Appreciative of visual art we started with Nigerian artist Edosa Ogiugo, then USA artist Illadelphsoul and we keep building with a brother Ghanaian artist James Cudjoe [profile] with this painting piece “Market Street”. This fine piece of art, through the hustle and bustle there is a market on this street where buyers and sellers reside in [...]
March 11, 2010
We featured a brother Ian Kamau some moons ago and he is a talent, one needs only check his free mixtape/album in the recent past: sings, writes, produces, spoken word artist, emcee to mention but a few. The impression I get from a brother is wanting to be known as an artist making good and social [...]
March 10, 2010
From Ghana’s Kweku Ananse to Nigeria with famed sister Nneka who for the past few years has blazed a trail amassing critical and warranted acclaim for her soulful music with social conscious message. In collaboration with a brother DJ/producer extraordinaire J. Period, Nneka released “The Madness [Onye-Ala]” some months ago and been doing the rounds and [...]
March 9, 2010
This freebie session was poured to the interwebs stream by a brother Wanlov the Kubolor recently, a fresh fusion of Afrobeat, hip life, folk, dub, drum & bass, hip hop with the underlying soulful punch and social conscious lyrics . “Kweku Ananse – Libation” the title of this free EP is an eclectic blend for ear [...]
March 8, 2010
This is a poignant 25 minute short film entitled “A War For Your Soul“, by a brother & filmmaker Reginald Bullock that carries themes that are universal, relevant not only to the USA but worldwide as we have this problem in spades in certain countries and vast in others with regards to violence amongst the youth. [...]
March 7, 2010
Some in the dying seconds of the weekend, others minutes and another hours, yet we shall see the driving new week and be grateful and progress. First time I seen and heard this video and track “Different Places” off the album “Another Intensity“, so fresh from German based brother and reggae artist Gentleman a veteran of [...]
March 6, 2010
Free from another in one shape or form each and every additional year of this freedom journey is worth a celebration by a people. This is the road/path the democratically elected Republic of Ghana is driving on, made independent on the 6th March, 1957 from the colonial master Britain, led by the Ghanaian and African Son/scholar/activist [...]
March 5, 2010
I started this visual art malarkey with a brother Edosa Ogiugo with “Charge” and “Our Mother” series. A spring-surprise via Phraim was a brother Illadelphsoul a visual artist of many facets having 20 years of experience under his belt, and the detail or attention to detail is immaculate. Here are two such of Illadelphsoul paintings/illustrations and for [...]
March 4, 2010
One of the reason for this blog is sourcing all kinds of social/conscious/goodness from any corner of the planet, this can be old or new and will warrant a presentation on this channel. The Niyat a hip hop collective, fall into this mould and on research discovering bits of information here and there, hip hop veterans! [...]
March 3, 2010
"Strangers" is a silent short film shot by writer and director team Erez Tadmor & Guy Nattiv in 2007 [a favourite amongst the Interwebs click and building] with a poignant message I believe of "tolerance", a better snippet and gist of the storyline:
March 2, 2010
Ain’t done a supposed one can DJ [in dreams] In the Mix for a long time, well amendment in order. Just could not curtail all this good and fresh music down the way in a few quality releases, from brothers in Ian Kamau (poet & music artist) – “September Nine Vol.3 – Love & Other Struggles” [...]
March 1, 2010
Lets get our visual drawing art on people, well we like to dabble now and then. The brother to initiate this newness to the blog is Naija [Nigerian] artist Edosa Ogiugo, the gentlemen has got some visual treats with all those interwoven shades, colours, layered in precision to present a vivid portrait of his subject. Edosa [...]
February 28, 2010
The week is near its end and we round this ladies only posts trail with South African born and based in Tdot [Toronto, Canada] a talented sister femcee and singer Zaki Ibrahim, featured in Louwop acoustic hip hop video. A lady Zaki Ibrahim has been and continues to garner acclaim and praise for the diverse, eclectic [...]
February 27, 2010
The sister’s installment beckons and from across the Atlantic by way of Brooklyn, New York is femcee Bless Roxwell. A lady’s music is all inspiring, self and women empowerment and we like positive and social commentary down this diary channel. Here is a sister femcee to look out and considering what she stand for especially from [...]
February 26, 2010
We continue the ladies theme from this side of the Atlantic part Deux as Andreya Triana was Un, with a rising sister flutist and singer Deborah Jordan who I came across today via a status update by Muphoric Sounds. On the digging business, a lady has released the album “The Light“. From Deborah Jordan debut release [...]
March 12, 2010