so cool. I love the vocals 🎯💯🔥💫

Meet Oedichirus spelaeus a member of Rove Beetles,
Staphylinidae family (photo: Mahajanga, Madagascar)

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Calm and Steady tracks series no. 410

created on 2023/10/12

Picture CREDIT:
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Jordan Rakei - Late Night Tales
Album released 9th April 2021
2LP / CD / DIGITAL
Stream/buy: https://orcd.co/latenighttalesjordanrakei

Late Night Tales celebrate their 20th anniversary with the release of multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and producer Jordan Rakei’s majestic compilation. The 28-year-old modern soul icon effortlessly stamps his own jazz and hip-hop driven sound all over this gorgeous array of handpicked tracks. A beautifully layered blend that is mirrored in the music he’s made, it comes as no surprise that such a supremely gifted songwriter should deliver a mix that is all about the song.

Rakei, born in New Zealand, but raised in Australia, moved to the UK in 2015; he released his debut album, Cloak, with Oz label Soul Has No Tempo, but his two subsequent LPs, Wallflower and Origin, came out on Ninja Tune, the former #2 in Album Of The Year for Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide poll, while Origin was nominated for Best Album at the AIM Awards. Jordan had this to say on his upcoming mix:

“I wanted to try and showcase as many people as I knew on this mix. My idea of Late Night Tales was to distil a series of relaxing moments; the whole conceptual sonic of relaxation. So, I was trying to think of all the collaborators and friends that I knew, who’d recorded stuff with this horizontal vibe. Plus, I was also trying to help my friends' stuff get into the world. I know the story of Khruangbin blowing up after appearing on the series (in fact, I think that's how I discovered them). So, the main idea was to create a certain atmosphere, but also to help some of my favourite collaborators and buddies to give their songs a little push out into the world. Hope you like it” Jordan Rakei

Tracklisting:

1. Fink - ‘Covering Your Tracks’
2. Alfa Mist - ‘Mulago’
3. Charlotte Day Wilson - ‘Mountains’
4. Moreton x Jordan Rakei - ‘Count A Heart’ (Exclusive New Track)
5. Puma Blue - ‘Untitled 2’
6. Connan Mockasin - ‘Momo’s’
7. C Duncan - ‘He Came From the Sun’
8. Oso Leone - ‘Virtual U’
9. Joe Armon-Jones & Maxwell Owin - ‘Idiom’ ft. Oscar Jerome
10. Snowpoet - ‘Everternity’ 
11. Maro - ‘Always & Forever’
12. Homay Schmitz - ‘Speak Up’
13. Bill Laurence - ‘Singularity’
14. Jordan Rakei - ‘Lover, You Should’ve Come Over’ (Exclusive Jeff Buckley Cover Version) *
15. Jordan Rakei - ‘Codex’ (Exclusive Radiohead Cover Version)
16. Cubicolour - ‘Counterpart’
17. Jordan Rakei - ‘Imagination’ (Exclusive New Track)
18. Alejandro González Iñárritu - ‘Imagination’ (Exclusive Spoken Word)
* this track is only available on the mixed format

Follow Late Night Tales:

Web: http://latenighttales.co.uk
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/latenighttales1
Twitter: http://twitter.com/LateNightTales
SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/latenighttales
YouTube: http://youtube.com/latenighttalestv
Instagram: http://instagram.com/latenighttalesofficial
Spotify: http://goo.gl/Q98T7d
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/curator/late-night-tales/1233898093
Bandcamp: https://latenighttales.bandcamp.com/

LateNightTales - Jordan Rakei

Moreton feat. Jordan Rakei - Count A Heart (Late Night Tales: Jordan Rakei)

Lyrics/Music = Luca Di Maio
Producer = Luca Di Maio/Sergio Salvi
Vocals = DM Stith + Luca Di Maio
Sax = Laura Agnusdei
BK Vocals = Stefano Pellone
Mix = Sergio Salvi
Mastering = Santi Quizhpe
https://linktr.ee/lucadimaio

