| RD: 2022-07-29 | | RONJA MALTZAHN | | Heimweh | | Fileunder: Singer-Songwriter / Pop / Liedermacher |  | Third album of the exceptional artist, singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter RONJA MALTZAHN. "Heimweh" is a return to her native language roots with a special focus on lyrics and poetry.
RONJA MALTZAHN plays cello, guitar, ukulele, piano and loves to tell stories about being on the road, ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2022-07-01 | | LUDIVINE ISSAMBOURG | | Supernova | | Fileunder: Jazz / HipHop / Nu-Jazz |  | | Born in 1983 in Bayeux, Normandy, Ludivine Issambourg discovered the flute at the age of six. Thanks to a rigorous apprenticeship, at fourteen she recorded three LP´s with a Big Band amateur. After a double classical and jazz course at the Conservatory of Caen and Cergy-Pontoise, she joined l´Orches ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2022-06-17 | | DJANGO 3000 | | AliBabo | | Fileunder: Folk-Rock / Balkan-Beat / Bayerisch |  | | The Bavarian folk rock band DJANGO 3000 has been shaking the world´s stages for ten years and is now releasing their new album "AliBabo". With the song "Heidi", which is the title tune of the ZDF series "Garmisch Cops", they made their breakthrough and became known far beyond the country´s borders. ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2022-06-10 | | L´ENTOURLOOP | | La Clarté Dans La Confusion | | Fileunder: Reggae / Hip Hop / Dancehall / Ragga |  | Unstoppable elders of the L´Entourloop collective, King James and Sir Johnny are proud to present their long-awaited third and new album “La clarté dans la confusion” ("Clarity in Confusion").
Produced in their now legendary Bandulu Studio, the 20 tracks of this new album ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2022-05-20 | | ANNE PACEO | | S.H.A.M.A.N.E.S | | Fileunder: Jazz / Folk / Singer-Songwriter |  | | In 2020, for the Jazz sous les Pommiers festival, where Anne Paceo was by now an associate artist, she was asked to work on a new composition. After Fables of Shwedagon (2017) and Bright Shadows (2018), in September 2020, S.H.A.M.A.N.E.S was born over a weekend under the shade of the apple trees. It ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2022-05-27 | | THIERRY MAILLARD ENSEMBLE | | Cameleon | | Fileunder: Jazz / Oper / Orchester |  | |
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| RD: 2022-04-22 | | DOPE SAINT JUDE | | Higher Self | | Fileunder: HipHop / Trap / RnB |  | | Dope Saint Jude (Catherine Saint Jude Pretorius) is a South African, Cape Town born and raised artist, Her first release was Hit Politik in 2015, followed by Golden Ratio soon after. In 2016, Saint Jude released her first self produced EP, Reimagine , to Soundcloud. Okay Africa’s Sabelo Mkhabe ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2022-05-13 | | BOBBY SPARKS II | | Paranoia | | Fileunder: Funk / Soul / Fusion |  | | Keyboardist-composer-arranger-conceptualist Bobby Sparks continues his staggering output with Paranoia, a companion piece to 2019’s Schizophrenia — The Yang Projecton Leopard Records. An all-star outing featuring contributions from guitarists Mike Stern, John Scofield, Dean Brown, Andy T ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2022-04-14 | | SIMON OSLENDER | | Peace Of Mind | | Fileunder: Fusion / Jazz / Piano |  | | A rising star on the European jazz scene, German keyboardist-composer Simon Oslender plays with a maturity that belies his young age. After his auspicious debut on Leopard Records, 2020’s About Time, the 24-year old wunderkind reveals more of himself on his sophomore release for the label, Pea ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2022-05-06 | | DANIEL ERDMANN & CHRISTOPHE MARGUET | | Pronto! | | Fileunder: Jazz |  | | Pronto! brings us a quartet of four major personalities from the European jazz scene. All four of them are musicians who love to work with written compositions, melodies, atmospheres but also create new imaginations using their own improvisations, exploring them and then transforming them into the p ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2022-04-29 | | NIKOLA BANKOV & RANDY BRECKER | | Dream Chaser | | Fileunder: Jazz / Rock / Fusion |  | Two years after releasing his debut album, saxophonist Nikola Bankov is back with his upcoming
album "Dream Chaser".
