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2025.62

Jeffrey Lewis: The EVEN MORE Freewheelin’ Jeffrey Lewis

Probably everything you need to know about Lewis is contained in the opening track to his latest. The embodiment of NYC neuroses laid bare in folk form. Honest, funny and poignant all at once. You'll relate to half of it & probably be glad you don't relate to the other half. It's sweet, catchy, and sure to make you smile and laugh. Enjoy!

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2025.63

The Lewis Express with Chip Wickham: Doo-Ha!

The Lewis Express is a coming-together of musicians from various groups and releases on the oft-recommned'd ATA label out of Leeds. Formidable on their own, they're joined by flute groovemeister Wickham and the results are a boogie-down jam. Flavors of the 70's with CTI energy mixed with a peak Herbie Mann sound. It's a mood and a half. Enjoy!

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2025.64

Hooffoot: Phantom Limb

Either the water or the socialized medicine, but they're doing something right in Scandinavia breeding heady shit like this band out of Sweden. Proggy jamjazz, like Miles Davis and Emerson Lake and Palmer's unholy child. Four tracks is all it takes for them to stretch to the outer limits and back again. Enjoy!

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2025.65

Will Johnson: Diamond City

Johnson writes loud quiet songs & quiet loud songs, and man, can he! A songwriter's songwriter, if you're not familiar w/ his many projects, perhaps you caught him on tour with Isbell or before that in Monsters of Folk or New Multitudes. He's in finest form here, one evocative burner after another. Each sure to catch your ear with a lyric or a riff or just a mood. Enjoy!

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2025.66

Dead Meadow: Voyager to Voyager

Dead Meadow has been doing the heavy psych thing for quite some time now and despite some ups & downs, they continue to deliver on their 10th studio LP. It comes weighted with tragedy as their bass player passed between recording & release. Hard not to focus on that fuzzy low end and how it complements some serious guitar riffs and power drumming. Shit rocks. Enjoy!

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2025.67

Bugge Wesseltoft: Am Are

Keyboardist Wesseltoft is prolific as heck and possessing some serious stylistic breadth. As such, this is already his second rec-worthy release of the year and it's appropriately all over the place. Piano meditations, inventive jazz trio work, synthfusion jams, and experimental explorations. Amongst others. It all works, some more than others. Enjoy!

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2025.68

Action & Tension & Space: New Dimensions

Eurojam perfection out of Norway. Your standard guitar, keys, bass, drum set-up takes you on a series of mind-bending, hair-raising psychedelic excursions. It's zone out music you can rock out to and rocking out music you can zone out to. I think you should listen to em all, of course, but this one is a must-listen, one of the so-far year's best. Enjoy!

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2025.69

Rosettes: Lifestyles

The recommneds often looks to Northern Europe for sick psychedelic Eurojams, not for old school soul, but the pocket in this Helsinki band's debut is deep and incredibly comfy. They're not breaking any new ground, but the homage to classic soul, funk, and R&B sounds is undeniably, satisfyingly groovy. It's your perfect weekend launching pad, happy Friday and... enjoy!

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2025.70

Rindert Lammers: Thank You Kirin Kiki

Ambient jazz out of the Netherlands. Where some ambient is like a still pond, content to luxuriate in silence, this debut finds lushness in its sparseness. Lammers' bio professes an early love of Genesis and you can feel a hint of that orchestral richness in these five quietly beautiful tracks. Enjoy!

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2025.71

Øresund Space Collective: Alotta Hella down in Estrela

There are jams, there are long jams, and then there's shit like the 3-track, 90 (!) min session from this improvising collective. There's quality to go with that quantity too. You can almost hear someone ask if the tapes were rolling as they come out of their collective trance. You'll be thankful they were when you come out of yours. Enjoy!

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2025.72

Charlie Ballantine: East by Midwest

Caught this guy play this week and quite possibly he's what's next in jazz guitar. The album, featuring a great rhythm section, captures the allure. Wonderful tone and smile-inducing playing. He covers both Monk + the Beatles (twice!) with a Lagesque spirit & a Frisellian approach. It's both the straight road and the crooked path. Looking forward to more. Enjoy!

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2025.73

Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto: Electric War

Do you know Little Barrie? Maybe not, which is a crime. Barrie Cadogan's criminally underrated soulblues trio's been cranking out bangers for a while, each seemingly better than the last, which goes double for this collab with Catto. It's catchy-riff-heavy with some Nocentelli funk mixed in. Much to love, beginning to end. Get yourself acquainted. Enjoy!

