A quick RSS feed friendly round up of this weeks daily recommendations if you don't want to follow our social media every day.

Ear & mind opening recordings from Sosena Gebre Eyesus playing the otherworldly begena or harp of David whilst gently singing Ethiopian orthodox hymns for Little Axe. Enchanting & mesmerising traditional East African music.

Anchored with a jazz funk vibe but reaching for the techno future stars, get your Friday brain wobble on & warm up for the weekend with the electronic fusion vibes of Ben Penn on Young Marco's aptly named Safe Trip label.

A DJ mix is like cooking, you need great source material & after 25 years Smalltown Supersound has some of the best ingredients in the game. Luckily Prins Thomas is the chef & he's cooked up the best DJ mix of 2018 over 220 minutes & 80 tracks. Michelin stars all round & a BIG happy 25th birthday to the label.

Most modern funk is a pale imitation but Washington's LUCKY BROWN BAND is carving out out his own 21st century fresh funk fusion. Check out his all inclusive, barrio rather than barrier, soul stirring LP on the always excellent Tramp Rec.

Another stunning avant pop LP out of Brazil from Anelis Assumpção for Scubidu Music. Leftfield percussion, oddball arrangements, sweet vocals with attitude, elements of dub, MPB, jazz, electronica & Brazil's Afro heritage expertly fused into one big fusion Feijoada.

Serene yet anchored by lyrical weight the new LP by Same Waves for Japan's flau is an intriguing, stylistically fluctuating, electronic acoustic fusion with surreal jazz, Americana & modern compositional cameos from crack Chicago musicians popping up in its vocal pop dreaminess.

Stretched almost to breaking point, the fragile folk & hazy Americana sounds of Portland's Lisa/Liza for Orindal Records have an underlying strength and an undeniable beauty.

One for the Friday funksters as this politically & socially charged, Afro soul, funk, Caribbean & jazz fused musical gem by the Yoruba Singers gets a welcome reissue by the nice people at Cultures of Soul. No bad tunes, just drop the needle and follow your hips.

If you only buy one jazz compilation this year then make it World Jazz Grooves on BBE Music compiled by diligent, dust defying, dapper, deep digging dons If Music's JC & Victor Kiswell.

Another fantastic LP from Hive Mind Records as they present a taste of Morocco's Moulay Ahmed El Hassani's self released & self played material. Synths & drum machines meet native instruments on this open minded mid-Atlas folk meets Rai & Chaabi, electronic fusion. A wonderful listen.

A vaguely disquieting but not troubling air mingles with the ambient ether and cosmic intent of Portland's Post Moves as he fuses his pedal steel guitar, effects, field recordings & synths to fine effect for Lobby Art

It's nice to see my favourite mattress friendly, instrumental folksters from Philadelphia, Hour, back so soon with a new release for Lily Tapes & Discs. A languid lament and a fine lazy, hazy contemplative start to the week.