Another monthly selection of random new singles we have been generously sent or discovered ourselves. All kinds of music that we may not have time to cover as albums or one time one-offs. Enjoy! Tell your friends!
Kin'Gongolo Kiniata ‘Liseki Te’ (Hélico) - Exhilarating Congolese future rumba from the hot new Kinshasa outfit - a passionately sung opening of a man’s heart to his beloved over a propulsive bed of found objects percussion and slick bass and guitars. Debut album in Spring 2025!
AMAMI ‘Wrong Way’ (Bongo Joe Records) - The brilliant Geneva band are back with more of their dub heavy, post-punk psychedelia. Their new E.P. ‘Islands’ is guaranteed dancefloor mayhem!
Leah Sinead ‘Piece Of Sky’ - Stunning dark folk from the Nottinghamshire singer-songwriter who you may have heard before under her previous name Keto. Absolutely gorgeous and deeply affecting.
Black Flower feat. Meskerem Mees ‘Monkey System’ (Sdban Records) - The Belgian underground weirdo jazz heroes anticipate their next album with this wildly danceable single that ticks all of their Ethio-jazz, dub, afrobeat and leftfield tastes with kinetic (the title of the forthcoming album) zing. The vocal is particularly brilliant.
Work Money Death ‘We Are The People’ (ATA Records) - Dreamy, swinging spiritual jazz from Tony Burkill, Neil Innes and Co. from their new album ‘People of the Fast Flowing River’.
ARTU ‘Dreams (LOCAL DISH) - Lovely lo-fi MPB soul from the Brazilian-Canadian artist Arthur Bastos on the essential Toronto label Local Dish.
Il Mario ‘Bungalow Breeze feat. Tiff The Gift’ (Little Beat More) - Ace Daisy Age era-channelling hip hop from the Italian producer and Virginia-based rapper.
Lenna Bahule, Varijashree Venugopal and Da Lata ‘Sande Kani (Da Lata Remix)’ (DLM) - Bottom end booming remix of the delicious ‘Sande Kani’. The sounds of Brazil and the Indian subcontinent through a London gaze.
Khalab feat. Kasai Allstars ‘I Need A Modem’ (Hyperjazz Records) - More Congolese infused dancefloor heat from Khalab and the powerful vocals and musicianship of the Kinshasa-based collective. The electric likembe and the heavyweight production are a match made in heaven.