This album fuses Afro-Peruvian traditional music and rhythms with the improvisational and creative possibilities of jazz, featuring four tracks imbued with the magic of modern, psychedelic, ambient, and magical soundscapes.
This album features a rhythmic tapestry woven by Alfredo Valliente, Roberto & Chebo Ballumbrosio—members of a musical fami ...Read more (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)ly representing Afro-Peruvian culture—in dialogue with a jazz ensemble comprising three exceptional musicians: drummer Carlos Icaza, trombonist Yudith Rojas, and double bassist Mike Sandoval. Project leader Humberto Polar provides direction and infuses the music with electronic, magical, chill-out soundscapes. Subtle dub elements also come through. I highly recommend this album. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)

A song sung gently and repeatedly like a lullaby, accompanied by an electric piano that seems to fade into the twilight of outer space, and percussion that rolls along. A quiet, meditative album that offers a sense of peace, as if a perfect harmony between the cosmos and the spiritual realm has been achieved.
You’ll find yourself entranced by t ...Read more (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)he mellow, graceful melodies of the electric piano, piano, and organ in A1 “Springtime Again” (sample 1) , A2 “Door Of The Cosmos”—an Arkestra-style spiritual, timeless jazz-funk masterpiece also covered by BUILD AN ARK/AMMONCONTACT and A GRAPE DOPE—and B1 “Sleeping Beauty” (sample 3), the beautiful title track that lures you into the mellow, cosmic world of the electric piano, are all simply magnificent. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)

Featuring Greg Fort on grand piano, Fender Rhodes, and synthesizer, along with Tokyo-based jazz musicians Kensuke Miyaki (baritone saxophone, bass clarinet) and Yoshihiro Kaneko (double bass), and Ash Robinson on drum machine. Each track captures special memories from their Japan tour, ranging from the opening track A1, “Shirahama Beach” (sample 1) ...Read more (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)—a Balearic ambient 4/4 jazz piece themed around Shirahama Beach, the venue for the wonderful “FFKT” festival— “Shirahama Beach” (sample 1)—a Balearic ambient 4/4 jazz track—as the theme for Shirahama Beach, the venue of the wonderful “FFKT” festival; A2 “Lost in Shinjuku” (sample 2), where a saxophone solo weaves through a beat created solely by the percussion of a cheap drum machine; A3 “Ikaho Onsen,” a mellow chill-out ambient track in the style of Ronnie Liston Smith, and “Lake Haruna Boat Ride” (sample 3), a playful jazz house track featuring a piano jazz 4/4 beat with an acid-infused groove—the album features a diverse collection of eight tracks. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)

From phrases reminiscent of a self-playing piano to sonic tricks that sound just like woodwind instruments, Keith Freund’s latest album blends an elegant jazz atmosphere with DIY electronics. Using piano and saxophone performances as source material, he weaves together chopped-up sounds, samples, and bit-crushed electronic tones to create a unique, ...Read more (Original Japanese text by Adachi) floating sound with unpredictable movements. It’s a brilliant piece of work that feels as though he’s brought the sense of ensemble—which he also demonstrates with the Lemon Quartet—into his homemade electronic creations. A warm yet unique album that combines a nostalgic feel with a playful digital spirit. (Original Japanese text by Adachi)

An album inspired by the fashion of French fashion designer Anne Marie Beretta, featuring Steve Beresford on the Yamaha DX7, RX11, drum machines, and piano; chants by Kazuko Hohki of Frank Chickens; flute, guitar, and bamboo flute by David Toop; clarinet and saxophone by Alan Hacker; and whispers by Andrew Brenner. It features avant-garde, high-sty ...Read morele, experimental avant-pop, Balearic-cosmic reflow-field synthesizer slow funk, and ambient jazz—all imbued with Steve Beresford’s signature witty humor. This is a masterpiece that allows listeners to fully savor these beautiful soundscapes. 13 tracks in total.
Just like the original, this release features a gatefold artwork double-page spread. It comes in a deluxe package that includes a 4-page insert with liner notes by Jean Rochard of the original release label, nato. A wonderful, hidden gem of avant-pop, cosmic ambient jazz, and slow funk.

