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2025.1

Jenny Scheinman: All Species Parade

Still working through some 2024 recs. It's possible that an album featuring the holy trinity of Frisell, Lage, Cline slipped past your radar. Despite the guitar starpower, it's Jenny's violin that shines: hop, skip, and jumping through genres & moods. Guaranteed smiles. Enjoy!

Bandcamp: jennyscheinman.bandcamp.com/al

Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/6kgGOkd

Apple: music.apple.com/us/album/all-s

Tidal: tidal.com/browse/album/3745391

2025.2

MOMO.: Gira

At every moment of this album, it sounds like two things at once. It's Brazilian party music overlapped with ambient then it's psych rock nested inside funkjazz and so on. The result is Russian-doll rhythms and delightful left turns... and a whole lotta fun. Betcha dig it! Enjoy!

Album links: linktr.ee/recommneds

2025.3

Body Meπa: Prayer in Dub

Pupil-dilating instrumental jams from a quartet of NYC under-radar you-should-knows. Like Greg Fox, whose drumming on this record is an amusement park ride of thrills. Two guitars, bass, and drums and lots of heavy-leaning improv, plays like one straight shape-shifting studio mess-around. Enjoy!

Album links: linktr.ee/recommneds

2025.4

Yesness: See You at the Solipsist Convention

Kristian Dunn one half of the post-rock duo El Ten Eleven has started a new post-rock duo that sounds a bit like... El Ten Eleven, if you can believe it! It's a darn good thing as he and drummer Damon Che make triumphant, mathy instrumental music with some serious bounce that'll have you saying yes. Enjoy!

Album links: linktr.ee/recommneds

2025.5

Clem Snide, Oh Smokey

Eef Barzelay (aka Clem Snide) has been writing ridiculously good songs for a couple decades, but this may very well be his best. Poignant, lovely songwriting and a sound that's dead center between lush and sparse. Folky production courtesy of Josh Kaufman, it sounds good, it feels good, it is good. Enjoy!

Album links: linktr.ee/recommneds