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Monday, Nov 22 2021, 5AM
Josef Leimberg is a producer, lyricist, and trumpet player from Los Angeles. He contributed to Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy Award winning album, To Pimp a Butterfly, and is currently signed with World Galaxy, the jazz imprint of Alpha Pup Records
"I don't even have time to address the fetishized hatred we endure from white men..
So you'll forgive me if I don't give a f**k about your cooperation of feelings..."
Pianist Robert Glasper gave Staceyann Chin a voice in "Endangered Black Woman": bit.ly
Chronixx teams up with Free Nationals, best known as Anderson .Paak's backing band, to spread good vibrations with this track.
Antón Álvarez Alfaro (C. Tangana) is a Spanish rapper and songwriter from Madrid. His latest album, which released in February, was the first Spanish album to reach #1 on Spotify's global albums. ctangana.com
South London artist!
Check out the video for "Grow":
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Blue Hawaii are a Montreal duo composed of Braids member Raphaelle "Ra" Standell-Preston and Alex "Agor" Kerby (also known as Alexander Cowan). www.facebook.com
New Zealand seven-piece band from Wellington, drawing on black lexicon of music, dub, reggae, soul, jazz, rhythm and blues, and techno. www.fatfreddysdrop.com
Tuareg. "Imarhan, meaning ‘the ones I care about’, started out around 2008, a loose collection of friends who began to play together. We speak about the link to nature, oppression, lost youth but also and especially about hope and struggle on sandy guitar riffs, bewitching choirs and poetic lyrics. " imarhan.bandcamp.com
Tinariwen cohorts Imarhan have announced their third album, Aboogi, which will be out January 28 via City Slang. It's the band's first record since building their own studio in their hometown of Tamanrasset in Southern Algeria, and it features contributions from Sudanese singer Sulafa Elyas and Super Furry Animals’ Gruff Rhys, Tinariwen’s Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni and poet Mohamed Ag Itlale (aka Japonais). "'Aboogi' reflects the colors of Tamanrasset, what we experience in everyday life,” says bandleader Iyad Moussa Ben Abderahmane, also known as Sadam. “We give space to the wind and the natural energies, to the sun and the sand. We want to express their colors through music.”www.brooklynvegan.com
Ecuadorean American Roberto Carlos Lange's new album, "Far In," is filled with celestial lullabies that confront earthly anxieties. This year he moved to Asheville, North Carolina with his wife after spending over a decade in cramped New York apartments. heladonegro.com
New York-based artist Leon Michels reworked songs from English singer Liam Bailey’s 2020 album Ekundayo. Black Thought and Lee "Scratch" Perry contribute guest vocals (who unfortunately passed on August 29).
Cali P. & Teka released their most recent single in August of this year, listen here:
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Watch Sevana's Live on KEXP at Home session recorded on September 3 last year at www.youtube.com
Seattle-based, 25-year-old Alda Agustiano goes by the ambiguous title Chong the Nomad. When asked about her moniker, Chong shares, "Yeah, it’s a pretty nerdy story. I grew up loving the animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender, and the music from that series actually inspired me to write music. There was a very minor character, who was this sort of musician, and his name was Chong. He was nomadic; a hippy. I used Chong the Nomad as a form name for a while, and then I just rolled with it. I kinda like how gender-neutral it is." bit.ly
The second album from British musician, Georgia. She told Billboard about the songs on this 2020 release, “The dance floor, or any space which allows for collective energy, is connecting on a deep level to human emotion. It’s almost like going to church and having a religious experience.”
Find 'Seeking Thrills' here: georgia.dominomart.com
The Avalanches discuss this wonderful album track-by-track: themusic.com.au
Il Quadro di Troisi is a new collaborative project between Italian musicians Andrea Noce (aka Eva Geist) and Donato Scaramuzzi (aka Donato Dozzy)
Brijean is the Oakland-based collaboration of DJ, session and live player Brijean Murphy (Poolside, Toro Y Moi, U.S. Girls) and multi-instrumentalist and producer Doug Stuart. "Feelings" is their sophomore follow-up to 2019's "Walkie Talkie." brijean.bandcamp.com
There are two sides to the Cuban artist Erik Iglesias Rodríguez, who performs as Cimafunk. "Cima" is an homage to the cimarrón, a word that refers to Cubans of African descent who escaped enslavement. And "funk," he says, "because you got all the African roots that came to the United States and transformed gospel [and] the blues to get funk."
This artist discusses the new album, "El Alimento," here: n.pr
"‘Please’ is full of optimism and ready to be played in a place where we can all be together and flirt, dance, touch, and kiss,” Jessie Ware said.
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"We can make it mutual..."
Watch the video for this banger, which features a pregnant Ware singing the song as projected on a curtain in a club while various dancers move to the track.: youtu.be