Guest Mixes

MIMS Guest Mix: TINA EDWARDS (London, UK)

We have an ongoing wish list of worldwide music heads, tastemakers and DJ’s for our long running mix series and our next guest has been at the top of that list for a while. We’re very excited to hear what she cooked up for us! Tina Edwards is a Journalist, …

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Interviews

Interview: ANGEL BAT DAWID (International Anthem Records) – Discussion hosted by LEXIS

Composer, clarinetist, singer & spiritual jazz soothsayer Angel Bat Dawid descended on Chicago’s jazz & improvised music scene just a few years ago. In very short time, the potency, prowess, spirit & charisma of her cosmic musical proselytizing has taken her from relatively unknown improviser to borderline ubiquitous performer in …

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Exclusive Premieres

Exclusive Premiere: Black Flower “Hora de Aksum”

Piloted by saxophonist/flutist/composer Nathan Daems (Ragini Trio, Dijf Sanders, Echoes of Zoo), the input of notorious musicians, drummer Simon Segers (MDC III, De Beren Gieren, Stadt), cornet player Jon Birdsong (dEUS, Beck, Calexico), keyboardist Wouter Haest (Voodoo Boogie) and bassist Filip Vandebril (Lady Linn, The Valerie Solanas) leads to the …

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My Favorite Things

MY FAVORITE THINGS – Show #13 w/ DJ Dusty from Jazz Liberatorz (Hosted by Psycut)

Really excited to have as the first guest for my show my good friend DJ Dusty from Jazz Liberatorz. Ten years ago one, he was one of the first DJ’s who played at the Jazz Attitudes Party I started in Paris. This 13th session of My Favorite Things is, as …

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Exclusive Premieres

Exclusive Premiere: Tensei “Curtis Kuti” feat. Makaya McCraven (Tokyo Dawn Records)

Upon popular request, TDR presents the instrumentals and re-edits of Tensei’s uplifting ‘Constellate’ release. Tensei (meaning “Heaven Star” in Japanese) is the Chicago based producer tandem of Midas Wells and Chris Kramer. The music represents a soulful, electronic and hip hop infused perspective to Chicago’s growing spiritual jazz movement, with …

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Exclusive Premieres

Exclusive Premiere: Culross Close (K15) “Acceptance”

Much of the way in which the world operates today, at a human level, concerns exploitation, using another’s vulnerability for one’s own benefit, an idea so commonplace we only recognise its ill in the extremes. From reflection, to acceptance, to hope, ​Forgotten Ones​ delves into the contradictions of accepting the …

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Future Classics

SEED Ensemble “Driftglass”

The latest release from London-based Jazz Re:Freshed label comes from a collective featuring some of the best musicians from the region including tuba player Theon Cross (Sons of Kemet), trumpeter Sheila Maurice-Grey (KOKOROKO), Joe Armon-Jones (Ezra Collective) and others. Led by alto saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi, also of KOKOROKO and Nerija, …

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Future Classics

Angel Bat Dawid “The Oracle”

Incredibly special cassette/digital album from the Chicago-based “composer, clarinetist, singer & spiritual jazz soothsayer”. A project full of warmth, experimentation and emotion, recorded solo for the most part, at home in Chicago or impromptu on tour in London & Capetown, straight to cell phone. Melodious clarinet riffing, pianos, overdubbing, singing …

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Exclusive Premieres

Exclusive Premiere: Chris Dawkins “Rootsman In Space” Ft. Jimi Tenor

Chris Dawkins is renowned for his work as a session musician and co-writer, penning and playing for Nightmares On Wax, touring and writing with Jimi Tenor and Maurice Fulton, collaborating with Dub pioneer Adrian Sherwood, and co-writing the blockbuster Oceans 11 Soundtrack with David Holmes – to name just a …

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Exclusive Premieres

Exclusive Premiere: The Reboot Joy Confession “Enjoy Solitude” (Nutriot Records)

We are excited to present the first taste from an outstanding compilation project from our friends at Nutriot out of beautiful Vienna, Austria. “For The Colleagues Of Ubu & Their Authorities” is the brainchild of Vienna based vinyl enthusiast, DJ & producer The Reboot Joy Confession. As composer, producer and sound …

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Forgotten Treasures

Joe McPhee “Nation Time” (1971)

Bay Area’s Superior Viaduct label has reissued saxophonist Joe McPhee’s 1971 free-willing jazz classic ‘Nation Time.’ Originally released on the small CjR imprint, the very rare three track recording, which features the all-time cooker “Shakey Jake,” fuses funky backing grooves with McPhee’s fiery post-Coltrane tenor solos and melodies. Release Info …

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Future Classics

Ill Considered “5” + “6”

These two essential new albums from jazz supergroup ILL CONSIDERED, recorded little more than a year after their first, intended to be listened to together, showcase the group’s rapid development. Leon Brichard on electric & upright bass, Idris Rahman on tenor sax and now bass clarinet (with devastating effect on …

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