Amaro Freitas is a young jazz pianist from Recife, Brazil in the north eastern state of Pernambuco. Drawing on multiple influences - from American pianists such as Chick Corea (to whom the album is dedicated), Thelonious Monk or Keith Jarrett to Brazil’s rich musical heritage (Egberto Gismonti, Hermeto Pascoal, Moacis Santos), …
KMRU: Peel
If a piece of music blends well with field recordings, there’s this sense of not knowing if the music is happening. Joseph Kamaru From Nairobi, Joseph Kamaru is a Kenyan electronic musician, sound artist and improviser who articulates his work around field recordings and found sounds. Sharing his time between his home …
Vanessa Wagner: Study of the Invisible
Searching for one's inner self: that is what I like more and more in music. After having played Scriabin, Rachmaninov or Ravel, I'm fascinated by exploring intensity without a deluge of notes, by simplicity as a means of expression. For the performer, it is a question of bringing out a real atmosphere, a breathing of the tempo, …
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Alabaster dePlume: To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1
Alabaster dePlume is the enchanting moniker of Angus Fairbairn, a performance poet, activist, composer and saxophone player originally from Manchester who moved to London in the mid-2010s to join a residency at the Total Refreshment Centre. The London’s South Bank studio and music venue has not only been home to a community of …
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Ordnance Survey: Field Work
Neil O’Connor is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and electronic musician based in Dublin who has been releasing music under the Somadrone moniker since the late 1990s while also working with Irish rock bands such as The Redneck Manifesto and Jape. Initiated in 2018, Ordnance Survey is a new collaborative project which sees the …
Bremer/McCoy: Natten
Based in Copenhagen, Bremer/McCoy is an instrumental duo comprised of Jonathan Bremer on double bass and Morten McCoy on keyboards and tape delay. Starting off as a reggae group when still at school, the Danish duo’s sound has gradually evolved since their début in 2013 into an exquisitely airy and soulful synthesis …