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Liv.e aka Olivia Williams
Song of the Day: A gorgeous mix of funk, jazz, Latin shuffle and soul by the Dallas-raised, LA-based 23-year-old singer-songwriter (pronounced Liv) Olivia Williams from her new EP CWTTY+
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Masayoshi Fujita
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Balimaya Project, more beautiful sounds, this time at the hands of the Berlin-based Japanese vibraphone player who turns to the marimba for this piece from his album Bird Ambience
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Balimaya Project
Song of the Day: Frenetically complex and also mesmerically beautiful, this instrumental number of African and jazz music by the 16-strong collective led by UK-based Djembe player Yahael Camara Onono from the new album Wolo So
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Emma-Jean Thackray’s forthcoming album - Yellow
Song of the Day: “There’s a spectre in my house but he doesn’t see me”. Beautiful, haunting new song by the Yorkshire-born, London-based singer and instrumentalist confronting depression and mental illness from her forthcoming debut album Yellow
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Cover for the forthcoming album This Is A Mindfulness Drill by Hypnotic Jazz Ensemble
Song of the Day: An exquisitely beautiful number of slow, gentle interweaving brass by the Chicago eight-piece band with mesmerically tender vocals by the American singer-songwriter from the forthcoming album Jagjaguwar label album This Is A Mindfulness Drill
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Song of the Day: A dynamic, cascading, piano-led mix of jazz, electronica, gospel and soul about guilty feelings over a friendship ending by the Brooklyn-born and based singer and multi-instrumentalist
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Brittany Fousheé
Song of the Day: A fabulous single about being single after a recent breakup by the impressive soul singer from New Jersey who can jump seemlessly between a high range reminiscent of Minnie Riperton and fast, half-spoken word flow
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Hiatus Kaiyote
Songs of the Day: From the forthcoming album Mood Valiant, a superlative fusion of soaring, sensual, soulful vocals, complex jazz rhythms, piano, bird twitterings and orchestration by the Melbourne band with two outstanding songs
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Moor Mother and Billy Woods: The Blues Remembers Everything The Country Forgot
Song of the Day: Dark, soulful vocals, field recordings, great hip-hop and trip-hop, jazz and a brilliant title, this powerful and profound racial history number by the American poet, musician, and activist from Philadelphia, comes from the 2020 album BRASS, with additional instrumentation by Sons of Kemet
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Mammal Hands
Song of the Day: From the tumultuous sound of Don’t Problem’s Whale, to another creatural connection and a great jazz instrumental by the brilliant Norwich trio of Jordan Smart on saxophone, Nick Smart on piano and Jesse Barrett on drums and tabla
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Song of the Day: With a beautiful flugelhorn solo, a vibrant horn section, a rich sprinkle of strings, a dash of electronics and dynamic percussion, this original jazz instrumental by the south London eight-piece dives into and expresses the energy and joy of the large sea mammal
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Cover art for Nubya Garcia’s album – Source
Song of the Day: With a brilliantly bold melody, added developed rhythm and carefully crafted keyboards, an addictive new arrangement of the original instrumental from 2020 album Source by the Camden-born jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader
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Anushka are Victoria Port and Max Wheeler
Song of the Day: Hypnotic, bleepy funk and soulful vocals pour into this entrancing jazz-electronica fusion by Brighton singer-songwriter Victoria Port and producer Max Wheeler, released on the Tru Thoughts label
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From the animated illustration from Misc’s latest release, Mad, from the album Partager l'ambulance
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s GoGo Penguin track and remix, another clever fusion of piano-based jazz and electronica in the form of this charming, cross-rhythm experimental release by the Montreal-based trio from their new album Partager l'ambulance
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Machinedrum, aka Travis Stewart, left, remixes Manchester trio GoGo Penguin
Song of the Day: Intricate, pace-changing and with beautiful narrative arcs, two versions of the recent piece by the Manchester experimental jazz trio of pianist Chris Illingworth, bassist Nick Blacka, and drummer Rob Turner with a new dance remix by American producer Travis Stewart
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The cover of Naoko Sakata’s second album Dancing Spirits
Song of the Day: Beginning with discordant, angry, violent, stormy chaos and moving gradually into lilting, gentle graduations of beauty, this free-flowing piece by the Japanese jazz pianist captures a huge spectrum of passionate emotions
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Horns aplenty
Song of the Day: Inspired by sounds of subway preachers, New Orleans-style jazz funerals and hip hop, this single by Brooklyn childhood friends Andrew LeCoche (Ula Ruth) and Evan Heinze (The Shacks) is an uplifting horn-section anthem
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CARM aka trumpeter and producer CJ Camerieri
Song of the Day: A beautiful collaboration between the New Jersey trumpeter aka CJ Camerieri and the Detroit singer-songwriter about meditative struggles captured via sublime orchestration and sound, taken from CARM’s debut album
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Popp Ajudha
Song of the Day: ‘You are my weakness, all salty and sweetness’. Sassy, sensual, with high voice, taut guitar and dash of Latin cuica flavour, the south London jazz and soul singer’s latest song is a expression of independence meeting melting vulnerability
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Made Kuti
Song of the Day: During these dark days, a wonderfully new bright and uplifting layered jazz-Afrobeat sound of trumpet, sax and keyboards from the multi-instrumentalist Made, grandson of Fela and son of Femi
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