After Hours February 4, 2026

*Vito Lalinga: "Kuya" (Hybrid-EP 2026) Italian comp. prod. musician VLalinga taught himself guit. at age 6. His obsession with Amer. black music led him to a prolific output of modern funk & jazz classics.

*Lettuce: "Gold Tooth" (Cook 2025) Amer. funk band originated in Boston where their 4 founding members attended Berklee College of Music. Orig. members Eric Krasno & Alan Evans left to form Soulive.

*Cookin' On 3 Burners: "New Yorker" (Cookin' The Books 2025) Australian funk, soul, boogaloo & jazz organ trio from Melbourne w/Dan West guit. Jake Mason organ & Ivan Khatchoyan drums.

*The Dining Rooms: "Gudrun E Rosa" (Sensibili Alle Foglie The Lost Soundtrack 2025) Italian duo of Cesare Malfatti & Stefano Ghittoni fusing jazz & electronic music in their lush cinematic style. 

*David Nesselhauf: "Now I Know" (A Guide To Afrokraut III 2023) Germ. bassist comp. & prod. David Nesselhauf is also a member of Diazpora & Hamburg Spinners. He loves spontaneity & explorations of diverse sounds.

*Sun Atlas: "Phantom" (Sun Atlas (Acetate Mixes) 2025) Transcendental outer national funk & psych. jazz from a mysterious band that hides their identity to let the music speak for itself. Sun Atlas' sound is mystical & cosmopolitan.

*Maiiah & The Angels Of Libra: "I Wanna Go" (M & TAOL 2023) Singer Marija Samardzic has roots in the Balkans but grew up in Dusseldorf Germ. Her love of soul music & her subsequent meeting with guit. prod. Dennis Rux led her to performing with Hamburg soul collective The Angels Of Libra.

*Bajka: "A Vision" (Single 2005) Poet, sing. prod. & songwr. Bajka Pluwatsch was born in India & raised in Portugal & So. Afr. Her unique voc. sound sets her apart from other singers.

*Kinny: "The Love Cats" (Can't Kill A Dame With Soul 2011) Caitlin Simpson is of Indigenous Canadian, Jamaican, French & Swedish descent. She trained in classical opera before discovering the freedom of jazz, reggae & soul. She now lives in Norway.

*Jiro Inagaki & His Soul Media: "That's How I Feel" (WaJazz Legends JInagaki 2023) J Inagaki was a Jap. saxophonist who passed away in 2024. He was one of the pivotal figures in the development of jazz rock in Japan from the 1970s.

*Adrian Quesada: "DG On The Keys" (Jaguar Sound 2022) A Quesada is an Austin TX based prod. comp. & multi-inst. who has played with Black Pumas, Ocote Soul Sounds, Grupo Fantasma & The Echocentrics

*Aja West & Cheeba: "Last Of The Mohawkins" (Flash & Snowball 2005) A West & Cheeba (Paul Cheever) are musician siblings who formed The Mackrosoft record label in Seattle. Aja passed in 2020.

*Bela Fleck & The Flecktones: "Throwdown At The Hoedown" (Left Of Cool ?) Amer. banjoist B Fleck w/Howard Levy keys, Victor Wooten bass & perc. drumitarist Roy "Future Man" Wooten play classical, jazz, Afr. music, electric blues & Euro. folk music.

HOUR 2

*De-Phazz: "Jazz With Boom" (Pit Sounds 2024) Prod. comp. Pit Baumgartner leads this downt. jazz ensemble from Germany. They have been releasing luscious jazz/lounge music since 1997.

*Tape Five: "Topanga Valley" (Soiree Deluxe 2017) Germ. prod. sing/songwr. Martin Strathausen plays electro swing, nujazz, latin & lounge in his sometimes retro jazz sound.

*Club Des Belugas: "Quitting The Bad Habits" (How To Avoid Difficult Situations 2021) Germ. electro nu jazz band led by Maxim Illion (Martin Kratzenstein prod. comp. keys bass) & Kitty The Bill (Katrin Stoffel prod. comp. programmer)

*Thunderball: "12 Mile High" (12 Mile High 2010) Wash DC based trio of prod. multi-inst. Sid Barcelona, comp. prod. Steve Raskin & guit. sitar Rob Myers. They retired the Thunderball project to become The Fort Knox Five.

*Chris Joss: "Little Nature" (Sticks 2009) Chris Joss is a French multi-inst. & prod. His debilitating misophonia & tinnitus prevent him from performing live.

*Bei Bei & Shawn Lee: "Hot Thursday" (Into The Wind 2010) Bei Bei is a Chinese ghuzeng player, teacher & comp. living in So. Cal. Shawn Lee is an Amer. prod. comp. multi-inst. living in London. 

*Brownout: "Con El Cuete" (Aguilas And Cobras 2009) Brownout is an Austin Tx latin funk band formed by members of Grupo Fantasma feat. Adrian Quesada guit. Greg Gonzalez bass & Beto Martinez guit.

*Empresarios: "Bailando" (El Sonido Magico 2012) Amer. latin-fusion funk band from Wash. DC may best be described as "Tropicaliente!" Combining Salsa, dub, cumbia, house & reggae they are led by Javier Miranda.

*Grupo Fantasma: "Otono" (Problemas 2015) A mainstay of the Austin TX music scene for 25 yrs Grupo Fantasma has won multiple Austin Music awards & a Grammy led by Jose Galeano vox, timbales & Beto Martinez on guit.

*Ghost Funk Orchestra: "A Song For Paul" (A Song For Paul 2019) GFO is the brainchild of NY comp.  multi-inst. Seth Applebaum playing soul, psych rock, salsa & beyond.

*Espen Horne: "Rory's Sunrays" (The Anatomy Of Serene Eloquence 2024) Legendary Norwegian prod. E Horne was also the man behind Bobby Hughes Experience & Bobby Hughes Combination.

*The Electones: "A Song In The Snow" (If You'll Be Null, I'll Be Void 2009) Norwegian jazz/electronic pop grp feat. Hallvard Hagen & Jens Petter Nilsen (Xploding Plastix) & vocalist Rita Knudsen.

*El Michels Affair: "Silver Lining" (Yeti Season 2021) NYC based funk/soul/hip hop band founded by prod. comp. multi-inst. Leon Michels.