Loving the electro folk rock energy on this track. Really fresh sound with a stellar production. Great work!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yMIud7vkY8 - Respect.

Love it so much!! May I use it on my youtube video?

I hear this and realize i must repent of my scandalous ways...

Vintage remix Blues/Gospel (All downloadable)

Carey Bell Hard Working Woman Jack Frost/Ecklecticmick Re-wiff

...and now for a top to toe figure stretch with a holiday flavour.

Featuring (in order of appearance)

Eileen Fowler - Vocals
Les Elgart - Brass
Perez Prado - Huhs
Syd Dale - Orchestra

"Skeewiff’s Big Free Happy

Everyone needs this album in their lives. In their cars, on their iPods, in their boudoirs, inside the gym, outside with Jim…anywhere you play this sexy sexy fun times will ensue. Bigger than Hip Hop, freer than Willy. Happier than Bert after Ernie took him into a bear hug and roared a proclamation to the world that he ‘wished he knew how to quit him!’ before getting down to some serious fuzzy-felt back door nuzzling. Skeewiff writes the Soundtrack to 'The Muppets do Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' before Disney even start thinking about it. Listen to this album with joy in your heart, the sun on your face and a mental image of Kermit in a pith helmet, shooing away mescaline induced imaginary bats whilst keeping his car on the road, balancing his cigarette holder in one corner of his fierce jaw whilst trying to get the end of a straw inside Miss Piggy. Skeewiff are summer luvin’ geniuses and like Kermit, this album blows up!

Big Free Happy is more than an album, it's a promise. Go get some x" - Fat Harry

More BigFreeHappy™- https://soundcloud.com/skeewiff/sets/skeewiffs-big-free-happy

BigFreeHappy™

Skeewiff V Eileen V Syd V Big Les **FREE DL**

Mashed from various samples including David Lindley, Schneider and Bo Diddley

Bo Diddley Mash

Clap Your Hands (Skeewiff Remix)

Meditation Blues(Len Gyrotron/Ecklectic Mick)

Steely Dan studies part 4:

Jimmy: vocals (visit his fine cloud at @j-rivas)

Dirk: guitar, arrangement, production

Instruments used: Ibanez FRM100, VSL Special edition 1

Bodhisattva appeared on their second album "Countdown to ecstasy" in 1973. The song itself is a wild mixture of a basic Rock'n roll, Progressive Rock and Jazz. The ultra-fast tempo, the swing-feeling and the instrumental show-offs point to an ancestor of Rock'n Roll: Jump blues.
The Jump blues genre was developed by big bands like the one of Lionel Hampton. The steady beat should animate to dance and the new style became popular in the late 1940 to 1950.

If you want to learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_blues

The center of the Steely Dan song is the famous guitar-solo by Denny Dias. Dias plays very much a Bebop-solo here and how he creates a climax and how he is driving through the chord-changes is just breathtaking. The beginning and end of "Bodhisattva" showcases pure progressive rock/ Jazz Rock. The theme is presented by harmonized guitars before going into the "Jump blues"-section, which is the real song behind all the guitar-stunts. At the end the song ends with another guitar-solo, less well-known than the middle one. So pretty much guitar-stuff …

About the cover: My intention is to reduce "Bodhisattva" to the basic song and to accent the Jump-blues influence. So I have cut the long Instrumental Intro and Outro and written a new beginning and end more in a Jump blues/Rockabilly-style to fit better to the real song. I added a small brass-section of two muted trumpets remembering the big-band-era. I have reduced the tempo from the original 220bpm to 168bpm for two reasons: I wanted to play the original solo exactly and I am not able to play it at 220bpm, so the solo is now more lyrical (though it's still fast), but maybe you can better hear details of this wonderful guitar-solo. Second with all the cuts the song had been too short, at the tempo of 168bpm I get a nice classic three-minute-song. In the middle of the solo suddenly it moves into a very melodic break-section and I tried to focus on the beauty of this part with additional trumpet-arrangements.

Bodhisattva
Would you take me by the hand
Bodhisattva
Would you take me by the hand
Can you show me
The shine of your Japan
The sparkle of your china
Can you show me
Bodhisattva
Bodhisattva
I'm gonna sell my house in town
Bodhisattva
I'm gonna sell my house in town
And I'll be there
To shine in your Japan
To sparkle in your China
Yes I'll be there
Bodhisattva

Music and lyrics by Donald Fagen/ Walter Becker

All rights of this arrangement reserved by heartscore-music/ Dirk Radloff/ September 2015


Buy the original

Bodhisattva (Steely Dan cover with J.Rivas)

For those of you who haven't discovered Orlando "The Don" Lund, here's your opportunity.  Orlando is a serious pro, having built a career as a writer, multi instrumentalist and producer in London during the '90s Soul Funk era, leading and creating with some of the finest contemporary jazz and funk musicians in Europe.  You can hear many of their great tunes here at https://soundcloud.com/orlando-lund.  If you are into grooving music, almost no one does it better.

Orlando approached me about playing on a tune I had released here, What the Funk, quickly sending 5 tasty tracks to me - a solid grooving bass line, a congas line, two rhythm guitar tracks and a George Benson style guitar solo.  I've worked them all in here, adding them to all my keyboard parts, creating some sweet soul jazz for your listening pleasure.  Check out Orlando's wonderful Palma Groove Project recordings on his gallery - really special creations.  

We thank you as always for your generous listening time, for your comments and for your shares.

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What The Funk - with Orlando "The Don" Lund

Erykah - On And On (kASPLATTY REMIX)

O Lord I Want You To Help Me Version 2

Cut You Down

The John Santos Sextet 'Art of the Descarga' available August 7th, 2020 on CD, digital, and streaming.

Built on the Afro-Caribbean past, forged by visionaries such as John Santos and his comrades, and steeled by its rootedness in American life, Latin jazz is a major force shaping contemporary American musical culture. Over decades of performing, arranging, producing, and teaching, Santos has helped make the San Francisco Bay area a Latin jazz stronghold. In Art of the Descarga, The John Santos Sextet and a parade of stellar guests mine the music’s imaginative motherlode, the descarga—the spontaneous, improvisatory interplay that is the beating heart of Latin jam sessions. Orestes Vilató, Jerry González, Orlando “Maraca” Valle, Tito Matos, Juan “Juango” Gutiérrez, and other luminaries join the sextet in this spectacular collision of beauty, design, and time-honored creativity.

The Art of the Descarga

The John Santos Sextet - Descárgarará

Boogie Children.

Insecurity

Doin' Time Ain't Bad

SITAEL

Here is the second single from the collaboration of ElectroBluesSociety with Boo Boo. Since they cannot be at the same spot because of Covid 19, they started to send back and forth idea's and demos tapes. That way they were able to create new music together.

Cut You Down

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