I’m on a music kick this Saturday afternoon! Spent a lazy afternoon feeling uplifted since music has a way of creeping into my spirit like that. Started by tuning in to the sounds of one of my favourite radio selectors, Gilles Peterson (amazing show today, featuring Lonnie Liston Smith and plenty of spiritual jazz and [...]
Musician, DJ and all round smart cookie Sam Shepherd – aka Floating Points – entered the world of production in 2009 with a flurry of releases including Love Me Like This, J&W Beat and perhaps best of all, the Vacuum EP. These revealed a signature style that breezily combined deep house, soul, hip-hop and jazzy [...]
Been feeling this self-released debut EP for a little while now (thanks to the music head behind this site). The talented 22-year-old Mara Hruby has a voice as sultry and smooth as honey and unbelievably, she’s unsigned.. but probably not for much longer since she’s been gaining growing attention since bursting onto the scene in [...]
Alain Brémond and Olmo Cassibba are the London-based (?) duo behind MiAOW (not to be confused with the indie rock band of the same name). There are only a few tracks I found online, but so far what I’ve heard, I think it’s pretty good! Very deep, very electronic and very jazzy with sax flourishings [...]
Buddy Sativa is a producer from Paris, France who is currently on tour in North America, supporting Onra on the keys. Although he plays more of a backseat role during the tour, he’s got his own musical projects and I was just checking some of it out as I was transcribing an interview I recently [...]
Brand spankin’ new Maylee Todd video is out for “Aerobics In Space,” directed by J. Lee Williams (1188 Films). And yeah, of course it’s just as weird as everything else she ever puts to video… so that means it’s best enjoyed while smoking something really potent.. or not. Plus, Elvis breakdancing? Yes, guy! (Just watch [...]
Choose Your Own Adventure is the name of the album just released this past June on the Do Right! Music imprint by quirky Toronto artist, Maylee Todd. Stream the songs and pick up the album via her website, or check her out live (and free!) in Toronto on August 21st at Harbourfront or September 29th [...]
Based in New York City (by way of Chile), Nicolas Jaar first started making music at the age of 14 and had his first official releases out on Brooklyn label Wolf + Lamb at the tender age of 17. Now, still only 20, and with a handful of releases under his belt, the young producer [...]
Late last summer, I wrote about the connection between taiko (a form of Japanese drumming) and jazz, and vaguely alluded to the history of taiko in North America and how it was connected to political movements brewing in North America at the time. I’m in the midst of applying for an arts grant right now [...]
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