Bridging the Gap January 21, 2026

*The Claypool Lennon Delirium: "Cricket And The Genie (Movement 1, The Delirium)" (Monolith Of Phobos 2016) Primus bass/vox/songwr. Les Claypool teams up with guit./vox/songwr. Sean Ono Lennon also of GOASTT. They play what Lennon has described as "progadelic"

*GOASTT: "Midnight Sun" (Midnight Sun ) Amer./Brit. band feat. Sean Ono Lennon & Charlotte Kemp Muhl. He is the son of J Lennon & Yoko Ono & she is a musician, model, writer & director. They are a couple & collaborate on GOASTT as a way to spend more time together.

*Gomez: "Sound Of Sounds" (In Our Gun 2002) Brit. indie rock band with Ben Otteweell vox, guit. Tom Gray vox, guit. keys Paul Blackburn bass, guit. Ian Ball vox, guit., harmonica & Olly Peacock drums. The group has 3 sing. & 4 songwrs.

*Gramatik: "Swucca Chust" (Water 4 The Soul 2009) Yugoslavian electro & hip hop prod. Denis Jasarevic is now living in NYC. He began producing as a 13 yr. old with an early laptop sharing his songs on the online music store Beatport.

*RJD2: "Milk Tooth" (More Is Than Isn't 2013) Amer. hip hop & electro prod. DJ Ramble Jon Krohn (RJD2) was born in Oregon but emerged as RJD2 in Columbus Ohio.

*Mr. Scruff: "Champion Nibble" (Trouser Jazz 2002) Brit. DJ, prod. & artist Andrew Carthy (Mr. Scruff)

He often makes quirky drawings & animations associated with his music and feels annoyed if he is not taking risks.

*Miriam Makeba: "Djiu De Galinha" (Welela 1989) Legendary So. Afr. singer known as "Mama Africa" who was banned during Apartheid. She went to London then the US and became a superstar before being able to return home to So. Afr.

*Alogte Oho & His Sounds Of Joy: "Mam Yenne Wa" (Mam Yinne Wa 2019) Alogte Oho is the no, 1 Frafra gospel singer in Ghana promoting Afro-futuristic music that explodes with vibrant vocals & West African rhythms.

*Mahotella Queens: "Mantsentse" (Bazobuya 2004) So. Afr. mbaqanga group became hugely popular in the 60s & 70s in the So. Afr. music scene. Orig. member Hilda Tioubatla performs with newer members, Amanda Nkosi & Nonku Maseko.

*Makala Jazz Funk Band: "Wack Wack" (Xake! 2015) Groove jazz soul funk group from the Basque Country of Northern Spain led by Mikel Unzurrunzaga Schmitz aka Makala.

*Montefiori Cocktail: "Nana Nana" (...A Taste Of 2006) Future jazz from Italian Montefiori twins Francesco (Kekko) on keys & Federico (Kikko) on sax, flute & vox.

*Low Fidelity Jet Set Orchestra: "Kebab's Revenge" (Searching For A Bit Of Popularity 2008) Vintage deep funk roots with bossa excursions, Hammond licks & grooves from Italians Dave Masoch & Paolo "Apollo" Negri.

*Medeski Martin & Wood: "Hay-Hee-Hi-Ho (Illyb Remix)" (Note Bleu... 2006) Amer. prog. avant folk jazz post-rock trio. John Medeski keys Billy Martin drums & Chris Wood bass.

HOUR 2

*Mo' Horizons; 'Hang Loose (Pt. 2) feat. Trick Pantrick" (Music Sun Love 2019) Germ. duo of prod. DJs Ralf Droesemeyer & Mark 'Foh' Wetzler incorporate a wide range of instrumentation & genres to produce Mo' Horizons music. 

*The Mackrosoft: "1st Mack To The Moon" (1st Mack To The Moon 2003) The Mackrosoft was led by prod. comp. multi-inst. Aja West who passed away in 2022. He is survived by his brother Paul Cheever aka The Cheebacabra.

*Lettuce: "The Dump" (Outta Here 2002) Lettuce is an Amer. collective of jazz funk musicians who all attended the Berkelee College Of Music. They used to go to Boston area clubs and ask owners to "let us play" leading to the name Lettuce.

*Lanu: "Fall feat. Meg Washington" (Her 12 Faces 2011) Aussie band led by guit. prod. comp. bandleader Lance Ferguson from NZ living in Australia. Meg Washington is a sing/songwr pianist & prod. from Brisbane Australia.

*Kylie Auldist: "Still Into You" (Just Say 2008) Kylie Auldist is a Samoan-Australian solo soul & funk singer & also sings for The Bamboos.

*Kinny & Horne: "Dignity" (Forgetting To Remember 2005) Caitlin Simpson is an Indigenous Canadian French Jamaican & Swedish singer who now lives in Norway. Espen Horne is a comp. prod. who founded Bobby Hughes Experience & Combination.

*Kojato: "Like A Gypsy" (All About Jazz 2011) Led by Liberian sing. Kojo Ebenezer Samuels & Germ. keys prod. comp. Andre Neundorf Kojato deliver a rousing Afrobeat experience, also feat. Oliver Belz on various inst.

*Jack & Joints: "Running Life feat. Ashley Slater (Club Des Belugas Remix)" (Strange Things Beyond The Sunny Side ) Germ. prod. Dirk Schafer & Thorsten Walter (J&J) met on Facebook and finally got together to form a successful prod. duo. Ashley Slater is a Canadian singer.

*The Bahama Soul Club: "Land Of The Healers And Dealers feat. Cutty Wren & Josephine Nightingale" (Sundub Society 2023) BSC is a German born Portugal based group with soul, jazz, bossa, Afro & Carribbean influences led by multi-inst. prod. Oliver Belz.  Josephine Nightingale is a sing/songwr. 

*Clutchy Hopkins & Lord Kenjamin: "Brother John" (Music Is My Medicine 2009) Clutchy Hopkins is the mysterious mystical musician from the California desert. Lord Kenjamin is even more of a quandary!?

*Ghost Funk Orchestra: "Asphalt Homeland" ((Single) GFO is the brainchild of NYC comp. multi-inst. Seth Applebaum playing soul, psych, rock & beyond.

*Groove Collective: "Balimka" (Groove Collective 1994) NYC band playing afro-pop, Latin jazz, hip hop & funk.

*Inf: "My Happy Song" (Music For Crime Scenes 2013) Dutch prod. DJ Bas Te Braak is known for his mostly inst. output.