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2025.74

Romano: Güle Güle

Lior Romano is an Israeli musician with roots in Turkey & Egypt and his debut solo album is a worldly delight of instrumental funkiness that is a delight in any language or culture. Working from a base of synthesizers & keyboards of all stripes , Romano constructs grooves that are both forward-looking and reverent to past masters. One of my fave recent releases, dig it! Enjoy!

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2025.75

Charif Megarbane: Hawalat

A great companion to yesterday's rec is this latest banger from Lebanese artist Megarbane out on the Habbibi Funk label. It's funky indeed, but with a cinematic scope, the Meters crossed with Morricone out of the Middle East. Although that's just scratching the surface, the sound and the grooves are truly global. So spin it up and... enjoy!

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2025.76

Samantha Crain: Gumshoe

There are moments on Crain's latest that could've been found on 70's FM radio. Others on 80's MTV, on an indie rock compilation from the 00's, a second stage at a folk festival in the 10's, and a algorithm discovery playlist in the 20's. It's timeless rock in its own way but mostly it's just a bunch of fantastic songs. Each track here could be a favorite. Find yours. Enjoy!

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2025.77

The hypercreative Simon Hanes who helms bands like Tredici Bacci and personal fave Tsons of Tsunami heads to Brussels to compose a soundtrack in an incredibly creative, immersive way. You should read up on it while you're listening. You'll hear lots of influences from soundtracks of the 60's and 70's and Hanes own sonic fingerprints throughout. Enjoy!

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2025.78

First Beige: Wayside

Sometimes things can get a little complex or esoteric around recommneds HQ but we like to keep it simple sometimes, too. Which isn't to say there isn't a twist or two in today's pick. But mostly it's just a super enjoyable jazzy, dancey indie pop out of Brisbane. There's an occasional Toro Y Moi vibe in there as well. Starts in one place, evolves to another. Cool stuff. Enjoy!

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2025.79

Daughter of Swords: Alex

Alex Sauser-Monnig is 1/2 of Mountain Man amongst other things, performing solo as Daughter of Swords. Their previous release was a lovely, sparse folk, so the latest offering is quite a leap. The emotion-laden songwriting remains but now the sound is anything but sparse - a sonic depth sparkling with creativity, closer to early StVincent or JuanaMolina. Impressive. Enjoy!

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2025.80

Web Web: Plexus Plexus

This one hits a sweet spot for me and I'm guessing if you're reading this for you as well. I mean, what's not to love? The Munich band finds the perfect balance of funk and fuzz, managing to squeeze a surprising amount of kapow! into each one of these 2-3 minute tracks. Bet ya dig... enjoy!

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2025.81

Cold Diamond & Mink/Jimi Tenor: July Blue Skies

At its base, this has the feel of an old-school soul record that could've been the result of a heroic crate digging excursion. But give it a minute and it reveals new facets: garage psych here, flute grooves there, some synthfunk... both instrumentals and songs with summer-ready lyrics like the title track. So great ready for summer and... enjoy!

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2025.82

NRG: Live at Ronnie Scott's

Sometimes I'll see sick improv at a club in NYC & wonder if those types of things happen in other cities. Well, here's proof that, of course, it does. A collective blending jazz, rock, soul, funk in a session at one of London's big jazz clubs that's mostly make it up as they go. Spontaneity & fun as the players, folks that make the big names sound good, go deep. Enjoy!

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2025.83

EZRA: Froggy's Demise

They aren't the first to do the chamber bluegrass thing, but this quartet of young string players certainly have a way of making it feel like they are. Pretty much a new band, this is somehow their 3rd release, each better than the last. There's a vibrant warmth to their compositions and their ensemble playing. This music tells a story and it's one worth listening to. Enjoy!

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2025.84

Spellman: Herbwise

This album gives the feeling of being in a mostly empty bar late at night, there's a band in the corner fiddling around, oozing pure quiet vibes. Then at others it's like happening upon a completely different band in the middle of an ancient magical forest, spinning pure spirtualism. Guitars and keys make room for primitive flute sounds. It's a mood, for sure. Enjoy!

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2025.85

Uwade: Florilegium

The 1st time I heard Uwade I had to wonder why I'd never heard of her before, like was someone keeping her from me? Well, I'm not going to play you like that. Here to share her lovely voice & wonderful indie folkpop. The production is on point, making the pretty parts sounds prettier & giving the parts with more bite a little more bite. It sounds good, she sounds good. Enjoy!

