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Friday, May 7 2021, 5AM
NYC-born Conga drummer of Puerto Rican descent widely regarded as the "Father of Latin Boogaloo". Leader of his own sextet from 1950s on, pioneered use of English lyrics in Latin music.
Features Piya Malik of the band 79.5. Retro-soul bandleader and producer Leon Michels is also a founding member of Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Menahan Street Band, and Lee Fields & The Expressions, and has played with Charles Bradley as well as Wu-Tang Clan. A frequent collaborator of Dan Auerbach, Michels was a touring member of The Black Keys and co-founded The Arcs.
elmichelsaffair.bandcamp.com
Read more about Leon Michels in Rolling Stone:
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New Music from the Grammy-Award Winner/MD/Producer/Artist from Chicago.
www.catchpeter.com
IG: @realcottontale
Watch Jamila Woods' 2017 KEXP live in-studio performance:
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Producer oddCouple has worked with numerous artists in the Chicago area, including Chance The Rapper, Noname, and Jamila Woods. "Reflections" is the first single from his upcoming album of the same name.
The video for "Reflections" was directed by New Trash Crew:
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More music:
oddcouplebeats.bandcamp.com
Los Angeles underground hip hop crew formed in 1995. In addition to the Visionaries releases, the crew's six members have collectively released over twenty solo and side projects. They have collaborated and performed with other artists, including Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, Common, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Dilated Peoples, De La Soul, Blackalicious, Jean Grae, Psycho Realm, J Dilla, Jurassic 5 and Linkin Park.
thevisionaries.bandcamp.com
'Trip' is an autobiographical soundscape of Los Angeles singer and songwriter Aiko's healing journey follows the loss of her brother, Miyagi Chilombo, to cancer in 2012, and her futile quest to replace that love with romantic relationships and vices that failed to fill the void. n.pr
www.jheneaiko.com
Track produced by DJ Shadow -- from the first studio album by hip hop duo Latyrx - Lateef the Truthspeaker and Lyrics Born. The roots of their partnership lay in the formation of the Solesides collective at UC Davis.
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A "godfather" of Chillhop, Nujabes was a Japanese record producer, audio engineer, DJ, composer and arranger who produced atmospheric instrumental mixes sampling from hip hop and jazz and released three solo studio albums before his untimely death in 2010 at age 36 in a car accident.
www.japantimes.co.jp
Charles Mingus Jr. was a jazz double bassist, pianist, composer and bandleader. A major proponent of collective improvisation, he is considered to be one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers in history, with a career spanning three decades and collaborations with other jazz legends including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Dannie Richmond, and Herbie Hancock.
www.charlesmingus.com
Indigenous artist Nicholas Galanin's debut as Ya Tseen (“be alive,” and a reference to his Tlingit name Yeil Ya Tseen) is 'Indian Yard', his first album for Sub Pop.
Galanin began working on the record in 2017 while going back and forth between his home in Sitka and Juneau, Alaska, where he was carving a totem pole. The album entwines falling in love and the birth of a child with the urgency of current social and environmental justice movements to tear down destructive systems and build anew.
He shared the concepts with Indian Agent bandmates Zak D. Wass and Otis Calvin III and together they collaborated to build the album alongside longtime collaborator Benjamin Verdoes. During strings of sessions in Sitka and Seattle, a cast of brilliant friends—Shabazz Palaces, Nick Hakim, fellow Indigenous Alaskan singer and songwriter Qacung, to name a few—helped turn 'Indian Yard' into a cataract of intensely current pop wonders.
yatseen.bandcamp.com
Los Angeles-based drummer and producer who tours and records with soul singer, Aloe Blacc. He has played with many of the musicians who have crafted LA's unique brand of hip-hop, beatmaking, jazz, and soul including: Sa-Ra Creative Partners, Kamasi Washington, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Wondem, Kadhja Bonet, and Ethio-Cali...
teamirs.bandcamp.com
SETI X (Sounds of Extraterrestrial Intelligence ) is a regiment of future focused conscious thinking; an overstanding that we do not stand alone here on Planet Earth, but rather we are individual reflections of our ancient alien ancestors.
The output of SETI X is reflected through a manipulation of color, light, sound, and energy and is guided by the natural forces of the galaxy.
setix.bandcamp.com
NEW MUSIC!! Posthumous release from Tony Allen, who passed away a year ago in Paris, at the age of 79.
