No words necessary to describe the voice and the music of the mighty Gladys Knight who turns 80 today. We send heartfelt congratulations and look forward to her show next month in Eindhoven (see tour dates below). I was lucky to have seen her twice in concert over the years: her performances at North Sea…
One of my favorite singers and songwriters, the Los Angeles based Gary Taylor, has just announced a new album to be released on June 26th. “From The Vault of the 80s” features unreleased tracks from this fruitful period. The multi-instrumentalist and producer has recorded a total of nine albums between his first “G.T.” (1983) and…
Gina has just issued her latest, weekly 60-minute playlist of new music. Starting off with a third track from the upcoming album “Deliria” by Alex Puddu, due September 16th, “Champagne e Giochi di Coppia” is a remarkable slice of early 80s soul, sung in Italian. Esperanza Spalding has teamed up with the legendary Milton Nascimento….
Multi-instrumentalist and composer Alex Puddu, hailing from Rome and based in Copenhagen, has announced the release of his next album. The man who brought us the brilliant “Love After Dark” album in 2021 and three volumes of “The Golden Age of Danish Pornography”, will be back with a superb set of Italian nu disco and…
Five years after her wonderful debut “Cage & Aviary”, singer, songwriter and musician Bryony Jarman-Pinto is back with “Below Dawn”, released last Friday. The album is available on limited vinyl too and features a bonus instrumental track. The London-based singer opens this majestic opus with the very Angela Bofill GRP-ish “Water Come”, a beautiful, healing,…
One of the most highly anticipated records is finally out. Jordan Rakei had already released four singles off “The Loop”, clearly his best album to date. “Flowers” and “Friend Or Foe” had the stakes high and we’re still raving about “Learning” and “Freedom”. We finally have all 13 tracks now on double vinyl by the…
Pakistani singer, composer, and producer Arooj Aftab has just released her second single from her upcoming Verve album “Night Reign”, which will be released on May 31st. On the wistful, harp-induced “Whiskey” and most of the other tracks on the album, she explores themes of the night and dedicates the whole album to it. I…
Multi-instrumentalist Aaron Frazer is back on June 28th with his new album “Into The Blue” on Dead Oceans Records, three years after his well-received “Introducing…Aaron Frazer”. The album will also be available on vinyl. Aaron’s unmistakable falsetto is one of the backdrops of the album, as is the theme of “heading into the unknown”. His…
So the four guys from Amsterdam-based RADIOHOP just released their debut album “All We Do”. Coming from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, the biggest and most diverse conservatory in the Netherlands, the group has this great mixture of jazz, hiphop, soul, and fusion and is pretty beat-oriented which makes them one of the hottest new groups…
Sy Smith, who released her latest brilliant five-paw rated album “Until We Meet Again” in late January, is currently on tour in Europe with trumpeter Chris Botti. Botti himself released his Blue Note debut “Volume 1” last October. Chris is guesting on Sy’s album on the beautiful midtempo swayer “Remember How To Fly”. Sy is…