A magnificent release from Nawa Recordings (introduced in the last post), Yazz Ahmed is a trumpeter who blends jazz, Arabic music, and a cinematic, film-noir style to her recordings. Think of an ECM record with the vibe of a hard-boiled soundtrack.
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[Music] Nawa Recordings Wants To Bridge A Gap Between The Arabic and Western World
Much respect to Nawa Recordings, one of the only labels in the Arab world promoting radical new music. Bandcamp writes on the label here.
[Music] GlerAkur – The Mountains Are Beautiful Now (Luxus)
GlerAkur is the monicker of Icelandic composer Elvar Geir Sævarsson, who also happens to the sound engineer for the National Theater of Iceland (Þjóðleikhúsið). The music sits comfortably between post-rock and ambient music with a cinematic feel to it.
[Music] Bandcamp: The Rich History—and Present—of Latin American Prog
Evolving, like all prog, from psych and jazz, the Latin American scene is full of imaginative fusion and wild technical prowess.
via The Rich History—and Present—of Latin American Prog — Bandcamp Daily
[Music] The Best Jazz on Bandcamp: July 2017
Jazz is in wonderful hands over at Bandcamp. Click this link to see what new treasures you’ll be running into on the platform.
[Music] Ana Ćurčin – Sketches of Belonging (solo & acoustic)
Ana Ćurčin is a folk singer born in Baghdad, Iraq, raised in Moscow, Russia, and currently residing in Belgrade, Serbia. And she sings Americana beautifully. What a world we live in.
[Music] Sato – Efsanie (Legenda)
Sato are a band from Uzbekistan who fuse together progressive rock and folk into a pretty unique fusion. Though there’s not much information about them online as of yet, the venerable blog ProgNotFrog have a small writeup on them, including personnel info.
[Music] Estrada Orchestra – Jazzbeatjäätis
Estonia’s Estrada Orchestra are a funky jazz combo that blends the best of groups the The James Taylor Quartet with the soundtrack to the old Starsky & Hutch TV series.
[Music] Strawberry Switchblade – 1982 4-Piece Demo
One of my old college mates described Strawberry Switchblade as ‘twee’. He was right. That didn’t affect the fact that I saw them as a great pop band with two of my teenage crushes blowing me away musically. Here’s the raw material which would develop into their eponymous debut LP.
