Europe Jazz Network: Media Chart 2022
Europe Jazz Network (EJN) is a nonprofit Europe-wide association of producers, presenters and supporting organisations who specialise in creative music, contemporary jazz and improvised music created from a distinctly European perspective.
Euro Jazz Media Chart — a selection of the hot new music surfacing across the continent this month by the top European jazz magazines and websites.
Every month at the Europe Jazz Network Media Chart 2022, we publish a newly released album, which interested us most of all.
Europe Jazz Network Media Chart 2021
January, 2022
Foa Hoka
The Best of Foa Hoka 1991 — 2021
2021 (SKP Records)
Review by Ivan Shelekhov
This compilation is a try to document the metamorphosis history of an experimental music entity that arose the same year Ukraine gained it's independence. Always being eclectic, Foa Hoka had it's peculiar route of shifts and ups and downs from post-industrial rock creativity and electronic hometaping to funky acid grooves and somewhat jazz-flavoured psychedelia.
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The full Europe Jazz Media Chart (January) is here.
February, 2022
Ihor Tsymbrovsky
Come, Angel
2022 (Kontakt Audio)
Review by Ivan Shelekhov
Ihor Tsymbrovsky's Come, Angel is an idiosyncratic modern song collection that was recorded some 27 years ago and still gets reprints. While marketed as avant-garde, it is highly lyrical in the first place, with its repertoire based on poetry, both Ukrainian and translated into it, and sung with a striking falsetto. The songs are accompanied by the artist's original piano style that was influenced by jazz, folk and classical music.
The full Europe Jazz Media Chart (February) is here.