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Accolades is here, and they are making moves worthy of their name. They are the newest audio production team to emerge from the musical epicenter of Los Angeles. This soulful duo was formed by Anas Canon, esteemed record producer/sound engineer and founder of the emerging label Decorative Audio along with his writing partner, prominent Los Angeles based multi-instrumentalist/producer, Joel Van Dijk (who also serves as Aloe Blacc’s musical director and guitarist). The two have embarked on the nearly impossible task of re-imagining “The Motown Sound” for our modern age.

The project, Accolades vs. The Funk Brothers emerged from Canon’s genuine love(read obsession) for the genius of early Motown recordings. Canon and Van Dijk are long time fans of The Funk Brothers (the brilliant musicians who played on the original Motown recordings) and the musical bed that they created for the classic vocalists of their time such as Marvin Gaye, The Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder and many more.

The vocal tracks from these Motown recordings were chopped up and laid into a bed of rugged drum programming by Canon, which was then re-harmonized and re-grooved by Van Dijk and guest musicians*-- the effect being a completely new approach to the familiarity of the Motown sound. As the name suggests, Accolades Vs. The Funk Brothers challenges the Motown studio personnel to a musical production duel in our now modern age of recording technology, lending a fresh perspective to the timeless recordings.

Accolades’ musicianship is what sets them apart from those who simply seek to remix the classics. Their use of advanced harmonic concepts, real instruments and sophisticated arranging serve to reimagine Motown in the 21st century. The use of additional sections elongate the original narrative of timeless songs like Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell’s If This World Were Mine, and The Jackson 5’s Mama’s Pearl, taking the listener’s nostalgia and giving it a new home.

To hear this project is to be transported to the place in which your soul feels most comfortable. With harmony that serves as a powerful aphrodisiac, and a new rhythmic pulse that compels you to rise in your living room and hit that signature two-step, Accolades Vs. The Funk Brothers satiates that sultry space in your spirit. That feeling you felt when you first heard Marvin is morphed into a contemporary setting, as if the song was just released today. A fresh perspective is given, an epiphany is received, and what was once old is new again.

Written by Savannah Harris

*Accolades Vs. Funk Brothers Personnel…

Anas Canon - Producer, writer, recording/mix engineer, drum programing,
Joel Van Dijk - Producer, writer, guitars, bass, keyboards
Joe Rudd - Writer, keyboards, saxophone, flute
Bronco Shea - Bass
Colin Gilliland - Writer, trombone
Chris Bautista - Trumpet

If this world were mine - ACCOLADES REDUX - Marvin Gaye

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Accolades is here, and they are making moves worthy of their name. They are the newest audio production team to emerge from the musical epicenter of Los Angeles. This soulful duo was formed by Anas Canon, esteemed record producer/sound engineer and founder of the emerging label Decorative Audio along with his writing partner, prominent Los Angeles based multi-instrumentalist/producer, Joel Van Dijk (who also serves as Aloe Blacc’s musical director and guitarist). The two have embarked on the nearly impossible task of re-imagining “The Motown Sound” for our modern age.

The project, Accolades vs. The Funk Brothers emerged from Canon’s genuine love(read obsession) for the genius of early Motown recordings. Canon and Van Dijk are long time fans of The Funk Brothers (the brilliant musicians who played on the original Motown recordings) and the musical bed that they created for the classic vocalists of their time such as Marvin Gaye, The Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder and many more.

The vocal tracks from these Motown recordings were chopped up and laid into a bed of rugged drum programming by Canon, which was then re-harmonized and re-grooved by Van Dijk and guest musicians*-- the effect being a completely new approach to the familiarity of the Motown sound. As the name suggests, Accolades Vs. The Funk Brothers challenges the Motown studio personnel to a musical production duel in our now modern age of recording technology, lending a fresh perspective to the timeless recordings.

Accolades’ musicianship is what sets them apart from those who simply seek to remix the classics. Their use of advanced harmonic concepts, real instruments and sophisticated arranging serve to reimagine Motown in the 21st century. The use of additional sections elongate the original narrative of timeless songs like Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell’s If This World Were Mine, and The Jackson 5’s Mama’s Pearl, taking the listener’s nostalgia and giving it a new home.

