From the liner notes of our 2-disc Ebo Taylor retrospective, Life Stories:

Ebo acknowledges the influence of US jazz rockers Blood Sweat & Tears and
– less obviously, perhaps – Deep Purple on this easy going mid-tempo
piece, written a few years before it was recorded, when Osibisa and
various ‘blaxploitation’ themes were hip. “I was trying to fuse rock and jazz together with highlife,” Ebo recalls. “This kind of music was ahead of its time – not very popular when we recorded it!”

Life Stories

Peace On Earth

Ebo Taylor- Peace On Earth

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

We’re doom-drunk monkeys on a dying ride,
pretending we’re immortal with panic inside.
Some scream “flood it all once we’re gone!”,
others buy heaven like a discount con.

Then come the billionaires chasing endless nights,
hoarding gold, worshipping lab-coat knights.
Begging for upgrades to dodge the grave,
psychos praying science will make them “save.”

Physics, code, flesh in a frantic race,
all trying to out-run death’s cold embrace.
And me? I spit the only truth worth the fight:
Laziness is the virtue that burns the brightest light.

Laziness is the virtue that burns the brightest light.

Learning monkeys laziness

Taken from the new  "Kouté Jazz" compilation out September 25th.
12 tracks from the french west indies jazz scene.
selected by Digger's digest & Heavenly Sweetness

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Kouté Jazz

Soprann aux Antilles

The Olympians

Mercury's Odyssey

The Budos Band

T.I.B.W.F.

Jazz For The Jet Set

Blind Man Blind Man

My Name Is Nicole Willis

Still Got a Way to Fall

From the second album by Australian heavy-hitters DOJO CUTS:

RKX041 DOJO CUTS feat. ROXIE RAY - "Take From Me" available April 16th

DOJO CUTS feat. ROXIE RAY - Sometimes It Hurts

Mr. Diva

Live at KEXP!

Move on Up (Live)

DOJO CUTS feat. ROXIE RAY - Sometimes It Hurts

Dojo Cuts