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2025.86

Shai Maestro: Solo: Miniatures and Tales

It's all there in the title, solo piano, with little pieces (ie miniatures) interspersed with longer explorations (the tales). It's a study in contrasts, all the ways of musically point-counterpoint-ing: tempo, mood, volume... In the end, it's mostly just lovely, introspective, and calming. Beautiful piano as balm in a not-always-beautiful world. Enjoy!

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2025.87

Maia Friedman: Goodbye Long Winter Shadow

When you talk about music being *lush*, this is it. Chamber folk rich in ornamental instrumentation: strings and reeds and vocal harmonies. All in service to Friedman's voice and songwriting - love songs and existentialism. The result is like a sonic flower garden with varied textures, colors, and musical aroma. Put on your headphones and... enjoy!

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2025.88

Michael Grigoni & Pan-American: New World, Lonely Ride

Just in time for your weekend zone-out is this enchanting duo record that weaves pedal and lap steel with acoustic guitar and a touch of synthesizers. It's an ethereal delight: sparse, floating meditations of strings. File alongside Mary Lattimore, Chuck Johnson, and William Tyler. Absolutely gorgeous. Enjoy!

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2025.89

André Drage: Journeyman

Ah, this one I really love. Norwegian musician with the first release on his own label and dang, I'm looking forward to what's to come. This has hints of Zappa and Eno and Terry Riley. Dreamy groove and afro-ambient and bits of weirdness thrown in for good measure. At its highest moments it gets quite transcendent. Enjoy!

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2025.90

Frente Cumbiero: Inconcreto & Asociados

Cumbia is almost always a deeply enjoyable groove on its own, but it also has a lump-of-clay quality that allows it to take all sorts of forms. Here's an excellent example. At times, it morphs into almost Balkan brass, either an intentional style mashup or a dance-ready demo of how sounds from corners of the globe just mesh. All that and much more. Enjoy!

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2025.91

Soft Power: Space To Breathe

After a short been-too-busy pause, we're back! And what better way to return than with a band from northern Europe? These ain't heavypsych vines, though. This Finnish outfit finds a heady balance between the funk and progressive jazz. Occasionally edging psychedelic but always maintaining the groove, like Miles Davis leading the JB's, via Helsinki. Enjoy!

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2025.92

Black Market Karma: Mellowmaker

New one from Stanley Belton has a killer mishmash of psychedelia of both the old school 60's and modern day varieties. He's a one-man show here and the result varies from low-fi bedroom noodling to a denser orchestral sound. It's straight from the UK, natch, and all expertly done, a pleasure backwards and forwards. Enjoy!

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2025.93

Hooveriii: Manhunter

Summer's here and the time is right for rolling the windows down and cranking some rock and roll. LA's Hooveriii (pronounced "Hoover three") has got you covered with their latest. This thing is littered with nasty riffs, plenty of F-yeah! guitar, bass, keys, and drums, and just enough boundary pushing to keep it interesting. Turn it up, my friends. Enjoy!

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2025.94

Kate NV: Room for the Moon Live

I saw Kate NV live once, she was solo with a laptop & console, singing & dancing to samples & electronics. Twas pretty good! This - a live recording of a one-off show with a 8-person band - is something else altogether. It sparkles with spontaneity. They deconstruct + reconstruct her music, fleshing out the influences of groove, ambient, jazz. A revelation... Enjoy!

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2025.95

Toby Hay: New Music For The 6 String Guitar

If you believe that there can never be enough gorgeous meditative acoustic guitar music (and I'm personally of the opinion that there can never be enough gorgeous meditative acoustic guitar music), here's some gorgeous meditative acoustic guitar music for ya. The title says it all. Hay's guitar is a soothing melodic balm in these worrying times. Enjoy!

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2025.96

Mei Semones: Animaru

Bio says "jazz influenced indie" and given 3 words, sure, that accurately describes Semones. But that might also sell it short. If there's a sonic dimension that has an overlap of Andrew Bird + Deerhoof, you might find her there. Sweet string-laden whimsy & unexpected freak-outs both have a place, along with some lovely guitar & Japanese lyrics. This one's for smiling. Enjoy!

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2025.97

Florry: Sounds Like...

I first heard these guys at Woodsist fest last year, which was a perfect fit for this Philly rock band. The album is perfectly twang-heavy, a laid-back country rock for the age of legalized weed. It crackles with guitar and pedal steel, getting out "there" just often enough while not taking themselves too seriously. It rocks, it's fun, it's easy to love. Enjoy!

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2025.98

TWÏNS: Healing Dreams

An easy-to-love release out of Berlin. Listening to Miro Denck's newest is like listening to a playlist of my favorite sounds on shuffle. It hops all over the place - from exotica to Zappaesqueness to psychedelic jazz and more - you have to remind yourself that it's the same album/musician. The good news is, it's all quite good, making for a more-than-pleasant listen. Enjoy!

