Category: good to hear

Flowers. Beautiful Life Volume 2
Jimmy Greene
“Tenor sax great Jimmy Greene continues to be a beacon of strength as he channels his grief of losing a child to gun violence into some of the most vibrant, lyrical jazz coming out of America today. “Flowers: Beautiful Life, Volume 2” is a gorgeous testament to the vibrancy of his late daughter, 6-year-old Ana Márquez-Greene, which relishes in the playful energy of childhood with the assistance of not one but two phenomenal groups.” (Ron Hart)
Mack Avenue, March 2017

Bone on Bone
Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Cockburn is one of Canada’s most beloved songwriters, earning 12 Juno Awards and spots in the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriter’s Hall of Fame over the course of his storied career, which spans nearly five decades. The new collection of songs, produced by Colin Linden, touches on many subjects close to Cockburn’s heart, including the poet Al Purdy, life in Trump’s America, and the complexities of personal spirituality.
True North Records, July 2017

Pharma (Orange Milk)
Nmesh
“Experimental and innovative, with equal attention given to the pure musical aspects and the pillaging of old movie clips, commercials, and general media. Perhaps Pharma is about information overload, misplaced nostalgia, and digital decay – if those phrases mean anything. But the fragments are so fleeting, the tone so transient, it’s hard to say if the album embodies this paralytic postmodern ambivalence, or just sidesteps it altogether. Listen to this thing. It’s a goddamn psychedelic album. It concerns itself with memory, but these memories are indelibly glossed over, redacted, and memed into a higher dimension. This is your brain on drugs in 2017.”
Vapor Memory, August 2017

The Animal Spirits (Border Community)
James Holden & The Animal Spirits
Progressive electronic dance music. Long-term collaborators Etienne Jaumet of Zombie and Tom Page of RocketNumberNine are among the members of the Animal Spirits chosen by British indie prodigy James Holden, as are Marcus Hamblett, Liza Bec and Lascelle Gordon, mingling synth with natural sounds in a giddy maelstrom of cosmic prog, krautrock, techno and psych-folk.
Fagano l’afgano, November 2017

Diamonds and Demons 
Nessi Gomes
Born on the tiny Island of Guernsey to a Portuguese family, British singer- songwriter Nessi Gomes channels influences from both sides of her ethnicity, blending the essence of the traditional, emotional and ‘larger than life’ Fado folk music with British contemporary inspiration. Her quirky and emotive voice reflects a brutally honest inner world where shadows and hope, sanity and insanity dance magically together; where mysteries are unveiled.
Amaqui Producciones, December 2017

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Come along
Cosmo Sheldrake
Cosmo, son of biologist Rupert Shekdrake and voice teacher Jill Purce, is a 24-year-old multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer from Hampstead, London. His music is not easy to place but sounds like something between classical modern and pop. This lovely tune has all it takes to become the song playing in your head.
Transgressive, 13 October 2017

You see all my Light (Shlohmo RMX)
Jacques Green
Greene is an acclaimed Canadian DJ and electronic music producer known for his house tracks, often incorporating R&B and U.K. garage influences. Through several well-received singles on labels like Night Slugs and LuckyMe, Greene (along with artists like Disclosure and Kingdom) was instrumental in updating house for a post-millennial audience, mixing the U.K.-born post-dubstep/future bass sound with contemporary R&B.
LuckyMe, New Album: 17 November 2017

Mix Hamburg
Kutiman
Ophiel Kutimir, better known as Kutiman, is another discovery you may have missed – just like us. While working at a local convenience store in Tel Aviv, Israel, Kutiman discovered a college radio station that was playing genres of music that were vastly different from the classical jazz he had been accustomed to. When he met Sabbo, another Israeli artist, he was introduced to Afrobeat and funk music, including the sounds of James Brown and Fela Kuti. In 2003, Kutiman embarked on a journey to Jamaica, where he researched reggae and worked with both Stephen and Damien Marley.
Melting Pot Music 2015

Cumbia Sobre el Mar Quantic Flowering Inferno
Lee Scratch Perry
„Caviar for the ears,“ one of his fans comments. Lee „Scratch“ Perry (actually Rainford Hugh Perry, *20 March 1936 in Manchester) is a Jamaican music producer and musician. He is deemed one of the most influencial people in the development of Reggae, Ska and, most of all, Dub in Jamaica. His fame is due to his excentric ways and his highly daring treatment of effects and mixing console. The great man lives right here among us with his family, in Einsiedeln, in the Canton of Schwyz.
Leescratchnelpi, 17 August, 2017

Towards the Light
Natascha Nikeprelevic, Overtone Aria
Vocalist Natascha Nikeprelevic is one of world best overtone singers. Originally, this mysterious technique came from Mongolia and Southern Siberia. It designates the rare capability of simultaneously producing two notes with one voice. Nikeprelevic studied at the Italian Accademia Capraia for six years and later taught at the same conservatory, while perfectioning her technique. Meanwhile, she regularly tours Europe, Asia and Canada and teaches the art of overtone singing.
Encore, 31 Dezember 2014

Old castle by the river in the middle of a forest
Chick Corea & Hiromi
Chick Corea needs no introduction; Hiromi Uehara (born 1979) is a highly acclaimed Japanese jazz pianist, who does not only infuse this genre with new energy but has also brought her scorching style to jazz-rock-fusion. Here we are listening to an older probe of her art that can be equaled with that of veteran Chick Corea, with whom she plays here. For those who want to hear more, further pearls of her exceptional talent can easily be found.
Yasuhisa Tanaka, March 2010

Turn up the quiet
Diana Krall
A further sure value in the world of jazz has published a new album this year and promotes it with a world tour. Diana Krall, married to Elvis Costello, was born into a familiy of musicians and began to play the piano at age four. Add her warm and far reaching voice and, thanks to her husband, her own compoistions and texts. On Turn up the quiet, characterized by standards, she is accompanied by a series of wellknown musicians such as Stuart Duncan (fiddle), Tony Garnier (bass) or Karriem Riggins (drums).
Vevo, March 2017

Give More Love
Ringo Starr
Ringo has surrounded himself with friends and released an all-star album, on which, next to Paul Mccartney, Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh (Ringo’s brother-in-law), Peter Frampton (formerly Humble Pie), Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) or Don Was can be heard. Qualitatively, the tracks are rather varied but – hey! – it is Ringo Starr who remains a great drummer and still has a lot of fans.
Roccabella, September 2017

Chicha Çoçek
Szkojáni Charlatans
The gipsy band hails from the mysteriously sunken village of Szkojan in Transsylvania, of which nobody ever heard again. The at least three sometimes four or maybe five or six musicians around the young violinist Kjartan Code live in Budapest and Santiago de Chile, travel around the world and  delight who hears them with the wild and dreamlike quality of their sound. The band formed in 2012 with the intention to prove to their audience that folk music is still and always the best party music, standing in a mystic tradtion no-one can pass by. And so they play Balcan rhythms and gipsy music with a strong muti-cultural, urban influence. Janoš Bito is great on the accordion though not as much in evidence in this song as in others.
Video by Mussy Parra, Ramon Madariaga and Valeska Aracena, March 2017

Leonard Cohen Playlist
Leonard Cohen
Here fans find the entire work of Leonard Cohen in chronological order as a free 22-hour-stream.
Open Culture, October 2017

Why is there so much beauty in the world?
Rupert Sheldrake
Why is there so much beauty in the world? And Psychedelic Expriences and Morphic Resonance
Two talks by Rupert Sheldrake (about 40 min each)