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Laurel Halo will release a new album in September. Atlas is the American DJ-producer’s first album in five years, since 2018’s Raw Silk Uncut Wood. Using both electronic and acoustic instrumentation, Halo has created a “potent” set of sensual ambient jazz collages, comprised of orchestral clouds, shades of modal harmony, hidden sonic details, and hallucinatory […]
Kamaal Williams (a.k.a Henry Wu) will release his third solo album on Black Focus. Stings, which spans 11 tracks, is rooted in the South London jazz scene that birthed him, but “levitates into the impressionist symphonies of Claude Debussy,” we’re told, “and the cosmic realm of futuristic hip-hop and electronic beats.” The project began during […]
Aint About Me is the project of producer Jan Wagner and Lukasz Polowczyk, a sound artist, poet, and educator based in Berlin, Germany. Its origins date back to 2020, when the pair put out a self-titled debut album in celebration of spoken word, whereby lyrics, poetry, or stories are spoken instead of sung—which is the […]
Wata Igarashi is one of the leading figures of Japanese techno—an XLR8R favorite who featured in our XLR8R+ series and delivered a podcast of deep, sci-fi tinged hypnotic techno in 2019. What we haven’t covered so much before are his productions, which have been released on labels including Figure, Semantica, Time to Express, The Bunker […]
Yussef Dayes will release his debut album in September. Across 19 tracks, Black Classical Music is anchored by Dayes’ distinctive drum licks and Rocco Palladino’s bass. The album also features Charlie Stacey on keys and synths; Venna on saxophone; Alexander Bourt on percussion; and a whole host of others including Chronixx, Masego, Tom Misch, and […]
Growing up, Kareem Ali—a native of New York who now lives in Tucson, Arizona—wanted to be a rocket scientist and his first musical love was jazz. He found an early hero in Miles Davis, whose seminal Kind of Blue LP prompted Ali to pick up the trumpet back in middle school. More than a decade […]
Ari LaShell (born Arianna Calloway), a neo-soul songwriter from Atlanta, has released her debut EP. LaShell, who has been singing since the age of three, moved from Detroit to Atlanta after eight grade and became infatuated with music during high school. Over the past few years, she’s been releasing singles through her Soundcloud page, spanning […]
Gigi Masin and jazz pianist Greg Foat have collaborated on a new album for Strut Records. Utilizing an electric piano, sounds Masin’s digital library, grand piano, vibraphone, and lots of vintage synthesizers, on Dolphin Masin’s melancholy melodies meet Foat’s laid back, slo-mo grooves, “which pour out like honey,” we’re told. The record features Moses Boyd […]