Audrey Powne just announced her second album, to be released this fall.”Broken Record”, the first single, is inspired by the legacy of label mate the late great J Dilla. This soul/ jazz crossover track, with its mesmerizing groove and haunting trumpet, showcases Audrey’s expanding scope as a trumpeter, vocalist, keyboardist, and producer. “When I signed with…
It’s finally here: the new album by Jarrod Lawson who delivered our record of the year with “Be The Change” back in 2020 and who we’ve featured here regularly on these pages since 2015. It’s his third album since his brilliant debut in 2014. We’ve been treated to a few singles which were leading the…
First of all, apologies for the hiatus here. Due to some technical problems, we couldn’t add any content. But we’re back now with great news: Bruno Berle, our favorite singer/songwriter of the new MPB movement in Brazil (five-paw review for his second album “No Reino Dos Afetos 2” and our number 2 song of the…
So here they are again: Dawn Joseph and Jon Kincaid, also known as MF Robots, are back with the follow-up to the praised LP “Break The Wall” from 2021, which we also reviewed on these pages. The former Brand New Heavies partners return with an 8-track LP on their own imprint Good People Records. The…
Master guitarist and composer Fabiano Do Nascimento is back again with a new album called “Vila”. It’s a collaborative work with Brazilian trombonist and arranger Vittor Santos and inspired by a courtyard surrounded by neo-colonial houses where Fabiano spent much of his childhood. And I think it is his most refined album to date, not…
Detroit-based Jazz and Soul singer and songwriter Kathy Kosins will release her new single “Magic Island” next week Tuesday. It is already out in the UK and making waves over there, with the track currently at No.2 on the Soul Breakers Chart. The song is an elegant, smoothly swaying ballad which reminds me of some…
Some interesting and highly anticipated albums will drop in the next few weeks and months. Here is a short list of albums which are on our radar. We will update this list on a regular basis. Almost all of the albums listed below will come out on vinyl too. Leo Middea – Notícias de Puglia…
Gustel is now with us since about four months and she is easily getting along and has absolutely no problems with listening to all kinds of music all day. But still, she’s happy to go on a walk several times a day, even in this cold and snowy weather which hopefully ends soon. Anyway, we’re…
“This record is an atmosphere, a state of mind”, says Eric Hilton, one of the founders of Thievery Corporation, about his latest album “A Sky So Close”, to be released this Friday on Montserrat House, the Washington, DC based label which is curated by him. The album will come out eight months after his compelling…
Norwegian artist Morten Martens and his band Les Imprimés were in town last Thursday. Playing at Kantine am Berghain, Morten and his guys once again proved that their sound and songs are truly unique. Laid-back, utterly ethereal and with a heavy dose of sophisticated soul, the group mostly played music from their debut album “Rêverie”…