Linda Sikhakhane - L I N D A

Acclaimed South African jazz musician Linda Sikhakhane returns with LINDA, a deeply personal project that marks a milestone in his artistic journey blending spiritual jazz, African heritage, and contemporary influences into an absorbing body of work. Produced by Nduduzo Makhathini, the album features the saxophonist with pianist Cameron Campbell, bassist Conway Campbell, drummer Kabelo Mokhatla, and special guests Phila Dlozi, Omagugu, Ovuyonke, ZuluBoy, and Thabo Sikhakhane.

Tracklist:
1. Days Begin To Sing (feat. Omagugu)
2. Ubizo
3. Indela
4. Ilanga (feat. ZuluBoy)
5. Vumani
6. Izibusiso (feat. Ovuyonke)
7. Uzalo (feat. Thabo Sikhakhane)
8. Abalimi (feat. Phila Dlozi)
9. Izwi

VA - Tramp 45 RPM Single Collection, Vol. 20

Another volume in the '45rpm single collection' series. 20 tracks representing a wide selection of rare grooves, covering genres like rhythm'n blues, lowrider soul, deep-funk, Disco, AOR, and garage rock.

Tracklist:
1. Lu Elliott - Common Sense
2. Lu Elliott - Speaking Of Happiness
3. Timmy Sims - Corporation
4. Timmy Sims - Count Down
5. Kwartet Frits Kaatee - Easy Evil
6. Kwartet Frits Kaatee - In The Name Of Love
7. Baobab - Keine Nummer (1978)
8. Baobab - Keine Nummer (2022)
9. The Villagers - Yes I'm Ready
10. The Villagers - The Mirror
11. Honest John - Shake-A-Plenty
12. Honest John - Honest John
13. George Green;The Ancestors - Soul Jazz One
14. George Green;The Ancestors - Soul Jazz Two
15. Tory Wynter - Oh Let the Rain Fall Down
16. Tory Wynter - I'm Feeling So Happy
17. Ryjel - Heart's On Fire (Edit)
18. Ryjel - Baby Don't Stop
19. The Shake and Bake Band - Starflight Disco #1 (Pt.1)
20. The Shake and Bake Band - Starflight Disco #1 (Pt.2)

VA - Future Bubblers 9.0

The talent discovery and development initiative Future Bubblers, founded by DJ Gilles Peterson, presents its ninth compilation album highlighting emerging independent artists. The release showcases a genre-spanning selection encompassing jazz, soul, electronic, folk, R&B, trip-hop, and experimental soundscapes. Peruvian saxophonist and composer Allexa Nava anchors the record with rhythmically tight performances on "6844" and Lovellious's track "Kandela." The duo Hana Amaya and Tibo Step deliver a 90s trip-hop aesthetic on the lullaby "Your Prayer," while Bristol-based project Silver Ley blends classical structures with glitchy electronics on "Swandive." Vocalist India Shan presents her solo R&B work on "Bumped My Head," followed by alternative jazz quartet RUS on "Plaistow." The collection's fluid nature is further represented by OkCandice's Afrobeats and folk contributions, gospel-influenced vocal tracks from Faith Folorunso and Sosthieu, and DOPPLR's experimental production "landed," which merges DIY modular synths with tribal drumming.

Tracklist:
1. Allexa Nava - 6844
2. Hana Amaya & Tibo Step - Your Prayer
3. India Shan - Bumped My Head
4. Lovellious - Neukölln (feat. okcandice)
5. sosthieu - Create in Me a Pure Heart
6. Lovellious - Kandela (feat. Allexa Nava)
7. Faith Folorunso - King Lear
8. Silver Ley - Swandive
9. RUS - Plaistow
10. DOPPLR - landed
11. okcandice - Growing Away

Bonobo - Distance in Static

‘Distance In Static’ – released Sept 11th on Ninja Tune – is the new album from British musician, producer and DJ, Simon Green AKA Bonobo. It’s the latest from an artist who has forged a path as one of the defining voices in electronic music. A path that includes the release of two UK Top 5 albums (‘Migration’ and ‘Fragments’), billions of streams, collaborations with artists like Erykah Badu & Damon Albarn, and multiple BRIT & GRAMMY-nominations.

Across the record, Green collaborates with a typically striking cast of artists including Arooj Aftab, Joy Crookes, Nilüfer Yanya, Ichiko Aoba, Nicole Miglis & Aanya Martin. Lyrics appear in English, Urdu and Japanese, while historic Iranian samples & guzheng recordings sit alongside Green's own meticulously processed instrumentation, woven together across recording sessions spanning LA, Tokyo, London and beyond – with a significant portion of the record completed at Neil Young’s legendary Broken Arrow Ranch.

