New jazz for open minds. Cover: Ibrahim Maalouf

State of Jazz

A SUNNY AFTERNOON ( remix )

Streaming https://linkco.re/ZFEm5sVz
Lossless Download https://tsunenori1983.bandcamp.com/track/raining-in-tokyo
Released October 29, 2025
Composed & Produced, Recorded Mixed & Mastered by Tsunenori
All Instruments by Tsunenori
Photo by afro

Raining in Tokyo

Barbarian Whores - Otaku (Malvado Records)

Giyo - Intro
All music written, performed, recorded, produced, mixed and mastered by Olly Guy.

Buy Somnambulist here:
https://giyo.bandcamp.com

Somnambulist

Intro

S3NS

In Spring 2018 Keno aka David Hanke from Lübeck (Germany) and Tristan de Liège from Los Angeles met through mutual friends. Their similar taste in music quickly led them to join forces and create music together. What started with a single track, turned quickly into an EP and at the end it became a full album.

Although the two have never met in person, the music they created took shape via sending recordings back and forth, text, email, and the occassional phone call over the atlantic ocean. This manner of collaboration inspired the album title 'Transatlantyk'

'Speak the Language' is the first single taken off their album 'Transatlantyk' and features the wonderful vocals and lyrics by French singer Elodie Rama who joined them for three tracks on the album.

https://keno.bandcamp.com/album/speak-the-language

Keno & Tristan De Liege "Orenda"

Kamala's Danz

LS Shuffle

In Spring 2018 Keno aka David Hanke from Lübeck (Germany) and Tristan de Liège from Los Angeles met through mutual friends. Their similar taste in music quickly led them to join forces and create music together. What started with a single track, turned quickly into an EP and at the end it became a full album.

Although the two have never met in person, the music they created took shape via sending recordings back and forth, text, email, and the occassional phone call over the atlantic ocean. This manner of collaboration inspired the album title 'Transatlantyk'

'Speak the Language' is the first single taken off their album 'Transatlantyk' and features the wonderful vocals and lyrics by French singer Elodie Rama who joined them for three tracks on the album.
credits
releases September 18, 2020

• Speak The Language written by Elodie Rama, Tristan de Liège and David Hanke, produced by David Hanke
• Orenda written by David Hanke & Tristan de Liège, produced by David Hanke

Cover photo by Pierre-Armand Samama
www.instagram.com/hangtimemars/

Mastered by Stefan Göls

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Keno & Tristan De Liege "Speak The Language feat. Elodie Rama"

Last Words / Fanfares

Last Words (Alternate Version)

Album available here:
https://keno.bandcamp.com/album/transatlantyk

The story of how Transatlantyk came to be is, in many ways, one typical of our times. We've grown accustomed to being isolated, even stranded, in recent months, and Technology has become our means of overcoming these aspects of quarantine.

For Lübeck-based producer David Hanke, a.k.a. Keno, and Los Angeles-based musician Tristan de Liège, their intercontinental relationship began long before the days of lockdowns and social distancing. The pair 'met' on-line through mutual friends back in 2018 and quickly realised they were, in a musical sense, kindred spirits. Their shared tastes meant that what started out as a single track quickly morphed into an EP, and finally the full length album that you're enjoying right now.

Tristan's experience as a neo-classical musician was the ideal foil for Hanke's skills with a sample and production expertise. Both shared a love of the more lush and cinematic end of instrumental Hip-Hop and Downtempo music. This sound partnership is evident throughout the album, but particularly on tracks like Nkosi, and the title track, where luscious string sections dance playfully with fractured, programmed beats; or the melancholic opener, Kouyou, where more laid back drums underpin muted horns and joyous harps.

The pair's perfectly formed fusion isn't the end of the story though, as French chanteuse Elodie Rama is on hand to provide not only some impeccable vocals, but also irresistible melodies to this already mellifluous long-player. Speak The Language sees this brilliant vocalist drift seamlessly between euphonious song and spoken word whilst delivering one of the ariose moments of the whole album. Elsewhere, on Dancing In The Dark, Elodie gives a slightly more sombre performance, combining with lavish strings and driving rhythms to a tee; and on To Find A Way offers up an even more emotional and almost heart-breaking performance, aided by wistful and forlorn instrumentation.

Transatlantyk is a body of work from an amalgamation of rare talents who combine beautifully to take us through myriad emotions; from the urgent and compelling Off The Mark via the pensive Forever We Were, and finally find their Way Across thanks to a shared love of graceful and refined musicality and a good song.

To this day the three have never actually met in person, but here's a last hopeful thought that one day soon, as we emerge out of the darkness, they can finally join together in a physical, as well as a musical, embrace.

Text by Dom Servini

Transatlantyk

Keno & Tristan De Liege "Kouyou"

Album can be pre-ordered here:
keno.bandcamp.com/album/transatlantyk
Snippets of all tracks can be found here:
music.apple.com/bz/album/transatlantyk/1527786832

The story of how Transatlantyk came to be is, in many ways, one typical of our times. We've grown accustomed to being isolated, even stranded, in recent months, and Technology has become our means of overcoming these aspects of quarantine.

