Fresh off the back of a record deal with Flying Buddha (Sony), we met up with our favourite future-soul outfit in London. Hear this acoustic version of Nakamarra, and check our <a href="http://www.stampthewax.com/2013/07/17/artist-spotlight-hiatus-kaiyote-interview-session/" target="_blank">Artist Spotlight</a> on them to hear a brand new track they also performed for us, plus some words about the Melbourne scene, performing with Erykah Badu and playing a gig before the theatre caught fire!

Tawk Tomahawk is out now on Flying Buddha, including the new version of Nakamarra with Q-Tip. Buy it from <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/tawk-tomahawk/id668775119/" target="_blank">iTunes</a> now. 


Nai Palm (Hiatus Kaiyote) - Nakamarra (Acoustic)

HayleyShone

Soften and Shake is taken from Olivia's third album Paper Dolls which is available NOW on itunes :)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/soften-and-shake/id814638658?i=814638839

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Soften and Shake

Free Download: hopestreetrecordings.com/dawn

Artist: Emma Donovan & The PutBacks
Album: Dawn
Format: LP/CD/Digital
AU Release Date: Nov 7 2014
UK Release Date: Nov 10 2014
US Release Date: Nov 11 2014

Acclaimed indigenous vocalist Emma Donovan and Melbourne rhythm combo The PutBacks come together to bring you Dawn, an LP of hard hitting and heartfelt soul songs telling stories of grief, struggle and redemption. Dawn is a gritty, uniquely Australian record, simultaneously classic and contemporary. The songwriting is in turns optimistic, angry and melancholic, and on occasions bruisingly honest. The music is fluid, live and raw, recorded in one room on eight channels of analog tape and the electric connection between Emma and the band comes through in every beat.

Emma grew up singing church songs with her maternal grandparents on the North coast of New South Wales. Her first secular gigs were singing in The Donovans, a band comprised of her mother and five uncles. With her mother, Emma sang country for years, and in her youth was a fixture at the Tamworth Country Music Festival, but she always yearned for the bluesier tones of her Father’s record collection, full of American artists like Laverne Baker and Etta James and Indigenous Australian artists like No Fixed Address and Archie Roach.

Years later, after touring and recording with many of the mainstays of Indigenous music and developing as a solo artist in her own right, Emma met members of The PutBacks, and finally she found a band with the gritty blues soaked tones she had been looking for. She also found, in PutBacks bassist Mick Meagher, a co-writer and collaborator on the the soul songs she had been waiting a lifetime to write and sing. The results are well worth the wait and hopefully, only mark the beginning of this oh-so-right collaboration.

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Emma Donovan & The PutBacks - My Goodness

Video:
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Taken from the album Nose Dive
https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/nose-dive/id836366367

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