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In the 1980s, Alice Coltrane decided to become Hindu, adopting the name Swamini Turiyasangitananda and opening an Ashram outside LA. "Om Shanti" features Coltrane repeating her mantras in a bluesy style. www.alicecoltrane.com
Traditional Appalachian tune that Nina Simone coopted in 1959, first recording it on her album "Nina Simone at Town Hall", and re-recording it on her 1966 studio album "Wild is the Wind".
Ain't No Sunshine by Ken Boothe was originally written by Bill Withers and was first released by Withers in 1971. Boothe first released his version in 1972.
Born this day in 1945 - William Hart, singer from American R&B/soul vocal group The Delfonics who had the 1968 US No.4 single 'La-La Means I Love You', and the hits 'Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)', and 'Ready or Not Here I Come (Can't Hide from Love)'
Aaron Frazer from Durand Jones & The Indications has used music to call attention to issues of inequity and injustice, while highlighting the work of organizations like the Poor People's Campaign. "It's important ethically to try to use music for good. If you have something to say politically, don't hide it until it's asked about."
Read more from Aaron Frazer: aaronfrazermusic.com
Debuting in 2008, Menahan Street Band features musicians from Antibalas, El Michels Affair, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings and The Budos Band. menahanstreetband.bandcamp.com
Local DJ and producer Rudy Willingham is also a graphic artist. Follow him at www.instagram.com and put a smile on your face.
Reissue of the little-known 1983 album from this Nigerian musician. Iruoje is credited as being the man who signed Fela Kuti to EMI Nigeria and produced all of Fela's revolutionary early material from 1970-73. soundwayrecords.com
Lexington Kentucky represent! www.cunninlynguists.com
CottonTale said about this track: "The cast of people involved in creating the music and the [Google Year in Search 2020] film were if not leaders themselves, they were surrounded by leaders who in their own way are pushing for change in the community, showing what's best about who we all are and giving everyone hope, a bit of celebration too, that by working together, growing together, we will get through this period." youtu.be
New music from the Memphis-born, Mississippi-raised singer/songwriter celebrating Blackness! Check out a Colors video of the song at www.youtube.com
UK duo Babeheaven are singer Nancy Andersen and Jamie Travis. www.babeheavenband.co.uk
In the UK tabloid The Sun, vocalist Yukimi Nagono explained the meaning of this song: "Pretty Girls is about that LA girl putting all her money into having a beautiful appearance when she is already amazing and so many other ways."
l Quadro di Troisi is a project by Berlin electronic artist Andrea Noce (Eva Geist) and Italian DJ Donato Scaramuzzi (Donato Dozzy).
On Hunted, Anna Calvi reimagines her 2018 album "Hunter", stripping back the tracks and collaborating with Courtney Barnett, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Julia Holter, and on this track, Joe Talbot from IDLES. annacalvi.com
Originally released in 1972, "It's Just Begun" has been sampled in over a hundred hip-hop songs.
Sampling the 1973 Julius Brockington and The Magic Force track "This Feeling (Freedom)" jurassic-five.squarespace.com
This album was The Roots' second release and their first on a major label. Tragically, the master tapes, including a number of unreleased tracks, were destroyed in 2008 in a massive fire on the Universal Studios back lot. www.facebook.com
Xperience is a hip hop artist from Seattle. Tiffany Wilson, also from Seattle, contributes on this track. xpmusic.rocks www.tiffanywilsonmusic.com
Collaboration with Four Tet. Four Tet explained the album's creation to Pitchfork: "we decided to work on this together with [Madlib] sending me tracks, loops, ideas, and experiments that I would arrange, edit, manipulate and combine. I was sent hundreds of pieces of music over a couple of years stretch and during that time I put together this album with all the parts that fitted with my vision."
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Scan 7 is a mysterious techno duo in Detroit: Trackmasta Lou and Mr. Hooper. They always wear masks while performing live. www.facebook.com
Another mysterious duo out of Italy focusing on disco edits: Larry Tiger (aka Valerio Del Prete / Valerio Delphi) and David Woods (4) (aka Marco Passarani). tigerandwoods.bandcamp.com
Born this day in 1975 – Tom Jenkinson, English musician (Squarepusher).
Title track from Simon Green's sixth and latest studio album. bonobomusic.com
(((O))) deliberately chose an unpronounceable moniker to refer to them: "I don’t resonate with my [given] name" www.instagram.com
New album from Kali Uchis is her first Spanish full length. This track features Toronto's PARTYNEXTDOOR. kaliuchis.com
Says Common: "'A Beautiful Revolution Pt. 1' is affirmation. It's recognition. It’s elevation. It's music to go with a movement. Because the truth is, there is still so much work to do. [...] We need to make sure things do not return to the status quo." www.thinkcommon.com
From Stockholm, Off The Meds is an experimental electronic DJ / Rap quartet consisting of Adrian
Lux, Carli Löf, Kamohelo Khoaripe and Måns Glaeser. www.facebook.com
Israeli singer, songwriter and producer Noga Erez studied composition at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Her new album, KIDS, her second release, comes out in March. nogaerez.com
Swedish electro-pop artist. This single came out in early December. www.facebook.com
You can listen to the Lawn in the Morning session at www.kexp.org
Flo and Matthew collaborated in 2017 on this covers album. www.facebook.com
Read a mini-review of Iranian-Dutch artist Sevdaliza's second and latest album on the KEXP blog:
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Support the artist here:
sevdaliza.bandcamp.com
Travis Stewart (Machinedrum): "This song was a dream collaboration of mine. I’ve been a fan of Tigran ever since I heard one of his songs played on [BBC Radio 6 DJ] Gilles Peterson's radio show around 6 years ago. His beautifully unique approach to piano is breath taking and awe inspiring." machinedrum.net
Four Tet actually released two full albums on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, 871 and Parallel, respectively. fourtet.bandcamp.com
From the final album released by Talk Talk. Frontman Mark Hollis would release his only solo album in 1998, after which he largely retired from making music to focus on his family.