His acclaimed live show has also helped redefine what electronic music can look like on stage, taking him from sold-out performances at Sydney Opera House, Red Rocks & Alexandra Palace – plus a historic five-night residency at the Royal Albert Hall – to major festival stages including Glastonbury, Coachella and Fuji Rock. Alongside the new album he also unveils a brand new Bonobo Live show, designed by Pierre Claude (Air, Gesaffelstein, Phoenix & Caroline Polachek), kicking off with a tour across North America this Fall.

Tracklist:
1. Dawn
2. Cycles
3. Fire on the Water (feat. Arooj Aftab)
4. Drift (4:30)
5. Talk to Me (feat. Nicole Miglis)
6. Uncasually
7. Always on Your Side (feat. Joy Crookes)
8. Youth’s Fountain (feat. Nilüfer Yanya)
9. Shokoufeh
10. Can’t You See (feat. Aanya Martin)
11. ID700
12. Me and You
13. Equinoctial (feat. Ichiko Aoba)
14. Mercury (feat. Kanako Yamamoto)

Ezra Collective - Here Because of Hope

Ezra Collective's 'Here Because Of Hope' is the most ambitious and personal record of their career - conceived as a body of work split into three spiritual and geographical movements, the album traces the movement of Black people across continents and decades, from the music of Africa to the rhythms of the Caribbean, and home to the streets of London. Formed in the youth clubs of London, Mercury Prize and BRIT Award-winners Femi Koleoso, TJ Koleoso, Joe Armon-Jones, James Mollison and Ife Ogunjobi have now spent over a decade making jazz joyful, urgent and undeniable. On 'Here Because Of Hope,' they push that vision further than ever, asking a simple but profound question: why does so much Black music born out of pain sound so joyful? Their answer is hope: the belief, carried across generations and oceans, that something better is possible. Anchored by collaborations with Pa Salieu, Lila Iké, Leona Lewis, and reaching across the full breadth of the global African diaspora (including America, where those same African and Caribbean roots gave birth to jazz itself) 'Here Because Of Hope' is a record of remarkable warmth, ambition and humanity, and the sound of Britain's most vital band at the peak of their powers.

Tracklist:
1. Part 1 (read by Letitia Wright)
2. Blow Your Trumpet
3. Sweet Echo
4. Don't Worry
5. Only Love (feat. Pa Salieu)
6. Someday
7. Part 2 (read by Letitia Wright)
8. Birdie Sings
9. The Last Stand
10. Well Organised (feat. Lila Iké)
11. El Corazón
12. Bunny on the Rise
13. Part 3 (read by Letitia Wright)
14. All I Need (feat. Leona Lewis)
15. Jubilee Feeling
16. Black Flag
17. Most High (feat. Libianca)

Your Old Droog - Bread & Butter

Bread & Butter is the tenth full-length studio album by Brooklyn-based hip-hop artist Your Old Droog, released on September 25, 2026.

The 12-track project is issued via Rem-U-Lak Records and Nature Sounds. It draws thematic inspiration from Droog’s childhood as a Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant in South Brooklyn, specifically recalling how his family would stretch a thin layer of caviar across everyday bread and butter during lean times—blending motifs of hardship and luxury into a reflection on resilience and making the best of any situation.

Tracklist:
1. You Know How That Go
2. Brighton Beach (feat. Evidence)
3. Bread & Butter
4. Pavlovian Effect (feat. A-Reece, Masta Ace, DJ Harrison)
5. Thinking (feat. Oddisee)
6. I Appreciate You (feat. Tarriona 'Tank' Ball)
7. Symphony (feat. Kim Hill)
8. Therapy
9. Schadenfreude (feat. Conductor Williams)
10. I Don't Care (feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow)
11. Hunter Biden (Outro)
12. Impression Control (Bonus)

Greg Foat - everyone

Everyone' was Recorded in Tokyo, Japan over two days in late September 2025. The album musically chronicles Greg Foat's first tour of Japan. The album was commisioned by Tokyo based clothing Label 'Everyone' and is a fantastic mix of Ambient, Jazz and Electronic music genres.

Each track celebrates a special memory of the tour, from the opener 'Shirahama Beach' home to the wonderful FFKT festival to the playful 'Lake Haruna Boat Ride'.

The album also features Tokyo based jazz musicians Kensuke Miyaki on Baritone Saxophone and Bass Clarinet and Yoshihiro Kaneko on Double Bass. Limited to 700 vinyl copies only with obi strip.

