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The Rhythm Passport’s Cabinet of Curiosities - October 2024

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Sample from Dreamflower by Tarika blue, Production, Keyboard & Guitar by Melchior Sultana

Tarika Blue - Dreamflower - (Melchior Sultana Edit)

Taken from EP released on Winding Road records
Available on vinyl here http://www.wordandsound.de/article/70853


Lovebirds feat Stee Downes - Want you in my soul (Original)

Streetlife [Dr Packer Remix] *Preview*

Del Horizonte

Todo Saldrá Bien

Download/Stream - https://fanlink.tv/BOBW
Subscribe - @reelpeoplemusic

Reel People Music expands the fizzing dynamic between highly accomplished label associates Opolopo (AKA Peter Major) and Angela Johnson with the release of their brand new album Best of Both Worlds. The nine-track record is a sublime meeting of soulful musical minds, building on the pair’s previous ‘track-by-track’ collaboration, as well as influences ranging from Quincy Jones and The Gap Band to Ohio Players and The Isley Brothers, with purpose, poise and punch. Opolopo’s vibrant live-sounding studio craft meets Johnson’s rich and deliciously textured vocals – nuff said!

“Angie and I didn’t have any agenda when making this record other than just living in the feeling. The vibe between us was easy, as always, so the grooves and songs flowed organically,” Major explains. “The quality and range of Angie’s vocals blow me away. They add so much soul and feel-good energy to the tracks we create. More than that they pull everything together and take you on a journey. Best of Both Worlds is funky, driving, danceable… but it also has honesty and depth.”

“We didn’t want to make anything obvious,” Johnson adds. “This album looks to connect with the themes that concern and inspire people around the world right now. Peter challenged me. His musical ideas are really wide-ranging, which was a breath of fresh air in terms of pushing me to perform in different ways – from soul beats to uptempo to my gospel roots. We’re from different parts of the musical spectrum but fit together perfectly. It really is the best of both worlds, hence the album title.”

Based in Stockholm, Sweden, DJ-producer Opolopo continues to fruitfully explore the frontiers of funkiness after some two decades of productions right across the soulful dancefloor spectrum for labels such as Local Talk, Z Records and Defected. His remix discography includes Gregory Porter, Jungle, Leroy Burgess and Mother’s Favorite Child. New York native Angela Johnson was a member of acid jazz group Cooly’s Hot Box before enjoying solo success via a string of acclaimed R&B albums including They Don’t Know, It’s Personal and Naturally Me. During the Noughties, Johnson featured on Reel People singles Can’t Stop, In The Sun and You Used To Hold Me So Tight. Most recently, she has collaborated with Opolopo on hit Reel People Music singles Stay This Way, Good Lover and Sunshine.

Reel People Music is a label borne out of the success of acclaimed collective Reel People but representing so much more. Launched in late 2009, the imprint has built a fiercely loyal international fanbase through its passion for artist development, musicianship, song-craft and soulful groove.

Produced in Sweden and the US last year, Best Of Both Worlds marks the latest shining output from a renowned record label and talented studio partnership with so much soulfully to say. It’s a joy to listen.

Best Of Both Worlds

Show Up, Show Out

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Opolopo & Angela Johnson – Show Up, Show Out

SLO MO - title track off our 2024 studio album Drop.

SLO MO

Moving

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Pisi Pisi Halayı

A sublime expedition from Brazil to the sky, “Modo Avião” (Airplane Mode) sees São Paulo based trio Caixa Cubo jet further forth from the lineage of Brazilian instrumental music.

Following in the footsteps of heroes like Azymuth, Antonio Adolfo, Cesar Mariano and Marcos Resende, with the tried and tested trifecta of synthesizers, bass and drums, Caixa Cubo have carved out their own idiosyncratic ideal of golden-era Brazilian jazz-funk and samba-jazz.

Encapsulating the vitality and experimentalism synonymous with Sao Paulo’s musical history, Caixa Cubo playfully straddle the elegant and the surreal, with masterful songwriting and the consummate musicianship of longtime friends and bandmates Henrique Gomide (keyboards) Noa Stroeter (bass) João Fideles (drums).

Caixa Cubo have been playing together for over 14 years - and that’s ‘playing’ in the truest sense of the word. As bassist Noa Stroeter explains: 

“A story, a joke, images, invented words, people we met on tour, places, fictitious or not, have always been part of our creative process. And they are precious materials beyond the musical work itself. This dynamic has stayed with us to this day, and for me it is the characteristic that guarantees that no matter what, we will have fun working.”

