Let's Get Funky

Both the US and the rest of the world will be influenced forever by tomorrow's US election.  This collection includes so many of my favorite musicians, who have joined me the last year, as we have felt together the unrest, the lies and deceit from our current Republican administration.  The world deserves better.

VOTE THEM ALL OUT

Thanks to so many friends from all over the world who have helped shape my music and musical experience in this most difficult 2020.  This playlist is a summary of the 100+ tracks that summarize our collective experience together.

We appreciate your generous time listening, your comments and your shares.   And a special thanks to all the players and creators.

Creating With Friends in 2020

Thanks God It's Friday Playlist

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Funky Friday

Vol. 6

Jamie Rhind's 2020 Collection

2020|04 - The Composer's New Music Playlist

FEBRUARY  2020

Layer upon layer of syncopated funk and fusion


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Funked Up

A traditional 12 bar blues with an aggressive solo through a favorite electric guitar patch.  Photo of the The Whailer's drummer from a concert last weekend.  He was terrific!

Electric Blues

We had a blast pulling this together.  Its a simple blues/gospel riff on organ in F, that sets up some wonderful opportunities for heavy jams over the top by Justin and Tom, two of the finest blues players I have ever recorded with.  Tom has the solos with a more treble sound, and Justin boosts his midrange and bass.  Check out their SoundCloud pages if you are not familiar.  They are bad ass, just like this tune.  Let us know what you think!

Bad Ass Blues - with Justin Valente and Tom Adams / guitars

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.

What The Funk - with Orlando "The Don" Lund

Time for some more funk.  A special thanks to the very kind and knowledgable G-Deed, who jumped in with final sound editing and compression, creating a better overall sound and balance:).  He loves great funk and soul and groove, so check out his gallery here....https://soundcloud.com/g-deed

Thanks as always for your generous listening, for your comments and for your shares.  

I Don't Funk On The First Date

Urban Funk is a funky track with some awesome musicians on Soundcloud:
Bass: Mirko Borach @stringburner
Guitar solo: Stephan "Pinner" Lipinski @pinner
Synth solo: Jamie Rhind @jamie-rhind
Rhodes solo, rhythm guitar, organ: Julien Apelian @jules-keys-1
Horns and drums: samples from a software called "City Funk"
We hope you like it, thank you for listening !

Urban Funk - Mirko Borach, Stephan "Pinner" Lipinski, Jamie Rhind and Julien Apelian

Lyrics and Vocals - Eduardo
All Guitars, Bass and Production - Al (mille mercis, fré'nch!!!!)
Drums - Eduardo (...with a helping hand from Al https://soundcloud.com/alzzed)

Robot Life 
I've been enjoying my fridays
with my tired brain
I have to find a good way
just to heal my pain
my vision in slow motion
I almost hear a sign
looks like the time stoped
now my breath is calm

(2x)
It's just a break time in my robot life
Yeah soon I'll go back to the run again

Yeah, I remember childhood
And my simple plans
projecting my own spaceship
to explore the universe
yeah I don't know what went wrong
but I lost my way
but I still have hope to be a child again

(2x)
It's just a break time in my robot life
Yeah soon I'll go back to the run again

Picture: Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot (Japan TV Series 1967–1968) IMDb

Robot Life ( Al'Z Collaboration)

Funk Yeah!

Copyright - Eric Schultheiss
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All Instruments By Martin Reed,
Produced By Martin Reed.

The Boy & His Dolphin - For Roly Wynne

...Clutter isn´t just a physical thing...

