Treat your taste buds to these mouthwatering leftovers!
The Lefovers, our weeky fridge-raided frequencies are here. We serve up the five musical scraps into bite-sized pieces ready for you to savour. This week, Conic Rose, SHOLTO, Clear Path Ensemble and more.. Until next week, we’ll be keeping our ears hungry and our speakers fed.
Conic Rose’s new album WEDDING is a richly atmospheric, genre‑blurring second release, deeply shaped by the Berlin district that gives it its name. It expands their sound into a more textural, cinematic space while keeping their signature blend of jazz, ambient, electronica, and indie influences. Tracks like ‘Less Lonely’, ‘Twist’ (premiered on TS), and ‘Too Many Flowers’ showcase the quintet’s ability to move between gentle ambience, slick grooves, cool beats and cinematic builds. Across 12-tracks, WEDDING is a richly emotive instrumental world you can sink into.
SHOLTO returns with a soulful, beautifully crafted new track. ‘Everything Is Stolen Anyway‘ sees SHOLTO reunite with long-time collaborator Phoebe Coco, continuing the thread of cinematic, mood-led work that runs through his recent album ‘The Sirens’. Lyrically, it circles the idea that nothing we feel is truly new – love, loss, and wonder arrive as if they’re ours alone, but sit inside something larger. The music mirrors that: fragments passed on, reshaped, and heard differently each time. Subtle instrumentation colours the space, but it’s Coco’s rich vocals that truly shine. Gorgeous stuff.
Melbourne-based New Zealand composer Cory Champion aka Clear Path Ensemble recently offered the first single from his fourth album, Ascendiing. With a nod to Reich and Laraaji, ‘Tongue Rhythm’ opens Ascending, its glistening marimba and vibraphone patterns locking into a hypnotic minimalist grid. Slow‑moving metallophone and Rhodes lines slip through the lattice, shifting the harmony and subtly reshaping the pulse. Champion delivers the perfect track to shake off any lingering negativity. The album is out today!
Copenhagen’s Jiyu deals in spiritual, funk‑leaning grooves pulled from an eclectic palette. If jazz‑fusion with touches of downbeat, lounge, and broken beat is your ting, their new record is pure listening pleasure. There are slow groove cuts like the shuffled broken-beat pulse of Smell of Fire, while Deep Woods simmers. Guest vocalist Mai Lan Doky‘s dreamlike textures on Cumulus & the Subterranean broaden the appeal. Wild Things is a rich analogue-soul excursion, earthy, exploratory and tuned to the outer frequencies. Impressive stuff!
Known for blending jazz, electronic music, and Portuguese folk into his own blissful instrumental hybrid, Pedro Ricardo takes a sharp turn on Oxalá Cante com Tempo. This time, he pushes lyrics to the forefront, letting the voice carry the emotional weight and reshape the contours of his sound. The short but oh-so-sweet album features a cast of collaborators, including fado and música popular portuguesa singers António Zambujo and Ana Margarida Prado, plus cellist Carolina Viana, flautists Gil Silva and Edu Moreno. The album plays beautifully as a complete piece, with Sem Caminhar Eu Vou, Ângelo, Larga-me os Cabelos and the title track standing out for me. At 23 minutes, my only complaint is that it’s over too quickly. Beautiful stuff.