For Lübeck-based producer David Hanke, a.k.a. Keno, and Los Angeles-based musician Tristan de Liège, their intercontinental relationship began long before the days of lockdowns and social distancing. The pair 'met' on-line through mutual friends back in 2018 and quickly realised they were, in a musical sense, kindred spirits. Their shared tastes meant that what started out as a single track quickly morphed into an EP, and finally the full length album that you're enjoying right now.

Tristan's experience as a neo-classical musician was the ideal foil for Hanke's skills with a sample and production expertise. Both shared a love of the more lush and cinematic end of instrumental Hip-Hop and Downtempo music. This sound partnership is evident throughout the album, but particularly on tracks like Nkosi, and the title track, where luscious string sections dance playfully with fractured, programmed beats; or the melancholic opener, Kouyou, where more laid back drums underpin muted horns and joyous harps.

The pair's perfectly formed fusion isn't the end of the story though, as French chanteuse Elodie Rama is on hand to provide not only some impeccable vocals, but also irresistible melodies to this already mellifluous long-player. Speak The Language sees this brilliant vocalist drift seamlessly between euphonious song and spoken word whilst delivering one of the ariose moments of the whole album. Elsewhere, on Dancing In The Dark, Elodie gives a slightly more sombre performance, combining with lavish strings and driving rhythms to a tee; and on To Find A Way offers up an even more emotional and almost heart-breaking performance, aided by wistful and forlorn instrumentation.

Transatlantyk is a body of work from an amalgamation of rare talents who combine beautifully to take us through myriad emotions; from the urgent and compelling Off The Mark via the pensive Forever We Were, and finally find their Way Across thanks to a shared love of graceful and refined musicality and a good song.

To this day the three have never actually met in person, but here's a last hopeful thought that one day soon, as we emerge out of the darkness, they can finally join together in a physical, as well as a musical, embrace.

Text by Dom Servini

Keno & Tristan De Liege  "Dancing In The Dark feat. Elodie Rama"

Cherry Tree

* Read more: https://boltingbits.com/retromigration-nephews-kindness-limited-white-label-ltd-w-lbl
* Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/y4s0mP2znh4
* Pre-order: https://ltdwlbl.bandcamp.com/

Limited White Label's next black label release features Retromigration and the duo Nephews for a full blown Jazz-heavy EP.

A2 , "Kindness'' is the record's House opener, unraveling the artists’ sentiment for Jazz and Soul music. The track combines swinging organic drums and percussions with smooth saxophone and luscious piano melodies focusing on the interaction between the different elements, to create an up-lifting yet mellow atmosphere.

The record will hit the stores October 23rd with a 2 week Bandcamp exclusive!

PREMIERE: Retromigration & Nephews - Kindness

Production duo ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS have announced the release of their latest single, ‘Tebamanyi feat. MoRoots’ on the 6th of November. The single is taken from their groundbreaking Afro-European album ZIK ZAK, which will be released on the 22nd of January 2021 via Switchstance Recordings and features a variety of rising African musicians. The album was preceded by the noteworthy Kampala Fire EP and the single Ziinga Zanram. 

Ugandan born and London based MoRoots is a fast-rising singer, songwriter, composer, saxophonist, classical pianist who is currently making waves across both continents. The songstress has been supported by several publications including Bella Naija, New Vision, The New Times, Chimp Reports, The Observer and Sofar Sounds.

ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS find inspiration in a variety of styles, including the likes of Madlib, Apollo Brown, Clutchy Hopkins, RJD2, King Tubby, Lee Perry, Dubmatix, Stone Love, J Dilla, Augustus Pablo, Midnite, DJ Premiere, Pete Rock and 9th Wonder. However, ‘Tebamanyi feat. MoRoots’ sits closer to the likes of the production stylings of Thievery Corporation, Kruder & Dorfmeister, the haunting string work of Portishead and Quakers (Katalyst) the while the vocals call to mind the powerful likes of Amy Winehouse and Mary J. Blige. 

Radiating with strong feminism and bold vocals, ‘Tebamanyi feat. MoRoots’ is made with deep grooves that keep the listener entranced. An “in-your-face, I-don’t-care”  attitude opens the single. However, instead of allowing this rhythm to dominate the single, there is a deep sense of refinement and precision within the vocals that is only further accentuated by the production stylings of ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS.

ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS tell us a little about the joys of working with MoRoots, “She has such an amazing voice and her lyrics are just pure honesty, nothing played or acted. She is just being herself. None of that fake artist character created for the world of Instagram and such, she is pure artistry and a phenomenal voice in one person.”

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Hailing from Manchester in the UK, acoustic-electronica trio GoGo Penguin are pianist Chris Illingworth, bassist Nick Blacka and drummer Rob Turner. Drawing on a heady brew of influences from Brian Eno, John Cage, Massive Attack and Aphex Twin to Manchester’s grey rain-streaked urban streets, they create a brave new sound that is wholly their own.

Defined by skittering break-beats, powerful sub-bass, telepathic interplay and a penchant for anthemic melody they create an emotionally rich palate for the listener that has seen them hailed as the most exciting new band to emerge from the UK in years.

Last Words (Alternate Version)

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