Tracklist:
1. Shirahama Beach
2. Lost in Shinjuku
3. Ikaho Onsen
4. Lake Haruna Boat Ride
5. Sweet Potato Man
6. Maebashi Reflections
7. Everyone, Pt. 1
8. Everyone, Pt. 2

corto.alto - SOME SMALL FORTUNE

“SOME SMALL FORTUNE” finds Shortall at his most expansive and unpredictably exciting. It showcases his widest range of features to date, additionally collaborating with the likes of Mick Jenkins, anaiis, Oscar Jerome, Jacob Alon, BINA., Terra Kin and Eriff alongside his longtime Glaswegian band, to produce an electronic, classical, pop and indie-influenced record that extends far beyond the confines of its meticulous making. “I wanted to write songs with artists that I love and have a proper collaboration with them, rather than be a control freak,” he says. “That’s why I reached out to someone like Mick Jenkins, who I’ve listened to forever, and the amazing Scottish songwriter Jacob Alon, as well as a shapeshifter like BINA.. I’m entering a different world with this music.”

Tracklist:
1. SOME SMALL FORTUNE
2. THIEF
3. APRIL (feat. anaiis)
4. TEMPLE
5. GO (feat. Vector)
6. NOTHING (feat. Eriff)
7. DON'T LISTEN
8. PRAYED WE WOULD (feat. Oscar Jerome)
9. PAPER
10. WHODIS (feat. Mick Jenkins)
11. YURA
12. OMNI (feat. Terra Kin)
13. IJUSTDONTKNOW
14. SOMETHING (feat. BINA.)
15. NOBLEHILL (feat. Jacob Alon)

Dur-Dur Band - Dur-Dur 1988-1989, Vol. 3 & 4 (Analog Africa No.46)

In the 1980s, Mogadishu was home to one of East Africa’s most vibrant music scenes. Nightclubs, hotels and theatres filled with the sound of ambitious young musicians blending Somali melodies with funk, disco, reggae, soul and jazz. At the centre of that movement was Dur-Dur Band — a group whose recordings would later travel far beyond Somalia’s borders and find new audiences decades after they were made.

Drummer Adan Handal was there from the beginning. Born in Mogadishu in 1962, he left school as a teenager to follow his obsession with music. Alongside childhood friend Isse Dahir Qassim, he first performed in school competitions before joining the military band Bakaka. When that chapter ended after the Ogaden War, the two musicians imagined something new: a private band that could bring together some of Mogadishu’s finest young talents and explore new directions in Somali popular music. That idea gave birth to Dur-Dur Band.

By 1984, the group had become the house band at the legendary Jubba Hotel, where they developed their explosive live performances and constantly evolving sound. Drawing inspiration from Somali traditions as well as international influences, Dur-Dur created music that was both deeply local and remarkably modern.

Their early cassette releases — Volumes 1 and 2 — quickly spread across Somalia. But it was with Volumes 3 and 4 that the band reached its creative peak. Recorded under difficult circumstances, these albums captured a group pushing against every limitation: experimenting with rhythms, arrangements and studio techniques while facing personal losses and a country moving toward crisis.

The making of Volume 3 was marked by tragedy when singer Shimaali Ahmed Shimaali was badly injured in a car accident and later left Dur-Dur to join Iftin Band, one of their main rivals. Shortly before the recording of Volume 4, Baastow — the band’s male lead singer from the beginning — left for Saudi Arabia. Another devastating blow followed when founder and bandleader Isse Dahir Qassim died in an electrical accident during a theatre soundcheck. For a time, the future of Dur-Dur was uncertain.

With new members joining and Adan Handal pushing the band into new sonic territory, Volume 4 became one of Dur-Dur’s most adventurous recordings — combining electronic percussion, unusual drum textures and reggae-inspired grooves with the unmistakable spirit of Somali music.

Volume 5 would be their final chapter before civil war forced the musicians into exile and scattered them across the world. The cassettes that once circulated through Mogadishu’s record shops became precious documents of a vanished era.

Today, Dur-Dur Band’s music has travelled further than anyone could have imagined — from Somalia’s dance halls to listeners around the world. Their recordings are more than a document of a vanished era; they are proof of a musical creativity that survived war, displacement and decades of silence.

For Adan Handal, the only musician to appear on every Dur-Dur recording, the story of the band is ultimately the story of a sound that refused to disappear.

Tracklist:
1. Introduction, Vol. 3
2. Boodhari Sidiisii (Like Boodhari)
3. Shuuta Shuutee (Trad. Chant)
4. Doobnimadey (My Maiden)
5. Liibaanta (Victory)
6. Run Maleysku Sheego (Let Speak The Truth)
7. Naf Jaceyl (Soulful Love)
8. Waloow (Even Though)
9. Introduction, Vol. 4
10. Waan Hubaa (I Am Sure)
11. Faduma (Women's Name)
12. Heelooy Heelooy (Trad. Chant)
13. Adigaa I dhalanrogey (You've Changed Me)
14. Ileen Hoheey (Oh! Surely)
15. Meedey (Where Is She?)
16. Ala Gariire (I Am Trembling)
17. Is yeel Yeel (Stop Pretending)
18. Gariirtee (You Are Shaking)