Wills Mckenna Chicago, Illinois
The Wills Mckenna Quintet is a Chicago-based group that plays music drawing from a variety of styles including jazz, rock, shoegaze, grunge, improvised and noise music, using its double guitar formation to create a full and complex yet melodic sonic landscape. The music is mostly written by saxophonist Wills Mckenna, and the band plays regularly in the Chicago area. ... more
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Malamute
by JIM BLACK with Óskar Guðjónsson, Elias Stemeseder, Chris Tordini
Such an amazing vibe here, love Oskar's playing and his beautiful sound. Love the compositions and how it flows so effortlessly between driving bass lines and open wandering melodies.
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Descension
by Patrick Shiroishi
Layered sax and synths combine in this rich, absorbing work that sounds like elegiac lounge music from another dimension.
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featured on Bandcamp Radio Apr 9, 2024
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featured on Bandcamp Radio Apr 2, 2024
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Another set of impossibly slick jams from an Aussie outfit who bathe disco-inspired rhythms in funky synths and psychedelic textures.
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The Dew at Dawn / (Slightly) Slightly All the Time
by Soft Machine
UK jazz-rock icons pay tribute to British trumpeter Harry Beckett in the second entry in My Only Desire Records’ Brit Jazz 45s series.
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