The seventh MOJO playlist of 2018
Twenty-two essential new selections from the MOJO sound system
Pretty amazing Japanese spiritual jazz going down right now in the MOJO office, but here are some more new personal highlights from the stereo these past few days: new songs from Sade, Neko Case, Fatoumata Diawara and Jackie-O Motherfucker; the fine harpist Jennifer Castle; a live improv session from last week in Chicago, lead by Ryley Walker; a new Idris Ackamoor album, for more jazz righteousness; an International Harvester boxset, for all your Scandinavian psych needs; and a tapeful of jams from Matthew E White's Spacebomb House Band that sounds essentially like sample food for Madlib. For daily updates, please have a look at https://twitter.com/JohnRMulvey - we'll be revealing all the details about the forthcoming MOJO any day now, too...
1 Ben LaMar Gay – Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun (International Anthem)
2 Natalie Prass – Short Court Style (ATO)
3 Modern Studies – Welcome Strangers (Fire)
4 Park Jiha – Communion (tak:til/Glitterbeat)
5 Jo Passed – Their Prime (Sub Pop)
6 Yo La Tengo – There’s A Riot Going On (Matador)
7 Janelle Monáe – Make Me Feel (Atlantic)
8 Neko Case - Hell-On (Anti-)
9 Shy Layers – Midnight Marker (Beats In Space)
10 Sade – Flower Of The Universe (Sony)
11 Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Middle America (Domino)
12 Third Eye Foundation – Wake The Dead (Ici D’Ailleurs)
13 Egyptology – Sur Les Autres Mondes (Hands In The Dark)
14 Jackie-O Motherfucker – Bloom (Textile)
15 Mary Lattimore – Hundreds Of Days (Ghostly International)
16 Jennifer Castle – Angels Of Death (Paradise Of Bachelors)
17 International Harvester – Remains (Silence)
18 Ryley Walker /Leroy Bach /Dan Bitney /Ben LaMar Gay – Live At Cafe Mustache, Chicago 7/3/2018 (Soundcloud)
19 Fatoumata Diawara – Nterini (Wagram)
20 Spacebomb House Band – Library Music I: No Space High Enough (Spacebomb)
21 Idris Ackamoor – An Angel Fell (Strut)
22 Various Artists – Spiritual Jazz Vol 8: Japan Parts I & II (Jazzman)
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids picture: Alexis Maryon