Hyperjazz レコード& CD

Review: Khalab's new album Layers comes on his own Hyperjazz Records and signifies a culmination of sorts. His musical journey started back in 2015 with this first EP on Black Acre Records and has then evolved through Afro-future sounds like his Black Noise 2084 album through On The Corner Records in 2018. His development has continued at pace after that and this record shows how across a series of deeply musical and spiritual tracks full of rich layers, jazz freedom and electronic rhythms. Top shelf guests help elevate the record with multi-instrumentalist Tenderlonious jazz singer Alessia Obino and Burkinabe guitarist and kora player Gabin Dabire just some of those adding extra magic.

Review: Hyperituals Vol 2 is a compilation curated by Khalab (Raffaele Costantino, HJ's founder and head of A&R), featuring rare and unreleased tracks from the Black Saint music world. Black Saint was an Italian label that, since the 1970s and throughout the 1980s, established itself as one of the most important imprints for international jazz. The album features some of the brightest names in creative jazz or the 'avant-garde' of the era; including Sun Ra Arkestra, Archie Shepp, Muhal Richard Abrams Octet and World Saxophone Quartet. The selection is focused on rhythms, grooves and Afrocentric traditions, blending moments in which the rhythmic aspect is powerfully explicit, with others in which the kinetic aspect dialogues on different levels with African-American cultural contexts. In their own words, Hyperituals Vol. 2 is a philological investigation that delves deep into the wellspring of influences that gave birth to a transnational sound.