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Jungle Brown album ‘Full Circle’ features sublime instrumentals and bonus track on deluxe Mr Bongo version
Jungle Brown have released their 2019 album Full Circle in a deluxe edition on UK label, Mr Bongo. Jungle Brown are Ric Flo, MAEAR and Tony Bones and are serving up a soulful blend of hip-hop, gliding over Tony Bones’ productions that introduce trap and house. This deluxe edition of their second full-length LP features…
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Moonlight Benjamin’s second album is set to be a global smash, with rock and Creole songwriting finding natural fit
Haitian singer Moonlight Benjamin returns with her new album Simido after the international success of 2018’s album Siltane. Moonlight’s stirring vocals are supremely arranged with Matthis Pascaud’s blues driven aesthetic. The band have been touring hard, bonding their tight musicianship and even declaring a mutual love of Arctic Monkeys. Moonlight’s success during a hectic touring schedule has inspired Creole…
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Fortuna Records unearth lost 80’s synthesiser LP from Israeli pioneer Raviv Gazit
Fortuna Records return with the reissue of a mid-80s early electronica LP called Ze, by keyboardist Raviv Gazit. The album was composed entirely on the Synclavier synthesiser in the basement of the Tel Aviv University in 1985. This ‘lost classic’ is certainly worth that label – Ze being a heady brew of collages of synth patterns, a…
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Rajan James’ ‘Impossible Dreams’ is a boogie influenced synth-pop gem and is the latest from Left Ear Records
Rajan James is a Jamaican-born English-raised musician and her Impossible Dreams have been preserved by Left Ear Records. Thankfully, both the unreleased full-length versions, including the instrumental, appear on a loud 12” single – the vocal is unique and memorable, so that instrumental will also give longevity to this and more versatility for DJs, it being…
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Juniore’s new album ‘Un Deaux Trois’ serves up stylish alt-pop from the Parisian group
Juniore’s second album Un Deux Trois is released on February 28th with more cosmic jazz, leftfield electronics and avant garde soundtracks. Juniore is the brainchild of Anna Jean – a singer who lent her voice to songs of Parisian electro acts like Jackson, Jérôme ”Tacteel” Echenoz and Bot’Ox. Anna Jean is joined this time by four…
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Mexican brother-sister duo Sotomayor drop new album ‘Orígenes’ – a groovy house fusion of cumbia and Peruvian chicha
The new album by Sotomayor is Orígenes (“Origins”) and captures Latin American stylings, fusing them with contemporary electronic sounds. The Mexican’s third studio album (following Salvaje in 2015 and Conquistador in 2017) is produced by multiple Grammy award-winning producer Eduardo Cabra (Calle 13). Sotomayor’s electronic Latin music has a strong sense of roots and tradition,…
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Gifted jazz pianist Alfa Mist is on tour promoting new EP ‘On My Ones’
The last album Structuralism by Alfa Mist was absolutely beautiful and adored here at WTM HQ, so here’s some news on more material and live shows. New EP On My Ones is out on February 28th (track from it below) and can be preordered from Sekito on limited 10″ vinyl here. The gifted pianist is also embarking…
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LABEL FEATURE and INTERVIEW: a tribute to Deano Sounds and a decade of Cultures of Soul – the Boston based label and champion of music from all over the globe
Cultures of Soul has reissued music from the tropics of the Caribbean, as well as city pop of Japan, via South African bubblegum and the choicest American soul. Many, many DJs’ playlists and numerous classics for global music fans have been in one way or another often unearthed, canonised or curated expertly by this label.…
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Isle of Jura to release second ‘Transmissions’ compilation packed full of rarities once again
The Isle Of Jura label flourishes more and more with every release – with the Jura Soundsystem wowing listeners with globally informed selections and connoisseur-friendly reissues, alongside its sub label Temples Of Jura releasing original work. Their most recent reissue of Yvonne Archer’s Ain’t Nobody – a lovers rock redo of the Chaka Khan anthem…
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‘Phase III’ retrospective of Berliners I.A.O. is blissful first 2020 release by Left Ear Records
Once again (and yes I find myself writing and thinking this time and time again when listening to Left Ear Records – Ed), the Australian label’s output is once again peerless, having chosen a hugely important band to compile: I.A.O. Left Ear are experts at crafting essential narratives on our musical history, the compilation is…
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