Nikola Bankov is a 23-year old award-winning alto saxophonist and composer who is truly
pushing the boundaries of his instrument. Nikola is the winner of the prestigious Danish Mus ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2022-04-22 | | DAVID ENHCO | | Family Tree | | Fileunder: Jazz / Klassik / Trompete |  | | Classical music and jazz have both reached their highest peaks through a perfect formation: the quartet. String quartet for one, quartet with trumpet (or saxophone), piano, double bass and drums for the other. Daring to bring these two poles together is David Enhco´s bet with his new creation Family ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2022-04-14 | | DAVID KRAKAUER | | Mazel Tov Cocktail Party | | Fileunder: Jazz / Klezmer |  | | Label Bleu and Table Pounding Records is thrilled to announce the release of clarinetist, composer and bandleader David Krakauer’s first album under his own name in eight years: Mazel Tov Cocktail Party. Always searching to expand his aesthetic boundaries and find new sounds, Krakauer has team ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2022-03-18 | | HELGE SCHNEIDER | | Live In Luxmbourg | | Fileunder: Jazz / Pop / Helge Schneider |  | | After the studio album "Die Reaction - The Last Jazz Vol. II", which was highly acclaimed by the press and placed at number one of the German jazz charts and placed in the top 10 of the German album charts, the exceptional artist HELGE SCHNEIDER presents "Live In Luxmbourg", A first-class live reco ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2022-04-22 | | ANA CARLA MAZA | | Bahia | | Fileunder: Jazz / Latin / Chanson |  | |
| | RD: 2022-04-08 | | NATHAN FRANCIS | | Diamond Back | | Fileunder: Jazz |  | | Diamondback is Nathan Francis´ sophomore album and the first to feature his own original compositions. This project brings together some of the biggest names in Finnish Jazz music and demonstrates Francis´ prowess as both a bassist and composer. "The album was really created continuou ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2022-03-18 | | HENRI TEXIER | | Heteroklite Lockdown | | Fileunder: Jazz |  | | The question could be: "How to stop being (by) yourself ?"Indeed, if this new record "Heteroklite Lockdown" was granted such an explicit yet contradictory title by Henri Texier, it is because there is no doubt to him that the music it is made of would never have existed as such without the lockdown ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2022-04-01 | | LA BRIGIDA ORQUESTA | | Antipoda | | Fileunder: Hip Hop / Rap / Jazz |  | | The Chilean eleven piece band La Brígida Orquesta released their first album in 2017 and have since then taken the audience in Chile by storm with there own unqiue mix of Jazz and Hip Hop with powerful lyrics. The band is led by pianist and composer Gabo Paillao (Ana Tijoux, Portavoz) a ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2022-03-11 | | ST. PAUL PETERSON | | Break On Free | | Fileunder: Funk |  | Multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and producer Paul Peterson, a former keyboardist of The Time, leader of The Family and fDeluxe and protege of Prince, serves up a greasy slice of The Minneapolis Sound on Break on Free, his fifth album as a leader and debut for Leopard Records.
An eclectic c ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2022-03-25 | | GREGORY PRIVAT | | Yonn | | Fileunder: Jazz / Klassik / Soul / Piano |  | | After 5 albums under his own name, Gregory Privat presents his next album entitled "Yonn", which means the number "One" in Creole. Indeed, it is the first time that the pianist from Martinique will offer a "piano solo" album. For this recording of 11 tracks recorded entirely in Cologne, Gregory ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2022-03-18 | | RONNI LE TEKRO | | Bigfoot TV | | Fileunder: Rock / Hardrock / TNT |  | ‘Bigfoot TV’ is Ronni Le Tekrø’s first solo album in six years, and old and new fans are in for
a treat. Together with his tight band, ‘Bigfoot TV’ sounds inspired and vibrant, Ronnis brilliant
guitar is a red thread through the album and you’ll find refe ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2022-03-11 | | LAURENT BARDAINNE & TIGRE D´EAU DOUCE | | Hymne Au Soleil | | Fileunder: Jazz / Soul |  | French saxophonist Laurent Bardainne summons the spirit of astral jazz on heavy-grooving new album, Hymne au Soleil.
A dreamlike, cinematic excursion to the outer reaches of the solar system and the inner workings of the soul, Laurent Bardainne returns to Heavenly Sweetness with his Tigre d&r ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2022-02-11 | | ALMA NAIDU | | Alma | | Fileunder: Singer-Songwriter / Jazz |  | A unique talent with a remarkable voice: Germany´s Jazzthing magazine praised her "delicate, wonderfully clear voice with absolutely perfect intonation".
