A deep dive into the extensive discography of influential Brazilian jazz trio Azymuth. 

For more info on Azymuth check out Far Out recordings [website](https://www.faroutrecordings.com/collections/azymuth)

https://www.nts.live/shows/in-focus/episodes/in-focus-azymuth

In Focus: Azymuth 280918

'Somewhere along the line Coltrane’s soprano sax runs out of steam. Now it’s McCoy Tyner’s piano solo I hear, the left hand carving out a repetitious rhythm and the right layering on thick, forbidding chords. Like some mythic scene, the music portrays somebody’s - a nameless, faceless somebody’s - dim past, all the details laid out as clearly as entrails being dragged out of the darkness. Or at least that’s how it sounds to me. The patient, repeating music ever so slowly breaks apart the real, rearranging the pieces. It has a hypnotic, menacing smell, just like the forest'

Music, and specifically jazz, has always featured heavily in the literary imagination of Haruki Murakami. In this radio special, NTS lays down two hours of jazz records as featured throughout Murak... 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-jazz-in-murakami-novels-21st-november-2024

NTS Guide to: Jazz In Murakami Novels 211124

Good news! Pacific Spirit episodes may be getting fewer and further in-between, but the vibes are as high as ever. Episode 94 comes courtesy of LA’s Jamma-Dee, an old friend who’s been in the mix for ages and played parties for us as far back as 2015.

The mix he’s prepared for us is described as a “summer-forward bounce and groove from the underground crates, 70 min of all wax from the chamber of Jamm”. 

It’s the perfect pairing to these dog days of summer. Enjoy the vibes!

@jamma-dee

Pacific Spirit No.94 Jamma-Dee

NTS Breakfast Show w/ Steven Julien - 12th Sep 2025

Welcome to Club Coco: a place where globe-trotting vinyl hunter Coco María shares her joyous discoveries - jazz, fusion, international pop, vintage latin music of all flavours… 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/club-coco-coco-maria/episodes/club-coco-coco-maria-22nd-september-2025

Club Coco w/ Coco María 220925

Edinburgh based party and reissue label present rarities and classics every month.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/athens-of-the-north/episodes/athens-of-the-north-25th-september-2025

Athens of the North 250925

Mr. Big Happy is a graphic designer, artist, DJ, and music archivist from San Francisco, California. While he is an accomplished designer and artist, over the years he has always had a love for music and spends time searching for rare and obscure vinyl. Big Happy’s focus is the late 70s into the late 80s - modern soul, funk, boogie and disco.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/the-big-happy-show/episodes/the-big-happy-show-21st-october-2025

The Big Happy Show W/ KON 211025

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🎧 Frattalismo in Sinestesia Amplificata

MARIO and the DDDEMONS

🌀 Every spark is a universe.  
This album expands from a single center — a fretless bass line ascending in minor pentatonic, opening into major light. A distant dry beat pulses from the right, slowly approaching the center like time syncing with perception.

🎸 A five-string banjo arpeggiates all senses, imperfect and raw, then transforms into orchestral bloom.
🎻 Violins rise in dorian spirals.
🎹 A cascading piano descends in Mixolydian, like gravity made audible.
🎛 Saturated timbres blur the edges: is it a banjo, a sitar, a guitar, a glitch? You don’t know — and that’s the point.

🌞🌙 The sun and moon alternate as sonic layers, marking inner days and nights.
🧠 It’s not a melody — it’s a field.
Not a song — a system.
Not a genre — a ritual.

✨ Fractal music for minds that expand sideways.  
Welcome to the quadriphonic brain.
Welcome to the ritual.
👤 Artist Bio — MARIO and the DDDEMONS

Nomadic architect of sonic systems, ritual coder, and mythic operator of perceptual frequencies.
MARIO builds music like he builds bash scripts: recursive, modular, and emotionally architectural.
His compositions are not linear — they are fractal expansions from a central pulse, blending banjo, fretless bass, orchestral bloom, and saturated ambiguity.

The DDDEMONS are not a band — they are echoes, functions, avatars of sonic archetypes.
Together, they channel a language where every sound is a portal, every error is sacred, and every track is a ritual of resonance.

🎛 Bash logic meets musical intuition.
🎧 Roots-reggae meets cosmic orchestration.
🌀 Fractals meet emotion.


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