Aletta is an aspiring Dutch native and Portugal based singer/songwriter, a very soulful sister at that ladies and gentlemen. Now the lady recently released her new album entitled “A Jump at the Sun” and as a prelude issued freely this soul/r&b pop’ish number of the same title. Aletta‘s “A Jump at the Sun” is a [...]
May 7, 2010
Haven’t done In the Mix series in a longtime, but couldn’t let these fine tracks sit comfortable in the cloud. So we go on a virtual audio journey a near 20 minutes listening to fine classic, mellow social commentary jazzy hip hop with the following artists. M.anifest “Hubris” from “The Birds & the Beats“, Ian [...]
April 24, 2010
Its always appreciative especially in this day and age of look hard for fine music and one steps into a realm that is different from the norm in terms of style and sound, we are talking about “The Land of the Long White Cloud” [New Zealand] here, with quality acts like Fat Freddy Drop, Julien [...]
April 22, 2010
A sister Philece. R definitely got talent on the visual scheme of things, all one needs do, is pay a visit to Creative Truth, voyeur and appreciate an array of visual fine art flavours [paint, pencil and digital]. Philece. R comes across as a very passionate individual with regards to her Art and and creativity [...]
April 21, 2010
A person’s passing is a tragedy for many in particular the immediate closed ones and family, we are born, live and die. The life stage one seeks to be a genuine human being, living and in service to others with whatever God-given talent and gift one possesses in the process and hopefully bringing upliftment, change, [...]
April 12, 2010
Onthebuzz blog connects got together for an authentic and eclectic mixture of music on this free session “part deux“, “part un” [Oscillations Part 1] was two weeks ago, ladies and gentlemen – Jus Like Music & Apple Juice Break present: Oscillations Part 2. Another standard fare here, you know the drill: 1. listen to the [...]
April 10, 2010
Mulatu Astatke is a living legend on the music front of affairs, infamously known as the pioneer of Ethio-Jazz lets have a stab a definition – fusion of traditional Ethiopian music and jazz, not to shabby [laughing out loud]. Mulatu Astatke [In the Mix] performed with The Heliocentrics for the famous Red Bull Music Academy [...]
February 25, 2010
And we move on from a lady Andreya Triana featuring in our audio in the mix with Shae Fiol to a fully fledged video of the single “Lost Where I Belong” off her debut album release out on 23rd of August 2010 on Ninja Tune Records. A sister’s soothing voice on a fine jazzy & [...]
February 17, 2010
The Far East we go, Nippon [Japan "Land of the Rising Sun"] being precise, with some contemporary smooth sounds by Laidbook. Japanese musicians make soulful jazzy/hip hop like whoa! for instance that DJ Mitsu on the Promise In Love joint, simply classy. Laidbook are a quartet of artists with Mabanua playing drums, Shingo Suzuki on [...]
February 4, 2010
A gem of a track by a brother singer José James with the simplest of words “Code” from album release “Black Magic” on Brownswood Recordings [Gilles Peterson label]. “Code” by José James, so fresh, so clean with production by classy Flying Lotus and on video directorial duties, Mike Vargas and Moni Pineda [of friendswelove]. A bit [...]
January 27, 2010
Take a jug of Jazz, two teaspoons of Soul and a twist of R & B… then add a cup full of Gospel, a sprinkle of Reggae and a pinch of Latin, served with Raw Emotion ~There you have the YolanDa Brown sound. [source: Myspace Bio] YolanDa Brown is on the whole multi instrumentalist throne, [...]
January 23, 2010
On a quiet and tranquil day in 1976 at the 10th Montreux Jazz Festival, a very attentive audience in anticipation of one talented individual to grace the stage, the legendary singer, pianist and civil rights activist, Eunice Kathleen Waymon. Legend Eunice Kathleen Waymon passed in 2003, her physical body has departed us but her immortal [...]
January 13, 2010
A music break with this freshness, a sister Speech Debelle‘s been winning a few accolades and acclaim with last year’s debut album effort “Speech Therapy” through Big Dada Records. This is the 4tn track deep into the album, an infectious and conscious soulful hip hoppy jazzy number entitled “Spinnin’” with themes of positivity, hopeful that [...]
January 11, 2010
Another week people, another… keep on singing your praises. Here is some fresh music, known about a sister Melissa Czarnik and the Eric Mire Band since last year through 91.7 WMSE “Local Live“ 6-2-09 EP [a freebie], a little snippet into what a lady is about. From the spin of digital, very jazzy, different, organic/acoustic [...]
December 24, 2009
Obviously not digging thoroughly on this for instance ahem… never knew producer and drummer Apple Juice Kid like Daru Jones, fronts the classy The Remix Project we reviewed sometime ago, ah well {laughing out loud}. Apple Juice Kid took these back and further ashore with remixing down to a simplistic classic on classic of two [...]
May 27, 2010