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Sunday, Sep 27 2020, 12PM
Fun fact - this song was originally recorded by Donald Byrd, but it was written by Larry Mizell (Sr) and Larry Gordon.
Born on this day in 1953 – Robert "Robbie" Shakespeare, Jamaican bass guitarist and record producer, best known as the one half of the reggae rhythm section and production duo Sly and Robbie, with drummer Sly Dunbar. Regarded as one of the most influential reggae bassists, he worked with reggae artist such as U-Roy, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, Dennis Brown, Gregory Isaacs, Sugar Minott, Augustus Pablo, Yellowman and Black Uhuru. His production work also extended to various pop and rock artists such as Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, Cyndi Lauper, Joe Cocker, Yoko Ono, Serge Gainsbourg and Grace Jones. (The Revolutionaries and The Aggrovators.) petertosh.com
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This track is a cover of Syl Johnson's 1969 single of the same name. Syl is Syleena Johnson's father. www.salaamremi.com
The band Moses Hightower just released their fourth album. 'Lyftutónlist' translates from Icelandic to English as 'Elevator Music'. "Þetta Hjarta" means "This Heart".
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St. Panther is the moniker of Irvine California singer/producer Daniela Bojorges-Giraldo. www.stpanther.com
From their surprise second release this year, just dropped less than two weeks ago. You can pick it up at saultglobal.bandcamp.com
Across from the Dakota where John and Yoko lived on New York lies Strawberry Fields on the west side of Central Park. It was dedicated on October 9, 1985, on the 45th anniversary of Lennon's birth.
All month long we’ll be featuring special programming, live at home sessions, features, and a renewed music archive with music from Latinx artists around the world. Find out more about Latinx Heritage Month at kexp.org. gepegepegepe.com
Producer/musician Will Holland teams up with Denitia Odigie on this moody track. atlanticoscillations.com
UK Producer/DJ Ben Norris got his start in the London dance scene in 2015. Aletheia is his debut album. www.facebook.com
Listener request. Aterciopelados ("The Velvet Ones") are from Colombia, a collaboration between vocalist/guitarist Andrea Echeverri and bassist/arranger Héctor Buitrago. www.aterciopelados.com
Stage name of Irish singer/rapper Jessica Smyth. She now resides in London. www.biig-piig.com
Space nerds unite (that would include your behind the scenes DJ assistant). www.publicservicebroadcasting.net
"Spacey psychedelic rock" from San Francisco. Guitarist Ripley Johnson also plays in Moon Duo, which you can definitely hear in WS. www.woodenshjips.com
Jyoti is Georgia Anne Muldrow, born in 1983 in Los Angeles to her session musician parents. She, with her husband Dudley Perkins founded SomeOthaShip Connect, the record label she releases on.
Puerto Rican singer iLe invites Natalia Lafourcade for a spellbinding duet —beautifully blending their pristine voices. "En Cantos" is a wordplay that represents two stages in a love affair: enchantment, as well as the opposite emotion, when it can break in pieces. - www.kcrw.com
New Jersey's Flamingosis (Aaron Velasquez) links up with Toronto's The Kount (Koal Harrison). Name-your-price download at flamingosis1.bandcamp.com.
In August, Jamila Woods released the song “SULA (Paperback),” which was inspired by the late Toni Morrison and her novel Sula. Woods has now released the video for “SULA (Hardover),” a new version of “SULA” that’s produced by Slot-A. The video is directed by Fatimah Asghar.: www.youtube.com
Lila Iké is a Jamaican reggae singer and songwriter. In this track, she takes Protoje's "Bout Noon" and adds lyrics for this anthem about falling in love. Check out her live at home session at www.kexp.org
You can find more from Seattle local rapper and record producer Sango on his Soundcloud!
