C2C is a French turntable act helmed by 20Syl, Greem, Atom and Pfel. Active since 1998, the combo is part of an emerging movement called “scratch music” (or turntablism), where each member uses his turntable as an instrument, recreating in turn drums or bass, scratching a riff of guitar or adding some sax… C2C – …
Instrumental hip hop duo The Cancel is the fruit of a collaboration between Andrei Zelenskii and Dmitrii Fedusiv, two Ukrainian musicians with a common passion for jazz music and old vinyls. Their music finds its roots in the works of jazz maestros such as John Coltrane and Miles Davis passed through the filter of modern …
Bay Area rapper Raashan Ahmad dropped his last album, For What You’ve Lost, at the end of last year but it was largely overlooked by mainstream media, which is a real shame considering that this kind jazzy hip-hop album is pretty hard to come by. Rasshan’s flow is as smooth and effortless as ever …
First heard on Rubin Steiner’s compilations, French collective Chlorine Free breathe new life into Jazz Fusion. With their creative mix of Jazz, Funk and elements of electronica, they could really be onto something. Inspired by classics of Jazz music but also by a myriad other genres, the seven artists who make up the combo’s current …
All four members of 340ml (pronounced: three forty mil) grew up in Maputo, Mozambique, but moved to Johannesburg in the mid 1990s in order to pursue academic careers. Paulo Jorge Chibanga (drums) studied architecture but then branched out into design, Rui Soeiro (bass) completed a Bachelor of Commerce, Pedro Pinto (vocals and sampler) got into …
Raphael Gualazzi is a young Italian pianist from the small and picturesque city of Urbino, in the Marche region. Still relatively little known outside jazz circles, Gualazzi might be one of Italy’s best kept secrets! After his 2005 debut album, Love Outside The Window, which featured 11 original tracks entirely composed and arranged by him …
Nantes-based trio Smooth is a jazz-funk / electronica project active since 2005. After releasing two successful albums, the band is now back with a new record, The Parade, which hit the stores in February 2010. Their music is a mix of influences from different times and places and it could very well have been created …
