Ranee Lee is now celebrating over 40 years in Montreal, Quebec, where she enjoys a successful, multi-faceted career as one of Canada’s most popular jazz vocalists, an award-winning actress, a songwriter, and a proud author of children’s books. Ranee has recorded thirteen albums for Justin Time, a proud discography of acclaimed recordings that feature some…

Quiet Arrows finds songs as they slip through the cracks of this earthly collision. Lithe finger-picked guitar darts past a haze of barely audible synths and natural percussion as Samuel Robertson chases and catches intensely infectious melodies. He utilizes this persona as an outlet to examines life’s push-and-pull in its purest state. After amassing nearly…

Flemish artist Phlocalyst plays classical music with a professional orchestra in Munich by day, but his creative pursuits see him moonlighting as a lo-fi producer and trumpet player. To release stress from his classical career, Phlocalyst turned to hip-hop and listened to artists like Pete Rock and J Dilla. Fiddling with an iPad to remake…

Pêtr Aleksänder are Eliot James and Tom Hobden. The two first met in 2007, while working together on Noah and the Whale’s debut album Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down. After many years spent touring and recording in their respective fields, they collaborated in 2016 on an ambitious orchestral album, recorded in Budapest with the…

Although there are numerous recordings featuring The Oscar Peterson Trio (with bassist Ray Brown and guitarist Herb Ellis), the discovery of another previously unreleased date such as this one is welcome news to his fans. This concert, recorded in the summer of 1958 at the Orpheum Theater in Vancouver, Canada, finds the group in top…

The eclectic duo that make up ORNAMENT AND CRIME stretches both genre and sonic structure to create music that imbues a kind of dystopian sensuality. Fitting for a collection of songs that was written over a period of extreme civil unrest and worldwide chaos. But that’s not to say it’s without hope — the opposite…

A key player in the new wave of contemporary folk artists, queer singer-songwriter Olive Klug (they/them) is known for their beautiful tone, vividly honest storytelling, and modern lyrical sensibility. Their style takes inspiration from genre icons like Joni Mitchell and Brandi Carlile as well as modern favorites like Lizzy McAlpine and Adrianne Lenker.Olive Klug currently resides in…

Heightened  senses  strengthen  communication.  Receptive  to  even  the  most  subtle  internal  and  external  stimuli, Nina June leans into acute sensitivity as a lyricist and embraces expansive scope as a sonic auteur. On her forthcoming album(Nettwerk  Records),  the  Amsterdam-based  singer  and  songwriter  layers  plainspoken  emotion  over  multi-dimensional soundscapes  steeped  in  strings,  keys,  guitar,  and  natural  sound …

NAVA formed in Milan in 2016. Originally from Iran, singer Nava Golchini met producer & arranger Francesco Fugazza whilst studying music in Italy. The collaboration then expanded to include drummers Elia Pastori and Marco Fugazza. Talking cues from Italy’s current flourishing electronic music scene and international acts like Arca, Apparat, Purity Ring, etc, NAVA are…

The acoustic-only mode of GOIN' WAY BACK recalls Muddy's similarly constructed FOLKSINGER album. GOIN' WAY BACK doesn't have FOLKSINGER's deep-seated ominousness, but the intimacy and warmth are comparable to that legendary recording. This album was recorded in a single afternoon during a 1967 Canadian tour. In between shows, Muddy and his band gathered in a…