To hear this project is to be transported to the place in which your soul feels most comfortable. With harmony that serves as a powerful aphrodisiac, and a new rhythmic pulse that compels you to rise in your living room and hit that signature two-step, Accolades Vs. The Funk Brothers satiates that sultry space in your spirit. That feeling you felt when you first heard Marvin is morphed into a contemporary setting, as if the song was just released today. A fresh perspective is given, an epiphany is received, and what was once old is new again.

Written by Savannah Harris

*Accolades Vs. Funk Brothers Personnel…

Anas Canon - Producer, writer, recording/mix engineer, drum programing,
Joel Van Dijk - Producer, writer, guitars, bass, keyboards
Joe Rudd - Writer, keyboards, saxophone, flute
Bronco Shea - Bass
Colin Gilliland - Writer, trombone
Chris Bautista - Trumpet

Jackson 5 - Mama's Pearl - ACCOLADES Redux

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Temptations 'Ball Of Confusion' - ACCOLADES Redux

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Accolades is here, and they are making moves worthy of their name. They are the newest audio production team to emerge from the musical epicenter of Los Angeles. This soulful duo was formed by Anas Canon, esteemed record producer/sound engineer and founder of the emerging label Decorative Audio along with his writing partner, prominent Los Angeles based multi-instrumentalist/producer, Joel Van Dijk (who also serves as Aloe Blacc’s musical director and guitarist). The two have embarked on the nearly impossible task of re-imagining “The Motown Sound” for our modern age.

The project, Accolades vs. The Funk Brothers emerged from Canon’s genuine love(read obsession) for the genius of early Motown recordings. Canon and Van Dijk are long time fans of The Funk Brothers (the brilliant musicians who played on the original Motown recordings) and the musical bed that they created for the classic vocalists of their time such as Marvin Gaye, The Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder and many more.

The vocal tracks from these Motown recordings were chopped up and laid into a bed of rugged drum programming by Canon, which was then re-harmonized and re-grooved by Van Dijk and guest musicians*-- the effect being a completely new approach to the familiarity of the Motown sound. As the name suggests, Accolades Vs. The Funk Brothers challenges the Motown studio personnel to a musical production duel in our now modern age of recording technology, lending a fresh perspective to the timeless recordings.

Accolades’ musicianship is what sets them apart from those who simply seek to remix the classics. Their use of advanced harmonic concepts, real instruments and sophisticated arranging serve to reimagine Motown in the 21st century. The use of additional sections elongate the original narrative of timeless songs like Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell’s If This World Were Mine, and The Jackson 5’s Mama’s Pearl, taking the listener’s nostalgia and giving it a new home.

To hear this project is to be transported to the place in which your soul feels most comfortable. With harmony that serves as a powerful aphrodisiac, and a new rhythmic pulse that compels you to rise in your living room and hit that signature two-step, Accolades Vs. The Funk Brothers satiates that sultry space in your spirit. That feeling you felt when you first heard Marvin is morphed into a contemporary setting, as if the song was just released today. A fresh perspective is given, an epiphany is received, and what was once old is new again.

Written by Savannah Harris

*Accolades Vs. Funk Brothers Personnel…

Anas Canon - Producer, writer, recording/mix engineer, drum programing,
Joel Van Dijk - Producer, writer, guitars, bass, keyboards
Joe Rudd - Writer, keyboards, saxophone, flute
Bronco Shea - Bass
Colin Gilliland - Writer, trombone
Chris Bautista - Trumpet

Velvelettes - Really Saying Something - ACCOLADES Redux

Stevie Wonder - Uptight - ACCOLADES Redux

Vocals - Barkaka Blue and Anas Canon
Lyrics - Baraka Blue and Anas Canon
All Music - Joel Van Dijk & Anas Canon - 
Bass by Joseph Gonzales  Sax by Joe Rudd
Produced by Anas Canon and Joel Van Dijk
Recorded and Mixed by Anas Canon for Decorative Audio

"I'm Always Here" touches on the perennial themes of love and relationships; the ups and downs of attraction & repulsion, love & loss, loyalty & betrayal, pain & forgiveness, separation and reunion. Depending on what the listener brings to the song it can be felt on many layers and levels: From the first heart breaks of an innocent puppy love, to the old wounds and unbreakable bonds of a long term relationship, to the twisted love of abuse and addiction, to the battle in the heart of the spiritual seeker between love of the lower world and love of the Divine Beloved. Take a listen for yourself and" tell me what does it feel like?" 

