Mind Over time – Interpol
It’s not easy to explain the deep connection I have with Interpol’s music, it’s something so intimate, so personal, something difficult to describe…
Revelations – Mos Def (Now Yasiin Bey)
A good playlist should be designed like a musical version Plato’s Symposium on any given topic or style. There should be variety, but there should be focus. There should be intent, but there should also be a playful looseness…
Ex-Factor – Lauryn Hill
“Loving you is like a battle / And we both end up with scars.” The push and pull of love is a topic tailor-made for musical atonement. Hip-hop/R&B artist Lauryn Hill sealed her spot as a musical icon with just one studio album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Released in 1998, it is the perfect example of a timeless album…
Miragem (Sem razão) – Xênia França
A lucid, confident woman with a powerful voice singing over soft jazzy instrumentals, about distinguishing blind infatuation from true, peaceful love… It can’t get any classier than this!!…
Marked for Death – Emma Ruth Rundle
This week I have the pleasure of sharing the exquisitely crafted, aphotic, opening and title track from Emma Ruth Rundle’s 2016 pièce de résistance, “Marked for Death”. Dynamic, spacious and powerful the album certainly sits atop my favs of the last 5 years…
On The Door – Just Like Fruit
You know sometimes you just make a hasty decision that you come to regret later when choosing songs to include in your blog or playlist. This is what happened to me when a Brighton-based rock’n’roll band Just Like Fruit sent me one of their songs, “On The Door.” I took a quick listen and passed on it but yet, for some strange reason, the song kept playing in my head. Weeks would go by and I’d decide to listen to the track again….
Changes – Langhorne Slim & The Law
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Langhorne Slim reveals that his track “Changes” is about, “the beauty and terror of having breakthroughs and transformations in life, only to discover that there are infinite amounts of both. The pursuit of the groove must be groovy.”…
Optimistic – Sounds of Blackness
It’s my personal testimony of faith. Written and produced by Gary Hines, and the legendary Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis in 1991, “Optimistic” embodies an uplifting rhythm of hope and inspiration…
Moonlight – Message to Bears
Let’s talk about one of yoga’s most difficult position: Savasana. It’s been an hour (at least) of moving and sweating, your body is drained, tired and ready to rest, and then comes the blissful few minutes of laying down on your mat soaking it all in. How on Earth is THAT the hardest pose?…
Used to Know – James Waves
This is a song that one of my good friends, Jim De La Roca, sang on. What I like about this song is that it is really stripped down and left to the core instruments: 2 guitars, a bass, vocals, and drums…
Reawakening – The Foxfires
I’ve been making music for half my life.
Before I was a dance music producer, I was in a rock n roll band AND a new wave band; before that, I was dabbling with heavy metal, and I also spent a good year or two composing my own concept album with a proper story and everything…
Karma – Deep Watters & Mika Lett
We all make mistakes in life. Even us jellyfish. Sometimes our mistakes end up hurting or inconveniencing others. We make a thoughtless move that feels like it’s in our favor but has consequences that come back on us. Our little ill-gotten gains become catastrophic losses. Some call this karma…