Following “Warning”, the first single off his gorgeous, upcoming album, Tuxedomoon co-frontman Steven Brown now drops a music video for a song whose chorus resounds all the more ominously right now: Steven Brown’ album El Hombre Invisible, out on 15th of April 2022, a hypnotic song cycle with remarkable sparse, elegant arrangements, was recorded in Steven’s adopted hometown of Oaxaca, and mixed in Berlin
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Apr
[ April the 15th, 2022 release on Jazzland Recordings: Maridalen – Bortenfor ]
release date: 15.04.2022 on Jazzland Recordings
wholly dud-free Bortenfor excels in catalyzing beauty from relatively simple sources. ★ ★ ★ ★ MOJO
Comforting beauty is the consistent, satisfied aim. ★ ★ ★ JAZZWISE
Jazzland Recordings release MARIDALEN’s second album, Bortenfor on CD/DL on the 15th April 2022. The album includes the singles Portrommet and På Nye Eventyr
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Apr
[ New England Conservatory celebrates centennial of seminal American composer, bassist and bandleader Charles Mingus ]
Tuesday, April 19 and Thursday, April 21
The 100 years already passed from the great musician Charles Mingus birthday. Generations had been raised with his music enriching us , giving us a pleasure and inspiration. Not even yet to mention those musicians who continue with keeping his heritage alive. It is a wonderful anniversary well worth celebration and The NEC is right up to the task. Those who can attend it enjoy it please for all of us, The Mingus Music lovers around the Planet and who knows, maybe even The Universe ?
Performers include NEC faculty members Ran Blake, Jason Moran, Jason Palmer, Earl McIntyre, Ted Reichman, NEC Black Student Union Ensemble, The NEC Wind Ensemble, NEC Jazz Orchestra and students from the Jazz Department
01
Apr
[ April the 8th,2022 release on Newvelle Records : Andy Zimmerman with Dave Douglas, Kevin Hays and Matt Penman – Half Light ]
release date: 08.04.2022 via Newvelle Records
“Half Light is beautifully recorded and Zimmerman’s strikingly-original compositions deserve to be heard.” –All About Jazz
“I’m not being hyperbolic by stating that this is the type of LP I would play at trade shows, along with all my original Three Blind Mice LPs and UHQRs and other unicorns, to get people into the room and ask “What is this? It sounds terrific!” From just this record alone, it might be worth taking the dive into a subscription.” –Positive Feedback
“Peaceful and relaxing, this LP will impress and charm even the non-jazz aficionado. If you can afford it, get it; if you can’t afford it then I hope you can find a venue where you can at least hear it played. Highly recommended.” -Audiophilia
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Mar
[ April the 1st, 2022 release via Curling Legs: Svein Rikard Mathisen & John Derek Bishop – Calm Brutalism ]
release date: 01.04.2022 on Curling Legs Label
Nordic ambient music worth your full attention – MOJO ★ ★ ★ ★
A seductive ambient haze of rarefied beauty – PROG
…marking out a territory between Jon Hassel’s Fourth World music and Harold Budds haunting atmospheres… – ELECTRONIC SOUND
…fans of Aarset and Henriksen will definitely warm to the contemplative pulses and chilly washes on Bre. – JAZZWISE
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Mar
[ March the 25th, 2022 triple release on Ansible Editions presents High Alpine Hut Network, Adams, Dunn & Haas and The Brodie West Quintet ]
release date: 25.03.2022 on Ansible Editions
We have a great pleasure to introduce to you the New Canadian label Ansible Editions who trusted us to be a right place to introduce their first step into the open worldwide music industry . We are grateful for this credit of trust and honestly delighted by both the quality of the productions as well as overwhelming quality of the music itself. I wish I could come around debuts like that more and more often. Here are some basic information about the label itself as well as detailed introduction into three realizes mentioned in this chapter.
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Mar
[ March the 25th, 2022 release via Ubuntu Music:Harry Christelis & Pedro Velasco – Scribbling ]
release date: Fri 25th March 2022 (LP/ CD / DL) on Ubuntu Music
Scribbling features the explorative music of British & Portuguese guitar duo Harry Christelis & Pedro Velasco. Released on the influential Jazz and New Music label, Ubuntu, Scribbling is Christelis & Velasco’s debut release.
Created using only their guitars and pedalboard hardware, the eleven immersive tracks of thoughtprovoking compositions and improvisations on Scribbling range from melancholic tonal jazz ballads and exquisite folk melodies to distorted drones, sustained ambient textures, and dissonant bleeps. Scribbling suggests an introspective, deep, human blues alongside an imaginary response to the NASA Voyager’s Golden Record beamed back to Earth, from a land far, far away.
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Mar
[ 25th of March,2022 release on Rune Grammofon: Action & Tension & Space – Tellus ]
release date: 25.03.2022 on Rune Grammofon
The band describe themselves as a spaced out, instrumental lounge-rock outfit, with added elements of folk music, jazzy surf, psychedelia, free improvised chill-out, jangly post-rock and travelling bass. Not much for us to add here, apart from possibly a pinch of krautrock.
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Mar
[ 25th of March,2022 release on Rune Grammofon: Master Oogway with Henriette Eilertsen – Happy Village ]
release date: 25.03.2022 on Rune Grammofon
“Happy Village” is Master Oogway’s third album, their second on Rune Grammofon. The music on the previous outing two years ago (“Earth And Other Worlds”) was all written by Håvard, while the music on “Happy Village” is written by Karl Erik, one track co-written with Håvard.
“Happy Village” finds the band in a more lyrical and exuberant mood than before, in no small part due to Henriette’s beautiful contributions.
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Mar
[ March the 18th, 2022 self-release: Aaron Dolman,Sarah Rossy, Eugénie Jobin – Are You Here To Help? ]
This unique drums and voice trio consists of Aaron Dolman (drums, compositions) and singers Sarah Rossy, and Eugénie Jobin (aka Ambroise, who occasionally joins on vibraphone). Their music deftly oscillates between minimalist song and more abstract territory, and sometimes combines the two such as on their idiosyncratic treatment of Joni Mitchell’s “The Fiddle And The Drum.”