Tansy - Dreaming (single)
Tansy is the
brainchild of Will Feinberg and McKenna Alicia. Feinberg, a native of Detroit,
and Alicia, a native of Oakland, met in New Orleans in 2017 where they began playing
together in the city's music scene. After a period of contributing to each
other's own original projects, they felt themselves being pulled together by
their collaboration. McKenna and Will spent the next eighteen months together
writing and honing their sound. Backed by a powerhouse band of some of the
city's rising stars, Tansy recorded their debut album, Full Bloom this past summer. Influenced by the music of
Esperanza Spalding, Robert Glasper Experiment, Moonchild, and Norah Jones;
Tansy synthesizes the warmth of a classic RnB sound with the bold harmonic and melodic statements of today's
jazz. The end result is a fresh sound that will appeal to a wide variety of
listeners while leading the way forward in contemporary vocal jazz.
The Heliocentrics - Burning Wooden Ship (single)
London-based The Heliocentrics have long stirred a
bewitching brew of funk, jazz, psych and library influences. Labelled by
Pitchfork as “a live-band culmination of every obsessive hip-hop-era producer's
drive to fall deeper into a rabbit hole of the previously unheard”, the band’s
far-reaching influence meant a natural knock-on in being cited by hip-hop
royalty: namely, featuring on DJ Shadow’s ‘Skullfuckery’, from 2006’s ‘The
Outsider’ LP, and being sampled by Nas and Kanye West on the track
‘Everything’, featured on 2018’s ‘Nasir’ album.The Heliocentrics drop the
refreshingly off kilter ‘Burning Wooden Ship,’ in anticipation of their 10th
studio album, ‘Infinity of Now.’ Jump into this kaleidoscopic soundscape of
rolling percussions and bewildering breakdowns, grounded by the tantalising
vocals of Barbora Patkova. The Heliocentrics will release their new long player
on Madlib's label, Madlib Invazion.
Anthony Jefferson – All I Am
Anthony Jefferson’s newest release is an eclectic project of
songs from the Great American Songbook, pop music, R&B, and the movies, all
beautifully rendered as romantic jazz tunes by Jefferson’s silky, warm baritone
voice and lush orchestral arrangements by multi-instrumentalist Corey Allen.
The luxuriant string and horn arrangements amplify Jefferson’s innate warmth
and soulfulness. The album features some of the finest musicians in Dominican Republic, where
Jefferson has been living for the past 10 years. Jefferson is already a bona
fide star in Dominican Republic. All I Am is a superb showcase for an expatriate
American singer who deserves to be much better known in the United States.
Although he has been performing for many years, with his pure voice, inventive
and personal phrasing, and sensitive approach to lyrics, Anthony Jefferson’s
star has just begun to shine.
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