German Big Band Rundfunk-Tanzorchester Ehrenfeld made a fantastic live cover of Daft Punk’s hit Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Month: June 2017
Public Enemy FREE DOWNLOAD
Brand new album for Legendary 30th anniversary PUBLIC ENEMY !
It’s called “Nothing Is Quick In The Desert”
Guess what ? (just in case you can’t read titles …) IT’S FREE !!
Jupiter & Okwess – Ofakombolo
New video from great band Jupiter & Okwess taken from album called Kin Sonic!!
Stik Figa – Holding Back Tears
Stik Figa about this song : “Holding Back Tears” is a song I wrote as a way to deal with the emotions of loss in the context of my personal experiences as a black man in America. The constant push and pull of what is considered acceptable versus how I feel, and making the right choices for my survival and being able to keep my conscious intact. I’m sure many can relate, so, I thought I would share, and be transparent about it all.”
from the album Stik Figa “Central Standard Time”
produced by Apollo Brown
The Haggis Horns – Take It Back
The Haggis Horns will release their fourth studio album in September 2017 and as a little teaser, they drop a summer single worldwide on June 9th via their own Haggis Records, a feel good bouncing hip-hop/funk jam featuring guest UK MC/rapper Doc Brown. Think back to the dawn of hip-hop in the early 1980s when the first rap singles featured the Sugarhill Records house band laying down heavy funk grooves for MCs like The Furious Five and Treacherous 3 and you get the flavour.
Zara McFarlane – All Africa
On ‘All Africa’, Zara McFarlane re-casts a landmark track by Max Roach. Taken from We Insist!, his 1960 album born of the US’ then-ascendant Civil Rights Movement, it saw avant-garde jazz used as vehicle for protest. With Roach and vocalist Abbey Lincoln at its core, it nodded to the growing independence movements then emerging in several African nations. The original track’s celebration of the present, past and future of Africa feels as relevant now as it did in 1960.
Taking the original’s all-out, percussive trip into a looser, more softly mesmerising kind of territory, this new version combines pulsing rhythm with a brighter musicality. The Alternate Take, meanwhile, follows a more groove-oriented direction. Punctuated by bursts of horns and a foot-tapping, syncopated rhythm, it hints at a globally-interconnected spirit.
Zara McFarlane – Vocals
Nathaniel Cross – Trombone
Moses Boyd – Drums
Jay Darwish – Upright and Electric Bass
Ashley Henry – Keys
Junior Alli-Balogun – Percussion
Binker Golding – Tenor Saxophone
FORQ – 635 South
FORQ – 635 South is taken from the album called Batch
69 Musicology 