"2025 was a challenging year, to put it mildly, for many people. However, the music was phenomenal. That's the essence of art; it connects us as humans. Regardless of the triumphs and personal setbacks, that musical influence shows us, guides us, in how we move, nod our heads, mark the year, dance, and sweat. It even keeps us sane while everything else seems off."
"Personally, I could not get enough of that Pachyman record Another Place, and was taken by surprise with the music of Dijon and Rochelle Jordan. I think with the passing of all those greats- Sly Stone, Dwayne Wiggins, D'Angelo, Roberta Flack, to name a few-R&B and soul started to see and make a shift that had been in the works for a while now. Much in the same way jazz has been shifting on a year-to-year basis for the past decade."
"Speaking of which, that digital fusion punch-up of jazz and electronic smatterings from the supergroup SML stayed on repeat for me and in a live performance, I got charmed and smitten with the '70s Turkish funk meets Anatolian folk songs by the group Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek who turned The Chapel, right here in San Francisco this summer, into a palace overflowing with folk songs bent into a groove-psyche swoon."
2025 was a challenging year for many people, yet music remained phenomenal and deeply connective. Music guided movement, memory, and emotional survival during uncertainty. Pachyman's Another Place, Dijon, and Rochelle Jordan stood out as notable releases. The deaths of Sly Stone, Dwayne Wiggins, D'Angelo, and Roberta Flack coincided with accelerated shifts within R&B and soul, while jazz continued a decade-long pattern of stylistic change. The supergroup SML fused jazz and electronic elements, and Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek transformed The Chapel into a groove-psyche space with '70s Turkish funk and Anatolian folk. Bay Area music insiders and performers offered varied perspectives on solace and influence.
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