This month was a bit of a blur. I went to Istanbul for a week. I was sick for a week. Music still kept me company. There were some pleasant musical surprises for me, in particular the three albums mentioned in the title. Flea!? So many great jazz and jazzy dance-adjacent instrumental albums this year, that one included. Enjoy, and let me know what I might have missed.
Flea – Honora
A jazz album from Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers? I’ll bite. So good and such a surprise.
Champagne Bubblebath – Mixtape: Volume One
Fantastic name for a great band. Check out the instrumental cover of Spodieottiedopaliscious.
Adrian Younge – Younge
I love this. From Bandcamp: “Younge is Adrian Younge’s magnum opus: an orchestral album written from a hip hop producer’s perspective, and a hip hop record composed with the discipline of classical and cinematic music.”
Other albums that I’ve been jamming to:
- Protoje – The Art of Acceptance
- Lewis OfMan – 50KWTTS
- Greg Foat & Maston – Moving Images
- Black Nile – Indigo Garden
Remember to support the artists you love, and if you want to peruse some of the previous new music posts from this year, do it!
🗒 Featured image by Allen J. Schaben (Los Angeles Times)
Comments welcome!