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Jacob Collier visited NPR Tiny Desk Studio
Jacob Collier is an English singer, arranger, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist based in London, England. In 2012, his homemade split-screen video covers of popular songs, such as Stevie Wonder’s “Don’t You Worry ’bout a Thing”, began to go viral on YouTube. He recently visited my favorite concert venue – NPR Tiny Desk Studio, to promote his latest album ‘Djesse vol.2’. “It just feels like such a tremendous, ridiculous honor to sit behind this hallowed desk,” he said. Collier’s style fuses elements of jazz, a cappella, groove, folk, electronic music, classical music, gospel, soul and improvisation, and often features extreme use of reharmonization. In 2014, Collier signed to Quincy Jones’ management…
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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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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…
