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corto.alto turns SOME SMALL FORTUNE into a big collaborative city map
By Editorial Team - June 23, 2026
Summary
corto.alto announces SOME SMALL FORTUNE and shares GO featuring Vector, opening a Ninja Tune album full of jazz, rap, electronic, classical and indie collaboration.
Key Facts
- Category: News
- Published: June 23, 2026
- Tags: corto.alto, some small fortune, go, vector, ninja tune, glasgow, jazz, hip-hop, Glasgow Jazz / Experimental Hip-Hop
corto.alto’s SOME SMALL FORTUNE announcement arrives on 23 June with the kind of guest list that makes a record feel less like an album and more like a city at rush hour. Liam Shortall’s project has shared GO featuring Nigerian lyricist Vector, while the wider album brings in Jacob Alon, anaiis, Oscar Jerome, BINA., Terra Kin, Eriff and Mick Jenkins. That spread makes sense for corto.alto, whose music has always moved through jazz discipline, hip-hop energy, electronic shape and ensemble looseness. The most interesting detail is Shortall’s stated desire to collaborate properly rather than behave like a control freak. You can hear the wisdom in that. Jazz-adjacent records thrive when the room has oxygen. SOME SMALL FORTUNE sounds like an artist expanding the frame and trusting other voices to redraw the edges.