- Baraka Blue


I'm Always Here - Feat. Baraka Blue & Anas Canon

Vocals - Barkaka Blue 
Lyrics - Baraka Blue 
All Music - Joel Van Dijk & Anas Canon - ACCOLADES
Produced by Anas Canon and Joel Van Dijk
Recorded and Mixed by Anas Canon for Decorative Audio
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Life or Death is about the greater jihad. About being a true spiritual warrior. Mastering one's self, facing one's self, being real with one's self about one's flaws and veils and sincerely working to transform oneself. About true masculinity and what it means to be a man and a warrior.  About hip hop and general popular culture's prevalent conceptions of being tough, real, hard that we were raised with. And about what it really means to be real. And about what is truly hard: Mastering your self, living virtuously, and dying in a noble state. Train to it. 


Life Or Death - Baraka Blue meets ACCOLADES in the Villa Mocca

You ever meet someone and wanted to just give praise for their existence; To stand in awe of their being; To write an ode to their presence; To contemplate the artisans mastery in their form? You ever see something of every ocean in a single drop? Every sweetness in a single lollypop? Prolly not. But the lovers know. That the beyond is in the beloved's breath and there's nothing sweeter than drowning in the undertow. 

You the tastemaker
You the trendsetter
You the alpha, girl..
You the end letter.

Credits....
Vocals - Barkaka Blue & Anas Canon
Lyrics - Baraka Blue & Anas Canon with additional vocals by Bridget Barkan
All Music - Joel Van Dijk & Anas Canon 
Produced by Anas Canon & Joel Van Dijk for Decorative Audio
Recorded and Mixed by Anas Canon for Decorative Audio

TasteMaker - Baraka Blue meets ACCOLADES in the Villa Mocca

All Music by ACCOLADES (Anas Canon & Joel Van Dijk)for Decorative Audio - Produced by Anas Canon & Joel Van Dijk
Recorded and Mixed by Anas Canon

Lyrics by Baraka Blue and Anas Canon
Vocal performance by Baraka Blue and MilTron

Lyrics...
Have you no heart?
Have you no art?
Have you no spark 
Of light that you could shine into this dark?

Mr. Marksman, have you no mark?
Well, aim it steady then 
And go and blow his brains apart.
Have you no moment soon
When you too must depart?
The flood is soon descending on us all
have you no ark?

Have you no conscious?
Have you no monsters?
Tucked away somewhere 
Hidden deep within your closet?
As you judge every soul 
On your path that comes across it?
Have you no sense at all? 
Have you lost it?

Have you no imagination?
Or has its castration been completed
By the flashing screens and distraction stations?
Have you no aspiration
Past amassing and attaining
That which you gon' have to leave behind you
When the casket takes you?

Have you no semblance of remembrance 
Of what heaven is?
And the oath you swore to the Benevolent
When he said "am I not your Lord?"
And you said yes He is.
Have u ever tried to reminisce before genesis?

Have you no name?
Have you no game?
She's standing all alone there 
Just waiting for you man.
Have you no aim?
Have you no rain? 
While you sitting wondering why no rainbows came.
Have you no lane?
Have you no pain?
Looking back at what has past 
and looking forth at what remains?

Have you no shame?
Have you no change?
To spare, my belly hungry 
Have pity on me man.

Have you no respect?
Have you no regret?
Have you no eyes? 
It's right before ur nose and you ain't noticed yet.

Have you no hustle?
Have you no muscle?
Have you no one 
That when you have no one 
You can run to?
Have you no mojo 
in the dojo with the king fu?
Do you know or you know not
You got some knots you need to undo?


Have you no sadder news?
Have you no gratitude?
Have you no flyer shoes
This party gon' be cracking fool!


Have you no way to get a hold of yourself?
Good God, have you no control of your self
Have you no pen to make a note to yourself?
Have you tried to guard your tongue 
like you guard your wealth?

Have you no empathy?
Have you no sympathy?
Have you no sickness that's in need of a remedy?
I'm lost in these strange lands, have you no embassy?
Once the war is finally won
Have u no inner peace?


Have you nothing more
Than money to share with this world of ours?
Do you even know
What's lurking and bubbling inside your soul? 

I wanna be better than
Better than, better than my self!


Have You No Heart? (Feat. MilTron) - Baraka Blue meets ACCOLADES in the Villa Mocca

All Music by Joel Van Dijk & Anas Canon

All songs recorded and mixed by Anas Canon for Decorative Audio

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