Pharma, the duo of Sam Katz & Milo McBride, are the latest bright lights to emerge from a resurgent NYC jazz scene. Like fellow Five Boroughs crew Onyx Collective the Grand St. EP takes jazz more as a guiding principle than a definitive style, indeed, if you had to pigeonhole the sounds here, you’d say that Pharma operate more in a sort of lo-fi hip-hop/neo-soul space.
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TweetElectronic musician and DJ Christ Menist arrives on Shapes of Rhythm with his second full-length LP as Awkward Corners. Dislocation Songs was conceived at a time of unmitigated uncertainty in Menist’s native UK, when an entire country could seem to agree on anything.
TweetElectric Mamba is forged of the strong, complementary alloy of its constituent musicians – and their shared passion for that flavoursome seventies African sound. The convergence of their musical tastes results in a cinematic repertoire – from frenetic rhythms to electric trances and spellbinding melodies.
Tweet“So We Won’t Forget” the new song by Khruangbin off ‘Mordechai’ out June 26th on Dead Oceans.
TweetThe album’s artwork was shot in Iceland by Joel Kazuo Knoernschild and is taken from a series of aerial films shot by drone above the country’s breathtaking coastline, which also make up the video for ‘Inspirit’.
Inspirit is from the album ‘Healing Is A Miracle’, released 10 July on Ninja Tune.
Arca drops the first single from Kick I, “Time”, with a new video taken from her September 2019 Mutant;Faith performance cycle at New York’s Hudson Yards venue the Shed.
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