Sangue Suor announce debut album, O Salto, and share first single ‘Para a Frente’ feat. Surma

04 March 2023

Hailing from Portugal, Sangue Suor is the new trio of drummers Rui Rodrigues, Susie Filipe and Ricardo Martins. With a shared love for all things percussive, the project sprouted from a commission by Theatro Circo in Braga to score their 106th anniversary theme in 2021. A year on from the initial project, and having played together in a series of artist residencies, the threesome are gearing up to release their debut album. Entitled O Salto, the record arrives on April 21st through Omnichord and Theatro Circo. Ahead of it, Sangue Suor are giving us a first glimpse into the upcoming album with lead single ‘Para a Frente’ featuring singer Surma. The track is offered with an accompanying video made by Casota Collective and you can watch it below.

schroothoop preview upcoming album with third single ‘Cascaraï’

03 March 2023

Photo: Anna Scholiers

Just over a month from now, schroothoop will release their highly anticipated new album MACADAM on April 7th through Sdban Ultra. Ahead of the release, and having previously shared the singles ‘Cheval Orange’ and ‘Tanz der Quallen’, the Brussels based junk jazz trio today share a sensual and hypnotic new single called ‘Cascaraï’. As the press release describes, the track “combines Algerian Rai-melodies on the flutes with Afro-Cuban Cascara-patterns on the drums, resulting in a new genre that the band call “Cascaraï”. Take a listen now.

KUF to release fourth album, Yield, later this month

03 March 2023

Photo: Max Parovsky

We weren’t familiar with Berlin trio KUF up until just recently when one of their tracks was picked by TUKAN for our March mixtape. We were clearly missing out as their intoxicating music caught our ears on first listen.  With keys, bass and drums, the three-piece summon deep grooves and mad scientist musical tastes tailored for the dance floor. With three albums under their belts, KUF are gearing up to release their fourth record later this month. Entitled Yield, the album spans “twelve slices of hyper-integrated realtime magic”, as the press release describes, with “lots of new integrations of sampling, synthesis and band action in different constellations”.

Yield arrives on March 24th through Macro Recordings and KUF have already teased it with two cuts, ‘Ah Oh’, and ‘Patterns’. The latter comes with an accompanying video made by Yoshi Sodeoka. Check out both tracks below.

Contemporary Noise Ensemble return with new album An Excellent Spiritual Serviceman

02 March 2023

Poland’s Contemporary Noise Ensemble, who last released Ghostwriter’s Joke in 2011, are back with a new record.  Entitled An Excellent Spiritual Serviceman, the album is set for release on March 31st through Denovali Records. On the new album, the band continues to experiment with various genres, incluing  jazz, space rock, funk and electronic music, to create their own contemporary sound. Now with a 2-piece line-up, Contemporary Noise Ensemble embraced more composition than improvisation, as the press release describes, and “the music is now less jazzy sounding”.

Ahead of the album’s release, the band has shared a new single called ‘All Systems In..!’. Take a listen below.

Caixa Cubo tease upcoming album, Agôra, with new single ‘Dreams’

01 March 2023

Following the exhilarating ‘Sábado‘, Brazilian trio Caixa Cubo are enticing us again with new single ‘Dreams’. The track, which is lifted from their much anticipated new record, Agôra, sees them venturing for the first time into R’n’B territory. Sung in both English and Portuguese, ‘Dreams’ features guest singers Xênia França and Zé Leônidas, and you can check the accompanying video below.

Agôra is out on March 31st through Jazz & Milk

Levitation Orchestra unveil new live video for ‘Spiral (Die, Die, Die)’

28 February 2023

London based jazz collective Levitation Orchestra have shared a live video for ‘Spiral (Die, Die, Die)’ from their performance at the EFG London Jazz Festival in 2021, featuring dancers Caterina Danzico and Moses Ward. The track is lifted from their second album Illusions And Realities, also released in 2021 through Gearbox Records. Of the show and video, trumpeter and musical director Axel Kaner-Lidstrom comments:

““Spiral” is a darker shade of Levitation Orchestra. We revel in its intensity and enjoy the chance to combine precision and discipline, with the absurd. We are so grateful that we found collaborators in the form of movement artists, Moses and Caterina who have captured this perfectly.”

Watch the live video below.