British funk renegades The Baker Brothers are back after a 5-year hiatus with new album The Next Last Party, where their signature sound characterised by tight horns, a driving rhythm section, and irresistibly funky guitar riffs, remains killer as ever. British funk renegades The Baker Brothers continue their journey as the banner men of contemporary […]
Esoteric London outfit Les Hommes returns with 11 jazzuous trips on their new longplayer Sì, Così, a plasma-rippling suite of 11 instrumental cuts that includes pulsar-driven groovetronics, folky modalisms in waltz time and dreamvitations to the cine-lounge. London trio Les Hommes releases new album Sì, Così, where sounds in unusual orbits abound, with deep-space vintage […]
Barcelona’s soul bomb Koko-Jean & The Tonics release their sophomore full-length Love Child, with 12 tracks that take their trademark blend of soul, funk, rock’n’roll, and rhythm & blues in a more sophisticated direction. We often turn to music either to change our mood or to reinforce it. Who hasn’t licked their wounds after […]
Thunderous UK powerhouse The Boom Yeh releases third album Near-Earth Objects, with 8 tracks of instrumental jazz-funk, soul-jazz, funk-rock and fusion, featuring musicians who have worked with Jamiroquai, The Brand New Heavies, Incognito, Alice Russell and Leroy Hutson. London-based outfit The Boom Yeh’s new album Near-Earth Objects is a progressive artistic statement for British […]
Italy-born but Denmark-based multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Alex Puddu takes it back to his roots in new album Deliria, which blends erotic disco, soulful Italian grooves of the late 70s / early 80s, indie pop and electronica, and is entirely sung in Italian. Italy-born but Denmark-based multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Alex Puddu needs no introduction. […]
Together with Spanish guitarist Lucas De Mulder and british drummer Luke Flowers, keyboard player Joe Tatton, best known for being a member of veteran outfit The New Mastersounds, releases Galáctico, the sophomore album of the Joe Tatton Trio, with 10 tracks of classic Hammond jazz-funk. Best known as the keyboard player of veteran UK […]
UK jazz-funk fusion quartet Resolution 88 are back with their fourth studio album Vortex, featuring 8 tunes that take the band’s sound in a new direction compositionally whilst retaining their signature sound of the Fender Rhodes and synthesizers used by Herbie Hancock and Toby Smith of Jamiroquai. Rehearsed and recorded as a quartet, new […]
Varv is a duo composed of Andrea Cappi on keys and Francesco Mascolo on drums, and it’s a crossover project in which the jazz background of both musicians is stripped of its more traditional characteristics and used to explore more experimental territories, between electronica and prog rock. Lowlands is Varv‘s first album and it […]
