BRAZILIAN SOUL-JAZZ TRIO CAIXA CUBO ENLIST A CAST OF GLOBAL VOICES ON NEW ALBUM "AGÔRA"
OUT NOW ON VINYL, CD & DIGITAL!
Global pointing Brazilian jazz trio release a new album Agôra,sparkling with electric funk and Herbie-esque eclecticism. It features a myriad of guest vocalists and musicians including Brazilians Xênia França and Zé Leônidas, Jembaa Groove's Ghanaian singer Eric Owusu and South African artists Bongani Givethanks & Mpho Nkuzo.
Re-wiring the concept of 'fusion' for 2023, Agôra is Brazilian trio Caixa Cubo’s resurgent new record with the title referring to 'now', based upon the intuitive and fluid nature of the trio’s method, and this inspired recording. With shoots to black music culture, from Brazil to Brooklyn, Ghana and South Africa, Agôra is the group’s ninth album yet is their first where they’ve invited guests, mainly singers, onto each track and follows their last, Angela from 2020, released on Heavenly Records, which won a BBC 6 Music Album of the Year (Huey Morgan’s selection) granting them much deserved international recognition. The core musical elements of Caixa Cubo are Henrique Gomide (keys), João Fideles (drums) and Noa Stroeter (bass), all from Säo Paulo, Brazil and where they met as teenagers and would continue their friendship and musical bond at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Netherlands. Now all in their mid thirties, João and Noa live back in the city where it all started but Henrique has settled in Cologne, Germany where the recording of Agôra took place, over the course of 3 days, at the home cum studio of Chris ‘Dusty’ Doepke, their friend and owner of the label they signed to, Jazz and Milk.
CAIXA CUBO - "DREAMS" FEAT. XÊNIA FRANÇA & ZÉ LEÔNIDAS
Pre-save 2nd single "Dreams" (out Feb 28)
taken from the upcoming album "Agôra"!
Funk fuelled and global pointing Brazilian jazz trio Caixa Cubo are set to release their latest single Dreams on Feb 28. It is the group's first foray into R'n'B melding the simple and sporadic instrumentation of drums, keys and bass into a Jill Scott inspired song that could have been born in Brooklyn yet sung by Brazilian singer and Grammy nominated Xênia França and Zé Leônidas, sung in both English and Portuguese.
With shoots to black music culture, from Brazil to Ghana and South Africa, new album Agôra is sparkling with electric funk and Herbie Hancock eclecticism. It shines not only for its virtuosity but also for its minimalism, it's depth of space, and for the first time, it's ability to figure outside the jazz fold, as the trio from São Paulo decided to bring in singers and add a new aesthetic to their sound. Guests include Brazilians Xênia França and Zé Leônidas, Jembaa Groove's Ghanaian singer Eric Owusu and South African artists Bongani Givethanks & Mpho Nkuzo. It follows on from their 2020 hit album Angela released on Heavenly Recordings.
Video premiere for "Dreams" feat. Xênia França & Zé Leônidas
Caixa Cubo - 1st single "Sábado" out now!
1st single "Sábado" is now available on all digital platforms
taken from the upcoming album "Agôra"!
Debut single Sábado is a funk ridden and electrified future jazz-fizz, a homage to the frenetic city of São Paulo where Caixa Cubo met and fermented together. Featuring long time collaborator and vocalist Zé Leônidas, who delivers a fiery flow, with vocals dancing around the Airto inspired groove, with cuicas, tamborim, agogo and shakers providing the most obvious Brazilian affect from the new album Agôra!
Rewiring the concept of 'fusion' for 2023, Agôra is Brazilian trio Caixa Cubo’s resurgent new record with the title referring to 'now', based upon the intuitive and fluid nature of the trio’s method, and this inspired recording. With shoots to black music culture, from Brazil to Brooklyn, Ghana and South Africa, Agôra is sparkling with electric funk and Herbie-esque eclecticism, from a group who are making waves following their international breakthrough with 2020’s album Angela.
Pre-orders for the complete album on vinyl, CD and digital are now open!
SAM IRL - DONAU EP OUT NOW!
Sam Irl delivers a jazz-tinged House EP via Cologne’s Jazz & Milk, entitled ‘Donau’ and comprising three originals from the Vienna, Austria based producer and DJ.
The past decade has seen Bavaria born Vienna based artist Sam Irl deliver his signature soul infused twist on contemporary house via the likes of Jimpster’s Freerange, S3A’s Sampling As An Art, SlothBoogie, Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood and of course Jazz & Milk which has become a staple home for his productions since debuting on the label in 2012. Here Sam offers up the ‘Donau’ EP, the title of which references his growing up in rural Lower Bavaria as well living in Vienna for almost two decades, both of which are located on the Danube River.
Opening the EP is ‘Music About Talking’, a five-minute dynamic house workout employing intricately intertwined keys, sweeping guitar chops, vocal cuts and air synth chords running atop jazzy, organic drums and a gritty bass hook.
Title-cut ‘Donau’ follows and dives deeper into snaking bass licks, stuttering guitar plucks, ethereal piano lines and shuffled, low-slung drums. ‘Magic Hat’ then rounds out the release, deftly weaving together twinkling synth chimes, a playful, bouncy bass line and ethereal atmospherics while jazzy keys ebb and flow amongst a raw, crisp drum groove.