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Track: Chiminyo shares new live session video for ‘Reachin’

Today, London-based drummer and composer Chiminyo has shared a stunning new live session video for his track “Reachin'”. The track is taken from his critically acclaimed debut album “I AM…

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Album review: Cahill/Costello – ‘Offworld’: contemplative dubspace, ambient and post-rock shimmer that steps gloriously out of time

KEVIN DANIEL CAHILL and Graham Costello, guitarist and drummer respectively, first set off on the path that would lead to them wedding as a musical act with an oblique and…

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Track: Slip inside the gorgeous, dubby blur of ‘The Visitant’ as Scottish ambient duo Cahill/Costello announce an enthralling debut album

KEVIN DANIEL CAHILL and Graham Costello, guitarist and drummer respectively, first set off on the path that would lead to them wedding as a musical act with an oblique and…

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News: Bastien Keb’s excellent faux-soundtrack odyssey, ‘The Killing Of Eugene Peeps’, gets a Japanese-style pressing; see the video for ‘Lucky (Oldest Grave)’

IF YOU didn’t get chance to catch up with Bastien Keb’s excellent and off-kilter, genre boundary-dispensing, musical novel of a record The Killing Of Eugene Peeps last autumn – and…

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Album review: Chihei Hatakeyama – ‘Late Spring’: a halcyon, beautiful ambient journey

Late Spring takes elements of IDM, shoegaze, and drone, and fashions them together in an impressionistic, delicious fog, with a pretty unique pastoralist feel, alive in nature. It's pretty much the only album I've ever heard that makes me reconsider such unassailable classics of the slow leftfield as Stars of the Lids' The Tired Sounds Of ... and Windy & Carl's Consciousness and made me think: whoah there guys, these records are a bit ... sharp-edged, right? Take it easy. Let it breathe. That halcyon. Late Spring is bloody, bloody beautiful.

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NEWS: Chihei Hatakeyama announces a beautiful new ambient album for Gearbox; hear ‘Sound Of Air’

CHIHEI HATAKEYAMA is one of those sonic voyagers who have the muse whispering seemingly constantly. He’s one of those artists, like The Fall, Sun Ra, John Dwyer and the spiral…

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NEWS: Gearbox Records to release EP of Don Cherry rarities; hear ‘The Ambassador From Greenland’

LONDON’S Gearbox Recotds is carrying the torch and keeping the analogue fires burning from its own bespoke production facility in the capital, has unearthed some proper jazz treasure: a quartet…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Bastien Keb – ‘The Killing Of Eugene Peeps’: an essential novel of an album

The Killing Of Eugene Peeps is an album that hits the previously uncharted sweet spot between Americana, 60s’ European soundtracks and hiphop. It's clever, reflexive, intriguing, questioning. One of the records of the year. Buy.

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TRACK: jazz legend Charles Tolliver returns with ‘Blue Soul’

NOO YOIK jazz trumpet legend Charles Tolliver is poised to release his first studio material in more than decade at the end of this month. The Gearbox imprint will be…

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Track: Graham Costello STRATA – Lyra

Jazz collective Graham Costello STRATA are back with a new single Lyra, taken from their forthcoming Obelisk album. The quartet – composer / drummer Graham Costello, Fergus McCreadie on piano, Joe Williamson on…

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