Presenting a contemporary reimagining of Brazilian grooves from the 1970s, Modo Avião marks an evolution for Caixa Cubo’s music which delves deeper into the tradition of Brazilian instrumental music, while continuing to develop its rhythmic and harmonic possibilities. Utilising an extensive understanding of Brazilian music history and Brazilian rhythm in particular, the group explore the seemingly endless possibilities of fusing carnaval marches, frevo and Baião, with jazz, MPB and funk.

Recent Caixa Cubo releases include 2023’s “Agora”, which featured guest vocalists including Xênia França and Zé Leônidas; and 2020’s "Angela," which was hailed by BBC 6 Music, Gilles Peterson, and Bandcamp as one of the best albums of the year. 
Caixa Cubo have performed at Jazzahead! in 2022 (Germany), Jazz à Vienne (France), Riverboat Jazz Festival (Denmark), Breda Jazz Festival (Netherlands), Blue Note São Paulo (Brazil) and Jazzkeller Frankfurt (Germany) 

This November Caixa Cubo will tour Europe, with performances in the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands and France. 

Modo Avião releases on Vinyl LP, CD and digitally on the 15th November 2024 via Far Out Recordings.

Caixa Cubo - Modo Avião

Snowflake

Snowflake (Radio Edit 2024)

Fresh off the back of his Rekids debut, Tiger Stripes lands on Cassy’s label Kwench Records for the first time with his The Blessing EP. With two high-spirited tracks guaranteeing house music-induced euphoria, the Stockholm-based DJ and producer affirms that he’s back feeling newly-inspired.

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PREMIERE: Tiger Stripes - The Blessing [Kwench Records]

@rampa @andmeandyou @adam-port @iamchuala

Keinemusik (Rampa, &ME, Adam Port) - Say What (feat. Chuala)

Having released their debut album in September 2014, ephemerals started 2015 in serious style by reaching Number 1 on Hype Machine after gaining support from tastemaker DJ’s, getting playlisted by 1Xtra and being supported across Radio 1 / 2 / 6Music and even Radio 4.  The song Life Is Good is a beautifully uplifting counterpoint to the sometimes dark social commentary that characterises much of the album’s lyrical content and had already been singled out by Hollywood before the album was released with hit TV show Homeland licensing the track for a key scene.

Life Is Good

We're happy to premiere one track of the third Beach Diggin compilation curated by the one and only @guts with his fellow Mambo.
Hand picked from his Ibiza home, Guts delivers only good vibes on this one and lets us discover this version of "Feel Like Makin' Love" by Gene Lawrence.
Originally from Gene McDaniels, the track has been interpreted by Robert Flack, Marlena Shaw, etc. and lately D'Angelo.

Délicieuse is proud to support this very nice effort of delivering good vibes only for the summer days.


PREMIERE : Gene Lawrence - Feel Like Making Love [Heavenly Sweetness]

Pre-Order: https://jakartarecords-label.bandcamp.com/album/black-music
The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE594s_15CE
the artist: @olivierdaysoul
 
Olivier is no rookie to music. The artist formerly known as Olivier Daysoul has toured the world as part of Oddisee's band and worked with more then one of your favorite producers, be it Hudson Mohawke, Bibio, C2C, Onra or Oddisee. Now he lives in Berlin and decided it's time for his own music, no compromises. His upcoming "Black Music" EP on Jakarta was entirely produced by him, 90% of the instruments were played by him. Time for a new chapter, time for a new name. Get familiar.

www.facebook.com/ROADTOSAINTLOUIS
www.olivierstlouis.net

Olivier St. Louis - Ain't Cool (The artist formerly known as Olivier Daysoul)

Breezin'

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Old Fashioned with Al Green & Billy Larkin

From The Pendletons EP 12" available for order : http://voltairerecords.bigcartel.com/product/the-pendletons-gotta-get-out-ep

Be sure to check out more of The Pendletons :
https://www.facebook.com/thependletonssf
https://soundcloud.com/pendletons

Gotta Get Out EP

The Pendletons - Gotta Get Out feat. Jimetta Rose and I, CED

Inner City Blues (MiRET Edit)

Fat Freddy's Drop’s pirate soul train, resolutely independent, worldwide.

Formed in 1999 in Wellington, New Zealand our sound draws inspiration from almost every part of the black music lexicon. Soul drenched vocals and jazz harmonies collide with tape delays and echo chambers, underpinned by a rhythm section as comfortable laying down a throbbing, techy soundscape as they are a swampy blues stomp.
