Theo Parrish
DJ-Kicks Detroit Forward

Monster Garage House BENSON STREAKERUlterior GuidanceCanape UK

After the release of their critically acclaimed first album « Bluestaeb & S. Fidelity Present Underground Canopy » (MENACE - 2020), Underground Canopy (UC) was able to take time, due to the unforeseen period of doubt in 2020, to craft new compositions with a fresh approach. Throughout this forced period of introspection, the Parisian band experimented with more refined musical codes and colorful sounds.Following the new additions of Raphaël Henry on drums and Christopher Johnson on electric guitar, UC was able to record and film a live rendition of four original pieces at the end of 2020, thanks to an invitation by the Centre des Arts d’Enghien-les-Bains’s artistic program and SENSE. These music videos, each filmed in one shot by Romain Lalire, capture UC’s musical digressions away from their mainly hip-hop and groove-infused jams and into new territory.The resulting new EP «Séquences : Live Session» celebrates cinematic aesthetics and the suspension of time. It stands as an audiovisual testimonial to the band’s continued progression. In this era marked by uncertainty but full of hope, what will come next?

“Dance Ancestral” est la dernière addition à l'œuvre distinctive et en pleine croissance de l'artiste prolifique John Carroll Kirby. Kirby a fait ses débuts sur Stones Throw en 2020 avec “My Garden”, un album influencé par le jazz, le New Age et la musique ancienne, qu'il a synthétisé dans sa signature sonore unique et immédiatement reconnaissable. Depuis, il a sorti l'album instrumental pour Piano Conflict, la bande originale du long métrage “Cryptozoo” et la suite jazz fusion Septet. Pour “Dance Ancestral”, Kirby a invité le producteur canadien Yu Su à se joindre à lui pour produire un disque au son plus électronique.John Carroll Kirby has worked with the likes of Solange, Frank Ocean, Sebastian Tellier and many more, but he's equally celebrated as a solo artist who returns to Stones Throw for his fifth LP. This time around, the album has been made in tandem with incredible Canadian artist Yu Su, who lends her touch to the production around Kirby's infectious keys. The album is largely instrumental save for an uplifting guest spot from Laraaji on opening track 'Dawn of New Day', but as with previous Kirby albums he has more than enough to say in the conviction of his playing. Ever chameleonic, his sound on Dance Ancestral is removed from the solo piano ambience of Conflict, but as ever Kirby's deep-rooted musicality soars, buffeted by Yu Su's fantasy confections. If you're in search of something to make you feel good, this record has positive energy for days.John Carroll KIRBYDance AncestralStones Throw US

The GRAMPIANS / ROYAL SOUNDSNo EntryLion DubsFormat: hand-numbered picture disc 12" limited to 250 copies

FreeJazz de Tours ! Maxime Bobo, saxophone ténor, effets & compositionJean-Jacques Goichon, contrebasse & effetsEtienne Ziemniak, batterie & effets

Bokeh Versons lasso a dusky set of surf guitar-meets-bossa nova-in-dub styles from Martin Werner’s Répéter - think John Wayne lost in a Brazilian desert with Mike Cooper and Sun Araw‘Bad Twang’ follows on from 2017’s ‘In Fine Style’ LP with a more conceptual lean, employing his self-taught surf guitar tekkers with a DIY conflation of compatible styles whose sum outweighs their components. His conception of cowboy exotica or rancher dub practically imagines the soundtrack to a Tarantino or Jodorowsky flick set in some parched, purgatorial landscape where various genres criss-cross the desert in heat hazy licks and languorous grooves, shimmering like elusive fata morganas.