Various - Spiritual Jazz 12: Impulse!In our latest chapter of Spiritual Jazz, we return to the source the Impulse! label, and the monumental influence of its most prominent artist, John Coltrane. Since the first release in the series back in 2008, we have mapped out the growth of the spiritual sound in jazz. Spiritually energised and politically conscious, the spiritual sound in jazz music is one of the most important currents in the music. Our series has charted the growth of the style

OnåʉÛÏPour Man

a pulse vivified by gratitude and grace notes

Laraaji first came to fame in the 1980s as a worldwide ambient artist working with Brian Eno on EG Records

Slow at first

Wah-oos and guitar dips that explode into a head-crashing power-chord shred

With 'Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus' we have something that few could have expected - two albums that can both be regarded as self-contained masterpieces

First Time available in this format

the Parisian sensation/Producer GUTS

San Francisco is still doomed

Sub Pop released The French PressEP

The lyrics are from the point of view of the poor country peasant leaving the mountains and escaping the slavery of rural poverty for what he thinks will be the promise of opportunity dubiously offered by "The Big City"

but there’s something unmistakably broken down underneath these songs’ palette of fuzzy synths