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2025.99

Ouzo Bazooka: Kapaim

More worldly sounds from overseas, this bazooka is a doozy. Hailing from Israel, this project from Uri Brauner Kinrot mixes Middle Eastern and Turkish funk in with psychedelic rock to create something that feels truly universal and culture-bridging. It's groovy as hell, but it's much more than that. His output has been generally impressive, but this is the best yet. Enjoy!

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2025.100

Golden Brown: Whisker Fatigue

Most one-man guitars-and-effects albums out there lean into quiet ambient beauty, sonic balm to the loudness of the modern world. While there's some lovely guitar on his latest, Stefan Beck sandwiches it in layers of murky digitalia, leaning into the darkness rather than ignoring it. It's a welcome dimensionality for the listener. Pretty, sure, but also not. Enjoy!

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2025.102

Lou Hazel: Riot of the Red

There's good music made on this side of the Atlantic, too, you know! Take this Durham-based songwriter whose latest is a delight of American folk rock. It lies somewhere at the intersection of Dr Dog and New-Morning-era-ish Dylan where the lyrics, melodies, vocals, and instrumentation are all perfectly matched comfortably cushioned in an easygoing vibe. Enjoy!

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2025.103

Holden & Zimpel: The Universe Will Take Care Of You

Two of my favorite electronic artists are James Holden who creates magical realism pieces of pure joy & Wacław Zimpel who combines clarinet + electronics in truly unique ways. So it's no surprise that this collab is pure bliss. The energy of the two is resonant in the truest sense. This is happiness for a world that needs lots of it. Enjoy!

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2025.104

Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer: Different Rooms

Pairing of Chiu (SML et al) on modular synth and Honer on viola & electronics makes for a powerful combination. It's a power in understatement and quietude. Lovely improvisations and interplay that's given room to breathe and evolve. The sonic meditations are enhanced by guest appearances from Josh Johnson and Jeff Parker. Masterful all. Enjoy!

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2058.105

Brìghde Chaimbeul: Sunwise

The Scottish small pipes player channels ancient musical wisdom, creating an entrancing, mystical sound. Glacial drones eventually yield some lively playing and otherworldly vocals, the sound of her native land but also something that feels not of this planet at all. The listener is left in a heady space, hypnotized and transported. Transcendent. Enjoy!

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2025.106

SLUGish Ensemble: Urban Crawl

SF reedsman Steven Lugerner leads an ensemble of the Bay Area's brightest jazz up-and-comers on his latest. Each track is influenced by an intersection in his home city, pandemic walking routes lending themselves to intersections of traditional group playing and more progressive compositions. He sticks to bass clarinet, giving it some extra low groove oomph. Enjoy!

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2025.107

The Sorcerers: Other Worlds And Habitats

I've been recommending new music from this Leeds band for 10 years now and if they keep putting out shit this good, I'm gonna keep on doing it for another 10. Once again they deliver with a set of deep afrofunk. This is the dark and the dank, baritone sax and old school keys on minor key grooves and swampy rhythms. Betcha dig it. Enjoy!

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2025.108

Maurizio Brunod: Trip with the Ladies - Chapter 2

I often listen to these recs on my commute home before posting and today's listen was partially amidst a rather harrowing rainstorm. Brunod's guitar was a perfect calm in the storm. Mixing classical, flamenco, and gypsy jazz, this is a thing of placid beauty. It's the perfect antidote for whatever is raising your blood pressure these days. Enjoy!

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2025.109

Yuuf: Alma’s Cove

Over the course of a five-track EP, the London 4-piece manages to chart a wide range of emotional energy, from pensive quiet to jubilant, desolate to downright giddy. This is high level instrumental music born from a deep catalog of influences for listening either light or heavy. Enjoy!

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2025.110

Editrix: The Big E

Guitarist Wendy Eisenberg has been on the one-to-watch list for a while. She can go soft, she can go hard and, like she does leading this power trio, she can go really f'in hard. Like an unholy marriage of punk + math rock, it'll hurt your neck from either the headbanging or the whiplash-inducing time changes. A thrill ride, one of the year's best. Book the masseuse and enjoy!

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2025.111

Sababa 5: Nadir

There's a growing handful of bands incorporating Middle Eastern elements into their sound. There are few doing it better than Sababa 5. The Tel Aviv/France create an organic funk centered on the scales and rhythms native to the region. Everything they've put out has been a heady intoxicant of psychedelic groove. Their latest may top them all with its darker explorations. Enjoy!

