11 Search Results for Tag: Nina Simone

Let’s Push Things Forward

On to the next great thing. Featuring artists like: Blancmange, Public Enemy, Daft Punk, Halsey, The Cinematic Orchestra, Roots Manuva, Fleetwood Mac, T. Rex
Let's Push things Forward - Playlist cover image from the Green Space Collection

Virgin Ears and Good Vibrations

Do you remember your first time? Featuring artists like: Kajagoogoo, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Easy Star All-Stars, Dayne Jordan, DJ KRUSH, Pepe Deluxe, Roots Manuva, Portishead
Virgin Ears and good Vibrations - Green Spaces Playlist Cover

Sounds Like The 1975 – Part 3

A Millenial Band That Baby Boomers Like. Featuring artists like: Bad Religion, Bob Moses, Fleetwood Mac, Foster The People, Joe Jackson, Madonna, Nina Simone, Prince, The 1975, The Go-Go’s, The Who, Tove Lo
Sounds Like The 1975 - Part 3

it was the BEST GIG EVER

Got Live? We do! So what if you weren’t in the country/born/old enough to go at the time! Take a listen and relive some of the best live performances from across history. Featuring artists like: David Bowie, Nina Simone, Bob Marley & the Wailers,
it was the BEST GIG EVER

Hidden Gems

Despite differences in age, nationality, race, and whatever else, a gem is a valued treasure. Can you hear the ones we found?. Featuring artists like: Kamasi Washington,Khruangbin,Jacob Collier,Vulfpeck,Leslie Odom Jr.,Nina Simone,Bettye LaVette,Jon Batiste,Chance the Rapper,

Hidden Gems

From Meccano to Legoland

Movement, travel, destination and of course, a playlist made with a friend.. Featuring artists like: Swing Slow, Daniel Lanois, Sharon Van Etten, Nina Simone, Eels, New Radicals, Rufus Wainwright, Chuck Prophet, Guster, The Housemartins

The Swagger Of A Confident Man Moving With Purpose…

A soundtrack for all kingpins, bosses and CEOs… – featuring artists like DJ Shadow • Anderson .Paak • Jidenna • Nas • Nina Simone • James Brown • Llorca • Mr. Scruff

Piano Classics Vol. 1

Tracks where the piano – and occasionally the organ make all the difference – featuring artists like Tom Waits • James Leg • The Belfast Cowboys • Lou Reed • Joe Jackson • Wilco • World Party • Nina Simone

Mood Indigo – Duke Ellington

I first heard this when I was walking through my college’s campus center. A student jazz group called the Hot Sextet (ha, ha) was playing in the lounge area, and the melody stopped me in my tracks. Ellington tunes often have this quality of intense nostalgia, even when you’re hearing them for the first time.

I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free – Nina Simone

Like a lot of young British movie fans of my age, the deceptively cheerful piano melody of this song first came to my attention in the 1970s as the theme music to the BBC’s long-running Film Review series (Film 1972, Film 1973 etc etc…) and it was nearly twenty years before I learned that this jolly jazz-gospel piano tune was in fact one of the key cultural touchstones of the American Civil Rights movement.

I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free - Nina Simone

Baltimore – Nina Simone

I first heard this track from Bonobo’s Late Nite Tales and am like whaaaaaat? Nina Simone did Reggae. Well she didn’t just do reggae she wrote an anthem to define the dark streets corroding to urban decay and post-industrial cities with wheels falling off the Wagon.