Recommended: Out now on Sean Conrad’s Seattle-based ambient/devotional Inner Islands label, Wide Ranging Rider is the latest offering from Stefan Beck, aka Golden Brown…emblazoned with originality throughout.
Tashi Dorji’s 2012 cassette-only release Guitar Improvisations is to be released on vinyl for the first time. Watch the new video for Improvisations I – Playing purely experimentally, he inhabits the now, increasing the elements in his play and carefully building a hypnotic whole.
Magg Tekki, is the debut offering from the Senegalese drum and vocal orchestra Assiko Golden Band de Grand Yoff, a collaboration with Swedish musician and archivist Karl-Jonas Winqvist. Listen to their new single, “La Musique de Cœur”. It’s pure joy!
Myriam Gendron’s debut album, “Not So Deep As A Well”, is being re-issued and will be available for the first time in Europe on 17th November 2023 via Basin Rock. Listen to Bric-á-brac, our Song of the Day, and included in the new expanded version.
First issued in 1969, the Malombo Jazz Makers’ unknown third album ‘Down Lucky’s Way’ is reissued on vinyl. The liner notes include an interview with Lucky Ranku, one of the greatest African guitarists of his generation.
Released today on the excellent Catalan Record Label Microscopi is ‘Substrat’, the new album by Guillem Ballaz. A work based on old Catalan square tambourine songs -largely unpublished- and one of Catalonia’s greatest unknown cultural riches.
The Colours Of Rubab, a newly commissioned album from Worlds within Worlds featuring the music of Gulab Afridi, accompanied by Murad Afridi on tabla. Listen to the lead track, Raag Kirwani.
Today, Sharron Kraus has released ‘Birdloom’, a project she began working on with electronic musician David Muddyman (aka Muud, Jamuud) 20 years ago and which features Spiers & Boden.
Today, sees the release of Horse Lords Live in Leipzig, described as an exploded view of the quartet’s unparalleled live show. Watch them performing ‘Mess Mend’, which gives a brilliant insight into the complexities of their music and the demands it places upon the musicians.
NAKSHATRA is the debut album from Brooklyn, NY violinist duo Trina Basu & Arun Ramamurthy, a lush and spiritual collaboration that bridges traditions and defies genres.
Psych-folk troubadour Adam Geoffrey Cole releases ‘The tracks of the Afterlander’, a sublime collection of acid folk tracks that embodies English 60s/70s psych-folk à la Pentangle, The Incredible String Band, and Fairport Convention.
