Articles by Ryan B. Patrick

Trishes

Ego

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2019

The debut record by urban pop artist Trishes is a trip. Exploring the Freudian dialectic and mapping it to her own internal struggles with...

Cochemea

All My Relations

PUBLISHED Feb 25, 2019

California native Cochemea Gastelum's solo full-length taps into a spiritual jazz vibe with All My Relations. The Daptone saxophonist and l...

Leah Jenea

Leah Meets Nina

PUBLISHED Feb 25, 2019

Leah Jenea is a new artist from New Jersey. Leah Meets Nina is ambitious in scope, with a conceit of mixing original material with samples...

Nakhane

You Will Not Die

PUBLISHED Feb 25, 2019

Straight from the opening track, listeners get a sense that the spiritual gravitas Nakhane brings to his music is far from conventional. Th...

Salif Keita

Un Autre Blanc

PUBLISHED Feb 12, 2019

If Un Autre Blanc does, in fact, represent legendary Malian singer-songwriter Salif Keita's final record, he will be going out on the prove...

Emily King's Minimalist R&B Album 'Scenery' Puts Feelings First

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2019

With new album Scenery (out February 1 on ATO), R&B singer-songwriter Emily King felt she had to escape her comfort zone. Eventually, the n...

Joyia

Legends

PUBLISHED Jan 30, 2019

Joyia is a name to follow in the coming months; the Toronto-based singer-songwriter's Legends EP is aspirational in title and legit in term...

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba

Miri

PUBLISHED Jan 30, 2019

Miri means contemplation or dream in the Bamana language and adequately represents the intent of Bassekou Kouyate's fifth studio release. M...