2024 Musica in Review
Let's keep this brief!
Everyone has a golden age in music: a decade (or two) constituting the gravitational center of their musical world. I feel privileged to say that my golden age is right now, 2021-present.
So let me take you on a journey and share six 2023-2024 albums that i discovered and loved in the past year. In this day and age of too many vacuus words, I will limit myself to one sentence and some basic meta-information for each of these six incredible albums.
Mingjia: star, star
New Amsterdam Records, 2023. # experimental, storytelling, improv
brave, boundless, fiercely creative, hyper-operatic, elegant, composed, adorable.
Sylvie Courvoisier: Chimaera
Intakt Records, 2023. # free jazz, contemporary
as sophisticated and well-tempered as your average beethoven symphony.
Carlos Niño & Friends: (I’m just) Chillin’, on Fire
International Anthem, 2023. # jazz, neo-fusion
neo-fusion at its best; breathtaking in scope, sonically opulent
sús: Entre
raso, 2024. # alternative, avant-pop
sensual, reserved, enticing, mesmerizing. criminally underrated
Aja Monet: when the poems do what they do
drink sum wtr, 2023. # jazz, neo-fusion, spoken word
radiant poetry and brilliant jazz effortlessly fused together
Nala Sinephro: Endlessness
Warp Records, 2024. # spiritual jazz
jazz at its most soothing and healing and intelligent; music for the soul.