Clutter

Nobody Knows

Vocals By Tante Meli, https://soundcloud.com/tante-meli
Instruments By Martin Reed,
Produced By Martin Reed & Marcus Swambo. https://soundcloud.com/helenswambo

Alone In This Town Feat Tante Meli

Winter is here and so is the latest in our Seasonal Mix Series. This one is stuffed full of excellent tracks that we have been collecting for you all. Also a big thanks to everyone who has supported us by subscribing and reposting our efforts thus far. As always, the track list is included below. ;)

-Heart of Gold

Act One
Heart Rock - James Rod (Aleito Remix)
Surrender - Curses (Djedjotronic Remix) 
Blackout - Stiven Rivic, Michael & Levan (Lexicon Avenue Remix)
Fall Rise - Phil Kieran & Douglas McCarthy (Druggs Mix)
Espiral - Rigopolar

Act Two
Feedback Loop - Damian Lazurus & The Ancient Moons (Serge Devant Remix)
Missing Love - The Mekanism (Musumeci Remix)
On the Run - Audiojack
Offworld Memory 3 - Special Request
Spacedisco - Morpei 

Act Three
Voice Inside - Ess O Ess (Pink Language Meridian Remix)
Trick - ICS
All the Time - Patawawa (Yuksek 1984 Remix)
End of World Party - HÃ¦los (Sascha Funke Breakbeat Remix)

Instagram: @HeartOfGoldSounds 
Cover Art: @Clucine (IG)
Likes/Comments/Shares appreciated. ;)

Winter Mix - 2019

Music, lyrics and vocals by Irina
Guitar by AB

Featured on BBC Radio 6 Introducing Mixtape by Tom Robinson on 10.02.2020

One day, I don't know when
But scientifically speaking it is highly likely
When we meet again
I'll have a crush on you
You'll have no clue
What you have to say
You'll even try to run away
But soon enough you've got to see
You've got to have a crush on me

One day, one lucky day
Our hormone levels fluctuate and regulate our choices
When we meet again
One day, one lucky day
I'll pour some chemistry for you
I'll share biology with you
And soon enough you've got to see
You've got to have a crush on
Me gotta have a crush on
You gotta have a crush on me

You've Gotta Have A Crush On Me

It's 2020 and the great Tom Adams and I are back with a serious shuffle, Bad Ass Boy.  Tom's a special friend and one of SoundCloud's greatest.  Check out his beautiful blues guitar work.  We've recorded almost 50 tunes together and this one's a favorite!

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

Bad Ass Boy  -  Tom Adams / Jamie Rhind

A fresh track here with U.POET.  U.POET creates and tells the important story of individuality. 

U.POET:  https://soundcloud.com/user-814978679

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

Be Yourself - U.POET / Jamie Rhind

Original music by Francois Pierre Morin , AFM/SOCAN/APEM Member

IDEALIST

Gotta love Les Thomas' outstanding guitar work on our original, Get the Funk Outta Here.  Each of the guitar lines so tight!  No wonder he's got it going in the Silicon Valley area.  Check out his fine gallery:  https://soundcloud.com/les_thomas

And thanks too for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

Get The Funk Outta Here - Les Thomas / Jamie Rhind

Music: Wypernet soundcloud.com/laurent-toupet-930624560/tracks
Lyrics, vocal, mixing and mastering: Lukowig www.facebook.com/Lukowig/

D'où je viens
tout est si tranquille
si silencieux
aucun son
aucun bruit
aucun mot
aucune parole.

Une petite voix intérieure
un chant inaudible
une relique d'un autre temps
me dévore une voix à l'intérieur...
Une petite voix intérieure
un chant indicible
un cri qui s'étend...

D'où je viens
tout est si lisse
transparent
aucun pli
aucune couleur
aucune ombre
aucune lumière
d'où je viens on enterre
sous des monceaux de peurs
les rêves des enfants.

Une petite voix intérieure
un chant inaudible
une relique d'un autre temps
me dévore une voix à l'intérieur...
Une petite voix intérieure
un chant indicible
un cri qui s'étend
une voix me consume de l'intérieur
un vestige de mon enfance...

Petite voix intérieure [Wypernet and Lukowig]

Dernière cigarette avant dictature

You Mean So Much To Me

That's my submission to 5 Notes Melody Contest in "Composers Challenge" Facebook Group. I just choose a simple chanson style.

The sheet music of some of my compositions can be downloaded from my website https://pianoimprovictor.com/
If you like my music – share it with your friends!

