Because Death To Dynamics is offering a noise album, I recommend you lower the volume before listening. Once you’ve done so, let it rip, but notice that it’s not the normal bilge too many artists put out. There’s something… relaxing… about this work. Only one track is available to hear Continue Reading
Rudy Carrera
Blogger, label owner, record store buyer and all around charming lad who loves to share music with one and all.
Future Orients – Dream Like A Buffalo
Maybe Mars Records out of my new home city of Beijing (I have to meet these guys one day) put out an indie rock album in 2019 that sounds as good as anything the early Cure ever put out. Brilliant work by Future Orients, indeed!
Oradell – Oradell
It’s very rare that I will share a country album, but if the genre is ‘dark country’, I’m tempted to give it a listen. Oradell is a band out of New York who perform the aforementioned dark country music, and it’s a mellow, pensive listen. I’m happy to see the Continue Reading
Various Artists – The Congregation – Jazz Alliance International
Right Tempo Records is celebrating 30 years of existence, putting out some of the swankiest jazz imaginable, finely represented by the Easy Tempo and Tempo Jazz compilations, considered to be classics by connoisseurs of finer music. Imagine my shock to see that the label was finally releasing material on Bandcamp, Continue Reading
Jeff Gburek & Karolina Ossowska – One Moon, Many Shines
This is some of the best late-night listening I’ve heard in a long time. Neither Jeff Gburek nor Karolina Ossowska ever fail to please my ears, whether it be with a deep intellectual piece or compositions which teeter on the edge of being mournful, but this one deserves a special Continue Reading
Franco & O.K. Jazz – Franco Luambo Makiadi Presents Les Editions Populaires (1968-1970)
Franco was the pride of what was then (and would be again) the Democratic Republic of Congo, for a brief spell known as Zaire. He went from singing rumba and bolero tunes to developing a funk-influenced sound that lit up most of the African continent. From the Bandcamp site: “This Continue Reading
Congo Funk! The Making of Part 3 – Meeting Lola Checain’s family (Promo Video)
Exciting news from Analog Africa!
Takumi Moriya Black Nation – Takumi Moriya Black Nation
Takumi Moriya is a totally new name for me, but he is tearing up the dance floor with this title track that blends a soulful jazz with deep funk – perfect for any party.
Omar Rodriguez Lopez & Damo Suzuki – Please Heat This Eventually
No review today thanks to preparing for the new semester, but in honor of Damo Suzuki’s passing, we wanted to share an EP he did with former Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López. Please enjoy your Saturday!
Brotha Lok – True Lai : Flèches contre Balles
Brotha Lok is a French producer and DJ of Vietnamese extraction, and he has produced a wild album with no solid focus, but it listens are more of a travelog. Bits of hip-hop, ethnographic recordings, field recording, spoken interludes (including a bit of laughter here and there) are brought together Continue Reading