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Track/Video: Esteemed NZ spiritual jazz collective The Circling Sun preview the refreshing ‘Kohan’ from their long-awaited debut album ‘Spirits’

Playing the long game, letting the sounds ferment, whatever way you look at it, New Zealand spiritual jazz collective The Circling Sun seem to prefer any long and winding road.…

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Track/Video: We Are Busy Bodies to re-issue more seventies Latin Jazz treasure, the self-titled sole release from big band progressives Elegua.

We Are Busy Bodies are on the case again, dipping into the firmament of Latin-jazz heritage. After the ultra-hip Virgilio Armas re-issues last year (check the Backseat Mafia review from…

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Album Review : Dele Sosimi and The Estuary 21 – ‘The Confluence’ : The afrobeat alumni returns to guide and groove.

Touchstone afrobeat musician Dele Sosimi teaming up with long standing indie songsmith Sam Duckworth (aka Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly) sounds like a longshot but that’s what’s happened. Sosimi’s new…

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Album Review: Schramm – Androide Scrip (Edition DUR 09)

ANDROID SCRIP is a jazz record – not mainstream, but plain and simple: piano, drums, bass. Point. Influenced by artists such as The Bad Plus, E.S.T., Thom Yorke, Bush to Muse,…

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Album Review: McNeal and Niles – ‘Thrust’/ Wilbur Niles and Thrust – ‘Thrust Too’ : Late seventies lo-fi funk gems re-discovered.

Super curators We Are Busy Bodies are at it again, digging up those buried sounds and the forgotten stories from music’s underground archive. Last year saw them spotlight Almon Memela’s…

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Live Review + Gallery: WOMADelaide Day 4 (Monday, 13th March, 2023)

Day 4, and after the previous three wonderful days, there was a sense of relief entering the final day, as the constant roving from stage to stage to get the…

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Track/Video: Electronic musician Colloboh introduces second EP ‘Saana Sahel’ with the gliding high of ‘Mystic You’.

Since joining the Leaving Records community in 2021 after a move from his Baltimore home, Collins Oboh (aka Colloboh) has become significant contributor to the ever fluid LA experimental scene.…

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Track/Video : Scrimshire previews the evocative ‘Unforgotten, Unforgiven’ from his powerful new album ‘Paroxysm’.

Label boss of the UK soul hot house Albert’s Favourites (and previously Wah Wah 45s), go to producer and creator of one of 2021’s year’s best nu-beat albums ‘Nothing Feels…

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Live Gallery: The Comet Is Coming / Joshua Idehen – Koko, London 16.03.2023

London based genre bending trio The Comet Is Coming, are currently on tour bringing their magical blend of jazz, electronica, funk and psychedelic rock to audiences around the world. Backseat Mafia was at the band’s…

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Track/Video : Jazz drummer Asher Gamedze announces definitive new album ‘Turbulence and Pulse’ with the profound, propulsive ‘Wynter Time’.

Now here is some serious news. When two pace setting labels, Johannesburg’s Mushroom Hour Half Hour and Chicago’s International Anthem combine their intent and purpose to put out a joint…

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