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City Swamp
By Jake Long
Label: New Soil
Released: 2024
Track listing: Ideological Rubble; Celestial Soup; Swamp; Silhouette.
Precipice
By Idris Rahman
Label: New Soil
Released: 2024
Track listing: Jellyfish; Don't Be Sad (It's Too Late); Vespa Crabro; Linus With The Sick Burn; And Then There Were Three; Katabatic; Black Lacquer; Kintsugi; Solenopsis; Alpenglow.
Cadair Idris
By Amy Clark
Label: New Soil
Released: 2024
Track listing: Euwn i mi; Idris; Unsettled; Rhyd; Ionawr; Cynefin; If I Fall; Zorny; Upon Leaving The Dream.
Chris May's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024
by Chris May
In case you missed the sad news, our dear friend and compatriot, Chris May, passed away in November (read our tribute). Below are the albums he considered extraordinary in 2024--a final testament to his discerning taste and love of sound. -mR Rob LuftDahab Days Edition Records
Ill Considered: Precipice
by Chris May
The British pianist John Tilbury believes that some free-improv musicians play for too long without pausing for literal or metaphorical breath and, to make matters worse, do not listen hard enough to their bandmates. How right he is. Tilbury has not named names, but many AAJers could surely suggest some. Tilbury recommends that improvising musicians should ...
Jake Long: City Swamp
by Chris May
Drummer, composer and producer Jake Long's house-rocking City Swamp is part of a trilogy of post-2022 albums out of jny:London's underground jazz scene which are connected by adjacent sources of inspiration, identical creative processes, and crossovers of personnel. Synchronicity and zeitgeist are writ large and, much of the time, in neon. The other two albums are ...
Awen Ensemble: Cadair Idris
by Chris May
Here in Britain, jazz and folk music intersections have a long history. Putting aside the US-centric fusions of the trad bands of the 1950s, as exemplified by the Chris Barber Band's blend of New Orleans jazz and Depression-era folksongs, the movement really kicked off in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Husband and wife team John ...
When The Dust Settles
Label: New Soil
Released: 2023
Track listing: For Aziz; Anka Tulon; A Prayer For Our Parents; Bé Mankan; Red Oil/Beyond Kingdom Come; When The Dust Settles; There’s Nothing Left For Us Here; Suley’s Ablution; Golo Kan; Seasons Of Baraka.
Balimaya Project: When The Dust Settles
by Chris May
Formed in 2019 by London-based drummer and percussionist Yahael Camara Onono, the sixteen-piece Balimaya Project blends traditional West African Mandé music with modal jazz and other sounds out of modern Black London. The ensemble's closest comparator, albeit at some remove, is the veteran Senegalese band Orchestra Baobab who, in the 1980s, were hugely popular at home ...
Liminal Space
Label: New Soil
Released: 2021
Track listing: First Light; Sandstorm; Loosed; Dust; Dervish; Pearls; LightTrails; Knuckles; The Lurch; Prayer.
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