Helado Tropical - Helado Tropical [LP] Brandi Carlile The Latvian pianist Georgijs Osokins

The Latvian pianist Georgijs Osokins made these recordings for Piano Classics between 2016 and 2018

For a decade out of print on vinyl

BadBadNotGood touring member Felix Fox-Pappas (keys) and a few key-players in the Toronto jazz scene including Kaelin Murphy (trumpet)

John Haywood

Helado Tropical - Helado Tropical [LP] Brandi Carlile The Latvian pianist Georgijs OsokinsThere are collaborations that feel engineered, and then there are those that feel like summer suns warmth on a Sunday. Helado Tropical, the debut collaborative album from Helado Negro and Reyna Tropical, belongs to the latter, channeling that easy, sun drenched tenderness into sound. It didnt begin with a plan so much as a meeting: two artists orbiting similar questions around language, identity, and music, finally landing in the same room. What