A new-era form of modern, spiritual, meditative, soft psychedelic modern jazz that seems to carry on the legacy of Alice Coltrane into the present day. Nara Cinefro has built a unique artistic world by playing modular synthesizers and the pedal harp, fusing meditative sounds, ambient and post-rock elements, minimalist spiritual and meditative jazz ...Read more (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)sensibilities, traditional music, folk music, and field recordings. Featuring contributions from friends such as James Morrison, Shirley Tete, Nubia Garcia, Eddie Hick, Dwayne Kilvington, Jake Long, Lyle Burton, and Rudy Kreswick.
With a jazz sensibility, meditative sounds created by the harp and modular synthesizers, and folk music and field recordings—this landmark debut album, released in 2021 by Warp from the widely acclaimed composer Nara Cinefro, is a masterpiece that will be cherished for generations to come. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)

The gentle tones of the trumpet, piano, and 70's electronic keyboard Hohner Pianet, the warm and fluffy electronics, and the chamber-like string arrangements by the violin, viola, and cello create an exquisite sense of harmonic balance and arrangement that is experimental, dreamy, dreamy, and pastoral. The dreamy, dreamy, idyllic, and exquisite com ...Read more (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)fort is created. Tenor saxophone and pedal steel guitar are also effective.
Inspired by Hiroshi Yoshimura's 80's new age ambient environmental music masterpieces "Green" and "Surround", Hans-Joachim Roedelius' masterpiece "Wenn Der Südwind Weht" and Yo-Yo Ma's "Bach Cello Suite". which is a collection of 13 pieces that invite you to a restful sleep.
The cover artwork, which is calm yet somewhat reminiscent of the KLF "CHILL OUT" artwork, also creates a wonderful atmosphere. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)

Holland-based artist Jonny Nash returns to Melody As Truth with his new solo album Once Was Ours Forever! Based on 2023's Point Of Entry, this collection of eleven songs is a unique, immersive, and slowly expanding world that further draws you in, freely connecting the chasms of folk, ambient jazz, and dream-pop.

While "Point Of Entry" feat ...Read moreured a relaxed daytime atmosphere, "Once Was Ours Forever" unfolds like a slowly shifting sunset, enveloped by the twilight and hazy light of dusk. Gentle fingerpicking guitars, textured brush strokes, floating melodies, and reverberating vocals overlap, weaving together fleeting, ephemeral moments.

From the cosmic Americana of "Bright Belief" to the rich, layered shoegaze textures of "The Way Things Looked," Nash's varied guitar work forms the core of the album, with various collaborators adding their own Nash's versatile guitar work forms the core of the album, with various collaborators adding their own unique touches. Canadian ambient jazz saxophonist Joseph Shabason makes a return appearance on the album, lending his delicate tones to "Angel. Dusk Can Dance" features Shoei Ikeda of maya ongaku on saxophone, and "Holy Moment" features Tomo Katsurada, formerly of Geometric Patterns, on cello. And Tokyo-based acid folk artist Satomimagae (RVNG Intl.) provides deeply resonant, layered vocals on "Rain Song.

As with much of his work, "Once Was Ours Forever" deftly captures the perfect balance of softness and weight, allowing ample room for each listener to interpret and deeply appreciate the music. His extraordinary sense of blending the rural with the profound, the pastoral with the insightful, Once Was Ours Forever is delivered as a gentle, understated work, full of warmth and compassion.

With its utopian beauty and pastoral nostalgia—a unique, cute, and avant-garde soundscape that could be described as “electronica ambient jazz” performed by a tranquil chamber music ensemble with exotic, rhythmic elements—I am captivated by this rich, talent-filled musical world.
Performed by the artist herself on guitar, bass, synth, recorder ...Read more (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA), percussion, and piano, along with SML members: saxophonist Josh Johnson, bassist Anna Butterss, synthesist Jeremiah Chiu, drummer Booker Stardrum, and London-based saxophonist and singer-songwriter Alabaster Deplume, who contributes on saxophone and vocals. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)

Side A (sample 1) features a sound world of New Age folklore, Oriental jazz, ambient, and organic, ethereal sounds, while Side B ranges from loft-classical Cuban disco to glocal beats & disco, Latin jazz, hip-hop, Reggae Lovers—you’ll be pleasantly captivated by the storytelling, the persuasive mixing skills, and the imaginative, elegant track sele ...Read morection drawn from a vast, deep, and rich sonic landscape on both sides. I highly recommend this release.

