«My name is John Small, and I record music as Sohn Jamal. I’ve been a musician since I was ten years old. I grew up in Japan playing guitar in bars around central Tokyo, but when I was 15, I started taking an interest in electronic music, making mostly boom-bap/ambient music. I started seriously making beats when I was 18 and relocated to Miami for my Jazz Studies program at the Frost School of Music...» "Scroo Amethyst" (released January 21, 2022, on Schematic Music Company), is girded with ephemeral melodies, and fortified with pugilistic beats, this new release obsessively looks into a mangled reflection of a former self cloaked in a haze of memory and mirrored realities.
About the mix: "I wanted this mix to capture a lot of sounds that I’ve been finding comfort in recently. These sounds are primarily informed and/or inspired by new age, gamelan, video game OSTS, glitch, and more.
