So, this is jazz. Although I also think this is post rock. And modern classical composition. And has some electronic music rhythm to it sometimes. Anyway this is beautiful.
GoGo Penguin - A Humdrum Star
Richard Spaven - The Self
Some tracks are not for me on this one, but the one titled Law is just amazing. Post-rock meets breakbeat meets jazz.
Moodymann – DJ-Kicks
Hugely satisfying and absolutely relaxed mix of tracks through the hiphop-soul-groovy-nujazz axis. This is why I listen to good selections like the DJ Kicks or Late Night Tales releases in the first place. I mean not the specific genre but the top-notch selection.
Buttering Trio – Threesome
There is soul.
Everybody Wants to Rule the World covers
After watching Mr. Robot’s S02E08 and heard Portia Doubleday sing Everybody Wants to Rule the World in a karaoke bar I got totally hooked on the tune and just couldn’t let it go from my head. And since the whole thing started with someone else singing the song and it was not the original Tears For Fears version, I started searching for even more renditions of this track.
This is how I came across the 2014 Spotify Landmark recording of the song with the original band just 30 years after and it’s an awesome video to watch, also the guys just totally kill it even 30 years later. This video is right here below, and then there are some more covers after it that I found interesting.
Spotify Landmark: Tears For Fears plays “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” (in 2014)
Jaga Jazzist – Oban (Todd Terje Remix)
Wow, this is truly epic. Space travel through the galaxy.
Ludovico Einaudi – Taranta Project
World music kind of thing. Italian traditional music from Salento mixed with North African and Turkish flavours, tuned to the voices of jazz, rock, folk, and in some cases soundtrack-like grandiose orchestrations. For me it resembles Dead Can Dance on quite a wide range from the medieval sounds to the Spiritchaser’s ethnic fusion. It is a very unique and interesting record.
Crazy P – Walk Dance Talk Sing
A totally usual and casual nu-jazz album, like it’s 2004, the high times of Dzihan & Kamien, Jazzanova, Herbert et al. And !K7 still lives this era by releasing such a record in 2015.
The Gaslamp Killer – The Gaslamp Killer Experience: Live in Los Angeles
The true example of why you listen to a live concert recording. On the one hand it brings the full atmosphere into your home, but also makes you weep because you weren’t there.
The Dale Cooper Quartet – Metamanoir
Broken slow dark jazz. Nicely orchestrated deepness. Bohren and Kilimanjaro comes to mind as similar, although this one has some Dead Can Dance and Portishead in the mix at certain points.