BLACK FLOWER (Belgium) (Territory GAS) - MAGMA will be out on 28th January - Uncut Magazine (UK) will do a big interview for the album. - COSMO Radio (WDR) added the single O Fogo to their series Five Songs The World Needs Now.

CHRISTOPH PEPE AUER (Austria) - super happy to announce that, after a serious accident in the mountains, Pepe Auer is back on track - and has new songs in his repertoire! - due to the mentioned incident, we had to cancel his fall-tour. But almost every concert has been postponed to 2022 - and the band is ready, as I could witness in Munich's Unterfahrt last week!

DANIEL HERSKEDAL (Norway) - Trio album HARBOUR was picked as best Jazz recording of the year by Presto Music - The New York Times picked the podcast 9/12 as one of the best of the year and mentioned Daniel's film score as "stunning" - The solo album CALL FOR WINTER was picked as composition of the year by Norwegian Grammy and nominated for the same by the Norwegian Composer's Union

DARRIFOURCQ HERMIA CECCALDI (France/Belgium) - A live quote on point: "by no means just to be enjoyed by music nerds [...] The cosmos of sound that opened up that evening was simply unbelievable". Thomas Trummer for OTZ - A-Trane Berlin's owner Sedal Serdan published on Facebook: "[ ...]Please have a big attention to this truely sophisticated and exciting trio!!"

EYOLF DALE TRIO (Norway) - some best quotes for BEING: "The compositions are masterpieces of the trio art." SWR2, DE / "A hypnotic beauty." France Musique, Open Jazz, FR / "This winter's big jazz album" Dagens Næringsliv (DN) Magasinet, NO - some live tracks will be released in Spring 22 - new Trio album in early 23 - due to the pandemic, we had to postpone the long-awaited release tour of BEING.

VERONIKA HARCSA & BÁLINT GYÉMÁNT QUARTET (Hungary/Belgium) - their new album ABOUT TIME will be released in September 2022 on Jazzhaus Records! - there's already seven videos, some live, some produced, to showcase the album on their video channel.

JULIE CAMPICHE QUARTET (Switzerland) - the new album will be released in fall 2022. - A brand new teaser: YouTube

JÚLIO RESENDE (Portugal) (Territory GAS) - FADO JAZZ will be released on 25th February on ACT

MARJA MORTENSSON (Norway) (Terriory Europe except the Nordic States) - Marja has been voted as the Folk musician of the year by Folkelarm - her album Raajroe still has to be toured - but only after her well deserved maternity leave

MARTIN TINGVALL (Sweden) - One of Germany's top three "Women's magazines", BRIGITTE, reflected on his album WHEN LIGHT RETURNS: "He tells stories with his piano, without words. It's in moments like this that jazz becomes magical."

TINGVALL TRIO (Sweden/Cuba/Germany) (Territory GAS) - DANCE will most likely turn out to be their most successful album so far. They didn't turn their backs completely from Jazz - but opened their minds more than ever towards World Music. Suits them well.

TUOMAS A. TURUNEN (Finland) - Tuomas just recorded a new album! Finally! It'll be out somewhere in the first half of 2022. I'll keep you posted.