The latest form of modern spiritual and meditative soft psychedelic modern jazz for a new era, as if it were a modern successor to Alice Coltrane. Playing modular synths and pedal harp, Nala Sinefro has built a unique worldview that blends meditative sounds, ambient and post-rock, minimal spiritual and meditative jazz sensibilities, traditional mus ...Read more (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)ic, folk music and field recordings. She is joined by friends James Morrison, Shirley Tete, Nubiah Garcia, Eddie Hick, Dwayne Kilvington, Jake Long, Lyle Burton, and Rudy Creswick. After an energetic live career in London, Nala Sinefro has made a name for herself on the UK jazz scene, being named one of The Guardian's "Artists to Watch in 2020" and receiving enthusiastic support from Giles Peterson. as a resident DJ at NTS, she is also a sought-after Space1-8, again short, next delivery TBD. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)

Guided by the philosophy that "the voice itself is an instrument," the album fuses spoken word, jazz abstraction, hip-hop's rhythmic sensibility, West African-rooted polyrhythms, ambient, experimental music, dub, beatdown and ritualistic sound design. With improvisation at its core, language itself is treated as vibrating rhythm as the record explo ...Read more (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)res expression pushing into new territory.
In an age of confusion and division, "Leap Life" redefines music as a vehicle for emotion, memory and transformation — ritual music, sacred music, something akin to prayer, built through dialogue with the unseen. It is Afro-futurist spiritual science for a new era, from SUN RA to LAST PORTS, from P-FUNK to G-FUNK: a quietly soul-infused work has been born. 16 tracks in all.
A stellar cast comes together here: 3D, aka Robert Del Naja (Massive Attack), Kamasi Washington,
Carlos Nino, Gonjasufi, Moor Mother, Georgia Anne Muldrow and more all take part in its making! (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)

Widely acclaimed for her unique blend of jazz sensibilities, contemplative sounds of harp and modular synths, and folk music and field recordings, Nala Sinefro has completed Endlessness, her long-awaited new album, her first in three years.
Caribbean-Belgian composer and musician Nala Sinefro. Her controversial 2021 debut album, Space 1.8, was ...Read more (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)composed, produced, and performed by the then 22-year-old Nala, with the participation of saxophonist Nubia Garcia, James Morrison (Ezra Collective), and others at the forefront of the new generation of the UK jazz scene, Nala composed, produced, performed, engineered, recorded, and mixed the album.
The album's sound, filled with quiet madness and warm joy, has been praised by all the major music media and has been an exceptionally long-running hit here in Japan.
The new album "Endlessness," three years in the making, delves deeply into the concept of reincarnation, with ten elaborately crafted tracks of synthesized arpeggios that echo throughout the 45-minute album, celebrating the cycle and rebirth of life. It creates a grand and enchanting celebration of life's cycles and rebirth. Nala's transcendent and multidimensional compositional talents, which blend jazz, orchestral, and electronic music to great effect, are further developed in this work.
This album features Sheila Morris Gray of Cocoloco, Morgan Simpson of Black Midi, James Morrison of Ezra Collective, Lyle Burton, Nubaiya Garcia, Nasheet Wakili, Dwayne Kilvington, and a new generation of UK jazz musicians. The album features 21 string players from Orchestrate, a group of young musicians, as well as musicians from the UK jazz scene such as Lyle Burton, Nubaiya Garcia, Nasheet Wakili, and Dwayne Kilvington. Nala's skillful balancing of production, arrangement, and engineering allows these musicians to shine with minimal effects, seamlessly connecting direct, superficial beauty with the depth that exists behind it. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)

Featuring Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian, as well as Gruff Rhys, Saya Ueno (Tenniscoats), Peter Brewis, among others. Under the direction of Andrew Waslik, the album unfolds a unique soundscape that spans classical chamber music, jazz, and ambient, featuring brass, woodwinds, a six-piece string section, the Mellotron, and the Fender Rhodes, ...Read moredelicately portraying nostalgia, tranquility, emotional fragility, and introspective healing. It is an album that stays close to the heart and supports the soul, guiding the listener toward a serene and peaceful transcendence.

