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Ruction Banton & My Music Present – Conversations After Midnight is a sensual journey through love, intimacy, and late-night connection. Each track feels like a chapter in a private conversation between lovers — from whispered promises to passionate embraces, and finally the quiet reflections as the night fades away.

The album blends smooth R&B instrumentation with lush harmonies, whispered ad-libs, and hypnotic grooves. Songs like Can We Talk and Listen to Her explore vulnerability and communication, while Say Good Morning and its reprise celebrate tenderness in everyday moments. Downtown and Sweet Release dive into deeper passion, while Every Touch, Every Release captures the spark of intimacy at its peak.

Anchored by a moody prelude and soulful outro, the project unfolds as a complete story — one that begins with anticipation, rises into heat, and resolves into a warm afterglow.

This is an R&B lover’s record, designed for quiet nights, candlelight, and meaningful connection.

5. Say Good Morning

[Verse 1]
Woke up in the morning
A little past eight
The homies in the yard and my baby's in my face
I'm starvin'
I ate
Hit the shower
Then skate
Can't even find a way to get the start to my day
Where do I start?
I'm just trying to get the start to my day
Where do I start?
I'm just trying to get the start to my day

[Chorus]
Ah-ah-ah
Where do I start?
I'm just trying to get the start to my day
Ah-ah-ah
Where do I start?
I'm just trying to get the start to my day

[Verse 2]
Woke up in the morning
A little past ten
It's another day of ball
So we back at it again
Take the rag out the bins
Hit the store and get some gin
Can't even find a way to get the start to my day
Where do I start?
I'm just trying to get the start to my day
Where do I start?
I'm just trying to get the start to my day

[Chorus]
Ah-ah-ah
Where do I start?
I'm just trying to get the start to my day
Ah-ah-ah
Where do I start?
I'm just trying to get the start to my day

[Verse 3]
Woke up in the morning
A little past eight
The homies in the yard and my baby's in my face
I'm starvin'
I ate
Hit the shower
Then skate
Can't even find a way to get the start to my day
Where do I start?
I'm just trying to get the start to my day
Where do I start?
I'm just trying to get the start to my day

[Chorus]
Ah-ah-ah
Where do I start?
I'm just trying to get the start to my day
Ah-ah-ah
Where do I start?
I'm just trying to get the start to my day

Where Do I Start

Blue Avenue - Jazz Liberatorz

'Together' - Chairman Maf

When The Expansions self released their first single in 2013, the laid-back jazz funk of Lavender, it quickly gained strong support from soul and rare-groove aficionados including Kenny Dope, Dom Servini, Patrick Forge and Andy Smith. A run of shows followed and before long, when someone was asking if there was a soul-jazz band around to play with, “The Expansions” was the answer. 

Although this popularity meant a hiatus in releasing music, the band have been constantly busy, playing around Europe with legendary British-Ghanaian soul singer, Andrew Ashong and the exceptional, upcoming talent Connie Constance. 

There has also been a breakout project from drummer Jonny Drop - the album Sub Plot gained massive support and love from BBC Radio 6 Music’s Lauren Laverne. While keys-man Dave Koor has been busy playing shows with Gilles Peterson favourite Hector Plimmer, Shaun Escoffery, and Ego Ella May, improvising with Yussef Dayes (Yussef Kamaal) and Nubya Garcia, releasing music as Deoke and collaborating with label-mate Scrimshire on their Modified Man exploration. 

But always, The Expansions has remained a central focus and the true home of these four jazz and soul lovers, with occasional trips out to the country to form ideas and practice new music for the eventual album. 

Murmuration, recorded over three days at Big Noise in Southend, is constructed of single takes, with minimal overdubs, as the band attempt to capture the feeling and energy they create live. 

Debut single Breakthrough introduced the insanely catchy but deeply soulful blend of synths and groove, but here on the album that is explored to the fullest with longer breakdowns and more expansive, experimental solos. Pocket 5 displays the, possibly unexpected, influences of broken beat and almost combative rhythm playing – particularly in the complex guitar and keys breakdown where Koor and O’Keefe layer conflicting time signatures and battle to ride it out to the heavy drum return. 

Cannonball brings warm mellowness that delicately evolves through beats, touching on bossas alongside their fundamental hip-hop sensibilities. But even here there is a raucous zenith before the band sublimely recede into the silence of the a-side ending. 

Colossal album highlight Ivory Mountain is truly an epic. Evoking moments of 4Hero, there is a lightness of groove in the first half of this soulful exploration. But at the halfway point, all restraint is let go as a live string section joins the four quarters of the band for three glorious minutes of soulful disco. Evoking sounds of Quincy Jones, George Benson and Johnny Hammond, all the way through to a beautifully cacophonous finale. 

Dragonfly undoubtedly reflects on the work of Herbie Hancock and is the most direct throwback to the band’s earlier work, which is a welcome marker of how far they have come. A quintessential jazz funker. 

The album closes with the thoughtful and introverted shuffle of Miles Away. In the final eight minutes of Murmuration, The Expansions allow space and time to take precedence, with once-more-restrained peaks and developments. It becomes clear though, that the band cannot resist one last explosive finale, as they rise with screeching synths, strings and dubs for a perfect race to the finish line. 

You can hear the influences of Idris Muhammad, Grover Washington, even parallels with South London peers Yussef Kamaal and Ruby Rushton. But The Expansions have tirelessly worked to create a sound of their own and are very proud, along with label Albert’s Favourites, to finally share it.

Murmuration

Miles Away

A piece that will take you far away into the sunniest Cuban beach. Dive into the beautiful "Cariño" by okvsho (@soulofzurich) and Sreya. Taken off their Traphouse Jazz EP.

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