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Wednesday, Feb 17 2021, 5AM
South London-born to a Taiwanese mother and British father, in a 2018 interview, Williams talked about changing his name from Henry Wu to Kamaal Williams: "...as a creative it just allows you to express yourself in a different way. Henry Wu is my ethnic background, and Kamaal is my spiritual background." In another interview with The Indian Express, Williams stated: "Kamaal Williams is more like a conceptual band, and Henry Wu is the DJ, the producer, the mastermind".
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Fat Freddy’s Drop is a New Zealand seven-piece band from Wellington, whose musical style has been characterised as any combination of dub, reggae, soul, jazz, rhythm and blues, and techno.
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New single!
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Her debut EP, 'The Golden Hour', due out March 5 via In.Digg.Nation Collective/Six Course Music/RCA.
'The Toughest' was a 1996 release on Heartbeat Records as well as a 1988 posthumous retrospective compilation album from Capitol with tracks drawn from the six Tosh albums Capitol had rights to -- 1978's Bush Doctor, the following year's Mystic Man, 1981's Wanted Dread & Alive, 1983's Mama Africa, the following year's Captured Live, and 1987's No Nuclear War, Tosh's final set.
L.A. band led by Joey Quiñones. theesinseers.bandcamp.com
This song live:
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Watch Celeste's YouTube COLORS video:
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And get the debut album from the British singer/songwriter:
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English label Strut Records, with the complete 1970s works from brilliant Tanzanian Afrosoul band Sunburst. "Kiktoto Sound" comes from a blend of various influences : James Brown's soul, the Caribbean rhythms found in Congolese rumba, and psychedelic rock from Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana or The Doors.
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Jenny Lewis and producer/songwriter Jonathan Wilson teamed with Sanba Zao, Paul Beaubrun and Jackson Browne for “Lapé Lanmou (Peace and Love).” The track appeared on the 2020 benefit album, 'Let the Rhythm Lead: Haiti Song Summit, Vol. 1' from Artists for Peace and Justice via Arts Music.
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The Brooklyn artist/musician plays, writes and/or sings in the following projects: Gemma, Dirty Projectors, Ava Luna, Felicia Douglass, Baile, and Lip Set. She has also collaborated with other artists including Toro y Moi, Helado Negro, Mr Twin Sister and Lushlife.
www.feliciadouglass.com
'Rose in the Dark' is the debut solo album from London artist Cleo Sol, who is a member of the deeply mysterious new group SAULT.
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Video for "Butterfly" here:
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Illvester aka Action Jackson aka one-half of Fly Moon Royalty is a local (Seattle) DJ and producer.
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Watch Illvester - and Fly Moon Royalty - in a 2016 in-studio performance over on the KEXP YouTube channel:
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With a career stretching over thirty years, reggae legend Isaacs was one of Jamaica's most beloved singers.
New music from the Seattle MC.
"Made this with my family Ujjy (who made the beat) and mastered by DJ billy Bishop.
wrote this when I did not know when I would see my son again and the world was heavy on my shoulders."
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With this 2018 release, L.A.'s Brainfeeder label celebrated 10 years in a compilation featuring 22 all new songs from its catalogue of artists, plus remixes and selected older tracks.
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Head over to the KEXP website for a 2020 Sound & Vison conversation with Thundercat: www.kexp.org
Check out a KEXP performance from Mexican actress/singer Ximena Sariñana, performing live at Panoram Studios in Mexico City in 2019.
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Debut album from Lous and the Yakuza, aka Marie-Pierra Kakoma, a Congolese-Belgian singer, rapper, songwriter, model, and activist.
"Sound Ancestors," a collaborative album with Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden, has just been released. Check out NPR's feature on Madlib and the new album: www.npr.org
With Jacob Collier on back up vocals, this track is expected on SZA's upcoming and long-awaited second studio album.
The singer expressed a sense of overall peace with her slow-moving creative process, saying:
"Sometimes you just want to make something f**king awful just to rage against the system, but that’s not where I’m at. In this space, I just want to do what I want without any pressure, without any hyper-conversation about it.":
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Retrofuturist electro-soul out of Portland!
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Check out Chanti Darling in an intimate live performance at The Little London Plane during the 2018 Upstream Music Fest.
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Check out one of the most beautiful live performances from the KEXP studio - Ben Harper in 2016:
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Legendary funk, rock and psychedelic records aside — in the ’60s they were the first band with a lineup of men and women, racially integrated. The Bay area powerhouse laid the foundation for rock and funk bands for decades to come, bringing a uniquely vibrant energy during a time that truly needed it.
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Great Sly sample from "Everybody Is a Star".
Classic Sly performance of the song:
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The second solo album from the French musician best-known for being one-half of Air is an atmospheric blend of eerie electro-pop and lush orchestral pop, with occasional guest vocals from Kate NV, Kadjha Bonet, Kirin J Callinan, Cola Boyy and Alexis Taylor.