Mendes & Mendes: Mendes & Mendes (1982)
What’s this? Just some sweet, sweet Lusophonic magic, from the great African island nation of Cabo Verde. Music fitting that jaw-dropping album cover.…
June 6, 2017
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Sonia Rosa: Samba Amour (1979)
Heady, windswept, gauzy saudade that could only come from someone like Sonia Angelica De Carvalho Rosa, are things that don’t quite reveal themselves when you hear Samba…
May 16, 2017
Imagination: Night Dubbing (1983)
“Forget your sorrow let’s start livin’ for today” those are the sublime spliced verses that kick off this monumental piece of house music. Before such…
May 12, 2017
Sly and Robbie: Language Barrier (1985)
I’m looking at the liner notes to Sly & Robbie’s Language Barrier right now. Performances by Afrika Bambaataa, Bernie Worrell, Mikey Chung, Manu Dibango,…
May 10, 2017
Marju Kuut & Uku Kuut: Zuke (1992)
Funk can sometimes come from the unlikeliest of places. Take for example: Hollywood. Hollywood, and America’s West Coast one could argue, has…
March 6, 2017
Melon: Do You Like Japan? (1982)
assively influenced by American R&B, Do You Like Japan? holds that rare thing for us as listeners: it’s a question posed in the title. Was…
February 10, 2017
Apsaras: Apsaras (1984)
How do you classify a six-piece Japanese band like Apsaras? Their debut album Apsaras definitely covers a ton of bases. Let’s count all the genres…
January 18, 2017
EP-4: Lingua Franca-1 (1983)
“Cool, no sweat funk.” – Those exact words are how the leaders of Japanese group EP-4 describe their music. Led by the…
December 9, 2016
Krzysztof Ścierański: Krzysztof Ścierański (1984)
I‘m dipping into that huge well that is Polish Jazz. After listening to “Bialy Garbus” it’s not hard to understand why. Bass-player…
December 7, 2016
Mari Iijima: Rosé (1983)
Sometimes it’s wise not to outpace the group. An album, or at least a collection of tracks, I love to recommend (whenever I…
December 5, 2016
Isabelle Antena: En Cavale (1986)
It seems I’m running out of summer, and in this case Isabelles, but before I do, I have to share one of those perfect…
September 23, 2016
Mix: 1. Just Another Night Flight
Isn't this always the toughest post to create? Normally, for your first post, you try to give a call to action, or…
September 13, 2016