Phillip Mlynar lives in New York City where he's currently fighting a losing battle to keep squirrels away from his tiny windowbox garden. When he's not writing about hip-hop music, he can be found covering local craft beer trends and sustainable brewing practices. He regrets using an underscore in his Twitter handle: @phillip mlynar
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Launched in 2009, the Norwegian label HUBRO has quickly established itself as a champion of the countryâs progressive jazz and improv scenes. The Oslo-based venture was founded by Andreas Meland, who was working as the Norwegian label manager for the iconic jazz label ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music) at the time. Meland founded HUBRO as a way to âpursue a desire to take part in nurturing the artistic process again,â and to rectify the fact that âthere werenât enough labels around putting love, money, and time into helping and nurturing all the great artists and musicians.â
Well, it seems this number keeps jumping higher and higher. There was a clearer method of listening this year, with more time at home to set a practice around all things, listening was no different. On Friday mornings, I would set aside a couple of hours for discovery â something Iâd neglected to do consistently last year with my travel schedule. Iâd forgotten about the excitement of it. Iâd scour Bandcamp, search for blogs, text my pals who listen even more adventurously than I do and ask them to send me things. Iâd compile a list (by hand, foolishly) of any new release that got my interest. Ones I was expecting, ones from artists I knew well. But also ones from artists I was barely familiar with. Iâd go into the weekend with anywhere from 10â30 new albums to spin through while cleaning my house or doing laundry or playing a video game or (if youâre like me and pretty indifferent to most NBA announcers) watching a basketball game. What this me