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Popp Ajudha
Song of the Day: ‘You are my weakness, all salty and sweetness’. Sassy, sensual, with high voice, taut guitar and dash of Latin cuica flavour, the south London jazz and soul singer’s latest song is a expression of independence meeting melting vulnerability
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Made Kuti
Song of the Day: During these dark days, a wonderfully new bright and uplifting layered jazz-Afrobeat sound of trumpet, sax and keyboards from the multi-instrumentalist Made, grandson of Fela and son of Femi
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Nayana IZ
Song of the Day: The latest number by the British-Asian rapper and singer from the London creative collective, NiNE8, is a love song with rich layers of jazz, soul, R&B and Bollywood, with horn and keyboard parts and a strong, smooth assertive voice
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Tactics, the EP by Soccer96
Song of the Day: This synth-krautrock fusion of wonderfully droll apathetic humour comes via the synth-drums duo Danalogue and Betamax from The Comet Is Coming, with the dry delivery vocals of jazz experimentalist Alabaster dePlume
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Planet Battagon’s new album Trans-Neptunia. Artwork: Victoria Topping
Song of the Day: This mind-bending number of brilliant, experimental cosmic jazz-electronica with wonky, twisting sonics and rhythm by London’s Nathan Curran-Tugg is a cavalcade of musical wit, infinite jest and energy from the new album Trans-Neptunia
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Khruangbin – unforgettable
Song of the Day: A delicious sounding, smoothly delivered new track fusing funk, soul dub, African, and psychedelia by the American musical trio from Houston, Texas, comprising Laura Lee on bass, Mark Speer on guitar, and Donald Ray "DJ" Johnson Jr on drums
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Cover from the forthcoming collaborative Keleketla! album
Song of the Day: Embracing the South African musical protest style toyi-toyi borne out of anti-apartheid, this new track fuses dance, jazz, gqom beats, hip hop and Afrobeat featuring Tony Allen alongside collaborators Coldcut, Soundz of the South, DJ Mabheko, Tenderlonious, Afla Sackey and Afrik Bawantu
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Run The Jewels: Killer Mike and El-P
Song of the Day: With the early launch fo of the hip hop duo of Killer Mike and El-P’s fourth album RTJ4, proceeds of which go towards legal support for activists for social change, the final heartfelt track about fear, violence and love
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From the video for Moses Sumney’s Cut Me
Song of the Day: A death-defying cri de coeur of soul, electronica, jazz, topped with delicate piano chops, horns, ambulance sounds and the American singer’s extraordinary falsetto voice reminiscent of the fabulous David McAlmont with a dash of Prince
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Nick Hakim
Song of the Day: A woozy, chilled melancholy that slowly builds into a beautifully floating portrait of personal tragedy. The new song by the Brooklyn-based producer, singer and multi-instrumentalist is an ode to a late friend and “a reminder to check on your loved ones”
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Expanded cover of Lightning Orchestra’s forthcoming album Source and Deliver
Song of the Day: A profound and glorious piece of cosmic, psychedelic, afro-jazz-funk by the collective based in Atlanta, Georgia, inspired by the sounds of Fela Kuti, Sun Ra, Tony Allen, Talking Heads and Jimi Hendrix
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Cover of Wilma Archer’s album A Western Circular
Song of the Day: Taken from the British producer and multi-instrumentalist’s album, A Western Circular, this wonderfully eclectic fusion of classical and jazz intertwined and MF Doom’s unmistakable rapping, tells a tale of a New York drug dealer
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Jocksrap’s Taylor Skye and Georgia Ellery
Dr John, the Night Tripper, aka Mac Rebennack, 1941-2019
Song of the Day: A song-based tribute to the sadly departed New Orleans great, aka Mac Rebennack, the rich-voiced, voodoo-style Mardi Gras feather-wearing pianist, guitarist and singer who spanned genres with colour and charisma
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Miles Davis’s In A Silent Way, recorded 18 February 1969
Album of the Day: A special edition to mark the anniversary of a unique masterpiece recorded 50 years ago today on 18 February 1969 at New York’s CBS 30th Street Studio. Davis’s contribution was small, but key, fitting perfectly alongside the work of other greats
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Ella Fitzgerald
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s She Drew The Gun songs, let’s go back to an original Cole Porter number from 1934, which contains that shot line of defiance and revenge, a tragic tale about a society woman who simply would not take it anymore
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Coda for a stellar career? David Bowie’s Blackstar
Song of the Day: Exactly three years ago Bowie released his final album, on his birthday, and two days before he died. Was that opening track a coda for a stellar career, referencing a life’s work, his demons and impending death?
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Jeannie Seely
Song of the Day: After powerful new songs by Julia Jacklin about the body and personal space, a classic number from the 1960s that sung first by the Titusville performer with versions by other stars
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Tim Buckley
Song of the Day: From one nighthawk, Tom Waits, to another American singer-songwriter - father to Jeff, and here singing about his early career when he worked as a New York cab driver, picking up a crazed customer
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Sweet Smell of Success (1957), starring Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis, with a equally sharp Bernstein score
Song of the Day: More outstanding film theme music, this time with three contrasting examples from the New Yorker with a huge, award-winning repertoire, reaching deep into the American and British psyche
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