Mark Kozelek’s Sun Kil Moon has teamed up with the Hungarian band Amoeba for a remarkable cross-continental collaboration simply titled Sun Kil Moon featuring Amoeba. The album was recorded in Hungary throughout 2022 and 2023 and marks Kozelek’s first major international studio partnership in several years.
Initially released outside of North America in September 2024, the album later arrived on CD and vinyl in October 2024. It blends Sun Kil Moon’s introspective storytelling and spoken-word style with Amoeba’s rich, jazz-infused instrumentation, resulting in one of the most atmospheric and emotionally charged records in Kozelek’s recent catalog. The follow-up, Sun Kil Moon and Amoeba Vol. 2, features eight tracks that stretch…
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Supergroup Los Cinco Cardones met playing music in Los Cabos, the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula – a location whose cultural diversity and balmy climate both make themselves felt on this debut album. The project unites bandleader Sebastian Maschat, drummer of German group The Whitest Boy Alive, Chicago-born multi-instrumentalist Howard Clifton and Argentinian duo Diego Sole (guitars) and Sebastian Dimarco (bass); the ‘fifth Cardón’ of the quartet’s name appears to be identified as the record itself.
After two albums under her belt, Berlin-based harmonica player 
In an interview with David Joez Villaverde from March 2024, 
The ever-exploratory composer Henry Threadgill is more restless than ever at 81 and, thank goodness, shows no signs of slowing down. 
Each album by Swedish composer 
Saxophonist 
The late-career success of legendary Ethiopian musicians Mulatu Astatke and Hailu Mergia have brought new audiences to classic Ethio-jazz. The surge of attention has been aided by reissue labels that have made it their business to preserve decades-old recordings of snaking horn play, elegant vibraphones, and mesmeric grooves. But right in the Bay Area, you’ll find a contemporary artist in the same lineage, recording music with a rhythm and style that honors these righteous predecessors.
On November 23, 2024, Avishai Cohen and his Quintet gathered at the world-renowned 
The list of “bitchin’” things in music is select: Camaros, summers, pretty lives. Meditative, drone-filled music built on synths, drum machines, and woodwinds usually does not fit the bill. Yet the Chicago trio 
Wolfgang Muthspiel and his trio with Scott Colley on bass and Brian Blade on drums (“Together they have something of the empathy of the Bill Evans trio” – Downbeat) goes into its third recording-venture swinging, setting the stage for what may be the group’s most adventurous trio recording with a delicate reading of Keith Jarrett’s “Lisbon Stomp”. Throughout the album however, the Austrian guitarist and his American cohorts turn the spotlight towards Wolfgang’s captivating originals, touching on balladic lyricism (“Pradela”, “Traversia”), subtle folk infusions (“Strumming”, “Flight”), as well as oblique chamber jazz (“Weill You Wait”) and twangy rock and roll (“Roll”). As has become custom, Wolfgang alternates between acoustic and electric guitars fluently and…
If only one name comes to mind when you think of Ethio-jazz, it’s almost certainly that of 
Tenor saxophonist