For Amanda Parker (feat. Contour) – Matt Monday
It is the very first time I heard Khari Lucas aka Contour, the featuring artist. He has a very unique voice with so much potential. There are a few artists who have that kind of impact upon tracks they feature. His pleasing vocal lead the track so good and builds a solid foundation for Matt’s part…
Runnin’ – Ancient Posse
La canción de ésta semana corresponde a un súper dúo el cual tuve la oportunidad y suerte de verlos tocar en vivo en el grandioso Muchmore’s en NY el 30 de noviembre del año pasado, fue una noche magnífica e inspiradora!…
Armor – Sara Bareilles
“Underneath the leaves, Adam found Eve / Both of them found something sweet under the apple tree /…How the hell did Eve end up with all the damn blame?” Sara Bareilles has a valid point on “Armor,” which appears from her 2019 album, Amidst the Chaos…
Cold Blooded Blues (Burbank Remix) – Mike Casey
What if you’ve never seen Chinatown? What if Sam Spade and the Maltese Falcon are as foreign to you as a trap beat would be to Casablanca’s Sam? What if your only exposure to a saxophone is Lisa Simpson, hell – what if you’ve never heard Gerry Rafferty’s Baker Street, or Bruce’s Jungleland or even Billy Joel’s Just The Way You Are, and hell, what if you have no idea who Charlie Parker or John Coltrane are, let alone know their sound?…
Not Okay – Tom Khan
You never know what it is about a track that will get you, but sampling Barack Obama on mental illness sure does make the intro stand out. Having had my attention caught I found myself more and more drawn to this unique track…
Nostalgic Montage – Salami Rose Joe Louis
The time we spend above the earth. The feeling of motionless suspension and yet bewildering speed propels us back and forth through time and space. A place where time appears to stand still – if exist at all. The space above the earth is vast, unknown, and transitional much like our existence…
Medication – Memoir
Another track from the candidates list – but strangely enough not the track that the artist recommended. Which is rare – ‘cos normally you have a listen and decide whether you dig the track or not and if you don’t you move on never to think about them again – but Riley Goltz – or “Memoir” as he performs under, had a secret weapon!…
Cold Little Heart – Michael Kiwanuka
Staring out the window on a beautiful day in Monterey, in an emotional coma for the last 4 days. I can’t cry and I can’t stop trying to rationalize it, shouldn’t this be illegal? Can’t I write a law? But it’s nature. It’s life. How humbling, how little control we have really. I can’t write a law. I can’t write a grievance. I can’t slam the door and walk away…
A Change is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke
The gentle humility of A Change is Gonna Come, Sam Cooke’s 1964 plea for emancipation, belies the simmering fury that inspired it, a fury that reached boiling point in America where this song became an anthem for millions of disenfranchised black people who took to the streets to make that change a reality…
Get A Strut On – Son Of Dave
Blues Man, innovator and genius.
Son of Dave’s genre crossing compilation of sounds has set him apart from any artist I’ve discovered…
Church (feat. closegood) – Saint Michel
I do not even know how many times I searched for this track and found dozens of Saint Michel Church photos but hey, that did not stop me. Here is my reflections about it….
Coming Over (filous Remix) – James Hersey
With not a lot of information just yet on this rising star, I’m given the opportunity to talk about the song itself. What I do know about James Hersey is he was raised in Vienna, Austria and abandoned a jazz-guitar degree to become a singer-songwriter which all started with this song…