From I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone
On Bandcamp
New Work From Kingston’s Equiknoxx: “Fly Away”
Sand, Sun And Song: The Triangular Sounds Of LA Priest
“Oino,” from the Inji release.
On Domino Record Co, UK
Spacious New Work From Khruangbin: “Friday Morning”
From Con Todo El Mundo
On Dead Oceans, Austin TX
Mesmeric New Work From Astrea: “Grass”
Ted Milton’s “Love Is Like A Violence”
12″ Vinyl
On Embryo Records, UK
New Work From Lauren Lo Sung: “All Fuzzy”
From the Worthless EP
On Rutilance Recordings, Paris
Experimental Jazz From Sylvie Courvoisier Trio: “Bourgeois’s Spider (for Louise Bourgeois)”
On the heels of Riot Material’s review of Louise Bourgeois MoMa exhibition, An Unfolding Portrait, we complement that piece with some equally avant-garde sounds from pianist Sylvie Courvoisier, bassist Drew Gress and drummer Kenny Wollesen: Sylvie Courvoisier Trio. From their latest release, D’Agala.
A Song To “Mama Africa,” Miriam Makeba, From Jain
“Makeba,” from the Zanaka release:
Omar Souleyman’s Anguished “Mawal”
The Sound Of Doom, With A Little Amperage
New Work From Gorillaz: “Ascension”
Bigga Bush Samples Patti Smith With “60 Days”
Bigga Bush, “60 Days” [Read more…]
New Work From John Tejada & Arian Leviste: “Western Starland”
2000 & One: “Kawaski”
Hugh Masekela “The Boy’s Doin’ It”
He will be missed.
South African Statesman, Anti-Apartheid Activist, Trumpeter Hugh Masekela Dead At 78
Hugh Masekela
RIP
1939 | 2018
The founder of South African Jazz, an anti-apartheid activist and, as a result, a man decades in exile, Hugh Masekela pushed on into deeper waters. May the winds catch his every sail.
“Witch Doctor,” one of the greats in any genre, is below, as is “Grazing in the Grass,” “Stimela (Coal Train),” and “Mandela (Bring Him Back Home).”
Witch Doctor (2003)
Slowdive’s Seductive “Slomo”
New Work From Pool Holograph: “Stratus Sheets”
From the Transparent World release
New Work From Jessica Lea Mayfield: “Bum Me Out”
From the Sorry Is Gone release
“Bum Me Out”