Brownswood
London's young jazz heroes are crafting their own sound
The shape of things to come — In a world of manufactured music, jazz is still a place of pure freedom. Now London’s bright talents are reimagining that legacy for a new generation, pulling from their multi-textured roots and making it up as they go along.
Written by: Michael Fordham
Snowy: The MC leading Nottingham grime’s conquest of the UK
Notts is wild — Nottingham’s hardest working MC is helping to build the foundations for a new generation of grime artists dragging the spotlight away from London.
Written by: Alex King
Free flowing jazz meets UK bass music on LV’s remarkable Ancient Mechanisms
Clicks, echoes & imperfections — South London production duo LV feature Armenian jazz pianist Tigran Hamasyan on their new LP Ancient Mechanisms to create a living and breathing album that organically fuses live performance, far-out sampling and electronic beats.
Written by: Alex King
For emerging musicians, the internet is not all it’s cracked up to be
Small fish, big pond — Gilles Peterson and Brownswood’s Future Bubblers project is going offline and outside the M25 to find innovative new talent across England.
Written by: Alex King