Agustín Pereyra Lucena is a reminder of the border-defying quality of music. Born in 1948 in Buenos Aires, he started...
Tokyo ten-piece Ajate uses the portmanteau ‘Afrobayashi’ to describe their original fusion of traditional Ohayashi music (played during Japanese ancestral...
Italian musician Dario Bassolino released his debut album, Città Futura. In it, he reinterprets the soundtrack to the cult films...
In this joyful and profound debut album Celia Wa nods to the past and future, as well as both sides...
You will not hear Japanese instruments or Asian motifs here, as the Cho Co Pa Co Cho Co Quin Quin‘s...
50 years after they disbanded, London-based collective Cymande are back with a grave and infectiously groovy record. It’s another turn...
For her fourth studio album, released via Brownswood Recording, Daymé Arocena returns to the Caribbean, choosing Puerto Rico over her...
French-Caribbean electro-jazz collective Dowdelin brings us Tchenbé!, an album that effortlessly fuses vibrant funk, jazz-inflected soul, and danceable electronic grooves...
Album Review: Ebo Taylor, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – JID022 [Jazz Is Dead; January 2025]
Ebo Taylor’s legacy is assured. Not only has his back catalogue been preserved in high fidelity, reissued, and even sampled...
Released in what would have been her 100th year, Souvenirs by the late Ethiopian pianist Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru is a...
Florence Adooni’s A.O.E.I.U. (An Ordinary Exercise In Unity) is an album in motion—songs that feel they have time-travelled various continents,...
Hysterrae’s self-titled debut album offers a captivating and innovative exploration of world music, blending traditional elements with contemporary influences. This collaborative...