Five Notes Chanson

A reflective piece of mourning for the dead using my Haken Continuum for the drone and melodic components.


Visit my Bandcamp site to listen and purchase my music.
https://jamesnewman.bandcamp.com/

Drone For The Dead

Always so much fun to be playing the blues with SC's blues master Tom Adams.  He's burning it up again here and has offered up this track for collaboration.  We've done almost 50 tunes together and this one's a favorite:  https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/tearing-it-up-with-tom-adams-1
Follow Tom's great blues:  https://soundcloud.com/user-342548892

And thanks too for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

A Hard Night's Blues - Tom Adams / Jamie Rhind

The Netherland's incredible Rients Draissma tears up our blues rock original Change It Up.   He's simply one of the finest guitar players we've heard, pushing sound, rhythm and harmony.   Check out Rients' superb jazz-rock fusion guitar and arrangements:  http://www.rientsdraaisma.com - his latest album Guitales is simply burning http://www.rientsdraaisma.com/shop-guitales/, and follows up on so many Tribal Tech and Weather Report influenced compositions:  https://soundcloud.com/rients-draaisma.  Also check out his iJam album, of heavy fusion burners.
I've been fortunate to have recorded a number of tunes with Rients, among some of my favorites here on SoundCloud. 

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

Change It Up - Rients Draaisma / Jamie Rhind

Some blues with the exceptional guitarist Tom Adams.  Love what Tom does!

We have so much wonderful music together:  https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/tearing-it-up-with-tom-adams-1

And be sure to follow Tom's gallery of blues inspired goodness:  https://soundcloud.com/user-342548892
Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

Birthday Blues - Tom Adams / Jamie Rhind

Get up and Dance and Groove ..... Martin Jones has one of the great soul voices on SoundCloud, and he joins Tom Adams https://soundcloud.com/user-342548892band and me on our new blues, Boogaloo.  Gotta love Martin's https://soundcloud.com/ver2xif heart and soul, which pours out over recent concerns, and offers some help through it and through music.  Tom's understated here by our standards, complementing Marin and creating such a feel through his superb electric blues.   It's been so great to find Tom here and now have pushed beyond 50 recordings together.  And though a far shorter list, some of my favorites with Martin too.  We hope you enjoy this one.  Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

Boogaloo - Martin Jones / Tom Adams / Jamie Rhind

We're all On the Lowdown these days, trying to understand the significance of the issues around us.   And I couldn't think of a better way to spend some time than to bring together some of my very favorite musicians I have met from around the world, with our original On the Lowdown.   Special musicians contributed to this - two exceptional guitarists from the Philadelphia area - Audric Jankauskas and Stephan Lipinski, Barcelona's Sam Mendez on tenor sax, and Germany's Mirko Borach playing the beautiful fretless bass.  Audric has the first guitar solo and Stephan the second.  The final mastering was done by Audric.  Follow these wonderful players and creators: 
Mirko Borach bass:  https://soundcloud.com/stringburner
Audric Jankauskas guitar:  https://soundcloud.com/audric-jankauskas
Stephan Lipinsk guitar:  https://soundcloud.com/pinner
Sam Mendez - tenor sax:  https://soundcloud.com/santi-caballero

And please keep your community safer by remaining On the Lowdown

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

On the Lowdown - Mirko Borach / Audric Jankauskas / Stephan Lipinski / Sam Mendez / Jamie Rhind

Has been way too long since the exceptional Al Schulman https://www.alanschulman.com and I got together - this time for our R&B instrumental original, Too Political Blues. Al just runs with this and has so much fun. He's a master jazz player and brings that blues infused soulful style to the music. Follow his great playing: @alanschulman and also Al's gorgeous duets with his wife Stacey, AS IS: @asisjazz

And for a playlist of our 15 pieces recorded together: soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/swinging-with-al-schulman

Al was great to write the liner notes to my album I Believe. Will be forever thankful for the words and music.

