The Icelandic singer-songwriter will debut “most elaborate stage concert yet” in New York next spring.
Exoticism and eccentricity. Here are two words that could well distinguish the album Order of Nothingness as the multidisciplinary work of the original artist, Jimi Tenor.
Music is like playing video games. At least that’s true of Louis Cole’s music. Everything is colored. Time, his third album, deepens the foundations of this facetious music.
Although the veteran American ranks as one of the foremost exponents of ambient electronica, or is also seen as ‘Brian Eno’s brass partner’, according to more glib observers, he has always been much more than that.
A longtime fan of J Dilla and Robert Glasper, the Californian gravitates toward the greats of the moment, like Anderson .Paak, Karriem Riggins, Terrace Martin and Kaytranada.
Beatmaker and DJ Captain Planet unveils Mystery Trip Vol. 2 on Bastard Jazz Recordings. The album is a go-between where the continents meet and made-to-measure rarities and rhythm n’ beats come together.
This duo with DJ-producer Prins Thomas, a prime mover on the Oslo club scene of the ‘90s, shows that Wesseltoft still has a taste for adventure, although the pair settles into an all too sedate safety zone on occasion.
The instrumentation of Polish group EABS delete the 4,000-plus miles between their home nation and New York City with a hip-hop-led jazz style that leans on golden age rap gods like A Tribe Called Quest and Guru.
Manga aficionados found out about Kodama—those malicious tree spirits—from Miyazaki’s films. Thus the musical duo has chosen the mysterious and the natural, but their music’s jazz/electro fusion reveals a voluntary tension between the product and the method.
