Photos by Andre Baumecker

Placenta will be available in record stores worldwide this Friday, May 24th, 2024. We strongly encourage you to support local business, embrace and enjoy the real life retail experience by purchasing a copy from your nearest independent record store.

Introducing: SML – a new quintet stacked with luminaries from Los Angeles’s jazz, improvised, indie and modern music scenes: bassist Anna Butterss, synthesist Jeremiah Chiu, saxophonist Josh Johnson, percussionist Booker Stardrum, and guitarist Gregory Uhlmann.

Zwei Abende. Two evenings of performance, collaboration and creation; an almost unbelievable convergence of international musicians in Berlin.

MESTIZX will be available in record stores across the globe this Friday, May 3rd, 2024. We encourage you to support local business and three dimensional retail IRL - please consider purchasing a copy from your nearest independent record store (and if you're local shop doesn't have it, I'm sure they'd be happy to order the album for you, just gotta ask!).

“...unapologetically warm and sincere, offering a personal perspective on the intersection of music and mindfulness…” - Deb Grant, Big Issue

Made with gratitude, love, respect, and admiration for the great Abdul Wadud.

Today visionary Los Angeles-based percussionist, producer, curator and communicator Carlos Niño shares news & the first music of a new Carlos Niño & Friends collection called Placenta.

Ruth Goller - SKYLLUMINA is out today on all streaming platforms

Celebrate Charles Stepney's birthday today, Tuesday March 26th, with a special conversation hosted by The Stepney Sisters featuring Chicago House music legend Terry Hunter, James Poyser of The Roots, Kitty Haywood and several others.

Cassie Kinoshi's seed. featuring NikNak and the London Contemporary Orchestra - gratitude is out this Friday March 22nd, 2024 on LP, CD, and Digital Download

Today, Bolivian-born singer and multi-medium performer Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti and renowned Chicago expat jazz drummer Frank Rosaly announce MESTIZX, their debut album as co-composers, arrangers and musicians.

A very special International Women's Day event presented by Serious: this Thursday, March 7th, composer, arranger and alto saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi will perform the music of her forthcoming IARC debut gratitude alongside her flagship ensemble seed., turntablist NikNak and the London Contemporary Orchestra.

Out this Friday March 1st, 2024 on LP, CD, and Digital Download (( full album will be available on streaming platforms on April 2nd ))

On December 10th, 2022, Carlos Niño and Photay assembled a beautiful cast of musicians at Brooklyn's Public Records to perform in celebration of their recently-released International Anthem LP An Offering (and the subsequent mixtape of bonus material, More Offerings).

In December of 2020, Cape Town, South Africa-based drummer Asher Gamedze traveled to Cairo, Egypt, where he would assemble a quintet with some of the city's finest improvisers: Maurice Louca (Elephantine, Northern Spy Recs) on synthesizers, Adham Zidan (The Invisible Hands, Baskot Lel Baltageyya) on bass, Chérif El-Masri (Eskenderella, Dimension Machine) on guitar, and Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls, Sublime Frequencies) on alto saxophone.

By popular demand... Jeremiah Chiu's In Electric Time – a smoking suite of organic electronic music created entirely analog, in-situ at Los Angeles's Vintage Synth Museum - is available this Friday in record stores worldwide.

We are elated today to share new music by visionary Berlin/London based composer, arranger & alto saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi, alongside her flagship large ensemble seed. The album – titled gratitude – also features turntablist NikNak and the London Contemporary Orchestra in a stirring philharmonic performance recorded at Southbank Centre in 2023.

This Friday 2/2 is the worldwide release date for THE CLOSEST THING TO SILENCE by Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer. It's also BANDCAMP FRIDAY so we thought: why not go crazy and celebrate this glorious confluence with our first ever Bandcamp listening party???