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Monday, Sep 6 2021, 5AM
New music from James Blake! 'Friends That Break Your Heart', Blake's upcoming fifth album, is slated for a mid-September release. You can catch him at the Seattle Paramount on Sept 22nd!
'Bad Meditation' is an account of love, loss, healing and the story of Mara’s Māori heritage. In his own words:
“Growing up poor, everything goes through our indigenous lens. Here in Aotearoa we have our own Gods, our own values, our own ways of speaking that are different to the colonial/capitalist culture”.
maratk.bandcamp.com
The third single from Golden Browne from the forth-coming, self-titled, sophomore album, due out 9/17.
The debut album from Brightonian singer-songwriter, Tiawa, 'Moonlit Train' is a conceptual record that maps a metaphorical train journey from relationships through to healing and liberation. tiawa-music.bandcamp.com
On "Beautiful Mind," the two emcees from Prince George's County, Maryland - Ciscero and Oddisee - team up to reflect on where they're from and how they rise above.
This track was KEXP's Song of the Day on January 28 -- head over to the KEXP website to download now: www.kexp.org Check out Oddisee's KEXP Live on KEXP at Home (interview and performance) hosted by Gabriel: www.youtube.com
New music from UK artist Little Simz! - from her NEW album, out now! - www.littlesimz.com
Subscribe to KEXP's YouTube channel to be the first to hear when Gabriel's Live at Home session with Little Simz drops!! www.youtube.com
Cleo Sol, an R&B singer from London and one of the group’s core members, sings on the track. SAULT dwells on gang activity across NINE, painting a complex portrait of their world. bit.ly “'NINE' will only exist for ninety nine days,” the band wrote on their bandcamp page -- the means you only have until October 2, 2021 to stream and purchase this album! saultglobal.bandcamp.com
Statement from Leon Bridges:
"Growing up in Texas I have personally experienced racism, my friends have experienced racism. From adolescence, we are taught how to conduct ourselves when we encounter police to avoid the consequences of being racially profiled. I have been numb for too long, calloused when it came to the issues of police brutality. The death of George Floyd was the straw that broke the camel’s back for me. It was the first time I wept for a man I never met. I am George Floyd, my brothers are George Floyd, and my sisters are George Floyd. I cannot and will not be silent any longer. Just as Abel’s blood was crying out to God, George Floyd is crying out to me. So, I present to you 'Sweeter'."
www.leonbridges.com
The jazz saxophonist and composer has announced a full-length reimagining of her Mercury Prize–nominated debut "Source". The album will be released in October with guests like Georgia Anne Muldrow, KeiyaA, and Moses Boyd. www.nubyagarcia.com
Toronto based artist collaborating with Spanish artist. Haviah Mighty has been making some big moves in the last few months. From her multiple awards, festival performances, and now she turns them into a ‘smooth-sashay’ on the new single “Flamenco”. This new single features multiple Grammy award-winning Latin artist, Mala Rodríguez and continues to bring the heat after her previous release, Avocado (featuring producer, Grandtheft). Haviah steps to the beat and pulse in this sensual, castanet-inflected track reminiscent of an adventure in a new place, with a sound that embodies the striking, powerful energy of its namesake artform. Read more at Canadian Beats: canadianbeats.ca
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Gabriel Teodros. Download it for free, here: www.kexp.org
The Halluci Nation was formerly known as A Tribe Called Red. The new name is taken from a phrase coined by late Native American rights activist, musician and poet John Trudell to describe "the vast global community of people who remember at their core what it means to be human.": thehallucination.com -- The Halluci Nation are playing at Neumos on January 29, 2022.
Calina Lawrence might be the first person to ever record vocals on a hip hop track in the Lushootseed language. Lushootseed is a Coast Salish language. It’s the language of the Duwamish and Suquamish people, as well as other nations around the Pacific Northwest. Calina grew up on the Port Madison Indian Reservation in Suquamish. It’s on Puget Sound’s Kitsap Peninsula near Bainbridge Island. She was part of the first class to go through Suquamish’s Tribal High School. She was able to learn Lushootseed during her time there.
It’s a language that was almost lost. In the 1990’s, it was said that there only 60 fluent speakers of Lushootsed alive. In this Sound & Vision interview, Lawrence talks to Gabriel Teodros about the power of language. www.kexp.org
A meditation for today from Baltimore-born, Grammy-nominated singer, MC, songwriter, activist, and hip hop artist of Choctaw, Creek, Cherokee and African American heritage. maimounayoussef.com
"Don't let your loss
Make you scared of changes
They're with you always
Through love, I know you're close"
New music: cleo-sol.com
Watch the official music video, directed by Tatiana Crooks: youtu.be
"Good life (good life)
Liberty, innovation (innovation)
Every child, no matter what color, gettin' an education
Now life in the hood is nothin' but fear
1000 light-years away from here"
This album was recorded in March of 2010 but was the first full, previously-unreleased studio album of Prince to be released posthumously.
www.prince.com
The Electric Lady was released 8 years ago, today! Happy albumversary to Janelle Monae.
When this track came out in 2013, Afropunk wrote that, “at first glance one might take Janelle Monae’s new track Q.U.E.E.N. as a funky new leading single to her upcoming album “The Electric Lady.” It is that, but the music video is loaded with subtle imagery and intriguing subtext—alluding to historical Black iconography and examining the paradox of museum culture—while playing with the ideas of Afro-Futurism and the past being reignited to usher us into a future with a multitude identities and equality, which, according to Monae, is more than just being added to the equation, but a fully equal, valued member of society.”
Watch the music video here: youtu.be
"Symbol" was co-written by Octavia's Brood co-editor and Emergent Strategy author adrienne maree brown, who celebrates her birthday today!
Gender non-confirming musician Tunde Olaniran is from Flint, Michigan.
store.tundeolaniran.com
Check out an NPR interview with Tunde here:
www.npr.org
Durand Jones & the Indications will play the Paramount Theatre (with My Morning Jacket) in Seattle on Friday, October 1st & Saturday, October 2nd.
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“Witchoo” is a light-as-a-feather funk number powered by Mike Montgomery’s wiggly bassline, and Aaron Frazer and Durand Jones’ engaging high/low vocal harmonies, all imbued with a quiet, but unmistakable confidence.: www.youtube.com
Watch Tkay Maidza's Live on KEXP at Home performance and interview with DJ Morgan: www.kexp.org
