This beautiful sad song was performed by José James at The Music of Billie Holiday live at AB - Ancienne Belgique concert. This song is particularly poignant now on the weekend of the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the murder of Trayvon Martin. 

You can find the full recording of the concert here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-s3KycDy3I


Jose James - Strange Fruit (for Trayvon Martin)

From Upcoming Album: Whatever
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/whatever/id690259313

Leron Thomas - Trumpet
Taylor Eigsti - Piano
Eric Harland - Drums
Harish Raghavan - Bass
Matthew Stevens - Guitar


Silly Ass

foolforyou (beat tape beat)

Arad Yeini - Trumpet  || Ma'ayan Milo - Trombone || Gal Dahan - Saxophone || Ilan Smilan - Guitar || Lior Romano - Bass (Keytar) || Dan Mayo - Drums || Galla Borowski - Vocal

Recorded at  "DB Studios", Tel-Aviv, Israel
Mixed by Uri "Mixmonster" Wertheim
2011

Crazy Race (Roy Hargrove)

Purchase CD/Digital: wonderwheelrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/dose

SORCERESS (formerly known as Funkommunity) is a 5-piece band from New Zealand. Their 2011 debut album Chequered Thoughts received worldwide acclaim and saw the band tour Europe and Japan the following year. Fast forward to 2014, and the band announced a new name: SORCERESS and a new studio album: DOSE. 

While previous works were influenced by J Dilla-inspired future soul and R&B, the new album sees their sound evolve, fusing elements of Deep Electronic Soul, Afrobeat, and Dance Music. DOSE retains their distinctive sonic texture, but also projects more movement while going deeper into the source of the music. Experienced in headphones or a club/festival context, Sorceress traverses the boundaries between audio intimacy and the bass driven rhythms of the dancefloor. 

The creative duo at the core of Sorceress is producer/band leader Isaac Aesili and vocalist Rachel Fraser. Isaac Aesili's production provides a diverse and sonically rich soundscape from which the charismatic vocals of Rachel Fraser weave through both light and dark lyrical themes. Crafted over the period of a year, the album includes collaboration with Sorceress' guitarist Daniel Ryland. Other musicians involved in the sessions include fellow Kiwis Julien Dyne, Marika Hodgson, Tom Broome, Jonathan Crayford, Steph Brown and Cam Allen.
credits


Dose

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Wandering, aimlessly 
Can’t chase the rain, painlessly

Foot falling slow,
Or did I come from back that way
Memory fades, memory phase

Phasing through life
Crazy in time
Flashes of bright
Sleeping escapes at night

Fading through life
Maybe in time 
Nothing will stay the same 
So don’t chase the rain

Don’t chase the rain

Helpless in my thoughts  (X2)
Watch them all fall down 
Stuck in the loop
Trying to keep the feeling 

Couldn’t reach the bottom **
So I pick myself back up
Trying to prove
Can’t undo the feeling

Wondering about that way
Can I break this path before I stay?

Thundering consciously 
Sanity wanes reversibly  

Days are too short, weeks are too long 
On the weekends I’m gone 
I hate being alone, but I hate being not alone 
Fading to light so maybe in time 
Just let it come as it may and don’t chase the rain 

Chorus 

Chasing Rain

Accompanied by guitarist Steve Francell, singer Joy Postell delivers her latest record "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" illustrating police brutality in musical form. 

Written and performed by Joy Postell.

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekS2ZCndumw

Hands Up, Don't Shoot (Live Acoustic)

Constantly

Buy 7" Vinyl / CD ~ http://www.hopestreetrecordings.com/product/one-plus-one

One Plus One is the five track debut EP by Melbourne band Leisure Centre (FKA The Do Yo Thangs) - a collection of sensual slow jams and bumping future soul dominated by rich, four-voice harmonies. 

Their debut release is the result of many years of soul searching for songwriter/drummer/singer Hugh Rabinovici and his right-hand-lady, vocalist Audrey Powne (Au Dray). The two met some years ago in the drab corridors of jazz school and bonded over a shared love of Erykah Badu and a desire to spread their creative wings. The combination of Hugh’s writing and Audrey’s vocals immediately gelled and before graduating they’d assembled a gifted cohort of musicians that went on to become Leisure Centre.
 
One Plus One is equal parts performance and programming, drawing from a broad palette of live instruments and electronic sounds. At the front, Hugh and Audrey alternate lead vocal duties, supported by harmony singers Maddie Otto and Tiaryn Griggs. Backing them, the guitar sound is classic soul but the plethora of synthesizers and 808 kick drums is definitely not, nodding equally to Vangelis or Hiatus Kaiyote. The more you listen, the more intricacy is discovered. The writing uses jazz elements and odd rhythmic devices, but it’s all tucked away - there’s nothing that intrudes into the foreground or interferes with the song’s abilities to speak to an audience.
 
Hugh’s writing is a reflection of a unique musical development. A child of piano, cello, self taught guitarist and now drummer, his influences and abilities stem from an early life in music that moved to jazz school and a trip to South India to study Carnatic  music. One Plus One is only the beginning for Hugh and the members of Leisure Centre. With a new partnership at local label HopeStreet Recordings, anything is possible for the swooning soul collective.

One Plus One

Buy 7" / CD

Leisure Centre - One Plus One

powder. (aidan carroll remix)

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Written and produced by Garçons

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