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- Artist: Orlando Molina
- Release Date: 2025-05-23
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Artist Website, Bandcamp, Tidal, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify
"Autorretrato en Tres Colores" (Self-Portrait in Three Colours) is a deeply personal exploration of migration, resilience, and reinvention. Blending Contemporary Jazz with South American folk traditions, this album tells a story of departure, adaptation, and transformation, capturing the emotions of leaving home, navigating a new world, and ultimately finding strength through music. The compositions, written at different stages of my journey, fuse jazz’s harmonic complexity with the rich textures of Latin American rhythms.
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- Artist: Nils Kavanagh
- Release Date: 2035-05-14
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Bandcamp, Tidal, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify
Journey through Nils’ unique upbringing, rooted in the north-west of Ireland’s mystic landscapes and joyous fellowship, while also exploring the sense of unity and introspection present in Denmark and broader Scandinavia. Home, joy, family, mythology, folk music, loss and longing are all key themes of the album, with an overarching focus on warm melody and musical storytelling. No Expectations was recorded in August 2023, after a nationwide tour of Ireland.
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- Artist: Charlie Moon
- Release Date: 2025-04-03
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Artist Website, Bandcamp, Tidal, Amazon Music, Spotify
Having formed as the resident band in The Big Romance and playing together every Sunday since late 2018, Organ Freeman spent years building their repertoire and honing their signature sound. Seeking to capture the energy and spontaneity of their live performances in the studio, they recorded their debut album, Busywork, with the legendary Michael Buckley on tenor sax. Regarded as the most important and influential musician on the Irish jazz scene, Buckley not only lends his distinctive voice to the recording but also brings his expertise behind the scenes, engineering, mixing, and mastering the album. The result is a dynamic collection of crowd favorites from their residency alongside original compositions by Darragh and Charlie. Rooted in the rich legacy of the 1950s and ’60s jazz organ tradition, their sound blends deep musical heritage with a modern, groove-driven sensibility.
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- Artist: Tom Caraher
- Release Date: 2025-03-10
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Bandcamp, Tidal, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify
"One of the most scintillating debuts emanating from the Irish scene in years” | "90 Degrees is a storming jazz-rock, at times even, without using the word too strictly, spiritedly funky, epic of some velocity.” - Stephen Graham (JazzWise) for Marlbank Music has a way of absorbing the places, people, and moments that shape it. Ninety Degrees is an exploration of heat and transformation, a product of movement—across cities, countries, and musical ideas—but also of stillness, the time spent letting those ideas take root. Written while living on the Atlantic coast in Kerry, Ireland, this album reflects a period of change, drawing on the fiery energy of 1970s electric jazz—think Weather Report—while incorporating the modern jazz-rock/funk/soul influences of Chris Potter Underground, Joshua Redman, Aaron Parks and Brad Mehldau.
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- Artist: Charlie Moon
- Release Date: 2025-01-10
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Artist Website, Bandcamp, Tidal, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify
Acclaimed as Ireland's "rising star" of jazz by The Irish Times, Charlie Moon stands out as a singular voice in the realms of cool jazz, blues, and soul jazz. Hailed by the BBC as “A very gifted young vocalist and guitarist” and often lauded as the Emerald Isle's answer to 'The Prince of Cool' Chet Baker, Moon has carved a niche for himself with a melodic guitar style that seamlessly blends rhythmically swinging bebop and blues.
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- Artist: Karl Clews
- Release Date: 2024-12-06
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Artist Website, Bandcamp
Karl's fourth album of original bass-led material, 'And/Or', is a unique glimpse into the creative process. He explains: "When I compose, I usually start with a very simple set of chords that suggest a melody. When I'm happy with that melody, often I will then strip the original chords out and substitute a completely different sequence, creating a kind of eerie disjointedness between the melody and the chords which I find very appealing. In the process of doing this, I will often try out four or five different chord sequences or arrangements until I arrive at the one that best fits the mood I'm trying to create. Those other versions are no less 'valid' or interesting as pieces of music - they just weren't quite what I was looking for at that moment. On this album, I thought I would let the listener in on this process and offer an alternative version of each track and let them decide which they prefer".
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- Artist: Niwel Tsumbu
- Release Date: 2024-10-04
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Artist Website, Bandcamp, Tidal, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify
My immediate response, when listening to this record for the first time, was “oh, this is fun stuff!”. There are many tributaries in confluence here, with influences as varied as Rhumba, various forms of Classical music, Jazz, a certain ECM Records/Third Stream aesthetic, and of course Congolese music combining into an organic and many-sided whole. While Niwel Tsumbu’s music can sparkle with impressive intellectual and technical prowess, it is at once music with much honestly and at times raw emotional content, moving seamlessly though moments of joy and introspection.
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- Artist: Pizza Jazz
- Release Date: 2024-09-05
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Bandcamp
Bassist Sean Maynard-Smith is following up the 2021 recording Eh, No and his more confidence-inducing title Actually, Yeah in 2023, with a release by the Pizza Jazz group aptly named Home Delivery. Born by way of the lactic workshopping of Luckys’ Pizza Jazz evenings at their regular residency in Dublin, Maynard-Smith and his fellows Darragh O’Kelly on keyboards and drummer Brendan Doherty are joined on Home Delivery by American saxophone expat Steve Welsh. What follows is a record that is eccentric in all the right ways.
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- Artist: Jennifer McMahon
- Release Date: 2024-08-30
- Album Type: EP
- Platforms: Artist Website, Bandcamp, Tidal, Amazon Music, Apple Music
Willow is the sophomore album from Jennifer. The 5-track EP is a rich tapestry of sound and emotion, recorded across two iconic locations: Sound Emporium Studios in Nashville and The Barn of Music in Dublin. This sophomore album leans heavily into McMahon's love for old-school soul, with lush, warm keys and organs played by Boston-native Clifford Bond and a crisp drum backdrop provided by Colorado’s Dev Malloy. The basslines, both electric and upright, come alive under the fingers of Nashville session player Zachariah Witcher, while Dubliner Darren Giles adds a tasteful touch of electric guitar.
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- Artist: Jennifer McMahon
- Release Date: 2024-07-26
- Album Type: Track
- Platforms: Artist Website, Bandcamp, Tidal, Amazon Music, Apple Music
Jennifer’s unique brand of munificent charm and honesty is all too clear in her music which aims to embrace it’s listeners in musical refuge and individual uplift with rounded-out low tones, smooth jazz-sensibilities and tender lyrics, from the heart to the heart.
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- Artist: Shane Latimer
- Release Date: 2024-05-24
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Bandcamp, Tidal, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify
Shane Latimer is a musician from Dublin, Ireland. As guitarist and composer with OKO (“a revelation” - The Sunday Times) and or as curator with the Bottlenote Festival (“a no-holds-barred celebration of beautiful noise” - The Irish Times), his music has a focus on the improvisational and experimental. His latest solo work exists in the entangled space between the embodied and the embedded. Shane uses software to harvest information from guitar improvisations to feed an assemblage of electronic hardware. His new solo album 'Residuum' on Diatribe Records documents and expands upon this work.
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- Artist: Charlie Moon
- Release Date: 2024-05-21
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Artist Website, Bandcamp, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify
Charlie’s journey into the world of singing unfolds against the backdrop of his early 20s while immersed in jazz guitar studies at Newpark in Dublin. Often compared to the iconic Chet Baker, Charlie's venture into vocals emerged from the necessity of funding his music education. The dilemma was clear—venues craved singers, not student jazz guitarists.