On October 7, 2006, Recorded during a performance at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, this album features 14 tracks from a landmark live recording that laid the foundation for his current performance style. It captures a classical chamber music-like atmosphere and soundscape, blending Argentine tango and avant-garde ambient ja ...Read more (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)zz in a unique and unparalleled balance.
Incorporating the mechanical creaking of Pierre Bastian and the kitschy charm of Pascal Comrade, this music appears nostalgic, elegant, and refined, yet conveys a sense of clumsiness, chaos, and friction, a collection of soundscapes that feels like a soundtrack to a luminous future, carrying an air of graceful decadence and lyrical nostalgia. Recorded by Takashi Higashi, with liner notes by Takashi Tsuda. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)

M. Sage’s previous album, Paradise Crick, was a wonderful, fantasy-like work that blended the natural and artificial worlds. In this new album, centered around the piano and clarinet and incorporating instruments such as strings and percussion, he expresses the landscapes of his hometown of Colorado, the passage of time, and gentle memories. The so ...Read more (Original Japanese text by AYAM)unds of birds chirping, a river babbling, and plants rustling, combined with the gentle playing of acoustic instruments and electronic sounds that evoke vague yet beautiful fragments of memory. This work was composed and recorded over time in the rolling hills and pastures of his hometown, as he confronted a piece of his own identity. Currently, only three tracks have been released, but they are wonderful. (Original Japanese text by AYAM)

Building on the dreamy atmosphere of their previous debut album, this ambitious work delves into a gentle, expansive, soft-psychedelic, and fantastical soundscape where ambient, electro-acoustic, and modern jazz elements blend naturally.
“Mana,” which also serves as the album title, is a term in Hawaiian culture meaning “spiritual power” or “p ...Read morerimordial strength.” The album explores themes of connection to Hawaiian ancestors and the land, as well as a reflection on the artist’s own roots; this introspective spirit permeates the entire album, lending it a warm depth. 7 tracks total.
A limited-edition 140g hibiscus-colored vinyl LP housed in a heavyweight jacket. Includes an IARX obi strip and a poly-lined inner sleeve. Pressed by Pallas in Germany; lacquer cutting was performed by Daniel K of SST.

The new minimal jazz masterpiece is a free improvisation woven from a dialogue of place, space, and sound, carefully spun as a new dimension of imaginary minimal jazz by Jay Bellerose (drums, percussion), Anna Butterss (acoustic bass), Josh Johnson (alto saxophone, electronics), and Jeff Parker (electric guitar, electronics), each a leading figure ...Read morein the current L.A. jazz scene. Recorded live at the Lodge Room in Los Angeles on August 20, 2025. Recorded by artisan maestro Bryce Gonzales with custom equipment and mastered by Dave Cooley (Elysian Masters).
Like Swimwear 23:37" and "Happy Today 20:49" are two long tracks, equivalent to one side of an LP, that let your instinct to listen to music with your ears attentively guide you through the storytelling of a grand sound story that continues to expand from a static space.

Featuring Jeff Hollie, an American saxophonist and former member of Burning Sensations who has been based in Amsterdam since the 1990s, this project builds upon the jazz-oriented sound Jordan Czamanski has explored through collaborations such as Magic Mountain High with Juju & Jordash and Move D. Five tracks of evocative electronic “ambient jazz” f ...Read more (Original Japanese text by Adachi)eaturing synth work that shifts between stillness and momentum, and a soaring saxophone that slips in like a shadow, evoking images of a damp city’s night glow or the flickering of an old VHS tape. A profound sound where an inner-trip sensibility coexists with references to outer space. The track “Squeaky Eye Syndrome,” previously included on the compilation 10 celebrating the 10th anniversary of Music From Memory, is also featured here. On the live-sounding “Painted Desert Pastel,” Ilya Ziblat Shay—a close collaborator of J&J and known for his work with Michael Banabila—contributes double bass and electronics. The cover features a silkscreen print by Johan Kauth. Mastering was handled by Rashad Becker. (Original Japanese text by Adachi)

The latest release from Turn On The Sunlight, a fluid collective led by Jesse Peterson, has arrived. The album was recorded in multiple locations, including Los Angeles, Tokyo, London, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and Haiku, Hawaii. Featuring Carlos Niño alongside his partner Mia Doi Todd, Laraaji, shō player Takashi Ishikawa, Luis Pérez Ixoneztl ...Read more (Original Japanese text by Adachi)i, and Miles Spilsbury, this is an organic, lovingly crafted ensemble where the musicians naturally resonate with one another through a process of mutual listening. Blending acoustic performances and natural ambient sounds with subtle electronics, this album is a warm, organic ambient jazz utopia that shines vividly through its tactile, delicate details. The album begins with the title track—a lullaby (sung by Mexican musician Luis Pérez Ixoneztli) whose melody was woven from the syllables of Peterson’s son’s name—followed by the 15-minute epic “Medianoche En La Calle Aurora,” and then on to Ryujin Onsen—. (Original Japanese text by Adachi)