Daptone Records have firmly established themselves as a renowned home of all things funk and soul, including The Budos Band, a collective that specializes in what the band has dubbed Afro-Soul, a sound that is […]
Tag: instrumentals
Comprised of French duo Adrien Cau (clarinet, bass clarinet) and Benoit Paramentier (percussion, drums), along with Layla Kim (synths, piano), Rick Tipton (samples, electronic sounds), and Sjur Opsal (bass, double bass), Kinkajous is a London, […]
Brooklyn-based guitarist Kevin Serra began Cloud Seeding, as a singles project in which he could collaborate with vocalists he personally admires including up-and-coming vocalists Alexa Wilding, Kris English, Sara Syms and others. The latest single […]
I’ve lately come to believe that being a music journalist or a music blogger requires being something of a music nerd – if not a little bit of a snob here and there. And i […]
Last year, the Canadian quartet, the Darcys released Warring, the third album of a related trilogy, and the album gained quite a bit of attention across the blogosphere for it’s heady meshing of art rock, indie […]
The most important and most interesting music of your life is often discovered in a serendipitous fashion – as in the case of the Asheville, NC-based Jonathan Scales Fourchestra, who I first caught when they […]
Up-and-coming Orlando, FL-based label, Relief in Abstract, the label home of XXYYXX, will be releasing Fortune Howl’s latest instrumental effort, Earthbound on July 30th. The album reportedly focuses on the frailty of human existence, and the folly […]
Rene Lopez’s last album, E.L.S. (short for Electric Latin Soul, a term he coined to describe the sound he had been working on), landed at number 12 on this site’s Best of 2011 list. Influenced by salsa, […]
French trio Aufgang’s latest effort Istiklaliya has the members of the band playing piano, drums, synthesizers and other electronics which adds a modern approach to classical compositions – you can hear it on the latest single off […]
Cyclopean is the musical collaboration between Burnt Friedman, Jono Podmore, and CAN founding members Jaki Leibezeit and Irmin Schmidt. The quartet will be releasing a 4 track EP digitally on February 12th and physically on […]
Canal + TV series, Les Revenants is adapted from the eponymous Robin Campillo-directed film of the same name. The series like the movie is set in an isolated, French mountain village where the locals have been disturbed after children […]
Stones Throw Records is re-released J. Dilla’s classic album Donuts as a series of 7 7" vinyl records with a bonus 45rpm with “Sniper Elite & Murder Goons” featuring MF Doom and Ghostface Killah. “The Diff’rence,” is […]