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Danalogue and Alabaster dePlume hitch a wild ride together with a freewheeling studio set for Total Refreshment Centre
Rob Mazurek’s latest cosmic carnival of an album for International Anthem is playful, epic and riotously inventive
Chicago’s Bless the Mad discuss updating 90s hip-hop, incorporating spiritual jazz and paying homage to ancestors on their miraculous debut
A spiritual and cosmic jazz edition with reviews of Cosmic Vibrations, Kahil El’Zabar, Sun Ra Arkestra and Enrique RodrÃguez
Surprise Chef’s Lachlan Stuckey tells Stewart Gardiner about cinematic soul, naming their HQ after a prison and making a deeper second LP
Nubya Garcia’s debut long player on the Concord Jazz imprint is vital international music from the beating heart of the city
Andrew Wasylyk’s Fugitive Light and Themes of Consolation is another visionary record with plenty room to dream
Ian Preece tells all on Listening to the Wind, his hefty yet accessible book profiling intrepid independent labels from across the globe
Laurence Pike talks to Gareth Thompson about the hellish wildfires that inspired his new album Prophecy for the Leaf Label
Jazz pianist Greg Foat brings Symphonie Pacifique, his latest masterful concoction of jazz, library music and pastoral composition, to Strut Records
Australian instrumentalists Surprise Chef’s marvellous debut LP All News Is Good News recalls mavericks such as David Axelrod, Beastie Boys and Money Mark
Witch ‘n’ Monk’s boundary pushing eponymous second LP playfully explores fourth world landscapes, cosmic jazz boundaries and no wave rhythms
Finnish double bassist Ville Herrala conjures raw suspense and offers many surprises on his ambitious debut album Pu: from We Jazz Records
The Paralian is the first great album of 2019, a beautifully instinctive, naturally textured work of analogue ambient haunted by the North Sea
Stewart Gardiner says goodbye to 2018 with a roundup of albums and EPs, ranging from the ambience of anxiety to haunted house music and pagan flutes