→ This week! Montreal-Portland collab with the new Kaytraminé LP, Australian-based soulful 30/70's 5th album ART MAKE LOVE, one more brilliant talent from Australia with new single "Carpe Diem" by Melbourne-based Horatio Luna, and a new LP by Brazilian fusion jazz Grupo Um on Far Out Recordings. Also looking back at Michigan based Tod Osborn's brilliant Osborne house LP released in 2008 on Ghostly International.
→ This week! Rising Aboriginal Miss Kaninna releases her first single, Ghanaian King Ayisoba released vibrant new LP on Glitterbeat, and a new delivery from brilliant DJ, record collector and taste maker Rebecca Vasmant's label with Glasgow-based collective Azamiah. Looking back at Sunbear's 1977 LP with funky and enchanting "Let Love Flow for Peace" and the great puerto rican Bobby Valentin's folky "Fire And Rain" from his 1970 LP "Algo Nuevo" on Fania.
→ This week! New Daptone Records signee Jalen Ngonda with its infectiously energetic soul new single, Italian project Larry Manteca revives exotica music, the amazing live South African act BCUC is back with a new album due in June and a first haunting single "Pieces of Isht". Flying South to Caracas for a re-issue of Andrés y sus Estrellas's first 1976 LP and back North to the US for the Spanish version of classic "Groovin'" by The Young Rascals.
→ This week! A focus on a sound emerging and mixing ambient, soul & disco and pop with the beautiful works of three projets from the UK, Australia and New Zealand (Qwalia, The Lahaar and Summer Vee)... Great stuff! Then off to the Americas with Peruvian salsa and boogaloo pianist Alfredo Linares and Chicagoan eight-piece band The Eight Minutes, who's 1972 LP "An American Family" on Perception Records is being re-released via BBE Music.
→ This week! Brooklyn-based Mattie Safer (The Rapture, Poolside) releases new single of his new personal project lovetempo, aiming to dance loneliness away, UK muva of Earth's neo-soul gets a soft amapiano twist thanks to producer Hagan, French-Caribbean singer Adi Oasis released her new LP with a tribute to Serena William's strength. Some soulful rockstready and lovers rock to wrap it up, with a great cover of George Michael's "Careless Whisper" and Jamaican Paketo Wilson's beautiful and addictive "Praise Him"!