Japanese folk artist Yuma Abe, once of the band Never Young Beach, has released the effortlessly breezy Fantasia, his solo debut. It makes for perfect laid back summertime listening.
We’re loving the new Analog Africa compilation Saturno 2000, an excellent collection of Mexican rebajada (a sort of slowed down and dubbed out cumbia).
Soul Jazz Records has done it again putting together an incredible compilation tracing Caribbean soundsystem culture’s evolution into the sound of the UK club, featuring rare and wildly diverse tracks from the seventies through the early twenty-first century.
SoCal indie-rock vets Rob Crow (Pinback / Heavy Vegetable) and John Reis (RFTC / Hot Snakes) have a new band called Plosivs. Their self-titled debut is great!
