Vinyl has found some unlikely new routes to market, and this 140g LP arrives by one of the more interesting: a 2026 ...

The sleeve is the first joke, and it’s a good one. The New Atomic dresses itself in the mushroom-cloud typography of Count ...

The lineage of Polish jazz needs little introduction to anyone who has spent time with the music of Krzysztof Komeda, whose scores for Knife in the Water and Rosemary’s Baby carried a distinctly ...

Indonesia is not a country the Western soul narrative has ever paid much attention to, which says everything about the narrative and nothing about Indonesia. Surabaya alone has form. It was the city ...

I came to Current on CD late one evening with the headphones on, and cast off without quite meaning to. By the time the ...

Some recordings are made to be released; others simply happen and wait. A Timeless Place belongs firmly to the second kind.

Tribute albums are notoriously difficult to pull off. Too often, they become museum pieces, reverential exercises that ...

There’s a gentle irony in the name. Uusi Jazzi Klubi translates as “New Jazz Club”, yet the Helsinki collective behind it has ...