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Fronted by Nigerian singer Eno Williams, Ibibio Sound Machine is a clash of African and electronic elements inspired in equal measure by the golden era of West-African funk and disco and modern post-punk and electro. ibibiosoundmachine.com
Recorded in the Spring of 1982 at Prince’s Kiowa Trail Home Studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota. The song was released in 2019 on the Super Deluxe Edition edition of 1999. prince.com
Ska/Reggae/Funk/Rock band from Buenos Aires. This track originally appears on El León, released in 1992. www.fabulosos-cadillacs.com
"Take Care of You" is a soulful love ballad but also features slurred, almost chopped and screwed background vocals somewhat reminiscent of James Blake‘s approach. Charlotte expertly pulls inspirations from jazz, R&B and soul and what results is an atmosphere that is solely her own. charlottedaywilson.com
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Malinche refers to the Aztec woman who allied with Hernán Cortés. Anwandter turns this on its head: "One thing I set out to do with this song was to shift the classical 'evil woman' narrative inherent in the story of La Malinche towards the pervasive, all-knowing, bro-y straight male that actually has ruled our lives for ages. I didn’t have a lack of targets for that, fortunately."
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Blunt learned to play music at the age of 35 by taking an adult class in the late 1980s! doughreamblunt.com
Singer/songwriter Tirzah Mastin lives in London. From her first full length release. www.tirzah.uk
Weval is a collaboration between Dutch friends Harm Coolen and Merijn Scholte Albers. They originally got their start in the film industry in 2010 and morphed into collaborating on electronica. weval.net
Quarantined listeners were able to watch Reed construct “Real Magic” in real time — tinkering with percussion patterns and speeds — earlier this year as part of his Nice Live! YouTube series, where the producer solicited demos from friends and built them into tracks on the fly while thousands of people watched.
The video series “began as a mental health exercise for me to keep from going crazy,” Reed explained earlier this year. “How can we really spread inspiration and challenge our community to shake off this freeze [during a pandemic], when anxiety puts you in that freeze state?” The answer, for Reed, involved drinking wine and live-streaming his creative process.
Latest release from Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter released late last month. www.protoje.com
Born this day in 1953 – Robert "Robbie" Shakespeare, Jamaican bass guitarist and record producer, best known as the one half of the reggae rhythm section and production duo Sly and Robbie, with drummer Sly Dunbar. once Island had signed former community worker and actor Ini Kamoze, there was talk that he would inherit Marley’s stature. Kamoze made his first recordings circa 1982, for the Mogho Naba label, which he’d formed with Jimmy Cliff’s nephew, Sipho Merritt; Sly and Robbie picked him up after getting a hold of a demo tape, and brokered his contract with Island.
Hawthorne DJed in Michigan at the height of Detroit hip-hop before Eminem blew up. Now he makes soul records and rappers are sampling him. www.mayerhawthorne.com
"For the Turnstiles" is a country-folk hybrid featuring Young's banjo guitar and a harmony vocal from Ben Keith, who also plays Dobro (a resonator guitar). neilyoungarchives.com
Jeff Tweedy's new book "How To Write One Song" releases next month on October 13. His new solo album "Love Is The King" comes out ten days later on the 23rd. wilcoworld.net
Rolling Stone: "Ali is a latecomer to electronic music — growing up near New York City, he devoted himself to the trumpet. While attending SUNY Purchase and studying jazz, he met a studio engineer who introduced him to the software program Ableton along with music from Miles Davis’ electric period and the producer Flying Lotus. Ali switched his attention from the trumpet to Ableton in 2013." You can find his music on Bandcamp at kareemali19.bandcamp.com
Kelly Lee Owens is a Welsh electronic musician and producer. She released her self-titled first album in 2017 to critical praise, and her follow-up album Inner Song was released in August. www.kellyleeowens.com
Pedro Canale, known as his stage name Chancha Vía Circuito is a producer, DJ/remixer and composer, from Buenos Aires. On this track he joins Ecuadoran singer-songwriter Mateo Kingman, who fuses traditional Latin American sounds with hip-hop, rock, and pop. www.facebook.com
With additional vocals by Guevara. The latest album from Detroiter Kenny Dixon, Jr. can be had at moodymann.bandcamp.com
I can't add much more to what's already been said before other than this is a dreamy, sultry song. Here's the trippy video which is worth a view: www.youtube.com
A brief KEXP music review says, "With an acrobatic and elastic style that falls nicely alongside contemporaries such as Amine, Dave B, EARTHGANG, Naeem, Buddy, and more, SuperGood jumps across rap, R&B, pop, trap, psych, and rock with a deft enthusiastic touch." Read KEXP's New Music Reviews each week: www.kexp.org