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Webmagazine and record label on underground house music & contemporary jazz. We're about music released by independent artists and labels.
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After five years without new releases, Electric Jalaba present themselves with a multifaceted work, exploring a wide range of influences in ten improvised tracks developed in the studio. El Hal / The Feeling is a tribute to gnawa music.
Read MoreLed by producer/guitarist Tom Excell, Nubiyan Twist is one of UK’s leading acts in the jazz scene that took over the country in the last half decade. Released by Strut Records their new album, Freedom Fables, is their most accomplished work to date, following a discography that is already magnificent.
Read MoreFebruary was rich in anthems that we will hear far beyond this month. We composed a playlist of 45 tracks to summarize the best ingredients we used on this special cocktail. Eclectic as always: jazz, electronic, hip hop and soulful music from all over the world.
Read MoreA breeze from Salvador, from Praia, from Lisbon comes in, as a spring prelude. That breeze is called Orla, Caravela’s debut LP that is released now by None More Records - deeply attached to Afro-Brazilian rhythms and contemporary jazz approaches.
Read MoreReleased by Running Circle, Lost Sound Book is an otherworldly inward journey, in which Guohan explores many different places and cultures, from hip hop to jazz, traditional music to everyday life sounds, documenting the moods and colours left out from today's society.
Read MoreInspired by the textures of bossa nova, afrobeat, the Yoruba culture and the broken beat sound that hails from the UK, Afro Bruk Band was born in the favelas and samba schools of São Paulo.
Read MoreAcross 14 tracks this new LP showcases strong dancefloor-friendly festive bangers, irresistible funky arrangements and an undeniable sense of humor and irony; all of which ingredients that Hovart never fails to present.
Read MoreFar Out Recordings presents the debut album of this project, never edited throughout these 35 years that have now passed. The self-titled Marcos Resende & Index, now reissued in vinyl, is an essential contribution to the progressive and instrumental music from Brazil.
Read MoreOlindo Records launches a sister label named Música Infinita and presents the reissue of The Message by the Venezuelan living legend Gerry Weil, due to drop tomorrow. It is a pleasure to present this overlooked cornerstone of Venezuelan jazz.
Read MoreCosta Nova is fantastic project that recuperates some lost classics of Portuguese soul and funk music from the ‘70s. It’s history in a record. A history that the Portuguese might not know - the fantastic Costa Nova II - Atlantic Soul & Funk Gems from Portugal (1971-79).
Read MoreRaw. Emotional. Heavy. Short. Back in 1969, hailing from Angola, Vum Vum was creating a special EP of just four tracks that would set him up to be considered today the father figure of the Angolan rock scene.
Read MoreTaken from the upcoming debut album by Australian super trio Oyobi, Mi Ritmo ignites our desires for warmer nights. Vincent Sebastian, Adam Ventoura and Daniel Pliner (Oyobi) team up with Danny G Felix and his Colombian orchestra Malo Malo to deliver an awesome latin-jazz-house anthem that will definitely reach great heights.
Read MoreAfter being spotted by the legendary multi-instrumentalist and The Roots’ member James Poyser during an open-mic session, Ezekiel was quickly placed in the “right rooms” to record this amazing project - blending melodies of the western world with the sounds of Africa.
Read MoreTerra was the debut LP of the influential Gaúcho musician Gelson Oliveira in partnership with drummer Luiz Ewerling. The album was released independently in 1983, with access to minimal resources. None of that influenced the quality, the musicality and the magic present in nine tracks.
Read MoreLooking back, our trace is visible. We came a long way and through that road we kept 60 tracks, ten more than usual. November 2020 was rich in signature tracks, although the second confinement, although the impact this strange year has been having in all of us. But the artists didn’t stop, specially those who produce from dungeons to rooftops.
Read MoreDrawing inspiration from jazz, soul and electronic music of all styles, Believers Vol. 1 takes us through a variety of approaches that have been a trademark in Scrimshire’s work: from energetic Afro-disco through lushly orchestrated neo-soul to harmonious jazz experiments.
Read MoreJneiro Jarel’s work is distinctive, forward thinking, diverse in its influencing forces, with a special love for Afro-Latin-Brazilian rhythms. After A Thousand Years is a perfect fit into Far Out Recordings’ catalog, collecting and organizing those life-long ‘inspirations’.
Read MoreThe navigation through o sótão’s October is easier through the month’s playlist, summarizing a high-karat-gold selection of the artists and projects we’ve showcased. The usual 50 tracks explore a variety of approaches to music, showcasing young promise’s magic and well-established virtuosity.
Read MoreY Su Descarga Internacional picks up where 2018’s Love & Resistance left off, filled with disco and funk steeped in Afro Latin rhythms and influences, finding more genre defying dance floor amalgamations.
Read MoreJoined by a fantastic band in La Noche de los Dioses, Tino Contreras presents a sonic gift; a kaleidoscope of evolving and shifting spiritual rumination about life and humanity. The sounds, the rhythms, are expansive, hypnotic and mystical.
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