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Can you rock it like hip hop legends DJ Shadow and De La Soul?
Ladies and gentlemen Are you ready? Are you ready? Get ready, y’all Get ready … because DJ Shadow strike again! This time with another hip hop legends – De La Soul. Listening to this track you can hear that they had fun in the studio and this fun is really addictive. It’s mostly because of the beat, scratches, lyrics and classical De La Soul flow. It is his first new music since 2016’s ‘The Mountain Will Fall’ and EP ‘The Mountain Has Fallen’ in the following year. “It’s been a while since my last album The Mountain Will Fall, and the corresponding tour…and since the tour ended, I’ve been mostly…
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The Brand New Heavies joined forces with N’Dea Davenport and Mark Ronson to cover Kendrick Lamar’s ‘These Walls’
Proper hit. They managed to turn this hip hop banger into a funky soulful 70s style song with beautiful melodies and amazing horn arrangement. The Brand New Heavies long time fan multi-instrumentalist, producer, DJ, and singer/songwriter Mark Ronson joined them in the studio to make soulful re-edition of Kendrick Lamar’s hit ‘These Walls’ from his highly acclaimed 2015 album ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’. On this track, vocal duties took the band’s most famous singer N’Dea Davenport. TBNH after Jan Kincaid’s departure is a duo made of songwriters and multi-instrumentalist Simon Bartholomew and Andrew Levy. The band was the most popular with N’Dea Davenport in the first half of the 90s…
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The Wicked Sound weekly playlist week 1
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Seed Ensemble’s debut album ‘Driftglass’ shortlisted for the Mercury Prize Album Of The Year 2019
SEED Ensemble’s critically acclaimed debut album ‘Driftglass’ was few days ago shortlisted for the prestigious 2019 Hyundai Mercury Prize Albums of the Year. Released earlier this year via contemporary music/arts movement and record label jazz re:freshed, the ten-piece collective is led by composer, arranger and alto saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi. On her nomination Kinoshi proudly added, “I am extremely honoured to have been shortlisted for a Mercury Prize. Thank you for your belief in both mine and my bands’ work. It means a lot to have our first release celebrated and share our message with you.” Across ‘Driftglass’, Kinoshi embraces styles both past and present to create something that we can…
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The 7th annual jazz festival hosted by Jazz Re:Freshed returns to Brighton Dome on Saturday 27th July.
JAZZ RE:FEST is a family-friendly, annual one-day festival, produced by music and arts organisation Jazz re:freshed, celebrating jazz and jazz-inspired music and culture. After a fantastic festival in 2018 and now in its seventh year, JAZZ RE:FEST returns to Brighton with over 50 DJs and musicians to showcase the incredibly diverse, colourful, expressive and creative world of jazz music and alternative culture. Jazz re:freshed’s mission is to globally elevate, amplify and spotlight the breadth of expression in UK Jazz, while breaking down the boundaries to access the music as a listener. Synonymous with supporting the launch of Ashley Henry and Nubya Garcia’s recording careers, tastemakers, Jazz re:freshed have achieve…
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Masego and FKJ drop official video for their viral hit “Tadow”
When I was planning to start this blog this song was all over my playlists on all the platforms and all devices. So catchy, so good and so satisfying. I could listen to it in a loop, on constant repeat. It’s an ideal description of what this blog is all about. A new fresh sound, a mix of music genres with respect to tradition. Nice blend of jazz, soul, beats and electronic. And the best part of it that this track was all improvised by two talented musicians who recorded the whole artistic process and then they shared with fans. Two years ago the track, FKJ shared on his Facebook…
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Lost Miles Davis’ Album “Rubberband” Set for Release This Year
This is my first post on this blog and it has to be huge! In September 2019 after 34 long years lost Miles Davis’ album called ” Rubberband” will be available to listen/buy/enjoy. In 1985 Davis after his departure from longtime label Columbia, began recording a new album which was set to be his first album for Warner Bros. That record was shelved in favor of 1986’s “Tutu”. Last year brought us a new EP of the same name. Now it’s been announced that Rubberband will be released in its entirety, finished by the original producers alongside Davis’ nephew, Vince Wilburn, Jr., who played drums on the album. The full album…
