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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: Louis Stewart
- Release Date: 2024-11-08
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Artist Website, Bandcamp
ACOUSTIC GUITAR DUETS showcases the supreme talents of Louis Stewart and Martin Taylor in an intimate acoustic guitar studio session in 1985 in Dublin, released first in 1986
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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: Louis Stewart
- Release Date: 2024-09-06
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Artist Website, Bandcamp
THE DUBLIN CONCERT is a unique 1982 live recording of two complimentary but stylistically different jazz guitar masters. The tapes were discovered in 2022 and have been mixed and beautifully mastered to create a stunning record of a brilliant improvised dialog mediated through jazz standards. It highlights the genius of both players.
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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.
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- Artist: Liv Monaghan
- Release Date: 2024-05-03
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Artist Website, Bandcamp, Tidal, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify
Originally from Ireland, Liv Monaghan’s earliest memories come from the living room of her first family home. There was a record player on one side and an old upright piano on the other. Her pre-school years were full of improvised choreographies set to vinyls of Romantic music.
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- Artist: Louis Stewart
- Release Date: 2024-03-05
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Artist Website, Bandcamp
The long-awaited re-release of guitar genius Louis Stewart’s 1976 debut as a leader. Beautifully remastered, this edition allows listeners to fully appreciate Louis “on fire” with its improved mix and the bonus track, Wayne Shorter’s Footprints. Louis the First features nine tracks - five trio, one bass-guitar duet, and three solo guitar that point to the magic of his solo masterpiece, Out On His Own (1977).
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- Artist: Aleka
- Release Date: 2024-03-01
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Bandcamp
Romanian-born Dublin-residing singer Aleka presents her newest E.P. 'Romania: Songs of Love and Longing'. The E.P. is a homage to her Romanian roots, with fresh arrangements of traditional Romanian music bringing a new modern flavor to some of the most well-known folk songs of her home country. This recording features soaring melodies, daring improvisations and high energy from some of the best jazz musicians in Ireland.