LYRICS
My falling wave

Sirens are singing
yonder, faraway
I watched ‘em taking you away
Brother, you away (my falling wave)
You are (no more)
You say (do more)
We won’t be unheard
We will be unheard no more
We won’t be unheard
So, beat drums beat / bang drums bang
Sirens are singing
Brother, you away
I watched ‘em taking you away
Brother, you away
So, beat drums ‘n’ leave ‘em no happiness
Merciless carnival (Leave ‘em no sleep)
You are (Ruthless falling wave)
You say (Take their voices away)
We will be unheard no more
We won’t be unheard
We will be unheard no more
We won’t be unheard

Songs for the Mean and the Vile

My Falling Wave

My Falling Wave (ft. DM Stith)

Lyrics/Music = Luca Di Maio
Producer = Luca Di Maio/Sergio Salvi
Vocals = Trustfall + Luca Di Maio
Guitars = Trustfall + Luca Di Maio
Mix = Sergio Salvi
Mastering = Santi Quizhpe
https://linktr.ee/lucadimaio

LYRICS

RUBBER KID

They made a flag of every inch of your love 
You are a rainbow
You unhappy unicorn
You’ve been bought and sold
A thousand times
You, rubber kid
You’ve been bought and sold 
You, rubber kid

Water will rise
Keep dancing in you room The drones’ refrain
We’ll be sitting judging you 
Like it’s not our fault
The end of the world
You, rubber kid
It’s the end of your world 
My rubber kid

Rubber Kid

Rubber Kid (ft. Trustfall)

Music I'm working on using the Korg Electribe sample, Korg Volca FM, and the Model D.

owlive

https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/track/2OUhxgFLjwyFLk875v6ncV
https://kohgi.bandcamp.com/track/blurred-memories

Blurred Memories

Working on more songs for our new EP. Here is  remixed version  of our Indiepop Summer-Song that is both upbeat and nostalgic. 

We are very thankful to have now real Saxophones in this Song, recorded at Borgvlokken Studio Eindhoven in the Netherlands. Thanks so much for this!

We hope you like it, let us know what you think, and as always thanks so much for all the amazing support here on Soundcloud

Summer comes in time again
The heat will melt away the pain
It makes you feel like it's alright
If you still cannot sleep at night
just blame it on the humidity

Time will prove that it's alright
Time will be the reason why
You're getting younger day by day
If you still haven't found a way
just blame it on humanity

Maybe I'd like to go back
Got this longing in the back of my head
Lately, I started wondering why 
I should be sad

You won't believe that the blue sky
can lift you up, can make you cry
Do they still tell you where to go
Well, here's a list of reasons why
you shouldn't trust the TV shows

Count the days until you're done
Count the days and then you're gone
Dream away on a green breeze
If you can't feel that summer ease
just blame it on humanity

Maybe I'd like to go back
Got this longing in the back of my head
Lately, I started wondering why 
We should be sad

Summer in Time (New Version)

Torment Addiction

Written, performed & co-produced by Moreton
Co-produced by Matthew Neighbour & Alex Henriksson

Circles

Written and performed by Moreton & James Vincent McMorrow
Produced by Matt Neighbour, Alex Henriksson & Moreton
2019

See Yourself (ft. James Vincent McMorrow)

A portfolio of imagined soundtracks I have been writing lately

The Weirdest Uplift

Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on artists who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. We're mentioned as one of the leading podcasts on songwriting! blog.feedspot.com/songwriting_podcasts/

Luca Di Maio is and Italian singer songwriter currently travelling around Italy and Europe to promote his second album ''Piccole Armi / Grandi Imprese'', produced by and recorded with guitarist Alessandro “Asso” Stefana (P.J. Harvey, Mike Patton, Vinicio Capossela). The record displays alternative folk-pop songs inspired both by world and contemporary music, enriched by precious electronic intermissions and has been collecting great recognition from critics and audience alike.
Luca will play an intimate solo set,  a not-to-be-missed opportunity to listen to a stripped down version of his tunes.