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2025.112

Gwenno: Utopia

Welsh artist Gwenno Saunders is out with her strongest release yet. The songs are an autobiographical coming-of-age telling, definitely worth reading the album notes. But mostly, the material is dense with musical ideas and that off-kilter Welsh quirk. Like an overlap of Cate Le Bon and St Vincent, equally thrilling getting lost in the details as taking it on in full. Enjoy!

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2025.113

Rujen: Velvet Dream

Out of Atlanta is Rujen, who updates the sounds of early-aught psych rockers, drawing from the sonic library of early-era Tame Impala and White Denim (amongst others), with a dash of 90's jamband. They invigorate the music with tightly constructed songcraft that's catchy, propulsive, and not shy about coloring outside the lines. A nice treat... Enjoy!

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2025.114

Hilary Hawke: Lift Up This Old World

Not obvious but NYC is a decent bluegrass town. Great example = a set of mostly original music from the banjo-playing singer-songwriter that feels both traditional & modern. Backed by stellar supporting musicians, she doesn't try to do anything special beyond play her songs, which is special in itself. A standard & a Radiohead cover round it out nicely. Enjoy!

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2025.115

Sissoko/Segal/Parisien/Peirani: Sou Kora

Accordion, saxophone, cello and... kora? Yeah, on paper I'm not sure it works either. In the headphones, though? A delight! Worldmusic in the truest sense, a multicultural, many splendored listen. Helps that each musician is a master, bringing their individual alchemy to the greater sum. Five tracks, 2 of em recorded live, an infinity of textures. Enjoy!

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2025.116

C Joynes & Mike Gangloff: Tom Winter, Tom Spring

Sparse instrumental folk duo with an enchanting release with both studio and live tracks. The sound is primitive and otherworldly: lovely guitar, drone violin, mouth harp, and more. Much of it feels magically ancient, like it came from centuries ago. The rest feels extragalactic, as if it came from another world altogether. Enjoy!

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2025.117

Kutiman: Dreams In Aspamia

Here's your gateway into the weekend...or possibly a portal to another dimension. Israeli soundmaker Kutiman delivers once again on this 6-track EP. Each song unfolds another beat-filled chapter in the most compelling of novellas. Cool blending of instrumentation and sounds girder by the grooviest of grooves. This is the good stuff, friends. Enjoy!

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2025.118

Barry Walker Unit: At the 13th Moon Gravity Well

This sorta spin-off of Rose City Band includes a stoner's delight of players & playing. Recorded live in the Rose City, the quartet, led by pedal steel shaman Walker, channels the Dead ethos circa 1970. Americana meets psychedelic in lightly dosed improvisational exercises that certainly had the audience geeked. For serious zonesters only. Enjoy!

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2025.119

Leroi Conroy: A Tiger's Tale

Terry Cole has spent much of the last decade building his groove-heavy label Colemine. Performing here as Conroy, he finishes a longstanding project that fits right in. Old school soul and funk combine for an album that plays like a set of hip hop samples. Irresistibly so. It presents as an instrumental soundtrack to an imagined updated take on The Jungle Book. Enjoy!

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2025.120

Cole Quest and The City Pickers: Homegrown

More NYC-based bluegrass. Quest is a grandson of Woody Guthrie and that's not just biographical trivia. His music is also progeny to the folk godfather, infusing his old school bluegrass with a progressive, city-centric viewpoint. Tasty harmonies and tasty pickin' with a nod to the past. Enjoy!

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2025.121

Chaos Magick: Through The Looking Glass

Perfect representation of John Zorn's genre-sneering aesthetic: beautiful, scary, groovy, awesome. Medeski, Marsella, Hollenberg, Grohoski, you know, your typical organ/keyboard/guitar/drum quartet. You've never heard anything go quiet to too loud with such ferocity. Restrained to unhinged, only 3 tracks, it covers some ground. Better pack a bag. Enjoy!

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2025.122

Alex Benjamin with Phil Cook & Justin Mazer

Multi-instrumentalist typically found backing others (like Hiss Golden Messenger) takes the reins himself on his debut EP. The North Carolinian recruits some talented friends and his compositions play like friendly instrumental sessions on the front porch. Multiple guitars - with appearances by banjo, resonator, slide - in laid back conversation. Enjoy!

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@Neddyo just checked them
out and that’s some groovy shit. Thanks for the rec. Ordered the vinyl. 👍
@Neddyo One of my favorites in the Durham NC / Hiss Golden Messenger universe. So much good shit down there!