Qobuzissime

What is a Qobuzissime? It’s an award presented by Qobuz for a first or second album.
Pop or Reggae, Metal or Classical, Jazz or Blues, no genre is excluded. More often than not the award is presented to a newly discovered artist.
Sometimes it might be a particularly quirky or a crossover album from a discography.
The important aspects are uniqueness, sincerity and quality. We look for these things in the recording, the project and the sound identity.
Albums
Topical Dancer
Charlotte Adigéry
Electronic - Released March 4, 2022 | DEEWEE
Terre Promise
Blutch
Electronic - Released January 28, 2022 | Astropolis Records
Before I Die
박혜진 park hye jin
Electronic - Released September 10, 2021 | Ninja Tune
Memory Device
Baba Ali
Electronic - Released August 27, 2021 | Memphis Industries
Aspects
STR4TA
Dance - Released March 26, 2021 | Brownswood Recordings
Ostriconi
Yeahman
Chill-out - Released January 29, 2021 | Wonderwheel Recordings
It's been four years since Jean Dasso alias Yeahman entered the scene, first with his bass music/tropical "Ghetto Sonido" nights in Toulouse, then with the track Miniyamba (featuring the sweet vocals of singers Mina Shankha and Hajna) in 2017, which allowed him to catch the eye of Wonderwheel Recordings. Led from Brooklyn by DJ Nickodemus, the label hosts big names of the "global bass" circuit such as Quantic, Chancha Via Circuito, DJ Khalab or El Buho, and offered its first long format to Yeahman, who, honouring the image of the adventurer, went to record in Dakar, Naples, Marseille and Toulouse.The Frenchman proves right from the opening that he's got something, on the catchy dreamy samba Deelahli, with the almost erased voice of Mina Shankha, then the ultra-smooth Baixi Baixi, accompanied by the two Portuguese sisters of Aluna Project on a charango and a dembow rhythm. But Yeahman also likes square rhythms, like on Soupe au Feu and its chopped string samples, Sakoneta (and its kora made in Dakar) or GLI-F4, all supported by a silky and hypnotic house beat. We find Mina Shankha and Hajna on a cover of the Peruvian cumba standard Cariñito, then Omar Zidia. Singer and guitarist of the Tuareg group Ezza on Ouloullou, before closing this Qobuzissime journey in the Ostriconi (a paradisaical Corsican region) with the folktronica of the British producer Robin Perkins, alias El Búho, Yeahman's new label mate and undoubtedly future travel companion. © Smaël Bouaici/Qobuz
Fongola
KOKOKO!
Electronic - Released July 5, 2019 | Transgressive
D'ANGELO
David August
Electronic - Released October 5, 2018 | [PIAS]
One Trick Pony
Kiddy Smile
House - Released August 31, 2018 | Neverbeener Records - Grand Musique Management
Family Portrait
Ross from Friends
Electronic - Released July 27, 2018 | Brainfeeder
Bone Bame
10LEC6
Electronic - Released March 9, 2018 | Ed Banger Records
Take
Guy Andrews
Electronic - Released September 22, 2017 | Houndstooth
Idealist
Mind Enterprises
Electronic - Released March 4, 2016 | Because Music Ltd.
Transsiberian
Thylacine
Ambient - Released November 27, 2015 | Intuitive Records
Brava
Brodinski
Electronic - Released February 27, 2015 | Parlophone (France)
It's Album Time
Todd Terje
Electronic - Released April 7, 2014 | Olsen Records
If Looks Could Kill
Danton Eeprom
Electronic - Released February 3, 2014 | InFiné
Blue Distance
Clara Moto
Electronic - Released November 4, 2013 | InFiné
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Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar" - Sergei Prokofiev: October (excerpts) Kirill Kondrashin Gramophone Editor's Choice
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Bohuslav Martinů: String Quartets Nos. 2, 4 & 5 Kocian Quartet Gramophone Editor's Choice
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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: The Piano Trios Guarneri Trio Prague Gramophone Editor's Choice
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Janky Star Grace Ives Pitchfork: Best New Music
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Nothing To Declare 700 Bliss Pitchfork: Best New Music