Brownswood

The borders between London’s musical tribes have always been porous. For Yussef Kamaal, the sound of the capital – with its hum of jungle, grime and broken beat – has shaped a self-taught, UK-tipped approach to playing jazz. In the states, the genre’s lon

Fabled as the city where dreams come to thrive or die, Johannesburg is forever pumping out the life-giving force of criss-crossing sonic tributaries. As this collection of specially-recorded new music shows, every generation must discover for itself what

A project that grew out of a jam session with long term friends and collaborators Gilles Peterson and Jean-Paul 'Bluey' Maunick, they capture the raw energy of the Brit-Funk scene of the early 80s over eight tracks. Following the limited white-label 12' r

Wisdom of the Elders was recorded in Johannesburg in 2015 on one of many trips Shabaka Hutchings took there to immerse himself in the country’s rich musical heritage. The album is a psalm in nine parts. An episodic unfurling of a sonic journey across the

Brownswood present Zara McFarlane's Songs of an Unknown Tongue, a masterful work that underlines her continuous growth as an artist. Zara's fourth studio album pushes the boundaries of jazz adjacent music via an exploration into the folk and spiritual tra