Born in Lagos in 1940, Tony Oladipo Allen was a hugely influential musical figure, most notably as the defining rhythmic engine of Fela Kuti’s sprawling Africa 70 combo – the much-celebrated lodestar of Nigerian Afrobeat.Allen remained a prodigiously engaged,until the very end, having created innumerable, groove-heavy coalitions.
tonyallen.bandcamp.com
Debut solo album from Aaron Frazer of Durand Jones & The Indications, written by Frazer and Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys.
aaronfrazermusic.bandcamp.com
aaronfrazermusic.com
NEW MUSIC from British singer and songwriter Lianne La Havas!
www.liannelahavas.com
Six-time GRAMMY® Award-winner, and 34-time nominee, Vince Mendoza is considered the foremost arranger of his generation, working with legends such as Björk, Elvis Costello, Sting, and Joni Mitchell.
In a new star-studded release, Mendoza returns to his roots as a composer and conductor with a remarkable collaboration—highlighting the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, soprano Julia Bullock, guest artists Joshua Redman, Antonio Sanchez, Derrick Hodge, and The Roots’ premier MC Black Thought—for his forthcoming album, 'Freedom Over Everything'. bit.ly
vincemendoza.bandcamp.com
This tune was first featured in Roc Nation's Reprise project, benefiting social justice organizations.
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From Emanuel: "The song is about reconciliation and also celebration, celebrating how strong our women are and how they hold us up. People might think this song was written as a response to the moment right now but it’s saying the exact same thing it was saying when it was written a year ago: ‘I see you, I recognize you, I appreciate you and I love you."
www.iamblackwoman.com
NEW MUSIC!! Little Simz's new album 'Sometimes I Might Be Introvert' is due out in September!
Check out the video, directed by Little Simz:
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littlesimz.bandcamp.com
“We present our first ‘Untitled’ album to mark a moment in time where we as Black People, and of Black Origin are fighting for our lives. RIP George Floyd and all those who have suffered from police brutality and systemic racism. Change is happening…We are focused.”
saultglobal.bandcamp.com
Alfa Mist is one of the driving forces behind a young and vibrant scene of UK musicians, who've taken on jazz as their musical narrative. On his new album Bring Backs the producer, self-taught pianist and rapper takes us on a sonic trip back to his beat-making past on the streets of East London, through the depth and musicality he discovered composing and playing jazz.
alfamist.bandcamp.com
First tune featuring new drummer Dan Weiss.
More of the "booty-shake blend of 1960s soul-jazz; slinky New Orleans funk; vintage instrumental soul; and a splash of acid-rock guitar" from Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio here:
delvonlamarrorgantrio.bandcamp.com
delvonlamarrorgantrio.com
'ODD CURE' revisits the divide in American society with an updated perspective on the US‘s growing expansion in circumstances and beliefs.
"For the first time in my life, the world has had a truly shared experience. The 'ODD CURE‘ is my way to providing a soundtrack to our thoughts, worries, hopes and dreams.“
oddisee.bandcamp.com
Check out an October 2020 KEXP Live at Home session with Oddisee - music and conversation with Gabriel:
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A compilation of current South African improvised music and jazz, the project is a collaboration with two luminaries of the South African Music scene - pianist / songwriter Thandi Nthuli and The Brother Moves On’s Siyabonga Mthembu - who act as curators / musical directors on the project.
indaba-is.bandcamp.com
Living Colour's second record features Queen Latifah, Little Richard, Maceo Parker, James Earl Jones and Doug E. Fresh on this cut.
(Listen closely to the sweet sounds and mouth percussion provided by Doug E. Fresh)
www.livingcolour.com
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Tomo told us: "I wrote 'On the Way' in response to the shootings of 8 people including 6 Asian women in Atlanta, and the rise in violence against Asians across the nation. I think culturally Asian Americans aren't used to having to center ourselves in the conversation and to stick up for ourselves.
But... we have a right to express our anger and our grief and our fear and sadness, and we have a right to be heard. We have a right to feel safe in our own homes and own places of business and on the streets of our own neighborhoods. We have a right to be treated with dignity and respect as human beings. That's the message of the song. We belong here."
Read more here: www.kexp.org