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Perera Elsewhere - Fountain (Friends of Friends)
"Elsewhere showing her vocal versatility by switching between tower block spitting and dream soul, both styles effortlessly riding the broken beats and late night mood."
The Slow Music Movement
Sep 102 min read


Himmelskip - Salongrifle (Die With Your Boots On)
"the boys get busy with some melancholic lone riding Americana, which then proceeds to flirt shamelessly between spaghetti western soundtrack and thinking rather than head banging rock."
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 202 min read


Ben Varian & Sarah Safaie - Ark's Joy (Self Release)
"Far-out funkiness and some cosmic bump is the order of the day with "scampi strut" with Varian setting the keyboard controls for the heart of the sun"
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 292 min read


Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer - Different Rooms (International Anthem)
"The new album sees these studio neighbours embarking on another ethereal voyage of discovery to the land where ambient, new age, minimalism and classical meet"
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 202 min read


Hamid Reza Behzadian - Blues for Leila (Self Release)
"artfully fusing the sounds of his harmonica, both Indian and Western slide guitars and Iranian folk music."
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 182 min read


Vinocio - Tostados (Self Release)
drops the dance floor designs for a lovely warm Sunday morning vibe, even daring to venture north of the border on “Favela“ to pay respects to the care free bossa sounds of their neighbours.
The Slow Music Movement
Jun 42 min read


Amir Amiri, Christophe Lamarche-Ledou - Une Langgue Universelle / Universal Language S/T (Fifth House)
This really is a swirling fusion of man, machine, worlds and wires
The Slow Music Movement
Mar 102 min read


Cr&m - Always sad in November (Crampersand)
The guitars lay down a good natured folk vibe which slowly gets consumed by the cosmic electronica on it's quest to reach a higher plain
The Slow Music Movement
Feb 261 min read


Luzius Schuler - Pond (Red Brick Records)
who's intent on taking the sounds of this traditional instrument to more playful, rarefied realms via retro synths & kooky arrangements
The Slow Music Movement
Feb 201 min read


SILVAN STRAUSS - FLUKIN' (Kabul Fire)
a constantly surprising selection of woozy wobblers, jazz licked head nodders, mushroom jazz, far out fusion, funktified groove...
The Slow Music Movement
Feb 191 min read


Waldo’s Gift - Malcolm's Law (Severn Songs)
The LP is nothing less than sonic shock and awe, the tracks threaded with metal guitar
The Slow Music Movement
Feb 41 min read


Roberta Gulisano - A' Surfara (Mhodi / Comusi)
But what really marks the LP out is her willingness to take those traditions and influences and give them a twist or ten
The Slow Music Movement
Jan 252 min read


Remorae - Flourish in Green (Self Release)
Well Remorae, where once their fusion could occasionally feel a touch unbalanced, have absolutely nailed it this time around.
The Slow Music Movement
Jan 171 min read


Yemen Blues - MISS BALLAD (Kartel)
Yemeni wedding punk, thumping space rock, astral folk, urban Arabian attitude and hyper-speed Middle Eastern futurism
The Slow Music Movement
Dec 19, 20241 min read


Von Spar / Eiko Ishibashi / Joe Talia / Tatsuhisa Yamamoto - Album I (Bureau B)
post rock, cosmic minimalism, low key abstract funkiness and some nu-jazz fusion freakiness amongst the percussive drive
The Slow Music Movement
Dec 18, 20241 min read


anaiis & Grupo Cosmo (5dB)
she curiously explores and toys with the worlds of orchestral assisted MPBs, dream samba, acoustic roots and old and nu-bossa
The Slow Music Movement
Dec 6, 20241 min read


Waldo's Gift - Malcom's Law
After that it's agitated jazz rock does battle with metal guitar mutations as the drums morph into rockier territory when they see fit
The Slow Music Movement
Dec 3, 20242 min read


Jake Baldwin, Zacc Harris, Pete Hennig - Boundaries (Shifting Paradigm)
which encouraged Hennig to adopt a textural approach Harris to get his pedals out and Baldwin to swirl with these lighter than air exchanges
The Slow Music Movement
Dec 2, 20241 min read


Peter Manheim - In Time (Northern Spy)
Sadly this review is also an obituary as Modou "Mamadou" Sarr
The Slow Music Movement
Nov 19, 20241 min read
![Various Artists - Juyungo (Afro-Indigenous Music From The North-Western Andes) [Honest Jons]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/461004_e9171a0fc347491e958f6dd44416f72a~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_251,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/461004_e9171a0fc347491e958f6dd44416f72a~mv2.webp)
![Various Artists - Juyungo (Afro-Indigenous Music From The North-Western Andes) [Honest Jons]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/461004_e9171a0fc347491e958f6dd44416f72a~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_306,h_305,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/461004_e9171a0fc347491e958f6dd44416f72a~mv2.webp)
Various Artists - Juyungo (Afro-Indigenous Music From The North-Western Andes) [Honest Jons]
It’s a mind blowing collection of animistic roots and culture colliding fusion - raw, ritualistic and revelatory.
The Slow Music Movement
Nov 18, 20241 min read


Tuomo & Markus with Verneri Pohjola - Division Street (Grandpop)
There's something in the water in Finland, or perhaps it's just the long dark winters that encourage indoor pursuits like practising your...
The Slow Music Movement
Nov 15, 20242 min read


Jessica Lauren - Film (BBE)
From ambient jazz soundscapes to spiritual swingers, modal meditation to library cinematic numbers it's all there rubbing shoulders.
The Slow Music Movement
Nov 9, 20242 min read


Waaju - Featuring Majid Bekkas (BBE Records)
content to help elevate the main man’s evocative North Africa got soul vocals with some great dubbed out, jazz laced atmospheric work
The Slow Music Movement
Oct 29, 20242 min read
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![Clan Caimán - Pica-Pau (woodpecker) [Em Records]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/461004_9617c912075a48d0b79b975d6a5b9068~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_305,h_305,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/461004_9617c912075a48d0b79b975d6a5b9068~mv2.webp)
Clan Caimán - Pica-Pau (woodpecker) [Em Records]
Clan Caimán sound like a nu-cumbia group who are nearing the end of playing a three day birthday party for a Mexican drug lord who got them high off his own supply
The Slow Music Movement
Sep 29, 20241 min read
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