Each Friday, Stephen Mejias, AudioQuest’s Director of Communications and former Stereophile and Audiostream columnist, will browse through the many exciting albums released that day and select 15 worth a closer listen.
Japanese Breakfast: Jubilee (Dead Oceans)
Pan Daijing: Jade (PAN)
Butcher Brown: ENCORE (Concord Jazz)
Night Beats: Outlaw R&B (Fuzz Club)
Mndsgn.: Rare Pleasure (Stones Throw)
Gang of Four: The Problem of Leisure: A celebration of Andy Gill and Gang of Four (Gill Music)
Tristen: Aquatic Flowers (Mama Bird Recording)
Najwa: AMA (Mushroom Pillow)
Loraine James: Reflection (Hyperdub)
Hailu Mergia: Tezeta (Awesome Tapes From Africa)
Slikback: Quoios/Klout (Byrd Out)
João Donato, Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhamma: João Donato JID007 (Jazz Is Dead)
Carsten Dahl: Sagn (Storyville Records)
Peter Rosenberg: Real Late (Real Late Records)
Miriam Makeba: Keep Me In Mind (Remastered) (Strut)