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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 ...
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.
Starting Today
Label: Brownswood Recordings
Released: 2018
Track listing: Starting Today; Almost Went Too Far; Mollison Dub; London’s Face; Ragify; Outro.
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 ...
Joe Armon-Jones: Starting Today
by Chris May
Something exceptional is happening in London in spring 2018. A succession of albums, recorded by an intimately connected community of around 60 young musicians, is taking jazz in ear-opening new directions. Hybridisation and genretic modification are the names of the game, but the scene also reaffirms the music's traditional building-blocks, among them the creativity of black ...
Toshio Matsuura Group: Loveplaydance: 8 Scenes From The Floor
by Chris May
Loveplaydance is the latest chapter in a collaboration which started over 25 years ago between Tokyo DJ Toshio Matsuura and London DJ Gilles Peterson. At the time, Matsuura was a member of the mutant jazz and funk collective United Future Organization (U.F.O), and Peterson was running the post-acid jazz Talkin' Loud label, whose name was derived ...
