2020: Albums of the Year (#30 - 21)

Getting into the really really great ones now... Click the album title to listen, enjoy!

30. Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange - ZFEX Vol.II (The Jazz Diaries)
Another member of Melbourne's vibrant jazz scene making his way onto this list... Must be something in the water, I guess... 

29. Sven Wunder - Wabi Sabi (Piano Piano)

As if David Axelrod was commissioned to do an Asian library record, and he had to keep it light...

28. Camarão Orkestra - Nação África (Favorite)
More non-Brazilians excelling in modern Afro-Brazilian music...

27. Natureboy Flako - Ambitus of Beauty (Materialized Moments)
Flako's admiration for nature expressed through sound... Lovely record...

26. Cleo Sol - Rose in the Dark (Forever Living Originals)

Two celebrated SAULT-albums and one of the finest R&B/neosoul records of the year: quite a 2020 for Cleo...

25. Azymuth, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad - Jazz is Dead 004 (Jazz Is Dead)

A collaboration that sounds exactly like what you'd wish for from these Brazilian giants... 

24. Calibro 35 - Momentum (Record Kicks)
Calibro 35 embraces new, modern sounds and styles without neglecting mother funk...

23. Likwid Continual Space Motion - Earthbound (Super-Sonic Jazz)

Intergalactic afrofuturistic jazz from broken beat icon IG Culture...

22. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 4 (RBC)

Killer Mike. El-P. Top level bars, beats and braggadocio... 

21. Triorität - ALG0 (Ouvo)
Cosmic jazz-funk that makes you wanna dance... Keeps getting better with every spin...