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Fresh Faves: Batch 605

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ANNA BLAISE – We’ll Be King  Anna Blaise · We'll Be King Anna Blaise is a newcomer to fresh on the net and brings a down tempo synth track with an ethereal vocals. This also appears to be her debut single! In any case double congratulations on making the faves as well as her debut! …

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Fresh Faves: Batch 604

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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 …

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Track Of The Day: “Rich Man” – Hapin Usuwo

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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 …

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Track Of The Day: “We Are The People” – Oli Rockberger X Laura Mvula

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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 …

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Track Of The Day – “Days We Left Behind” – Paul McCartney

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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 – …

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Interview: Michael Rudd

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Congratulations on the release of Ways Of The World, how does it feel? It’s always bittersweet. I love the process of writing and seeing how the songs evolve in the studio and working with the band. But I love what came out of the sessions, and the songs remain important to me. Its origin story is quite …

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Track Of The Day: “Crazy” – Gnarls Barkley

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It’s strange to think that it’s 20 years since this came out. About a year later, I had it as my ringtone, but we’ll come back to that shortly. Gnarles Barkley was a pairing between Danger Mouse and CeeLo Green, and it was fabulous they actually went to number one with this track for 9 …

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Track Of The Day: “Courage” – Marina Florance

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Marina Flo releases a folk track that is essentially a protest song. First of all this track is built around acoustic guitar, and percussion, and it makes you think. With lyrics like: “Do we have the courage to speak outAgainst the human rights deniers?Against the anti immigration thugs?Against the violent mob?Since when is love a …

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Album Review: “Tingling Skin, Buzzing Wires” Stephen Godsall. Words: Sammy Stein

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If you think you know what a banjo sounds like, think again. Multi-instrumentalist and composer Stephen Godsall’s ‘Tingling Skin, Buzzing Wires’ presents the banjo in different ways, accompanied by flugelhorn, tenor sax, Wurlitzer piano, Hammond organ, piccolo, and more. Using combinations of instruments helps Godsall demonstrate the banjo’s potential and how we should perhaps look …

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Single Review: Chinwe – Lately

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Chinwe is back, and I’m so glad! This is a track that exudes power from the moment it starts. It’s atmospheric, the drums are chest pounding with two hits on the snare and off tempo flow.  There’s a warble to the sound too, which is so pleasing to the ear, the bass is deep and …