Tag: Brownswood Recordings

  • Brownswood 10 album – various artists

    Brownswood 10 album – various artists

    Jazz, neo soul and electronica collide on this compilation celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the Brownswood label Back in 2006, Gilles Peterson launched the Brownswood label. By this point in his career the London-based DJ was wise to the ways of the music biz: he’d already worked with recording behemoth Phonogram via his Talkin’ Loud […]

  • Black Focus album – Yussef Kamaal

    Black Focus album – Yussef Kamaal

    There’s something decidedly old fashioned about this young duo comprising drummer Yussef Dayes and keyboardist Kamaal Williams (aka Henry Wu). Jazz funk and broken beats are the labels most often attached to their work, genres that had their heydays 30 and 10 years ago respectively. That attitude extends to how they approach music making. Like […]

  • Southern Freeez single – Sonzeira

    Southern Freeez single – Sonzeira

    This might be a first: bossa nova meets jazz funk. UK DJ Gilles Peterson melded two of his passions to create this Brazilian reworking of Southern Freeez, originally recorded by UK jazz-funkers Freeez. This Sonzeira version, which features Emanuelle Araújo on vocals, is taken from Mr Peterson’s forthcoming album, Sonzeira – Brasil Bam Bam Bam. […]

  • Offering For Anxious album – Diggs Duke

    Offering For Anxious album – Diggs Duke

    After years of putting out a steady stream of first-class neo soul on his lonesome, Washington-based multi-instrumentalist Diggs Duke releases his debut album on Brownswood Recordings Since 2011, Diggs Duke has been creating a stir with a steady stream of EPs and singles released on his lonesome through Bandcamp and Soundcloud. Thankfully, in 2013 the […]

  • Do You? EP – Reginald Omas Mamode IV

    Do You? EP – Reginald Omas Mamode IV

    A South London-based producer who appeared on a Gilles Peterson compilation releases a soulful debut EP full of chunky beats and muted vocals Following a memorable appearance on Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Bubblers Ten earlier this year, the awesomely named Reginald Omas Mamode IV has released the EP Do You? on East London record label Five […]

  • Brownswood Bubblers Ten preview – various artists (Gilles Peterson)

    Brownswood Bubblers Ten preview – various artists (Gilles Peterson)

    The compilation series that shone a spotlight on the likes of Taylor McFerrin and José James returns with a tenth album Brownswood Recordings is the label of Gilles Peterson and its output reflects the tastes of the London-based DJ who specialises in all things jazz related. He broadcasts to an enrapt audience throughout the UK […]

  • The After Suite album review – Elan Mehler

    The After Suite album review – Elan Mehler

    This New York pianist looks like a jazz man, sounds like a jazz man, and yet makes music non-jazzers will love. The numerous vocal tracks on this album will reassure those who flee at the hint of a sax solo. Adam McBride-Smith’s voice perfectly complements the floaty, melodic ballads of The New Breed and I Want To Leave […]

  • Planet Pimp album review – Soil & “PIMP” Sessions

    Planet Pimp album review – Soil & “PIMP” Sessions

    If you’re not already familiar with this Japanese sextet, they apparently play “death jazz”. The band says the term was coined “in the hope of alienating Japan’s polite, noodling, straight-ahead jazz cognoscenti”. Whatever its origins, never has a more inappropriate moniker been given to a sound. Many words spring to mind while listening to Planet […]