The Munich-based singer, composer and lyricist Alma Naidu is an artist such as one rarely finds.
Renowned drummer an ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2022-02-25 | | KATERINA GÖTTLICHOVA | | Zimnice | | Fileunder: Folk / Gypsy / BraAgas |  | | Singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Katerina Göttlichova is releasing a new album Zimnice (i.e. Chills). The versatile musician Jan Balcar, jazz double bassist Petr Tichy and keyboardist David Göttlich are guests on the debut album by the co-founder of BraAgas, who were awarded ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2022-02-25 | | MUDDY GURDY | | Homecoming | | Fileunder: Blues / World / Rock |  | | A blues singer-guitarist, a percussionist specializing in Latin rhythms, a hurdy-gurdy player expert in traditional music from central France. At first sight, these three should never have met. And they met, necessarily at the crossroads of different roads, and more precisely on the c ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2022-02-18 | | CUMBIA CHICHARRA | | El Grito | | Fileunder: World / Cumbia / Latin |  | A vocal chord vibrates, the body resonates,and the scream is released, shakingeverything in its path.
"El Grito" (the scream), Cumbia Chicharra´s4th album, came like this, from the bottomof the heart and at full strength. Like anorgasm, a deliverance, a collective tranceor a clamor of resistance... ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2022-02-04 | | OMAR PENE | | Climat | | Fileunder: World Africa / Afrobeat / Senegal |  | | Eight years after the release of “Ada”, Omar Pene returns with a surprising album, produced between Dakar and Paris by the guitarist Herve? Samb. The singer’s soothing voice speaks to the world because it is only together that we can give meaning and use to what is shared.A discour ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2022-02-04 | | BIANCA STÜCKER | | De Alchemia | | Fileunder: Dark Folk / Dark Pop / Medieval Music |  | Dark and sparkling, seemingly ages old and yet brand new: With De Alchemia, Bianca Stücker has
woven a magical web, and once caught, listeners will find themselves transported to a time that
never existed.
With great dedication to historical detail, the singer and multi-instrumentalist has conv ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2022-01-07 | | HIGH TONE & ZENZILE | | Zentone Chapter 2 | | Fileunder: Dub / Reggae / Electronic |  | Fifteen years later, Zenzile and High Tone are finally back for the highly anticipated Zentone Chapter 2! The two most legendary dub groups from France are taking up the challenge a second time and offering us a new album scheduled for November 12, co-produced by Jarring Effects and Black Dub.
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| | RD: 2022-01-21 | | PIERRE VERVLOESEM GROUP | | 30 Years of Success | | Fileunder: Jazz / Experimental / Progressive Rock |  | It’s fairly safe to assume that the Order of Leopold II
medal displayed on the album cover of the Pierre
Vervloesem Group’s January 2022 release 30 Years of
Success is intended to make an ironic statement. After
30 years creating a massive discography of audaciously
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| RD: 2021-12-17 | | MLB TRIO | | Birka | | Fileunder: Jazz / Kammer-Jazz |  | | Record an album in trio with a piano, a guitar and a trumpet, no jazzman had dreamed neither of doing it nor using this very particular instrumental formula! The pianist and composer Thierry Maillard had this bright idea and dared this singular and risky musical adventure. Basically, the first ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2021-12-17 | | BRUNO ANGELINI | | Transatlantic Roots | | Fileunder: Jazz / Electronica |  |
Bruno Angelini is an atypical pianist, endowed with a very personal universe as a composer and musician. Rooted in the culture of jazz and contemporary music, he is an inventive pianist, constantly seeking to push the sonic boundaries of his instrument. He was born in 1965 in Marseille. After study ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2021-12-17 | | SIMONE PRATTICO | | Oriundo | | Fileunder: Jazz |  | | After the release of « Brooklyn Sessions » in 2016, he returns with a new project called “Oriundo” for October 2021. “Oriundo” (meaning a person whose parents were immigrants) promises energic jazz, mainly focused on the complex and delicate rhythms of the drums. ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2021-12-17 | | UMLAUT BIG BAND | | Umlaut Big Band Plays Mary Lou Williams | | Fileunder: Jazz / Big Band / Swing |  | Since 2011, the Umlaut Big Band has made a specialty of going back to the early decades of jazz to revive the music of the great bands of that era, while commissioning contemporary composers to write new works.
