Mauricio Fleury shares lead single ‘Briluz’ off upcoming debut album, Revoada

18 October 2025

A prolific multi-instrumentalist and composer, Mauricio Fleury has been a fixture of Brazilian music for a long time. A founding member of Brazilian Afrobeat collective Bixiga 70, Fleury has a host of projects under his belt, including recording, collaborating and playing with Gal Costa, Emicida, Lucas Santtana, João Donato, Los Pirañas and Quantic, to name but a few. An avid crate digger, he has also made his name as a vinyl DJ for over 25 years. Revoada is his solo debut album, the seeds of which were planted with a meeting with Tony Allen at the Red Bull Music Academy in 2007. Allen insisted that the two musicians get together to jam alongside Ron Trent, Theo Parrish and Steve Spacek. “From that moment on, I was never afraid to collaborate musically with anyone, no matter who’s playing”, Fleury says. “It also brought me to researching the connection between Brazilian music and Afrobeat which is something that still means the world to me”.

Across Revoada, Fleury draws from an amalgam of influences, and as the press release describes, “there are signature traces of Thelonious Monk, Ramsey Lewis’ swinging soul sound, Deodato’s drama, and styles from further afield, spreading into Turkish psych and Ethiopian jazz, when the time is right.”

Ahead of the album’s release on December 5th through Altercat Records, Fleury has shared the playful and groove-heavy lead single ‘Briluz’. Speaking about the track, he comments:

“Briluz is a made-up word, taken from the Brazilian translation of Alice in Wonderland. I was asked by a label in São Paulo to send them a track for a compilation in 2020 and this tune came to my mind as I was dreaming about dancefloors during the lockdown, so I made a fully electronic version. Then I felt we had to record another version for the album, making it a little bit more jazzy, with a certain Azymuth flavor and a beautiful electric vibraphone solo by Beto Montag, a long-time friend and collaborator.”

Listen to ‘Briluz’ now.

Momoko Gill announces debut solo album, Momoko; shares two singles, ‘No Others’ and When Palestine Is Free’

16 October 2025

Photo: Lex Blondin

Based in London and brought up in Japan and the US, Momoko Gill has firmly established herself as one of the most exciting talents in contemporary jazz and electronic music today. Earlier this year she released an album with Matthew Herbert and last year she teamed up with visual artist, filmmaker and poet Nadeem Din-Gabisi for a collaborative album as An Alien Called Harmony. A highly sought-after drummer and forward-thinking and brilliant composer, producer, songwriter, and vocalist, she has been collaborating and performing with a wide variety of incredible artists, including Alabaster DePlume, Coby Sey, Tirzah, Ruth Goller and Rozi Plain. Gill is finally stepping out from behind the curtain and releasing music under her own name for the first time. February 13th will see her release her debut solo album, simply titled Momoko, through Strut. A “deeply personal and poetic” album with an expansive stylistic range, it showcases her incredible songwriting skills and inimitable vision to full effect. As the press release describes, “throughout, you can hear the stylistic flavours of jazz musicians as much as singer-songwriters, experimental artists and electronic producers”. Recorded at Total Refreshment Centre, Momoko was self-produced and mixed by Matthew Herbert.

February feels like a long way but Gill is already enticing us with two sublime singles from Momoko,  the jazzier and radiant ‘No Others’ and When Palestine Is Free’, an utterly beautiful, moving and powerful track featuring a 50-person choir from London’s music scene that includes Shabaka Hutchings, Rozi Plain, Alabaster DePlume, Coby Sey, Forest Law, Ruth Goller, Danalogue, Seb Rochford, tyroneisaacstuart, Matthew Herbert and many, many more. “Why is it that we know, with more certainty than ever, that we are just one corner of a vast living, breathing mycelium network in a state of total emergency, battling powerful forces that seem to be driven by antagonism towards life itself?” Momoko comments. “Colonial violence, racism and oppression are everywhere, but it has never felt more urgent to renew our vows to fight it everywhere we see it.”

Gill will cast a spell on you so go and listen to both tracks below.


Makaya McCraven drops four new singles from upcoming EPs and shares fresh live video for ‘Choo Choo’

14 October 2025

Photo: Shannon Marks

Makaya McCraven is turning up the heat with four brand new singles today, one from each of his upcoming EPs: Techno Logic, The People’s Mixtape, Hidden Out!, and PopUp Shop. These new tracks – ‘Prime’, ‘What a Life’, ‘News Feed’, and ‘Sweet Stuff’ – are a taste of what’s to come when the full EPs drop on October 31st through International Anthem, Nonesuch, and XL Recordings. And for the full experience, the tracks will be compiled into a double LP/CD release titled Off the Record, hitting stores on October 17th.

If that wasn’t enough, McCraven has also shared a live video of ‘Choo Choo’ from The People’s Mixtape, filmed at his performance at Thalia Hall in Chicago earlier this month. We can’t wait to hear it all and if you haven’t yet, now’s the time to dive in.





SML share second single, ‘Chicago Four’, from forthcoming album How You Been

14 October 2025

Photo: Charlie Weinmann

Following the zesty and absolutely mind-blowing ‘Taking Out the Trash’, LA’s exploratory quintet SML have released another standout track from their upcoming album How You Been, out on November 7th through International Anthem. The new single, ‘Chicago Four’, is built from a live recording at The Empty Bottle, one of Chicago’s most iconic small venues, and exemplifies the group’s unique approach, where improvisation becomes the raw material for carefully sculpted compositions. ‘Chicago Four’ arrives with another striking visual companion, a hand-drawn black and white animation from Nespy5euro, and you can watch it below.

Dishwasher_ announce second album, Anemoia, listen to title track

09 October 2025

We were completely bowled over by the eponymous debut album from Ghent trio Dishwasher_ when it came out in 2023. So we’re excited to know the outfit of drummer Arno Grootaers, saxophonist and keyboardist Werend Van Den Bossche and bassist Louise van den Heuvel have a second album on the way. Entitled Anemoia, the album “moves somewhere between memory and hallucination” and it takes its name from John Koenig’s The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, which depicts it as a nostalgic feeling for a time you never experienced. Described as “an admiration between jazz, improvisation and computer produced music”, the upcoming record came to life out of separate ideas which were “dismantled, distorted and rebuilt” once the trio convened in the rehearsal studio.

Anemoia arrives on October 31st through Dox Records and for a thrilling taste of what’s to come, listen to the title track below.

Listen to Caytra’s new single ‘We Out’

07 October 2025

Caytra, the London-based jazz collective led by James Gullis and Sam Ithell, is known for blending technical skill with an irresistible groove. Their latest single, ‘We Out’, cranks up the energy even further, offering a glimpse into the mighty atmosphere of their live performances. Pulsing with energy from start to finish, ‘We Out’ is lifted from their upcoming project, Live for the Night, a five-track EP recorded live at the Ninety One Living Room. As the press release describes, the EP “captures the essence of London’s live jazz scene, inviting audiences to experience jazz that’s as dynamic as it is danceable”.

‘We Out’ is out now through Bridge The Gap and you can watch the live video that accompanies it below.