album, the divine Zara McFarlane has released a 4-track EP revisiting Jamaican dub and rockers wizard Augustus Pablo's canonical 1977 single “East Of The River Nile." McFarlane's disc, on which her wordless vocals stay close to Pablo's original melodica topline, showcases her signature blend of jazz and Caribbean music to ...
Starting Today
Label: Brownswood Recordings
Released: 2018
Track listing: Starting Today; Almost Went Too Far; Mollison Dub; London’s Face; Ragify; Outro.
We Out Here
Label: Brownswood Recordings
Released: 2018
Track listing: Inside The Acorn (Maisha); Pure Shade (Ezra Collective); The Balance (Moses Boyd); Brockley (Theon Cross); Once (Nubya Garcia); Black Skin, Black Masks (Shabaka Hutchings); Walls (Triforce); Go See (Joe Armon-Jones); Abusey Junction (Kokoroko).
There Is A Place
By Maisha
Label: Brownswood Recordings
Released: 2018
Track listing: Osiris; Azure; Eaglehurst / The Palace; Kaa; There Is A Place.
Loveplaydance: 8 Scenes From The Floor
Label: Brownswood Recordings
Released: 2018
Track listing: Change; High Noon; L.M. II; I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun; Kitty Bey; Brown Paper Bag; Do The Astral Plane; At Les.
Maisha: There Is A Place
by Chris May
The London jazz scene, which is in 2018 more active and characterful than it has been since the jazz-dance movement of the 1980s, offers up another jewel with this debut physical-release by spiritual-jazz septet Maisha. The band, led by drummer Jake Long, surfaced in 2016 with the download-only live album Welcome To A New Welcome (Jazz ...
Zara McFarlane: Arise!
by Chris May
Zara McFarlane is a London-based singer and composer with a voice like an angel and a style that reflects her cultural roots in the Caribbean and in the mash-up that is modern metropolitan Britain, where jazz, grime, hip hop, reggae and other musics of black origin are hybridising and shape-shifting with joyful abandon. She is an ...
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