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Binker & Moses and Basement Jaxx presents Village of the Sun
Binker & Moses and Basement Jaxx present Village of the Sun: Village of the Sun is the name of a new musical band/project initiated by one-half of legendary electronic dance-music duo Basement Jaxx's Simon Ratcliffe. Simon invited to collaboration one of the leaders of the new London jazz scene boom - jazz duo Binker and Moses (tenor saxophonist Binker Golding and drummer Moses Boyd). Simon Ratcliffe co-wrote the two tracks with Golding and Boyd and plays all the instruments on them other than saxophone and drums. Two-track single represent stylistic crossover of energetic rhythms, electronic beats, and spiritual jazz-inspired improvisation. Ratcliffe says: “I’ve always liked improvised instrumental music. It has…
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The Wicked Sound Playlist 2020/02/2 Jazz Funk Soul Reggae Beats
The Wicked Sound 2020/02/2 new playlist with new music across Jazz, Funk, Soul, Reggae, Electronic music and Hip Hop Beats. New music from: Alfa Mist, John Carroll Kirby, Dominic J Marshall, Matthias Bublath, Eight Cylinder Bigband, Takuya Kuroda. Kandace Springs, Avishai Cohen, CHERISE, Angela Muñoz, Adrian Younge, The Motet, Erica Falls, Jennifer Hartswick, Natalie Cressman, Galactic, Mamas Gun, Kasia Konstance, Cleo Sol, Chloe Bodur, Ebi Soda, Ash Walker, 14KT, Muhsinah, Tall Black Guy, Steve Spacek, Obongjayar You can listen to this playlist also HERE. (link to multiple music platforms of your choice) The Wicked Sound weekly playlist 2020/02/2 Jazz Funk Soul Reggae Beats Tracklist: 1 Alfa Mist - Withered 2 John…
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Skip Marley and H.E.R. performed together on The Tonight Show with The Roots
Skip Marley and H.E.R. performed their lover's rock reggae tune on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, with help of house band The Roots. The duo released “Slow Down” in January along with a tender music video directed by Lacey Duke. Although Marley and H.E.R. first premiered the song during a show at the Hollywood Bowl with Lauryn Hill in October. "When I made the song, I was looking and wondering who could be a feature and then I thought of H.E.R. because I love her vibe and her energy really, As soon as I heard the completed track I was in love" Marley commented to press. Marley is…
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Tom Misch and Yussef Dayes released a first collaborative single “What Kinda Music”
Tom Misch and Yussef Dayes released a first collaborative single “What Kinda Music” and its accompanying music video. The song is a lead single from their forthcoming album “What Kinda Music”. The album will come out on April 24 via Beyond The Groove /Blue Note Records. In the title track “What Kinda Music,” we can here typical sounds of both collaborators mixed into an interesting fusion of jazz, cinematic sounds, electronica, ambient music, and hip-hop. On top of that sound is still Misch’s soulful voice and Dayes’s exceptional drumming. Yussef Dayes is one of the UK's most exciting and innovative young drummers and producers. Best known for his work, alongside…
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Emma-Jean Thackray has shared the song “Rain Dance” and launched a new label
Emma-Jean Thackray has shared a new song “Rain Dance” and launched a new label Movementt. She is a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, singer, bandleader and DJ. Emma was called “one of the UK’s most exciting new jazz artists” by Red Bull Music Academy. She just released her first single “Rain Dance / Wisdom” from a new EP, which will be out 6th of March 2020 via her new label Movementt. “Movementt” is also the name of the closing track from that EP. The song is based on her previous same-titled short track (only 42 seconds) from her latest EP “Ley Lanes”. Song evolved during live performances over time into seven minutes…
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The Wicked Sound Playlist 2020/02/1 Jazz Funk Soul Reggae Beats
The Wicked Sound 2020/02/1 new playlist with new music across Jazz, Funk, Soul, Reggae, Electronic music and Hip Hop Beats. New music from: Village of the Sun, Binker & Moses, Irreversible Entanglements, The Heliocentrics, Antibalas, Organic Pulse Ensemble, Alabaster Deplume, Skalpel, Jeremy Cunningham, Jeff Parker, Collocutor, Nduduzo Makhathini, Terrace Martin, Gray Area, Vula Viel, Calibro 35, Illa J, Stretch And Bobbito, The M19s Band, Barney McAll, Rita Satch, Scott-Heron, Makaya McCraven, You can listen to this playlist also HERE. (link to multiple music platforms of your choice) The Wicked Sound weekly playlist 2020/02/1 Jazz Funk Soul Reggae Beats Tracklist: 1 Village of the Sun, Binker and Moses - Village…
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Shabaka and the Ancestors have announced their new album “We Are Sent Here By History”
Shabaka & the Ancestors announce new album “We Are Sent Here By History”, it will be their debut on Impulse! Records. The album is out on 13 March. Shabaka & The Ancestors will make their Impulse! debut with the band’s sophomore album “We Are Sent Here By History”. Their breakout 2016 album, “Wisdom of Elders”, established the band as a sudden force in spiritual jazz. Shabaka refers to the album as a “meditation on the fact of our coming extinction as a species. It is a reflection from the ruins, from the burning.” The album attempt to express the spiritual concerns of improvisational music of the African Diaspora — specifically, SA’s…
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Little Dragon announce new album with a second single “Hold On”
Swedish band Little Dragon announce a new album with a second single “Hold On”. Two years after Lover Chanting EP and 2019’s “Tongue Kissing”. The album is called “New Me, Same Us”, and is out on March 27th via Ninja Tune. The album was entirely self-produced and recorded at the four-piece Swedish band’s home-built studio in Gothenburg. Little Dragon is a group of vocalist Yukimi Nagano, multi-instrumentalists Håkan Wirenstarnd and Fredrik Wallin on keyboards and bass respectively and Erik Bodin on drums and percussion. “New Me, Same Us” represents another chapter in the continuing evolution of Little Dragon, finding a new direction in their unique style of unhurried, off-kilter…
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Polish nu-jazz band Jazzpospolita shared new single
Polish nu-jazz band Jazzpospolita shared a new single from the upcoming album. Jazzpospolita is one of the most interesting musical phenomena on the Polish scene. The band, which in 11 years has released 6 albums and played 400 concerts, from the beginning, in spite of its name, has eluded genre qualifications. With four members – guitar, bass, keyboards, drums – Jazzpospolita has developed its own recognizable sound and gained a large group of fans. The strength of Jazzpo – as fans often say about the group – is constituted by original compositions, situating the band at the junction of jazz, post-rock and electronics. The combination of jazz harmonies, rock sounds…
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The Wicked Sound Playlist 2020/01/4 Jazz Funk Soul Reggae Beats
The Wicked Sound 2020/01/4 new playlist with new music across Jazz, Funk, Soul, Reggae, Electronic music and Hip Hop Beats. Maverick Sabre presents his new acoustic soul reggae single. Skip Marley – grandson of Bob Marley – made a beautiful duo with Grammy-nominated R’n’B singer H.E.R. German dub artists Jamaram and Umberto Echo worked together to give us this bouncy and vibey tune. The next song is dub infused funky instrumental out from Greece courtesy of Timewarp Inc. German DJ Sepalot with Matthias Lindermayr, Fabian Füss, and Angela Aux made beautiful Radiohead inspired nu-jazz song. Followed by charming and mesmerizing new single from polish nu-jazz/post-rock quartet Jazzpospolita. Ruby Ruston’s trumpeter…
