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 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” [...]
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 [...]
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 & soul [...]
February 23, 2010
A sister Green Tea Soul is a quality soul singer & songwriter on the rise and one to watch, feeling her style and voice speaks volumes on relations and others. Albums released by Green Tea Soul to date are debut “Dosage I: Shades of Green” [2006], sophomore “Dosage II: Choices” [2008] and the newness “Beautiful Weirdo” [...]
February 22, 2010
In recent months the sisters & ladies haven't been getting much love on this daily diary *c'mon son*, lets rectify this and commence the week with this soul chilling and electro number by a sister Nikko Gray, the first lady and artist of the clothing and music label GAS'D.
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 bass, Yukihiro [...]
February 16, 2010
Senegal with AURA commenced it and now to the rainbow nation, South Africa. Tumi and the Volume, a South African hip hop & music collective [4 in a band] are an organic live band lacing poetic and socio-political lyrics. Nailed these brothers down sometime ago virtually mind, as future and feature post artists for the blog [...]
February 13, 2010
A little romance talk [ahem] session this weekend for all those lovers in relations, the commercial Valentine 14th February beckons and we come to London Town’s shores with the talented singer and instrumentalist a sister Obenewa [1st Lady of The Truth moveMENT] at iLuv Live, performing “Put Yourself In My Shoes“. Not going to say [...]
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 of cool [...]
February 2, 2010
We dip our toes into some good pop soul territory for a minute. From Strasbourg, France heads up via Soul Sista [a french based blog covering all forms of Soul music], SFR Live Concerts presents Paris based English singer/songwriter Charlie Winston, a livestream tonight at 8.30pm on France time and 7.30pm on UK time, so people [...]
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, but [...]
March 10, 2010