After working on Don Redman in 2018, the Umlaut Big Band continues its series of portrait ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2021-12-10 | | PAUL LAY | | Full Solo | | Fileunder: Jazz / Klassik / Piano |  | Paul Lay is a Marvel superhero of the piano, a champion of the piano keys who can make them do whatever he wants.
He belongs to this generation of musical phenomenons who grew up with one foot in classical music, the other in jazz, and understands the soul of both traditions. The former is many cent ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2021-12-03 | | OUZO BAZOOKA | | Dalya | | Fileunder: Garage-Indierock / Psychedelic-Rock |  | | The undisputed champions of Middle Eastern psych rock return with Dalya, their epic fifth studio album.Suspiciously smelling like a mix of prohibited substances and powerful homebrewed potions, Dalya manages to effortlessly be a lot of things that, in a similar universe, contradict each other: it is ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2021-11-12 | | ANDREA MOTIS & WDR BIG BAND | | Colors & Shadows | | Fileunder: Jazz / Latin Jazz / Big Band Jazz |  | | It´s hard to believe: in her mid-20s, Andrea Motis is already a jazz superstar inSpain and far beyond. In 2011, Quincy Jones became enthusiastic about the young lady on trumpet and vocals. Andrea´s mentor was bassist, tenor saxophonist and celebrated pedagogue Joan Chamorro, the head of the Ca ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2021-11-12 | | LES YEUX D´LA TETE | | Bonne Nouvelle | | Fileunder: Sinti-Swing / Balkanbeats / Folk / Rock |  | Lulled by songs, fed with rock and world music, these Parisians adept at swing, dancefloor and song have more than 800 concerts and 12 countries
to their credit. Founded in 2008, LES YEUX DLA TETE unleash the stages by delivering a music finely energetic and madly soft, festive but subtle, vintage
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| RD: 2021-11-26 | | ADMIRAL FALLOW | | The Idea Of You | | Fileunder: Indie / Singer-Songwriter / Folk |  | Admiral Fallow are thrilled to announce the forthcoming release of their new album The Idea Of
You, their first in six years, on Chemikal Underground. The second single to be taken from the
album, Dragonfly, following on from first single Sleepwalking in June, is out now available on all
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| | RD: 2021-11-12 | | BONBON VODOU | | Cimetiere Creole | | Fileunder: Chanson / Folk / World Music |  | The new signature Heavenly Sweetness !
The new album of Bonbon Vodou (Oriane Lacaille & Jeremie Boucris)
produced by Piers Facini & Jean Lamont (Noir Désir, Bashung, Salif Keita...)
Recorded between France and the volcanic island, beaten by the air of the
Indian Ocean, the album, in t ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2021-11-19 | | FIXI & NICOLAS GIRAUD | | Tempo Tempo! - A Tony Allen Celebration | | Fileunder: Jazz / Soul / World / Hip-Hop |  | "Tempo Tempo! " That’s what the legendary Tony Allen, a true conductor behind his drums, told the young Fixi and Nicolas Giraud nearly 25 years ago, inviting them to follow him in his singular rhythm...
Fixi & Nicolas Giraud started with Tony.Then they followed their path without ever leav ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2021-10-22 | | BRNS | | Celluloid Swamp | | Fileunder: Indie-Rock / Electro-Pop |  | | BRNS’ fourth album, Celluloid Swamp, is a mutant chamber pop album with a smorgasbord of references spliced into sound only just recognisable as a guitar band. The four-piece sound like a band that is more overtly settled as outsiders in a mainstream space. BRNS is more boldly aligned to the n ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2021-11-05 | | MARTIN WINSOR & JEANNIE STEEL | | Troubadours | | Fileunder: British Folk |  | It is a project from the heart of JOHN CREMER, owner of RAILROAD TRACKS STUDIOS in Cologne and renowned audio mastering engineer, who is now releasing "Troubadours" by MARTIN WINSOR and JEANNIE STEEL on his RAILROAD TRACKS label. This album is a collection of live and studio recordings from 1972.
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| | RD: 2021-10-01 | | PENDEJO | | Toma | | Fileunder: Hard Rock / Heavy Metal / Stoner |  | Heavy brass, brutal riffage, pounding drums, cojones, and Spanish
urban lyrics that make you wonder "did they just say that?". Yes they
did. They go by the name of ¡PENDEJO!
