Just over a year after her impressive solo piano début album Esja for Gondwana Records, Polish pianist and composer Hania Rani returns with a new collection which expands significantly on her original sound. Featuring double bass, drums, a string quintet and the pianist herself on synthesisers, keyboards, electronics and vocals, ... [Continue Reading]
Ben Lukas Boysen: Spells/Mirage
Berlin-based Ben Lukas Boysen is a sound designer, pianist, composer and producer who has recorded 10 albums of ambient, IDM and glitch music since 2003 as Hecq. He has also scored for cinema and recently collaborated with composer and multi-instrumentalist Sebastian Plano on “Everything”, the soundtrack to the eponymous ... [Continue Reading]
Bab L’Bluz: Nayda!
Originally formed in 2017 as a duo, Maroccan-French band Bab L’ Bluz is now a four piece power quartet based in Marrakesh. Comprised of Yousra Mansour on lead vocals and guembri, Brice Bottin on guembri and electric guitar, Hafid Zouaoui on drums and Jérôme Bartolome on flute and percussions, Bab L’Bluz distil an exhilarating ... [Continue Reading]
Billy Prim: Thalassa
Born in Larissa, Greece, Βασίλειος Πριμηκύρης aka Billy Prim is a young jazz drummer who also studied classical piano. Now based in Budapest, the musician can be heard performing and collaborating on the Hungarian and international jazz scene. For many perceptive musicians, the sea (“Thalassa” in Greek) is an endless source of ... [Continue Reading]
Birds on a Wire: Ramages
Sur la place où tout est tranquilleUne fille s'est mise à chanterOn the square, where everything is quietA girl has started singing Jacques Brel Franco-American singer songwriter Rosemary Standley and Brazilian-born singer and cellist Dominique Pinto (aka Dom La Nena) released their enchanting self-titled début Birds on a ... [Continue Reading]
Makaya McCraven: Universal Beings
Often introducing himself as a “beat scientist”, Chicago-based drummer Makaya McCraven is a startling new voice on the music scene. Released in 2015, his outstanding breakthrough on the international stage In the Moment LP already highlighted his novel synthesis of live jazz and hip-hop production techniques. Using collaborative ... [Continue Reading]
Brandee Younger: Soul Awakening
Based in New-York, Brandee Younger is a young jazz harpist who is in the process of rejuvenating a style still dominated by the towering influence of her historic peers Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane. As a composer and teacher, the musician is one of the rare contemporary jazz harpists recording today either as a solo artist, ... [Continue Reading]