Ghostwind – Steve Morse
In 1989 I heard Steve Morse was back from his stint as a commercial pilot with a new album entitled High Tension Wires featuring Andy West on bass, Rod Morgenstein on drums and T. Lavitz on keys. After purchasing the cassette tape (so I could listen on my Walkman) from my local Record Hunter in NYC, I bought two tickets to his show at The Ritz from Ticketmaster. Here’s the back story:
Girl (feat. KAYTRANADA) – The Internet
No matter how many times I listen to this track, it never ceases to amaze me. Not only is “Girl” incredibly smooth, but it’s meaningful, uncomplicated, and hard hitting. Off of The Internet’s album Ego Death, “Girl” is a sultry, trippy love song that works out of a carefully crafted outer-space soundscape.
Relax – MXWLL
This tune offers up a dose of pure groove. You can’t help but bob your head as the beat rolls along. The energy pulsing with deep synth bass is pure joy and it keeps you subdued for the entirety of this wicked slow jam.
Unemployed – Tierra Whack
A women who’s rising up in hip hop and you can see why when she dropped this track last year. Tierra Whack makes the top of the list for me with “Unemployed”
Feel Like Makin’ Love by Roberta Flack
The 70s had some of the best slow jams. Love songs were actually about love. Roberta Flack’s “Feel Like Makin’ Love,” from the album of the same title, is a worthy entry into the 70s catalog of golden love song hits. The silky tune blazed up the music charts in 1974 and remained at number one for a week on Billboard’s Hot 100 Singles…
Break the Bottle – Jess Silk
God I love the story tellers.
The lyricists who construct a reality you can step into, to experience it as if you were there – as if you knew the characters – who do it so seamlessly that – even if it is by proxy – you get to feel the emotions for real.
That’s the point of this list – it’s designed to make you feel – to connect with the emotions that we’re oh so good at keeping hidden, buried under guilt and social conditioning. Because when we don’t deal with those emotions – well – that’s when the bad shit happens…
Dope Vhs Master – Desmond Cheese
This song is ultimate chilled out FUNK, the song just melts in your ears like butter and makes you feel so light when you listen to it.
Mascara – Niykee Heaton
The song is a pretty laidback tune and falls within the R&B genre, with finger snaps and minimal beats on full display.
Sweet Innocence – Ralph Taylor
Me encuentro muy feliz de regresar al gran juego, siempre es emocionante y fascinante descubrir artistas y canciones que nos acompañan en varias etapas de nuestra vida, y efectivamente tengo una lista muy muy grande de artistas pendientes de publicar y de dar a conocer, por esa razón me he decidido en comenzar con una canción llamada “Sweet Innocence”…
Looking Glass 4 (Red) – Yellow6
Sometimes all you need is the repetition.
I’ve written about this several times on the playlist – about the psychology of music – about expectation and dopamine and audio hacking and all those things that make music an effective tool for getting shit done, particularly in the creative writing space…
Soho – Jaden Smith
The artist who chases sunsets treats us with trap vibes and lovely harmonising – SOHO drags you into a dreamy hiphop atmosphere.
Proud Waves Be Stayed – We Dream Of Eden
Sometimes all we need is to accept and let go, life’s biggest lesson is letting go, this music can help you for a few moments, if you allow your mind to flow with it. Life’s most profound lesson is in this music, accept and let go.