“Taste it and you won’t be sorry.” (Metal Hammer)
¡PENDEJO! is a heavy rock band from the Nether ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2021-09-10 | | THE NEXT MOVEMENT | | The Next Movement | | Fileunder: Funk / Soul / Jazz |  | | A first listen might suggest: this is a new production emerging from the legendary funk scene of Minneapolis. Wrong by far! Three Swiss musicians are boosting Funk to new heights on the new album THE NEXT MOVEMENT (LEOPARD Records). J.J. Flueck, Pascal "P" Kaeser and Sam Siegenthaler form the explos ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2021-07-16 | | HELGE SCHNEIDER | | Die Reaktion - The Last Jazz Vol. II | | Fileunder: Jazz / Blues / Avantgarde / Klassik |  | HELGE SCHNEIDER is undoubtedly one of the most versatile artists in this country. The
exceptional musician releases 34 years after the debut "The Last Jazz" his new (jazz) album,
which also makes use of swing, blues, bebop and classical music and brings this very special
HELGE SCHNEIDER style. Relea ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2021-10-01 | | THE BLUE BUTTER POT | | Jewels & Glory | | Fileunder: Blues-Rock / Garage |  | | Don´t be fooled by the “Blue” of their name. These possessed musicians don´t just play the devil´s music, even if we find it in spirit on many of their songs. To the question of common influences, Ray and Oliv quote Led Zeppelin. The battered image of that old fellow Seasick Steve also h ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2021-09-17 | | BALAPHONICS | | Spicy Boom Boom | | Fileunder: Afrobeat / Jazz |  | The afro brass band from Paris (France) will celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2021 with the release of a second album placed under the sign of artistic encounter.
Since 2016 and the release of the album “AfroMassivSoundSystem” (FIP selection and Citizen Jazz favorite), the 9 musicians h ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2021-09-03 | | YAN WAGNER | | Couleur Chaos | | Fileunder: Synth-Pop / Dark Wave / Electro |  | With Couleur Chaos, Yan Wagner is in tune with his life and desires. After successive mournings –
including his mother, whom he calls out to with the joyful politeness of despair (“Des cieux plus
cléments” with a Daho-esque chorus) – and a move to Marseille, he’s ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2021-06-04 | | PHILIP LASSITER | | Live In Love | | Fileunder: Jazz / Soul / Funk |  | | With Live in Love, trumpeter-composer-arranger Philip Lassiter mixes socio-political messaging (“Make America Love Again”) with humorous, earthy storytelling (“Poof,” “Suga Coat Me,” “Root Chakra”) and some forays into old school funk (the James Brown- ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2021-08-27 | | BRAIN DAMAGE MEETS BIG YOUTH | | Beyond The Blue | | Fileunder: Reggae / Toasting / Jazz |  | ... a story in History
… or how to condense in a sound bite, the incredible and terrible journey, experienced by Martin Nathan and his longtime friend Samuel Clayton Jr, both gone to Jamaica in March 2020, for a collaboration with the legendary Big Youth. The context of a first and unpreceden ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2021-07-30 | | ANTOINE BOYER & YEORE KIM | | Tangram | | Fileunder: Jazz / Gypsy |  | Since 2011, the Umlaut Big Band has made a specialty of going back to the early decades of jazz to revive the music of the great bands of that era, while commissioning contemporary composers to write new works.
After working on Don Redman in 2018, the Umlaut Big Band continues its series of portrait ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2021-07-30 | | RAY LEMA & LAURENT DE WILDE | | Wheels | | Fileunder: Piano-Jazz |  | After four years on the road as a duo and thrilled by the complicity that has grown between them along the concerts and their numerous discussions, Ray Lema and Laurent de Wilde decided to head back to the studio and record a new repertoire.
They knew that to in order to make music dance, one has to ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2021-07-16 | | PHILIPPE MOURATOGLOU | | Ricercare | | Fileunder: Jazz / E-Musik / Folk / Chamber Music |  | | 3 years after Universe-Solitude, unanimously acclaimed by the critics, Philippe Mouratoglou´s superb trio offers us an eagerly awaited new opus. The record, carefully prepared and meticulously recorded at Studios La Buissonne offers a new repertoire of original compositions, nourished by influences ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2021-06-11 | | KADY DIARRA | | Burkina Hakili | | Fileunder: World / Soul / Burkina Faso |  | The great KadyDiarra comes back with her family to burn the boards with a 3rd incandescent album! In a shared celebration spirit, she offers us a compendium of humanity(ies) that plunges its roots in the heart of West Africa, between multiple cultures and globalised humanism.
