The BBC Introducing Mixtape 🔊 (BBC 6 Music) - 6

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Otis Mensah releases his new single 'Like A Dog', a mellow, abstract-rap anthem that wrestles with depression and nostalgia. Nurturing the international collaboration between the UK lyricist and Berlin beat-maker the intern 'Like A Dog' builds on their signature Jazz-Rap sound with a playful bounce and catchy melodic hook. This single continues the #OtisMensahExists series that has seen support from BBC Radio 6 Music, BBC Radio 1, Earmilk, GUAP Magazine and more.

Credits:
Animation by Jim Spendlove
Lyrics & performance by Otis Mensah
Instrumental music by the intern
Recorded by Otis Mensah
Mixed & Mastered by the intern

Like A Dog

There's a part of me that I don't like
Keep it tucked inside
Take it out to look at sometimes
Little bit fragile for this life
And I'm still judged for all my crimes
So why should I be kind? 

Don't mind
Don't mind 
Comply to avoid the fine
You save your life with mine
I'll hide between the vines
Don't mind
Don't mind
Your body breaks with time
I reunite with mine
I shine

Part of Me

on a virgin land, you seem to drift away
on the trail of someone from another plane
from a virgin land, you can't seem to escape
following a scent that comes from nowhere

loud is the chant that no one hears
proud is the man that no one sees

i-i-i-i-i sing to you-u-u-u-u
a-a-a-a-at fifty two-o-o-o hertz

on a virgin land, you seem to waste away
following a voice getting lost in a haze
on a virgin land, you crawl, day after day
following a sound that comes from nowhere

loud is the chant that no one hears
proud is the man that no one sees

i-i-i-i-i sing to you-u-u-u-u
a-a-a-a-at fifty two-o-o-o hertz

52 hertz

Slowly, slowly does it.
I need time to separate my head 
My heart 
Controls it
and I feel
I am prone to overfeeling
But please understand how long I spent so tired of living

But these are only emotions
And none of them matter

I'm well aware that I can be intense at the corner of my eye I see you are rolling yours.
I'm well aware that I can be intense at the back of my mind I can see you are changing yours.

Slowly, slowly does it.
I need time to separate my head 
My heart 
Controls it
(Burns it to the ground)
And I think
I am prone to overthinking
But please understand how long I spent so tired of living

Cause it is all an Illusion
And none of it matters

I'm well aware that I can be intense at the corner of my eye I see you are rolling yours.
I'm well aware that I can be intense at the back of my mind I can see you are changing yours.

Illusions (Radio Edit)

'Garden Smiles' is the debut single from Téa Texier, a 16 year old London singer/songwriter born and raised in London. Also an accomplished classical pianist, Téa spent much of her spare time during lockdown writing songs in her bedroom on her guitar, where her debut single ‘Garden Smiles’ was created. A song reflecting the uncertainty of both a relationship and the current times, Téa’s distinct vocal tones and poetic use of words signal her maturity as an up and coming artist.

Téa Texier - Vocals & Guitars
Scotia Rollins - Guitars
Andrei Sora - engineering, production, mixing, mastering

Artwork by Mitch Williams
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Powerjam is a not-for-profit band project & youth hub in Richmond, run by Anna Texier (founder), Luis Chico & Andrei Sora.

Garden Smiles

Téa Texier - Garden Smiles

Garvie is a singer-songwriter who spent too much time playing video games during lockdown… now he’s trapped in one. 

The debut self-produced single ‘Bad Person’, reflects his new world, fusing a guitar-based hook-laden chorus with generous scatterings of bit-crushed synths and videogame-style sound effects. The production brings Glass Animals to mind, the melody and lyrics encapsulate the fun and energy of early Wombats tunes and the straight-forward vocal delivery evokes shades of Panic! but with an unapologetically British accent and delivery.

Garvie’s brutally honest and literal lyrics leave no room for misinterpretation on this track – but his tongue somehow remains firmly in cheek. In Bad Person, he silences his critics by agreeing wholeheartedly with them. ‘I’m a bad person, I already know the worst’ bellows Garvie in the infectious and disarming chorus. “I’m not particularly bothered about the notion of being a ‘bad person’ because I think that most people are sometimes” Garvie explains.

The sounds support his 8-bit visual style perfectly – the video for ‘Bad Person’ is a fully animated videogame-based story set out over 2 levels chronicling the life and struggles of being an indie musician and striving to sign a record deal with FatCat Records*. Sounds familiar…

*may or may not be a real label

Garvie

Bad Person

Recorded at WaveLab Studio, Tucson, Arizona, with members of Calexico; featuring Gaby Moreno on duet vocals. Dark, sultry and mysterious, with a seductive dance groove. Sung in English and Spanish. From Sand And Blood (The Desert Trilogy EPs, Vol 2).

Musicians:
Dean Owens - vocals, nylon string guitar
Gaby Moreno - vocals
Joey Burns – upright bass
John Convertino – drums
Sergio Mendoza – piano, percussion
Naim Amor – electric guitar

Dean Owens Soundcloud link - https://soundcloud.com/dean-owens
www.deanowens.com

Sand And Blood (The Desert Trilogy EPs Vol 2)

Land Of The Hummingbird

Dean Owens: Land Of The Hummingbird (Ft Gaby Moreno)

The song is inspired by Rod Stewart, who visited the Rio Carnival with Elton John and Freddie Mercury in summer 1978, where Brazilian artist Jorge Ben’s huge hit Taj Mahal was playing everywhere. When he came back to the UK, Rod plundered Jorge's melody for Do Ya Think I'm Sexy? He was later faced with a court case and forced to donate all proceeds to UNICEF. On the same song, Rod also nabbed the riff from a Bobby Womack song!

Blondes (Have More Fun)

Released by: Open Sandwich Records

Release Date: 25th May 2021

Crush

Molecules

You’re at the back
You’re at the back 
You’re at the back
of the mirror now 
You’ve got the wisecracks 
the tracks from nose to chin 
yet the warm hand of no man is up your back

This is what you wanted 
Doll head 
This is what you wanted 
Doll head

No Moses to part your Red Sea 
No Goliath alive is gonna take you on the chin 
Behold the shattered lamp 
of your claustrophobic 
genie

Way to dodge the wheel of knives

This is what you wanted
Doll head 
This is what you wanted 
Doll head 
You have levitated yourself right out of the room 
No man shifts your middle 
Have you sawn yourself in half? 
Or were you just never 
taught to share?

This is what you wanted
Doll head 
This is what you wanted
Doll head

God forbid 
The mistletoe 
The wall eye
the tiny hand 
The three legged race 
The withered Siamese twin

This is what you wanted
Doll head 
You got what you wanted 
Doll head 
This is what you wanted
Doll head
Doll head

Doll Head

Fine

No Gloom

soft spot

Sincerely Me EP

Letter To Self

Single Thread

Blanket of Dust

Release Date: 3 APRIL 2020

The first release from ROB.GREEN's upcoming album. LIFE GOES ON is an autobiographical take on resilience, drive and moving forward positively.

Produced by Glen Scott (Shawn Mendez, James Morrison) LIFE GOES ON is an anthemic call for positivity in the face of adversity.

Enquiries contact - team@robgreenmusic.com

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