Fresh off the back of a record deal with Flying Buddha (Sony), we met up with our favourite future-soul outfit in London. Watch the <a href="http://www.stampthewax.com/2013/07/17/premiere-hiatus-kaiyote-breathing-underwater/" target="_blank">session</a> and read our <a href="http://www.stampthewax.com/2013/07/17/artist-spotlight-hiatus-kaiyote-interview-session/" target="_blank">Artist Spotlight</a>, featuring an acoustic version of Nakamarra and a Q&A with the band where they talk 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) - Breathing Underwater (Acoustic)

*Verse* 
You left everything you love and your whole self worth 
In a purse in a cab and it just pulled off; And you forgot 

You and mother dearest diverge on everything that matters 
the most, oh, and, for once, you're in the right 

And for once before you die, with your own two eyes 
You were there to see her be in the wrong; but what's it worth 

*Chorus* 
Give it all, give it up 
Give a care, but keep enough 
Tour de Force of half-chalance 
Tour de Force of half-chalance 

Give it all, give it up 
Give a care, but keep enough 
Purely for the passionless 
Souls devoid of happiness 

*Verse* 
Out of sorts and in a daze, ready for the front page 
But I wouldn't wanna read that interview 
'Cause you're a wall 

Find you crying at a bar with your make-up 
Off looking for a young shoulder to borrow for a while 
You lead them on 

Everyday you seem to age and your options seem to fade 
While you wait for the smile store to have a sale 
You know they won't 

*Chorus* 

And when you hold him 
Will you hold him 
Down in the good, hip sense? 
Two fit misfits 

Whats so important 
you have to say it out loud? 
And again and again 

Nothing... 

Nothing/ Are you sure? Are you sure? 
Nothing/ But you were gonna say...(x3) 

*Chorus*
credits
from About & Because - EP, track released 01 December 2011 
Written & Vocals by Drew Moten 
Guitars by Ajene Harley 
Bass by Drew Moten 
Drums & Additional Vocals by Donald Martin

Modern Mary Sunday

All respect to Proof & J Dilla, rest in peace
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Matrix (Prod. by J Dilla)

SummerBreeze

Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kG2QdOb-7o
new song from IGBO's forthcoming album!

ThunderLove

Official audio of Gabriel Garzón-Montano’s “Lullaby” from his new LP, Jardín ( Stones Throw Records).

Download Jardin: 
Digital: http://smarturl.it/GGM_Jardin
Vinyl: http://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/gabrielgarzonmontano+/jardin

Lyrics
And the stars are sweet
Silent the wings that move you
May the angels weep
If only just to soothe you

A line on waters edge
Your sweet mother's breast
Sleep baby sleep
Sleep baby sleep

From the gates they tease
They lend the sheep strange mood*
May the feathered breeze
Blow shut your lids and woo you

A line on waters edge
Your sweet mother's breast
Sleep baby sleep
Sleep baby sleep


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Jardín

Lullaby

Singing lah dah about heartbreak

Lyrics:
Please somebody help me
I don't know what to do or where to go
I've lost all direction
and wheres my heart? there's nothing left to show

Please somebody help me
I'm lost outside and stranded in the cold
I gave my everything
now I just need a way to get back home

I need a lightbulb, lightbulb
how could you leave me new moon
light bulb light bulb
no clear skies just the clouds move
light bulb, light bulb
eyes no see, heart that can't feel
lightbulb, light bulb
leave me alone
let me heal

Why I keep on trying?
When I already know how it's about to go
I thought you were the best thing
That I had ever met, or seen or known

I have to keep quiet 
I'll keep my thoughts and feelings in a cloak
maybe eventually
but by the time you hear this you won't know


Written By: Dominique Caster
Keyboard: Conner Broome
Produced By: Dominique Caster, Conner Broome, Andrew Wilson

Recorded By: Mack Clay and Andrew Wilson
Mixed By: Andrew Wilson

light bulb

For my mother, my grandmother, and my aunts. Who inspire me to look to the sun and keep living my life like its golden.

Vocals: Kopano
Keys & Backup Vocals: Alejandra Williams-Maneri
Bass: Mark Ligonde
Engineered by Cena Loffredo in WOBC's Studio B

Golden - Jill Scott(Cover)

Donate to Young Center: https://www.theyoungcenter.org/donate-to-the-young-center/

~~~~celebrate~your~roots~~~~~
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Produced by Nafets & Herbieus
Additional keys by Bedows, Arthur Bobo Jr., and Brian 'Brobb' Robertson
Trumpet by Iz Burns of the Burns Twins
Cover design by Megayacht
Mixed and Mastered by Calin Enache at District Sound Lab
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LYRICS:

HOOK
Got my dread head cousin know he growing the green
Got my Indian cousin and he gon cause a scene
Bless my Haitian cousin she work two different jobs
And my god-fearing cousin know she rock a hijab

VERSE 1
Limacol burning pores into my forehead
It made me strong probably why I still stay undefeated
I stack my Barra and my roti I need me more bread
It made me strong probably why I still stay undefeated
Fuck all your boundaries unplugging the chord
So disconnected I’m using the force
Family go deeper than Narnia drawers
Can’t pull my roots boy the deep at the source
Double passport, Sammy I don’t need your country
Deep inside my mind the only place that I live comfortably 

HOOK
Got my dread head cousin know he growing the green
Got my Indian cousin and he gon cause a scene
Bless my Haitian cousin she work two different jobs
And my god-fearing cousin know she rock a hijab
Got a dread head cousin he just got his degree
Got an Indian know he whipping the beam
Bless my Haitian cousin know she gon be a star
And my god fear cousin sing praise to allah

VERSE 2
868 or 301 boy I still stunt
My brother bumping in the lancer make the wheels jump
Ancestors sending blessings from the villages
Shout out all my immigrants, my carribbeans
Bass blast turn your family into buss up shut
We come in all kind of flavors you can’t fuck with us
I’ve been kinda hard to find I’ve been off the map
With my cousins in the grove out in Trinidad
Immigration getting paid
Sugarcane in the veins
Pack the korma in the bag
Back and forth get the bag
Packing pepper through customs
My blood is not for your soil
And tourist man fuck em
Burn em all with the oil
Fuck the government
How they finna be my landlord
I’ma own myself
Thats an homage to grandma
I know lord shiva watching over me
With the citronella burning aunty thumbing through the rosary

HOOK x2
Got my dread head cousin know he growing the green
Got my Indian cousin and he gon cause a scene
Bless my Haitian cousin she work two different jobs
And my god-fearing cousin know she rock a hijab
Got a dread head cousin he just got his degree
Got an Indian know he whipping the beam
Bless my Haitian cousin know she gon be a star
And my god fear cousin sing praise to allah

Matrix (Prod. by J Dilla)

Genesis Owusu