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greatness by mo kolours, jim demuth and posy dixon.
check out the super fresh ep2: banana wine right over here.
great stuff ahead folks: badbadnotgood, the young and super fresh jazz trio from canada just dropped their latest album BBNG2. its a digital release only, it comes with a beautiful photo booklet and artwork - and its completely free. its pretty new so i did not have the chance to listen to it extensively yet. but i can say already that this one is a good one! it features the actual trio of matthew a tavers on keys, chester hansen on bass and alexander sowinski on drums. the three of them got backed up by leland whitty on sax + luan phung on guitar. they considered it important to point out that no one involved in the production of their album was actually older than 21 years. it’s impressive, i admit, but i stopped wondering about young super-musicians years ago (this actually reminds me to share some great stuff by austin peralta with you guys soon. dope shit). what gets me way more is that fact that it was recorded in a 10 hours live recording session, including al electronics, synthies and what have you. that is seriously great stuff ad give the album a somewhat compact and intense feel. its a really refreshing mix of catchy, electronic sometime a bit poppy jazz sounds that will definitely enter my top list for this year straight away. bbng2 holds nine original compositions + 2 covers - and after BBNG, their debut from last year, that was including covers only (pretty good ones though) its great to hear some more originality this time.
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i have been talking about mathieu mastin’s ‘jazzed out’ documentary series before. Well, as you can see, it really gets me. mastin manages to just grasp this wonderful atmosphere of intimate, original live music without adding to much pathos to the whole thing.
in addition to the new york, and paris editions, he now released a 10-piece documentary on contemporary norwegian jazz, called ‘jazzed out oslo’. the series was produced by mastin, kidam and mezzo tv. it features all the big ones like arild andersen, nils peter molvaer, eivind aarset and mats eilertsen. well, for now i leave you with these two beautiful excerpts featuring norwegian pianist bugge wesseltoft and saxophonist hakon kornstad. take time time to watch, its worth it.
just came across this massive compilation by berlin based producer figub brazlevic. long story short: he killed it!
with oldschool future (digital release only), brazlevic dropped a funky and fresh mix of hiphop, oldschool, groovy and rare grooves. brazlevic is part of the infamous ‘finest ego’ family around mastermind gordon gieseking. other family members include fLako, dza, floating points, daisuke tanabe just to name a few - but we’ll get to that later..
for now i leave you with a pretty short post - and this compilation of 42 tracks, covering the past 3 years of brazlevic’s work. enjoy, folks.
oh btw, figub has been around a couple of years by now. you should absolutely check his soundcloud profile for some really nice tunes by his. besides others he remixed mobb deep’s shook one pt2. well.. ahem. you might just wanna check it out yourself. #epicness.
dirg gerner is a london based musician who specialised in seriously deep and groovy beats, somewhere between soul and electronics. despite his rather mystical (or maybe just reclusive) appearance in media, he is gaining more and more popularity amongst offthegrid insiders and music lovers. his fresh ‘preface ep’ was released a couple of weeks ago on alexander nut’s mini label ‘ho top records’. you might have come across alex before: he is responsible for some decent selections over at rinse fm and together with sam shepherd aka. ‘floating points’ (we’ll get to him soon!) he is in charge of the ego label.
gener’s ‘preface ep’ is an organic, pulsating mix of warm and breathing tunes that might derive from soul, jazz and hiphop roots but certainly (and heavily) landed in the world of fat and driving eletronic sounds. for this one he got in as producer and singer himself - and invited some friends over: besides berliner rahel kraska and london fellow olmo cassibba aka. ‘olmo’ (you should definitely check this guy out) he dropped a massive track called ‘rubies & diamonds’ with the brilliant(!!) fatima. he also released a dope remix by (alter ego?) fLako, member of the project:mooncircle family and other half of kwatro (he’ll be playing in berlin next saturday, with robot koch, long arm and others, by the way.)
you can get the ‘preface ep’ over at bookmat. for now i leave you with a little preview.
enjoy :)