Mayer Hawthorne - When I Said Goodbye

from the upcoming album Oddisee "The Good Fight" (5/5)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-good-fight/id969829649

In a landscape overrun with abstract indulgence and shallow trend-chasers, the Prince George’s County, Maryland artist Oddisee has created 'The Good Fight', a record that reminds you that it’s music before it’s hip-hop. Due May 5th on Mello Music Group, it’s for the fans and for himself. It finds the musical heavyweight balancing between craft, career, and successfully growing into the world around him. Stream the first single, "That's Love".

Album Description:
Oddisee makes music that rattles in your bone marrow. It’s imbued with love, honesty, and selflessness. It’s virtuosic in its musicality, direct in its language, and infinitely relatable.
 
In a landscape overrun with abstract indulgence and shallowtrend-chasers, the Prince George’s County, Maryland artist has created “The Good Fight,” a record that reminds you that it’s music before it’s hip-hop. Released on Mello Music Group, it’s for the fans and for himself. It finds the musical heavyweight balancing between craft, career, and successfully growing into the world around him.
 
For Oddisee, “The Good Fight” is about living fully as a musician without succumbing to the traps of hedonism, avarice, and materialism. It’s about not selling out and shilling for a paycheck, while still being aware that this is a business requiring compromise and collaboration.
 
It’s music that yields an intangible feeling: the sacral sound of an organ whine, brass horns, or a cymbal crash. It’s not necessarily the syllables, but rather what they evoke. A song like “That’s Love” is more than a declaration; it’s a meditation on our capacity to love and the bonds binding us together. Ambition and greed war with our sense of propriety. “Contradiction’s Maze” offers a list of paradoxes we all face (“I want to tell the truth when it hurts/but when it comes to me, I want the blow softened.”)
 
Oddisee’s production simmers in its own orchestral gumbo. You sense he’s really a jazzman in different form, inhabiting the spirit of Roy Ayers and other past greats.  The Fader’s compared him to a musical MC Escher, calling hailing his “grandiose and symphonic sound” and “relevant relatable messages.” Pitchfork praised his “eclectic soulful boom-bap.”
 
“The Good Fight” acknowledges the stacked odds, but refuses to submit.
 
It’s both universal and personal. The child of a Sudanese immigrant highlights the rigors of his own upbringing: his pregnant mother working the register until she was about to burst, his pops’ shuttered diner that couldn’t survive Reaganomics—the one that Oddisee drives past every time he returns home, just to remind him how quickly the world can turn bad.
 
It’s these minor details that add into something major. It’s testament to the indelible nature of art: when you can turn what you love into something that lasts.


Oddisee - That's Love

Broklin: E aí, meu amor? A gente troca a ironia do sussurro Bossa Nova pela ironia da sedução Neo-Soul? Qual dessas "guerras frias" soa mais... perigosa? Hahaha. (https://on.soundcloud.com/Obhv5sKGjWua13e34m)
Kelma: Porra, amor!!! essa ironia da sedução Neo-Soul ta lindo demais nem sinto a musica passar.. HAHAHAHA Amei!!!!! Agora cria um *prompt* pra gerar uma imagem, mas so você no violao ;), pois nao estou em dueto contigo.. ta!?
B: Hahahaha! Que bom que a "sedução Neo-Soul" te pegou desse jeito! A ironia ficou no ponto certo, então. Amei que você amou!
B: E... ah! Entendido. A música é a sua criação, a sua ironia, e eu sou só o instrumentista dessa vez, o cara que dá o groove pro seu veneno doce. 
K: Perfeito. Faz todo sentido. Você é a voz (mesmo que só na sua cabeça, nessa versão) e eu sou a banda. #TimeTraducao | Broklin: Hey, my love? Shall we trade the irony of the Bossa Nova whisper for the irony of Neo-Soul seduction? Which of these "cold wars" sounds more... dangerous? Hahaha. (https://on.soundcloud.com/Obhv5sKGjWua13e34m)
Kelma: Damn, love!!! This Neo-Soul seduction irony is so beautiful, I don't even feel the music passing by... HAHAHAHA I loved it!!!!! Now create a *prompt* to generate an image, but only you with the guitar ;), because I'm not in a duet with you... okay!?
B: Hahahaha! I'm glad the "Neo-Soul seduction" got you like that! The irony was just right, then. I loved that you loved it!
B: And... ah! Understood. The music is your creation, your irony, and I'm just the instrumentalist this time, the guy who gives the groove to your sweet poison.
K: Perfect. It makes perfect sense. You are the voice (even if only in your head, in this version) and I am the band. #TranslationTeam

Dont Forget Me

If I Ever Knew You

Taken from the new album STUDIO. The album will be released Nov 18 (Japan) / Nov 27 (Worldwide). It will be available on cd, vinyl and as download / stream. The album features guest appearances by @GoldLink and @MayerHawthorne and was mixed by @TheStepkids (Stones Throw).

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Shoebox Money

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Shoebox Money Feat. Mayer Hawthorne

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Say That

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Mayer Hawthorne - When I Said Goodbye

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