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STAGGERING title track from Tim Dillinger's brand new album....the first for many a year. OUTRAGEOUSLY soulful. Please just BUY IT !
Physical CD available in the UK mid September...but you can download

TIM DILLINGER The Baton

Check out the original by SAFIA here: http://soundcloud.com/safia-music/listen-to-soul-listen-to-blues

Find SAFIA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/safiamusic

Hear more from Indian Summer: https://soundcloud.com/indiansummerau

Find Indian Summer on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/indiansummerau

Listen To Soul, Listen To Blues (Indian Summer Remix)

From Sweden to Barbados and back. From the West Indian heat to the Scandinavian coolness. Naomi Pilgrim is here.

Listen on Spotify - http://bit.ly/NoGun-Spotify

www.twitter.com/iamnaomipilgrim
www.facebook.com/iamNaomiPilgrim
http://www.naomipilgrim.com

Produced by Fredrik Okazaki

Photo by www.patriciareyes.se

Listen on Spotify

Naomi Pilgrim - No Gun

Don't look for a message in this track – there isn't one. 

But I do think this is a first for me: 120bpm, that ubiquitous default tempo which I usually go out of my way to avoid.
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So this one's all about the groove, and for those unfamiliar with the concept (and who would like to find out why trying to turn music into language is often a fruitless undertaking)...

UK musicologist Richard Middleton (1999) notes that while "the concept of groove" has "long [been] familiar in musicians' own usage", musicologists and theorists have only more recently begun to analyze this concept. Middleton states that a groove "... marks an understanding of rhythmic patterning that underlies its role in producing the characteristic rhythmic 'feel' of a piece." He notes that the "feel created by a repeating framework" is also modified with variations. 

Turry and Aigen cite Feld's definition of groove as "an intuitive sense of style as process, a perception of a cycle in motion, a form or organizing pattern being revealed, a recurrent clustering of elements through time." Aigen states that "when [a] groove is established among players, the musical whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts, enabling a person […] to experience something beyond himself which he[/she] cannot create alone (Aigen 2002, p.34)." 

Jeff Pressing's 2002 article claimed that a "groove or feel" is "a cognitive temporal phenomenon emerging from one or more carefully aligned concurrent rhythmic patterns, characterized by...perception of recurring pulses, and subdivision of structure in such pulses,...perception of a cycle of time, of length 2 or more pulses, enabling identification of cycle locations, and...effectiveness of engaging synchronizing body responses (e.g. dance, foot-tapping)". 

Neuroscientific perspectives:

The "groove" has been cited as an example of sensory-motor coupling between neural systems. Sensory-motor coupling is the coupling or integration of the sensory system and motor system. Sensorimotor integration is not a static process. For a given stimulus, there is no one single motor command. "Neural responses at almost every stage of a sensorimotor pathway are modified at short and long timescales by biophysical and synaptic processes, recurrent and feedback connections, and learning, as well as many other internal and external variables".

Courtesy of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groove_(music)

Going Deeper

Mayer Hawthorne & The County covers Lorde "Royals" as part of VEVO's Unexpected Covers.

Watch the video here: http://youtu.be/mtcR4BBet3k

Mayer Hawthorne - Vocals
Quentin Joseph - Drums
Joe Abrams - Bass
Quincy McCrary - Keys
Christian Wunderlich - Guitar

Royals

To Dust

I Loved You

As some of you may know, I've spent much of the last four months in Hospital but that's hopefully all over now. To welcome in the new year, here's a free download of that Marlena Shaw edit I did last year to warm the cockles and spread some cheer. 

Download via Artistlink - https://www.artistlink.com/home/products/375090

Enjoy. x

Free Download Here

Marlena - Ghetto Woman (LW Edit) Free Download

d r o w s y o u t r o d u c t i o n

5 (Feat. Jaden)

Release date 10th march 2014

Pre-order 

Digital: https://trudiedawnsmith.bandcamp.com

Limited edition 7": http://www.roughtrade.com/albums/80764

www.stacrecords.com

Trudie Dawn Smith - No Pop

Available on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/road-trip-single/id804940472?ls=1

Eric Bellinger - Road Trip

Had the pleasure of witnessing Amel perform this live the other night. Words can't describe what this song stirred up in me.  I was so moved I ran home and started working on making it ready for the dancefloor... 

I encourage everyone to buy her album. 
Support the voices that matter.

Enjoy!

Amel Larrieux - Danger (Cecil's Beatdown)

iTunes: http://po.st/BanksBrain
Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/1ryZH6Cu7CTEArHpPWUFC2

www.facebook.com/hernameisbanks
twitter.com/hernameisbanks
@banksbanksbanks
www.hernameisbanks.com

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Shlohmo/215424843565
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@shlohmo
http://shlohmo.tumblr.com

BANKS "LONDON" EP Now Available - PURCHASE HERE: smarturl.it/banksep

UK HEADLINE TOUR // COACHELLA // GOVERNORS BALL and more tour dates up at: http://hernameisbanks.com/shows

Goddess

Brain

Buy on Itunes

Over at Youtube, we have a series of live sessions recorded down in the Brownswood Basement, and here Gilles plays some of his favourite performances so far.

You can subscribe to Gilles' Youtube channel here: http://bit.ly/11qIQZc
And here's the entire Brownswood Basement Series playlist: http://bit.ly/1ejIUoE

Full Tracklisting:
Ady Suleiman - Longing For Your Love (Brownswood Basement Session)
Zara McFarlane - Police & Thieves (Brownswood)
Zara McFarlane - You'll Get Me In Trouble (Brownswood Basement Session)
Ed Motta - Instrumental Jam (Brownswood Basement Session)
Ed Motta - Simple Guy (Brownswood Basement Session)
Scrimshire Ft Stac - Beached (Brownswood Basement Session)
Stac Ft Scrimshire - Harp (Brownswood Basement Session)

Brownswood Basement Youtube Sessions Showcase

Ellie Goulding & Angel Haze cover James Blake's 'Life Round Here'.
Produced by Noah Breakfast
Mixed by Ryan Schwabe & Noah Breakfast for Rare MP3s Co.
Mastered by Ryan Schwabe

Life Round Here (Feat. Angel Haze)

DOWLOAD HERE: https://thedecoders.bandcamp.com/track/adventures-in-paradise-feat-alice-russell

The Decoders have have enlisted UK soul sensation Alice Russell (Tru Thoughts) to tackle one of their favorite Minnie Riperton songs, Adventures In Paradise, from her 1975 LP of the same name.  Musically, they are taking a departure from the laid back funk of the original, and instead, have adapted the original into a driving afro-latin infused, Band of Gypsies-esque arrangement.  The added grit of Alice's soulful wailing over the anthemic horn section and pumping bassline conjures the presence of Minnie's spirit more than ever as they continue to embark on this tribute journey to her.  Stay tuned for their next batch of songs to round out the LP later this year, Adventures From Paradise Vol 3. 

Adventures In Paradise (feat. Alice Russell)

Nights over Egypt mix

new Soul Lounge groove for ya ease back mood!
Couldnt love u more - featuring Sarah Winton 
Co-Produced by Pawcut

320k mp3, FLAC quality download at 
https://vickisunmusic.bandcamp.com/

Free Download

Couldn't love u more - feat. Sarah Winton (Co-Produced by Pawcut)

Wav-file available here:  https://editsfromthevaults.bandcamp.com/album/edits-from-the-vaults-vol-10

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