Sweet trance concerts i ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2021-05-28 | | PAT KALLA & LE SUPER MOJO | | Hymne A La Vie | | Fileunder: Afrobeat / Afro Funk |  | “Pat Kalla & Le Super Mojo propel us into a whirlwind métisse of African
groove and Caribbean funk, Afro-disco, Afrobeat, Makossa ... (Their music)
dances with the musicality of political poetry, all expressed through a
storyteller´s Creole." (Fip)
Hymne à la Vie Pat Kalla´s ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2021-06-04 | | LA CAFETERA ROJA | | Mozaik | | Fileunder: HipHop / Latin / R&B / Soul / World |  | Founded in Barcelona, in 2008, La CafeteraRoja is multigenerational, multilinguistic, mixed and self-taught Band. An European group playin´ self-made music that sounds like a mix between all kinds of genres such as Hip-hop, Pop and Rock.
AuréliaCampione (vocals/guitar), Anton Dirnberger (MC/k ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2021-03-26 | | ARCHIE SHEPP & JASON MORAN | | Let My People Go | | Fileunder: Jazz / Piano |  | Archie Shepp, Jason Moran: there are encounters that reveal a thread in the history of music. Resonances that until now have been almost imperceptible and that can suddenly be heard clearly.
Words, sounds, speech, men, memory, thoughts, fears and emotions—time—all related…all made ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2021-05-14 | | MICHEL PORTAL | | MP85 | | Fileunder: Jazz / Klarinette |  |
This record was made in very peculiar conditions, after two long months of lockdown. With the members of my new quintet, we met up in the Label Bleu studios, eager to play music but with mixed feelings of joy, fear of the virus and unvoluntary distrust of the other one suddenly thrown back to ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2021-02-19 | | FRED HERSCH | | Songs From Home | | Fileunder: Jazz / Piano / Impro. |  | Pianist/Composer Fred Hersch celebrates his 65th birthday in quarantine with a brilliant new solo album recorded in his Pennsylvania home
On ‘Songs from Home,’ due out November 6 via Palmetto Records, Hersch explores nostalgic pop songs, heartfelt originals and resonant jazz classic ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2021-05-21 | | EDWARD PERRAUD | | Hors-Temps | | Fileunder: Jazz / Piano |  | Before I started this opus, here is how, in my own words, I pictured the music I wanted to create:
"To compose a music that would be extra sensitive, beyond sensual, a music of eternal love, infinite, a love one can feel at the heart of nature and human art, without necessarily understanding where ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2021-05-28 | | AWORI & TWANI | | Ranavalona | | Fileunder: R&B / World / Breakbeat |  | Awori
Awori was born in and grew in Kampala, Uganda. As a young girl, she witnesses the love her grandfather bears for music. Multi-instrumentalist with a strong penchant for the piano, she also starts her musical practice. Soon, she finds herself on stage singing religious songs (the only ones allo ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2021-04-30 | | ADRIAN CROWLEY | | The Watchful Eye Of The Stars | | Fileunder: Indie / Singer / Songwriter |  | | One stormy night in Ireland, Adrian Crowley’s brother brought home a wounded crow. After taking care of it for a time, the crow flew away on its own, leaving an impression behind: Crowley wrote a story, which would later become the aptly titled “Crow Song” on this, his brand ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2021-04-16 | | LES MAMANS DU CONGO & RROBIN | | Les Mamans Du Congo & Rrobin | | Fileunder: Hip Hop / Electronic |  | Sing to emancipate the African woman. A unique encounter between the Bantu lullabies of the Congo, electronic music and hip-hop. A hybrid project which gives pride of place to dance and which highlights the daily life of Congolese women in a daring way and above all connected with the times.
Gladys ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2021-04-16 | | MARKUS & SHAHZAD | | Janna Aana | | Fileunder: Psychedelia / Funk / Disco |  | The French trio met Pakistani singer and musician ShahzadSantoo Khan by chance on social media around 3 years ago. A few trips between France and Pakistan sealed their collaboration and gave another dimension to their Qawwali and Breakbeat fusion.
Their musical signature is very unique and not easy ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2021-03-19 | | MARQUIS | | Aurora | | Fileunder: Indie-Rock / Post Punk |  | | Marquis de Sade are international punk rock icons. Rising from the anarchic French underground music scene of the late-1970s, the band became beloved amongst critics and fans alike in the United States at the dawn of the 1980s for its incendiary live performances and two groundbreaking albums, befor ... | | more information |
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