Songwriters Guild Live - Luca Di Maio

Produced by Luca Di Maio & Sergio Salvi
Mixed by Fabrizio Somma (K-conjog)
Mastering by Santiago Quizhpe Palomeque
Recorded at home
Cover Picture by Elisa Fiore

Aspettami

Luca Di Maio - Aspettami

Sweet Pristine

Reestablishing Connection

White Flag ft. Trustfall

Genocide, June 2025:
Israel is only the executioner, every nation which has armed that country in the past year is an accessory to that genocide, an accomplice, a facilitator.  We cannot talk about war crimes because when you target unarmed civilians, mostly women and children, we are talking about a massacre, like terrorists do, not a war. The people who orchestrated that massacre, in the US, the most duplicitous, followed by those of the UK, Germany, France, and probably a few lesser ones should be tried for crimes against humanity just as well as Netanyahu and his cabinet, because it has been going on for two years, generously reported by media of all kinds, so the enablers knew exactly how the arms were to be used, as a tool for revenge, domination, and humiliation of the Palestinian people.  The conflict has ceased to be about the defense of anything for months.

The parties responsible have made a mockery of decency, morals, fairness, proportion, or justice, not to mention empathy.  Of what little there was, these concepts will be a lot longer to come back than they were to be struck down.  

Is it 1984 already?!?!
 ...

I have not been able to recover access to my other account [https://soundcloud.com/ha-kekong] for a couple of years.  I have tried a few times to get back into it but SoundCloud doesn't trust me.  Same phone number, same email addresses, and they still claim that they can't verify my identity.  I created that account about three years ago as a substitute to my regular account which SoundCloud temporarily closed.  They closed it as part of some upgrade procedure in their system, the result of a bug that affected many accounts, about two years ago.  Since SC did not inform its users I didn't know if that was permanent or not, so I created that other account which I can't access.  Don't be mad if I have not replied to your message in the past two years, that's because I never got them ; ) ... You can always reach me here though.
...

This one here (957729823) is for regular folks.

I love you, both.

...

You can't see it because of the angle with which I took the shot, aiming down, but beyond those blocks is the sea.  To the left is the Mediterranean, to the right is the Atlantic Ocean.  No it's not Gibraltar, but a little bit further West. ... Actually I checked recently and it is further North more than West, I thought I was facing South when in fact I probably was facing the Atlantic ocean, which is why I suppose the waves were of a decent size where we were.
...

My face and the bike are a courtesy of Joël Vaudreuil
[https://vimeo.com/user8897093]  ... Merci Joe!
I then went ahead and butchered his work with a borrowed helmet.
... Sorry Joe. =(
...

I'm trying to promote what I think is good music, so if you want to help out a bit I'd rather you [like] or [repost] my *playlists* rather than my field recordings, if you don't mind, unless you are a die hard fan of those things. Thank you ; )

I speak French, so if you send me a private message, and that you are a francophone, please write in French, thank you.  ... I mean, you don't absolutely have to, but I would prefer it. 

All my field recordings (except for when I record a person) are public, freely downloadable by anyone who is able to click on the button.  I encourage anyone interested to use them in any way whatsoever, on purpose or accidentally. No need for permissions or credits or any other kind  of administrative maneuvers.
...

Anarchists give me hope.

I'm a big fan of EFF.  Love ya EFF.  (no connection with the above line)
... and of course Richard Stallman and Linux and all the others.  Bless yous.

Now don't be lazy, go find out what it is this "EFF" that I'm talking about.  I'll give you a hint: it has to do with computers.

You have a nice day now.  Hugs & Kisses.

My Falling Wave (ft. DM Stith)

Luca Di Maio

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