Brazilian multi-instrumentalist Leonardo Marques's 2022 album plays like a musical flea market, collaging nostalgia, memory, and dream. Working in a vein close to Shuggie Otis with vintage analog gear, he conjures a languid, warm, dream-pop texture laced with folk, psych, and jazz harmony.
The latest from Manchester's Gondwana Records (founded by Matthew Halsall), this is the debut solo album by saxophonist/flautist Jack Wyllie of Portico Quartet. Inspired by his love of landscape, melodies surface like spring shoots, drifting between jazz, ambient, and post-rock, with one track co-written by Hania Rani.