Jazz

Makaya McCraven - In These Times

Released 23rd September 2022. 'In These Times’ is a collection of polytemporal compositions inspi...

Released 23rd September 2022. 'In These Times’ is a collection of polytemporal compositions inspired as much by broader cultural struggles as Makaya McCraven’s personal experience as a product of a multinational, working class musician community. With contributions from over a dozen musicians and creative partners from his tight-knit circle of collaborators - including Jeff Parker, Junius Paul, Brandee Younger, Joel Ross, and Marquis Hill -the music was recorded in five different studios and ...

Ezra Collective - Where I'm Meant To Be

Released 4th November 2022. We've got a handful of 12"x12" prints signed by the band to give away...

Released 4th November 2022. We've got a handful of 12"x12" prints signed by the band to give away with pre-orders of the album. Ezra Collective’s new era, a venture in discovered maturity and raised stakes, will be defined by the anticipated second album.   'Where I’m Meant To Be' is a thumping celebration of life, an affirming elevation in the Ezra Collective’s winding hybrid sound and refined collective character.  The songs marry cool confidence with bright energy.  Full of call-and-respon...

Revelators Sound System (MC Taylor and Cameron ...

Released 29th July 2022. Revelators Sound System is the collaborative musical project of MC Taylo...

Released 29th July 2022. Revelators Sound System is the collaborative musical project of MC Taylor (Hiss Golden Messenger) and Cameron Ralston. Recorded throughout 2020 and 2021, largely at Taylor’s home in Durham, NC and Richmond, Virginia's Spacebomb studio, where Ralston serves as the house bassist, the album is a deep meditation on community that caroms from root-down avant-funk and spiritual groove to solitary cosmic minimalism and twinkling dubby ambience. Importantly, ‘Revelators’ is a...

Sarathy Korwar - KALAK

Released 11th November 2022. Sarathy Korwar returns with new album KALAK. The follow up to the po...

Released 11th November 2022. Sarathy Korwar returns with new album KALAK. The follow up to the politically charged, award-winning More Arriving is an Indo-futurist manifesto - in rhythmic step with the past and the present, it sets out to describe a route forward. It celebrates a rich South Asian culture of music and literature, which resonates with spirituality and community, while envisaging a better future from those building blocks.  Recorded at Real World studios with meticulous producti...

Surprise Chef - Education & Recreation

Released 14th October 2022 Surprise Chef’s music is based on evoking mood; their vivid arrangemen...

Released 14th October 2022 Surprise Chef’s music is based on evoking mood; their vivid arrangements utilize time and space to build soundscapes that invite the listener into their world. The quintet’s distinct sound pulls from 70s film scores, the funkier side of jazz, and the samples that form the foundation of hip hop. They push the boundaries of instrumental soul and funk with their own approach honed by countless hours in the studio, studying the masters, and perhaps most importantly, the...

Various Artists - Here It Is: A Tribute To Leon...

Expected Release 14th October 2022. Vinyl released 4th November. 4-time GRAMMY-winning producer L...

Expected Release 14th October 2022. Vinyl released 4th November. 4-time GRAMMY-winning producer Larry Klein, who produced Herbie Hancock’s GRAMMY Album of the Year winning release River: The Joni Letters, has assembled another extraordinary star-studded project with Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen. This heartfelt tribute to Klein’s dear friend, the legendary singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, presents stunning renditions of his profound songs by an impressive and eclectic line-up of gues...

Auntie Flo & Sarathy Korwar - Shruti Dances

Release 17th June 2022. Propulsive tabla percussion and meditative drones collide in deep instrum...

Release 17th June 2022. Propulsive tabla percussion and meditative drones collide in deep instrumental conversation on Shruti Dances, the debut collaborative album between UK heavyweights Auntie Flo and Sarathy Korwar, forthcoming on the newly relaunched, Make Music imprint.Across six exchanges of dynamic electronic production and richly layered Indian classical percussion, Shruti Dances discovers two architects of rhythm and movement on an explorative journey through South Asian tonality and...

Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride,...

Released 9th September 2022. ‘Musicians with a scary level of talent playing into the moment…  Th...

Released 9th September 2022. ‘Musicians with a scary level of talent playing into the moment…  The blend of outside influences into a consensual jazz language, the polyrhythmic play, the scholarly bravado: All those things felt fresh for these musicians in the 1990s...  There’s something undeniable – consoling, even – about hearing them remain true to it today.’ – New York Times The members of the legendary original 1990s Joshua Redman Quartet – Redman (saxophone), Brad Mehldau (piano), Chris...