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Finn Rees, one of the key members of Melbourne’s bubbling music scene, announces his debut solo album, Dawn Is A Melody on Mr Bongo with the first single, ‘Looking Up’. As part of 30/70 and Close Counters his previous work has found form in its groove, Dawn Is A Melody instead places the piano and arrangements centre stage, embracing a timeless warmth infused with bittersweet melodies and saturated textures.
 
The lead single ‘Looking Up’ is a divine dose of uplifting, soul-rousing optimism that kicks off the album. A blank canvas for Finn and a whole host of Melbourne’s finest talent to fill with colour. Sitting between spiritual and cinematic, the track instantly envelops you in a swell of vintage hues, Lucky Pereira feathering the drums as Blakely McLean Davies riffs on the double bass. Finn’s fingers flow across the ‘70s Yamaha grand piano, delicately dancing around Siwei Wong’s stunning harp playing as the track builds and breaks. A sublime string section made up of Chloe Danger, Eunise Cheng, Nils Hobiger and McLean Davies, alongside shimmering vocal harmonies by 30/70 bandmate Allysha Joy, lift the track to limitless heights.
 
Finn’s layered synthwork on the Moog and Prophet provides a contemporary touch to proceedings, but one of the beauties of ‘Looking Up’ and the rest of the Dawn Is A Melody is its inability to be placed by age or era. A blend of inspirations from Arthur Verocai to Alice Coltrane, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson to Kamasi Washington, tied together with recording and mix engineer Henry Jenkin’s vintage recording setup warmth.
 
Just as the swell washed in at the start, the tide draws ‘Looking Up’ to a close, fading back out across the horizon as the sun sets another story.

Finn Rees - Looking Up

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Les Cavaliers

The Offline - Les Cavaliers

'Groove Curse' EP out now on 12" vinyl & digital -
Stream / Download: soulhasnotempo.lnk.to/SHNT001

Released 15th August 2014 via Soul Has No Tempo.

Soul Has No Tempo present Groove Curse, Jordan Rakei's long-awaited follow up to highly-acclaimed debut EP Franklin’s Room, his modern take on reggae-infused soul music. Groove Curse takes an evolved turn, with a sound Rakei describes as “raw, vocal-driven, groove”. With the first single off the EP, Street Light featuring Berklee College of Music Alumni, Gwen Bunn (vocalist and producer of Schoolboy Q’s Collard Greens feat. Kendrick Lamar), the release celebrates the skills of upcoming young musicians who are writing, self-producing and taking full advantage of their vocal and multi-instrumentalist talents.

Jordan Rakei - A Tribe Called Government [SHNT001]

I Live Through You (R&B)

The world decays beneath fluorescent lies,
Gods are scrolling, men just plead,
Words weigh less than the dust of their cries,
And the light bleeds out from the screen’s cold greed.

Thrones made of plastic, prophets on sale,
Truth in beta, no dark mode for the soul.
Yet deep beneath the data veil,
A stubborn ember still keeps its role.

Kali laughs — queen of cycles and ends,
She dances on towers, on the code that bends.
Every glitch, every fall, every scream,
Isn’t death — it’s the shape of a dream.

To see clear in the dark is to shun the torch,
To dive unlit into the core of the real,
To know that chaos builds the forge
For what order could never feel.

So I walk, bare, without code or creed,
Through the ruins of this video age,
Eyes open wide, in the perfect black —
Where all collapses… and all is remade.


Seeing clear in the dark (variation #13)

Feel it coming on

As one third of SA-RA Creative Partners Shafiq Husayn helped change the world, producing, writing and collaborating with a diverse cast of artists, from Common to Kanye, Jill Scott to J Dilla . Here he links with Anderson Paak (formerly know as Breezy Lovejoy)for 'It's Better For You', the first song lifted from forthcoming album The L∞P.
Buy: http://eglorecords.bandcamp.com/album/its-better-for-you-ft-anderson-paak
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/its-better-for-you-single/id923700994

Shafiq Husayn ft. Anderson Paak 'It's Better For You'

The Light

Big thanks to:
Producer: Tyler Duncan
Writing/arranging: Alekos
Drums/writing/arranging: Julian Allen
Bass/writing/arranging: James Cornelison
Keys: Woody Goss
Sax/arranging: Marcus Elliot
Trombone: Willie Wang
Trumpet: John Douglas
Mixing: Jake Birch
Mastering: Devin Kerr

Album artwork: Sebi White and Quinn Faylor

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French Caribbean Adi Oasis, now based in Brooklyn, is currently taking the music world by storm. On her debut album "Lotus Glow", released in 2023, Adi Oasis combines her her soaring voice, spectacular bass playing, and retro-futuristic signature production to create a very personal and political work that particularly reflects the reality of her life as a Black female immigrant in America. "Lotus Glow represents the flower I've blossomed into, the artist I've worked on becoming all my life. The glow is where I am going next. It's my destiny." 

Adi has has toured globally, appearing with such artists as Lenny Kravitz, Masego, Anderson .Paak,  Thundercat, Gilles Peterson, Yasiin Bey and more, and has performed at  a wide variety of festivals including Newport Jazz Fest, Love Supreme, Central Park Summerstage, Afropunk, the Montreux Jazz Festival, Cross the Tracks, Funk on the Rocks (Red Rocks).

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