Coming back to say: god DAMN the Nala album is a knockout. Top 3 AOTY for me so far. My LP came in last week, and it’s been perfect for one of my favorite pastimes (having the windows open in the early Fall and smoking with my dog [she doesn’t smoke]).
Last few mornings I have done the triple header of Nala>SML>Rich Ruth to wake up and it's been perfect
New Ezra! In the UK, it's currently pissing it down, so perfect weather for an upbeat, summery jazz album...
great pair of collab albums dropped today, with Von Spar, Eiko Ishibashi, Joe Talia, Tatsuhisa Yamamoto. if you liked the Nala record, you'll probably like this
Album II reminds me of some of the head-trippy shit that comes out from Astral Industries in that it feels more like a journey to an imaginary place than a song
Listening to this blissed out French progressive jammer from the 70’s. Starts off feeling like it’s on an ECM/ambient-jazz type vibe but then veers into some interesting, trippy places you wouldn’t expect.
Excited to get to these later today. Wilkins isn’t on Bandcamp, and Sorey seems to be streaming exclusively on Apple Music.
Also posting in the ambient thread. Incredible nocturnal fourth-world, ECM-adjacent shit. Mesmerizing loops and ripples from front-to-back.
Picked up a bunch of shit from a vintage vinyl sale and got two Lonnie Liston Smith albums for cheap, thinking it was some different artist. Never listened to him before but just threw this one on and it's fucking great
I listened to Reflections of a Golden Dream last night and it was also lovely, though I think I liked Renaissance more on first impression. It seems I prefer his spiritual jazz side more than the funk (though some of those tracks are fun).
I thought he was Linton Kwesi Johnson who is a reggae/dub artist and a poet who merged the two art forms. Boundary-pushing stuff that doesn't even remotely sound like Lonnie, and their names aren't similar either (both start with L and have middle names I guess). I just wasn't paying attention lol.