A cosmic trip from The Comet is Coming synth player. This is on heavy rotation at the moment (like the solar system) 🪐

A hazy, crackly album of ambient loops, colourful little dancing clouds for your ears.

An album of solo Flugelhorn played through a harmoniser, loop pedals and the like. It’s such a cool sound, and deep jazzy improvisations to zone in/out to.

Crackazat’s one of my favourite producers, his new full length album is full of sunshine dancing music, ready for barbecues.

The first track on this sunny disco/house flavoured EP had me dancing around the kitchen!

Wonky, happy, “Avant-Latin” music from Columbia. As one listener’s review puts it: “Listening to this makes it really difficult to be grumpy.”

Laura Jurd is a UK based trumpet player (Thanks Jason for the tip!). This album is on the playful side of her work, it’s a happy time!

I’ve been listening to this album a lot while doing things. It’s meditative, but rhythmic and with momentum, repetitive but varied. Lovely stuff!

Playful psychedelic songs made with warm sounding vintage gear. Lie under a tree and daydream to this if you like that kind of thing.

Beautiful laid back songs with lush string arrangements from São Paulo, Brazil.

A compilation of UK soul from (I think) the 80s to present day artists. Good barbeque tunes I reckon!

Highlife is the happy sound of sunshine to me!

A psychedelic journey through a miscroscopic world inspired by fungus.

Cosy music :)

This super playful jazz funk funtime fusion album by Sam Greenfield puts both a smile and a funk gurn on my face simultaneously, which is not a pretty sight I can tell you.

This E.P. of chirpy organ music has been giving me the grins recently. Start from track 2 for maximum chirp!

This wonky, silly, electronic album by Graham Kartna has been filling my glad bags with happy pixels on repeat recently!

This pop/punk/noise album by Norwegian band Pom Poko is like candied habañeros, sweet but spiky! Gets me excited!

This compilation album of Venezualan music from 1966 - 1978 is bringing some sunshine to my life at the moment. My lil boy loves dancing to it too! There’s a second compilation out soon if this floats your boat.

This house/disco album by Crackazat has been the soundtrack to my new favourite activity: dancing my baby boy around the kitchen in a “keep fit” style! He freakin’ loves it and I do too, so that’s pretty perfect really.