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"Exotica" is The Brand New series of Exotic/International / Rare grooves mixed & selected by Bruno Lopes (also known as Mundo Urbano). Original post at Mundo Urbano, December 06, 2020 . EXOTICA #005: 01.CHRISTINA VANTZOU - Wild Beast (Edições CN) 02.FÉLICIA ATKINSON - This is the gate (Shelter Press) 03.ARUSHI JAIN - हम होंगे कामयाब // We Shall Overcome (Ghunghru) 04.MATTHEW HALSALL - Salute to the Sun (Gondowana Records) 05.CHARLES DITTO - Eastern (Telephone Explosion) 06.EDSON NATALE - Nina Maika (Music From Memory) 07.CRAIG KUPKA - Electric piano, vibraphone and percussion (Music From Memory) 08.JACKY MCKAYTEN - Qurbani (Fortuna Records) 09.CHANCE - Samba do Morro(Music From Memory) 10.YUSEF LATEEF - Love Theme from "Spartacus" (Ace) 11.MALEEM MAHMOUD GHANIA WITH PHAROAH SANDERS - Boulandi Samawi (Zéhra)

EKTE VARE Han Sotofett & Jaakko Eino Kalevi with Andres Lõo – Jazzsomdub ( Sex Tags Amfibia ) Finnish multi-instrumentalist Jaakko Eino Kalevi & Norwegian producer Han Sotofett (aka DJ Sotofett ) teamed up with Estonian drummer Andres Lõo on the "Jazzsomdub" album for a wide & improvised excursion within a narrow world of drums, percussion, saxophone, flutes, electric piano, monophonic synths, and tape delays. Besides distinctively exploring Lõo and Kalevi's batterie & percussion work with deep-listening quality drum mixes there are elements of impulsive beauty, particularly on "Essens" free carrying sax solo. The album partly reaches for well-known directions of jazz from the '70s in the vain of the cosmic, psychedelic, improvised, atonal, and spiritual, but the particularness lies within the rhythm & mix – like a rubber band stretched in 4 dimensions. Big Tip! Balamii · Sotofett presents... Jazzsomdub - November 2020

NIK BÄRTSCH - Entendre ( ECM ) A fascinating solo album from the Swiss pianist, composer, and conceptualist best known as the leader of the band's Ronin and Mobile, Entendre offers deeper insight into Nik Bärtch’s musical thinking. As the album title implies Entendre is about hearing as a creative process, referencing the patient unfolding of Bärtch’s modular polymetric pieces, with alertness to the dynamics of touch, finding freedom in aesthetic restriction, serving the flow of each piece’s development while also taking the music to new places. Recorded at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, in September 2020, and produced by Manfred Eicher.

TAMIL OGEON - Son Of Nyx ( Soul Bank Music ) A lovely jazz album by Melbourne-based violist/violinist and orchestral composer, Tamil Rogeon, featuring Allyshea Joy and recorded by Harvey Sutherland. The album has echoes of Michael White or Jean-Luc Ponty's works in parts. Son of Nyx by Tamil Rogeon

VARIOUS - J Jazz Volume 3: Deep Modern Jazz from Japan (BBE) Since the first volume in February 2018, the J Jazz compilation series has showcased some of the most creative, inspired, and sought-after jazz recorded in Japan during a golden period spanning the 1960s to the 1980s. Illustrating the richness and versatility of the composers and musicians on this collection, the music spans a wide yet coherent range of styles: samba, funk fusion, modal, spiritual, post-bop, and bossa all combine to present an aural portrait of a jazz scene that was constantly moving and shifting its multiple musical centres of gravity. Mastered at the Grammy-nominated Carvery studio in London, many of the tracks featured are reissued for the first time, including mega-rare private press cuts from the YasuhiroKohno Trio, Masaru Imada Trio, and Hideyasu Terakawa Quartet. There’s heavy post modal bop by J Jazz legends Kohsuke Mine and Koichi Matsukaze; samba heat from Tatsuya Nakamura, Hideo Shiraki and Seiich...

J.H. Guraj - Introspection / Migration ( Maple Death Records ) From an ocean of black, sometimes there is a slim chance you might emerge clean and translucent, with another life chapter under your belt and a renewed story to tell. J.H. Guraj, our favorite wandering bird, is back with his first proper opus on Maple Death: Introspection / Migration. Sometimes records lead off into an unknown path that never considers release schedules or the outside world, inhabiting the abysses of the artists’ mind and dropping a hefty anchor in the murky waters. Dominique Vaccaro, stage name Guraj in homage to an old sage picker from the Albanian rocky landscape, started Introspection / Migration on a two-day recording spree in 2014 using a resophonic guitar, a distinct unifying songbook theme, and his usual freestyle wizardry … then the dust settled. In between releasing Underrated Glances At The Edge Of Town (Maple Death, 2016), Steadfast On Our Sand (Boring Machines, 2018), touring with Be My Delay...