Hi thank you for coming to the site. Take a seat. You’re helping me realise a dream come true. Sounds soppy but I’ve been wanting to launch this site under this domain for a very long time and it’s part of a list of dreams that I’ve had for the last few years that are …
Fresh Faves: Batch 604
I wrote the faves reviews for fresh on the net this week so I thought I’d publish them here. BUTTER FUNK FAMILY – Love Power Printz Board · Love Power (feat. Nadav Peled) To kick off this week’s faves we have a psychedelic funk track that takes us all the way back to the early …
Track Of The Day: “Sunset And Memories” – Blue Lab Beats X Kaidi Akinnibi
First up – this track is way too catchy – if you’re not disciplined enough to hold it down and keep it calm in public then I suggest you don’t play this. I’m serious. From the beginning you have a melody that hooks you, that’s sung by Colenso Abafana Benkokhelo and it’s pure fire, add …
Track Of The Day: “Rich Man” – Hapin Usuwo
Now this is a track that is a meal suitable only for the Asantehene! A bit of folk, combined with soul, and a bit of an Afrobeat groove to sweeten the Ghanaian jollof rice of a track that we have here. If you know you know. This starts off with a cool guitar riff, leading …
Track Of The Day: “The Carrier Bag Theory Of Fiction” – Loula Yorke X Charlotte Jolly
From the moment this started it gave me goosebumps because the long drawn notes vibrate within you. The melody sounds medieval, even though it’s composed on a reed organ. Growing up I played a variety of keyboards but never a reed one. The tones coming out of this, it just takes you to another time …
Track Of The Day: “Authority” – Sharon Katta
Sharon Katta drops a track that combines electronica with a bit of spoken word and he does it in such a way that your attention is held for the whole time it’s playing. His vocals are layered on this with harmonies and he uses them as a pad melding in with the synths… my favourite …
Track Of The Day: “We Are The People” – Oli Rockberger X Laura Mvula
Oli Rockberger is back with a track that’s soul stirring but then that’s on brand for him. But he’s not alone he brings along Laura Mvula for the ride too. She reduces me to a blubbery mess with “Father Father” so her contribution here already told me before I hit play that this was going to be …
Track Of The Day: “Touch By An Angel” – Maxi Priest
Maxi Priest has landed with a track that goes classic in its style – you have the one drop beat, the horn section the layered harmonies, organ and electric piano rounding it out along with the guitar lick and bassline for you to groove on. This has summer written all over it and Maxi brings …
Track Of The Day: “Grippy Socks Jail” – Court Lee
This is trippy. I like trippy. This song is not what you probably think it’s about, but if you think it’s about a hospital stay then you’re probably right. This song is very short coming in at 1:06 but within that 1 minute and six seconds we are taught about what happens in a hospital …
Track Of The Day – “Days We Left Behind” – Paul McCartney
This song is the first release from Paul McCartney’s new album “The Boys From Dungeon Lane” and it follows Paul’s ability to weave a story into a song. To me this is almost the lyrical sequel to the ever beautiful “In My Life”, given that it revisits Paul’s childhood. There are references to war – …
Track Of The Day: “Thankyou For Saving Me” – Delirious?
I have so much to say about this song but for now I’d like to wish all my friends and family around celebrating a happy Easter. This song takes me all the way back to thirty years ago when I first heard it, at the Elim Bible Week Conference in Bognor Regis, all the churches …