Any Bill Evans Trio album, particularly LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD.
Floating Points albums including his remarkable collaboration of Pharaoh Sanders.
Dawn of MIDI if you want something a little more angular and abstract.
Feb 1, 2025
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seconding jazz and all its subgenres/influence, specifically when it branches off and meets eastern artists/instruments makes for sounds that are consistently colorful
some great artists/albums-
off peak hours- ying da-chen
sun ra(any album but sun song is #1)
lamp fall- cheikh lô
sound of siam vol.1
raw materials - rudresh mahanthappa
Jan 9, 2025
Nala Sinephro's Endlessness has been on constant repeat, she has created a psychedelic yet ethereal jazz sound that is so uniquely hers.
Kelela just released a live album that's so stunning (In the Blue Light), she touches on how her Dad instilled the jazz gene in her and it showsss.
Sade - Promise is also very smooth jazz sounding, and tbh who can say no to the soothing tones of Sade in the morning?
Would be amiss not to mention some Bossa Nova - my go-to picks are a lovers pair, Astrud Gilberto (The Astraud Gilberto Album) and Joao Gilberto (Getz/Gilberto #2 - Live at Carnegie Hall)
Mar 5, 2025
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BadBadNotGood’s first 3 albums (I-III) - set aside the meme/viral sensibility of their most popular songs the old catalog is fresh and funky/hip hop tinged jazz
Titanic’s Vidrio - Mexico City duo combining artsy vocals, chamber pop and jazz composition
Feb 29, 2024
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I’ve been thoroughly enchanted by the warmth and fullness of sound from these KLH Model 6 speakers from the early 60s and the 1970s Pioneer SX-780 receiver. Picked both up from Facebook marketplace and it’s been a total treat for the ears. Show me yours! I can’t enough of this stuff
( I also have a raspebrry pi with a DAC running moode audio so I can also send amy music to it from my phone via airplay or Spotify connect, also sounds fantastic)
Mar 2, 2025
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I think yes mossyelfie has it right - small deeds, connect with your local community and friends, reach out and connect with people when you can. We are all in this together, to varying extents.
That being said, it is really really bad. Unprecedented. If you’re in the US, I would also say that reaching out to your representatives and state AG is important. They are the ones we’ve elected to protect and defend the constitution on our behalf, and we have to support and empower them to do their jobs, but there is no question it’s going to be hard.
I also thoroughly recommend being intentional about drawing barriers. Set time aside to stop scrolling, read a book, go for a walk and remember the world is still beautiful. Nature continues on. The world keeps turning.
Feb 5, 2025
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Highly recommend the usage of this great memory extraction method I’ve invented because I’ve been there. very much.
Here’s how it works. Get yourself some nice English breakfast tea bags. Yorkshire gold if you can, but it’ll work ok if you can’t. Boil some water. put the tea bag in the cup, add the boiling water to the cup with the tea bag. Let it sit for about 4 minutes then give it a stir and remove the tea bag. Get some fresh milk, add a dollop to the cup. Take the cup and go and sit in the most comfortable place in your house. Pop the radio on. I recommend BBC Radio 3 or Radio 4. Close your eyes. Breathe.
As Melvyn Bragg drones on about some obscure pre-Raphelite or whilst the dulcet tones of Mahler’s second symphony luxuriate in your ears, sip the tea. Let the warmth soothe your calloused memory, dissolving it until it is ether and drifting indistinctly between your synapses. Exhale And it’s gone.
Either that or just say something else embarrassing and fixate on thar for a bit. Either works.
Jan 31, 2025