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weak for your love - thee sacred souls (slowed)

Paradise (Sade) LIVE

"Smooth Mover" by Calalga Beats is a sensual, stripped-back anthem of solitude, rhythm, and freedom. Blending ambient textures with downtempo grooves, the song moves like a body in the breeze – bare, fearless, unchained.

Written like a dance of the soul, Smooth Mover is for anyone who’s ever felt the power of movement without an audience. No masks, no mirrors – just the rhythm of your breath and the open space around you.

🔊 Close your eyes. Feel the floor. You’re free.

Smooth Mover

Daggers

𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐍𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭-𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐓𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬

William A Ferguson: guitars, bass, drums.


“Ship of Fools” is a lyrical voyage into the heart of human delusion. Its verses paint a surreal picture: a creaking ship, adrift with “no compass, no anchor, no shore in sight.” The crew, lost in hollow laughter and tangled lies, dances “in circles, round and round,” chasing a horizon that offers no joy. The song’s tone is mournful, almost ghostly, with lines like “the waves, they whisper, they call us home / but we’re too far gone, too far to roam” tugging at the soul. It’s not about one person or one failure—it’s about all of us, those moments when we cling to broken dreams or deny the truths staring us in the face.The song’s power lies in its universality. It doesn’t name names or point fingers; it invites us to see ourselves in the “splintered deck” and the fading moonlight. Whether it’s a career we chased too long, a belief we couldn’t let go, or a relationship we knew was sinking, we’ve all boarded a ship of fools at some point. The repetitive chorus—“lost at sea, where no truth is found”—drives home the cyclical nature of our missteps, yet its poetic cadence makes the journey feel almost beautiful in its tragedy.






Ship of Fools

Alfa Mist - "Black Snow"
Taken from the album 'Roulette' - out now
Buy / listen here: https://lnk.to/alfamist_roulette

Recorded & Mixed at: Invada 
Mixed by: Alfa Mist 
Engineer & Additional mixing: Stuart Matthews
Strings recorded at: Lightship 95
Engineered by: David Holmes
Produced by: Alfa Mist
Mastered by: Guy at Electric Mastering 

Publisher: Faber 
Written & Composed by: Alfa Sekitoleko
Alfa Sekitoleko - Keys, Synths
Kaya Thomas-Dyke - Double Bass
Samuel Rapley - Sax/Bass Clarinet
Johnny Woodham - Trumpet/Flugelhorn
Jamie Leeming - Guitar
Jamie Houghton - Drums


Painting: Kaya Thomas-Dyke
Design: Patch D Keyes

On his sixth studio release Roulette, the prolific producer, songwriter, pianist and MC Alfa Mist has created his own sci-fi universe - a vast dystopia where themes of revenge, forgiveness and redemption loom large.

Alfa Mist’s albums have always tackled big themes. This time, however, he explores an imagined near-future in which reincarnation is discovered to be a potent tool linking dreams and past lives. But with this discovery comes consequences: ethical, moral and philosophical. “If reincarnation is real, how does that shape society?” he explains. “If reincarnation means accumulation of knowledge, would you share it and enable everyone to understand more about the world? Or do you struggle for power? And do some people want to stop others from remembering who they were?”
Over 15 tracks, Alfa explores these ideas with heady potency. Each song is a spin of the wheel – a different song and character. The musician’s signature is still there – lambent keys, intuitive groove, free-flowing jazz improvisation – but Roulette is imbued with a smoky psychedelia. An immersive listen, this album is designed “to feel” on every level, says Alfa. It also contains some of his most impressive arrangements yet - see the eight-minute title track that effortlessly flips through time signatures – “because life’s like that,” says Mist; it’s not always linear.

Roulette underlines Alfa Mist as one of the most forward-thinking composers in UK music, with poignant, plaintive melodies that lodge deep in your psyche. “I’m exploring different parts of myself,” he says. “But obviously, as I grow, all of those parts change. Music is a constant; it’s my state of mind that I constantly chisel and work on and make sure that’s always growing and staying interested in new things. As long as I do that, it’ll come out in the music.” 
credits


Black Snow

Blues about that even if you have had a ruff childhood you can manage

Dandelion Child 2.mp3

dying-inside.mp3

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

Rain Check

Sade - Smooth Operator

George Michael - Father Figure

Come Live With Me

Where Was He (2025 Remaster)

French Kiwi Juice

FKJ - Why Are There Boundaries

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Rain Check

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