Grammy Award-winner Mojo Morgan cuts through the noise with substance and style this month – Jamaica Love is a bold and brilliant new album, loaded with quirky riffs, colourful grooves, and provocative, intentional sentiments.
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For fans of spiritual or etheric music, SilentButSpiritual delivers a masterful fusion of mantra-like vocals and meditative music, with cinematic textures and details building up towards a modest bass and beat combination that’s profoundly hypnotic.
Divinely delicate harmonies and echoing layers of voice surround you, as Liberian artist and songwriter El Drez blends genuine emotional creativity with ambient, soulful production.
Raise the tempo, ignite the colourful production and energy, weave in a depth of voice nearly whispered yet bold – not to mention a modest character dynamic that holds attention throughout. Enter VH x CS, for the intoxicating world-music and rap anthem SPINDEL.
Euphoric house music with a divine melodic core – immersive rhythms and purposeful, contemplative moods. Producer Glionna and Cafe De Anatolia build up a distinctly evocative sound, with tracks like the bold and soulful Silk Road. Consider first the intricate detail and precision of the mix – a classic piano groove and relentless drum line … Continued
The track starts off as beautiful, catchy and alluring, but then proceeds through a whole new realm of intoxicating escapism, and that attention to detail, that audience awareness, and GR1FN’s own clear willingness to surrender and submit to the music and the creative process entirely, is what consistently sets his work apart.
Blending world music tones amidst both electronic and organic musicianship, The Baal Shem Tov Nigun is another highlight from the extensive Ari Fraser catalogue, and holds true to a catchy and inclusive groove, loaded with vocal harmonies and a vast sense of calm and contemplation that naturally lights up the space.
Bronx-born artist and songwriter NEGRO STACKS delivers a seamless fusion of Latin, Salsa, RnB, Pop and Hip Hop, with the addictive world music grooves and vocal fluidity of HIERBA VERDA.
Nostalgic RnB traits with a contemporary world-music groove and rhythmically shifting vocals – Maria Rosa delivers an instantly catchy performance and style, for the infectious new single Glow.
Inspired by the allure and adventure of the Wild West, unique creative project El Mystery Kren recently launched their iconic new album of originals The Last Train To Durango.
Nyc Flo brings together the classic old school weight of heartfelt, motivational hip hop, and the creatively immersive soundscapes of genres like jazz, soul, big band and afrobeat, throughout his inspiring new album AQUARIUS FEVER VOL. II.
Feeling almost like an audio-cinematic ode to the freedom and embrace of a tribal festival experience, this arrangement of live-looping and production is unlike anything else you’ll hear this season. OMRA has not simply curved the lines between genres, but has broken through them entirely.