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

Too Political Blues - Al Schulman / Jamie Rhind by Jamie Rhind is licensed under a  Creative Commons License.
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Too Political Blues - Al Schulman / Jamie Rhind

A new blues rock original, We Need A Change.  Joined here by the super soulful vocals and lyrics of Annie Smart, and fine blues inspired guitar playing of Alec DeCaprio.   Annie's such a complete musician, having grown up in a truly musical family that has been carried on for generations.  She's now a choir director and piano teacher, and has created such great lines and harmonies to tell the story.  Alec's only 21, yet years ahead in his maturity and vision.  Follow these fine musicians and friends:
Annie Smart:  https://soundcloud.com/annie-smart-1
Alec DeCaprio:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2XvW8Za1u9oK-zp5Ni8a0g

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.

We Need A Change - Annie Smart / Alec DeCaprio / Jamie Rhind

Things are a mess.  We have to do better.  We need unity.

You're Tearing Us Apart

Complicit

Get Out The Vote.  Time for a big change.
Joined here on our soul jazz original with the formidable Georg Boehme on Bari sax and Les Thomas on guitar.  Follow these guys great playing and creating:
https://soundcloud.com/georg-boehme
https://soundcloud.com/les_thomas

And thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.  Time for a change.

Get Out The Vote - Georg Boehme / Les Thomas / Jamie Rhind

Some new funky goodness with the superb Joe Bongiovanni.  Joe's got more soul than anyone and adds such great drive with his electric blues sound.  Joe's been a several time finalist at the world blues guitar championships and it sure shows.

Here's a link to his great music:  https://soundcloud.com/joe-bongiovanniz

https://www.instagram.com/bongiovannijoe/

And to the playlist of our more than 30 recordings  together:  https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/jammin-with-joe-bongiovanni-1

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

Get Your Funk On - Joe Bongiovanni / Jamie Rhind

Reach For The Sky is one of those collaborations that brings it all together with great musicians and great friends.  A big project that in total was more than 1GB, this soulful original gives everyone a chance to make statements and a chance for some fine ensemble work too.  Scotland's highly versatile Annie Smart so emotionally adds her voice and harmonies, Germany's Georg Boehme is on Bari Sax on this track, and Spain's Sam Mendez plays the flute.  Both weave in and out between the vocals, and above the wonderful bass of Italy's Daniele Petrocchi.  And playing guitars is Daniele Turani, also of Italy.  Everyone's in such fine form and it all gels so beautifully.  Follow each of these great players and creators.

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

Reach For The Sky - G Boehme / S Mendez / D Petrocchi / A Smart / D Turani / J Rhind

The exceptional Michael-Louis Smith joins me on guitar on our fusion original WTF.  What a crazy 2021 we are already having here in the US, and our edgy music represents a little of the tension we are all feeling.  Mike's such a wonderful person and recording artist, and leads his killer jazz ensemble Brooklyn Circle:  http://www.mlsmusic.com
Follow him here on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/michael-louis-smith

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.

We'll get through this tension - somehow

WTF - Michael-Louis Smith / Jamie Rhind

Jazz/Fusion keyboard player, composer and producer.  Marketing, advertising, publishing and sales career.  Originally from Chicago, where I developed a strong appreciation for the blues and classical, and moved to New York, where jazz and the fine arts are so deep.  Key musical influences include Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Zawinul and Weather Report, Chick Corea and Return to Forever, John McLaughlin and the Mahivishnu Orchestra, Stanley Clarke, Scott Henderson and Tribal Tech, Jeff Beck and Jan Hammer, Mike Stern, John Scofield, Pat Metheny, Emily Remler, McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Jimmy Smith, Joey DeFrancesco, Larry Young, Buddy Guy, Santana and Earth Wind & Fire.   Former classical clarinet and piano player.  Unless noted, my music on SoundCloud was composed, recorded and performed using only keyboards.  An avid photographer.  Many covers here are my shots.  To see my photography look for Herbiejazz on Instagram or search for Herbiejazz on Google.  And a big thumbs up to SoundCloud and the SoundCloud community, and so many friends who have joined me to create.  Thank you all.