From their first musical meeting, Samita Sinha, Sunny Jain and Grey McMurray were a uniquely aligned trio. Each a lauded composer in their own right, longtime collaborators Sinha and Jain bring their distinctive hybrid musical voices alongside McMurray’s avant new music textures....

Mia Doi Todd performs songs from her new album "Floresta," with Fabiano do Nascimento on guitar and Alberto Lopez on percussion.

The four members of the Brooklyn-based collective Motions combine the rhythms, timbres and melodies from their extensive and diverse backgrounds – traditional and contemporary musics from Japan, Mali, the Middle East, Brazil and the US – to create a unified sound that is both eclectic and organic....

Features RAY ANGRY (keys), DARU JONES (drums),
and NATE JONES (bass), STIMULUS (vox),
MALIK WORK (vox) and the inimitable CASEY BENJAMIN (vox) on the hook.

Hessismore: Myheadisaballroom / Whoneedsapalaceanyway
Album Release Concert Series in New York, August 18-22.

Bárbara Eugenia was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and has been living in the city of Sao Paulo since 2005.
Her musical style ranges from rock, Brazilian influences, and the 70s era. Her universal appeal comes from images of past and present embracing a romantic-sardonic and sensual inspiration, all wrapped up in her unique voice...

This spring, Nublu Records is proud to announce the release of Ilhan Ersahin’s WONDERLAND “The Other Side” adding to the canon of Nublu experiments, Ersahin salutes turkish traditional gypsy sounds via his eclectic modern touch to "the music of now”. Wonderland’s sensuous chill-out sound is infused with a languorous arabesque essence and tinged with opiated dub effects. “The Other Side" exists in its own zone, floating beyond boundaries of space and time...

Nublu Jazz Festival - 2014 - Sao Paulo has just ended last week... Look what we found on Ilhan's iphone..

Article in Folha De S.Paulo about the Nublu Jazz Festival.

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This year marks the fourth return of the NUBLU JAZZ FESTIVAL to Sao Paulo, Brazil. Each year, the Nublu crew of trans-national musicians coming out of downtown New York, performs with local artists. The Nublu Jazz Festival always creates exciting, unpredictable and synergistic musical experiences that can only be found at these shows, presented in partnership with SESC. From March 26 – 29, our Nublu musicians will alternate their performances between SESC Ribaiero Preto and SESC Belenzinho.

Born in the USA in 1984, Alexia has always been surrounded by music. Her mother, an American singer/songwriter, initiated her on blues, jazz and folk, in Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. Her father, a Brazilian entertainment producer, made Alexia discover and fall in love with the work of Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa and Tom Jobim.

So, it's not that complicated: a large extended group of friends are afforded the opportunity to go creatively buck-wild. Between late nights, jokes, smokes and reverberating bass lines, a vague, nebulous common ground is found.....

The time has come once again for Nublu’s annual celebration of all things jazz. From December 3rd to the 14, a varied assortment of proponents of improvisation-based music will take the stage at 62 Ave C to celebrate what started as America’s indigenous 20th century music but which now belongs to the world. 

A music lover from the start, MEMOS (Serhan Aydemir) first began collecting cassette tapes in the late ’80s. Over the years, he channeled all his energy toward this passion, constantly discovering new music styles.