The 30 Best Jazz and Experimental Albums of 2023 – Warungku Terkini
This is always a difficult list to compile because the word “experimental” so often means music that is difficult to categorize. Or difficult to describe. Or just difficult. But these are some of our favorite unfamiliar, unsettling, provocative, transgressive, spaced-out, psychedelic, surreal, meditative, confrontational, and, sure, difficult albums of the year. This is just a tiny fraction of all the musique concrète, neo-classical, avant-garde, and ambient jazz music that was put out this year. And hopefully, this can be a launching pad to discover artists that didn’t quite fit on this list, or anywhere else for that matter.
Listen to selections from this list on our Spotify playlist and Apple Music playlist.
Check out all of warungku’s 2023 wrap-up coverage here.
(All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors. When you buy something through our retail links, however, warungku may earn an affiliate commission.)
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André 3000: New Blue Sun
Think of the qualities we associate with André 3000: his dynamite conviction, eagerness to channel moods around him, and that impish penchant for doodling way outside the lines. Does this not sound precisely like the guy who’d drop 87 minutes of prismatic flute improv, new-age synth washes, and ayahuasca growls? All those times you wigged out to “B.O.B.,” which Three Stacks were you lionizing exactly? No doors are closed but several windows have swung open, and the breeze—accented by floral notes of Yusef Lateef, Hiroshi Yoshimura, Laraaji, and the Leaving Records community he’s spent years trilling with—is blissful. New Blue Sun doesn’t need a single bar to get its message across: that side quests are often the most memorable part of the entire game. –Gabriel Szatan
Listen/Buy: Rough Trade | Amazon | Apple Music | Spotify | Tidal
Arooj Aftab / Vijay Iyer / Shahzad Ismaily: Love in Exile
Five years after they first performed an improvised set together, the wildly talented musicians Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily took to the studio for Love in Exile, an LP they recorded in long takes with only light editing. Its six pieces unfold as immersive meditations, with the artists drawing from wells of jazz, Urdu poetry, and spirituality. Aftab’s vocals gesture at themes of love and loss, while Ismaily and Iyer surround her with fluid piano and softly undulating bass. Iyer has described Love in Exile as part of a deeper personal reckoning around South Asian culture and communion, and the trio’s mind-melding chemistry serves as a beacon of unspoken connection. –Allison Hussey
Listen/Buy: Rough Trade | Amazon | Apple Music | Spotify | Tidal
Bill Orcutt: Jump on It
The freewheeling noise-rock guitarist’s first solo acoustic record in a decade finds him in spry picking shape, exploring far corners with earnest curiosity. A win for the finer side of American guitar revivalism. –Allison Hussey
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