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Here are some of the highlights of what we have in store for you this week (week 22)

First up is Terrence Dixon’s new album ‘Reporting from Detroit’, Dixon’s first Rush Hour album in seven years and boy, what an album it is! Needless to say we’re exceptionally proud of this one. Fun fact: the first pressing comes with an extra 12” containing two bonus tracks, so get it while you can!

Up next is the first album on Mafalda’s new Tropic of Love imprint and the third for Wildflower, the project comprising Idris Rahman, Leon Brichard and Tom Skinner. A driving modern UK jazz album that’s as urgent as it is beautiful.

Lucky number three is Club Coco, a stellar Bongo Joe compilation that was lovingly compiled by Rush Hour family member Coco Maria. Your summer starts here!

Deep, dubby and ritualistic. That’s the best way to describe percussionist and sculptor Joao Pais Filipe, drummer Valentina Magaletti and producer Leon Marks’ ‘Commutator’ on Offen. Fantastic stuff!

Back in after a long hiatus is the late great MF Doom’s classic ‘MM..Food’, this time on multi-colored vinyl. You best not sleep on this one - blink twice and it’s gone.

Of an entirely different cloth is José Mauro’s stunning ‘A Viagem Das Horas’, a 1970 masterpiece that’s augmented here by three previously unreleased bonus tracks.

Recorded and released in 1975 by the band's own label, ‘Tezeta’ is the Walias Band first full length album featuring Hailu Mergia, an Ethio-jazz beauty that shimmers like the early summer sun.

Speaking of pure beauty: make sure to check out Jaubi’s breathtaking ‘Nafs at Peace’ that marries North-Indian classical music, spiritual jazz and even hiphop in an unprecedented way in a series of sessions that were recorded in Lahore, Pakistan.