Raising the bar for real! I'm all ears, keep it coming...

Plsss tell me where this hook sample is from !

HOW GLAD I AM Suite is a sonic journey looking at the ins and outs of an overwhelming love affair. How Glad I am Suite is the first offering from Melanie's first solo project "The Girl In The Green Shoes"
*"How Glad I Am" is a jazz standard written by Jimmy Williams and Larry Harrison and was made famous by Nancy Wilson.

Side A
How Glad I Am
Produced by Melanie Charles
*w/ segments of
Manchilds "Especially For You"
Its Routines "Pretend"

Recorded at Zuercher studios and Love Science Studios
Mixed by Josh Guinta
Mastered by Bae Bro

B SIde
Produced by Swarvy and Melanie Charles
Mixed and Mastered by Swarvy

Watch the short film-----> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZgGqlIERTs

How Glad I Am Suite

Hand-Dipped Incense: A Lofi Sound Mix for Focus (MAW SUPPLY X Womon)

kngphx_120 w snoh aalegra vocals.wav 🐨

A simple soul 2-stepper romantic homage to 80s tracks. Returning to the love and the groove of the classic late night grooves that built a whole baby boom by themselves.

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Can't Control Myself

Production: Iman Omari
Vocals: Alexis Vaughn & Brittney Dorn


Play Me- The Algoryhthms (prod. by Iman Omari)

I was taught by the only one who could teach me what love is.

Open to your interpretation.

Earth - Chapter 10 - Broken barriers

B Side
Produced by Swarvy and Melanie Charles
Mixed and Mastered by Swarvy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZgGqlIERTs

2/20/2017

How Glad I Am (B side)

How Glad I Am
Produced by Melanie Charles

2/20/2016

How Glad I Am

Purely freestyling over a sick ass beat prod by @euneuneun

Come Inside

Dawn (feat. Vic Mensa)

Something for ya...
I love you..
Thank you for listening <3

.20minfix4

TRACKLIST:

EMIL FT AYEISHA RAQUEL - ASK YOU
MUVA - AFFIRMATIONS
SAM WILLS - TURN BACK
SHIV - GOLDEN
RAELLE - SUNDOWN
ABY COULIBALY - TAURUS
DEMAE - BASIC LOVE 
TIANA MAJOR 9 - EXCLUSIVELY
SIENNA HAMILTON - LOVING ME RIGHT
MATHS TIME JOY FT SINAED HARNETT & J WARNER - REAL DEAL
SHAMIYA BATTLES - COWS AND BELLS
BELLAH - STAND
LEX AMOR - 341 FREESTYLE
ENNY - FOR SOUTH
EMIL FT KING KAY & VENNA - PERFECT PEACE
GREGORY PORTER - EVERYTHING YOU TOUCH IS GOLD 
GIVEON - UNTITLED
COCO JONES - LOVE (KEYSHIA COLE COVER)
RILEY - A MOMENT
DVSN - THE LINE 
LEON BRIDGES FT TERRACE MARTIN - SWEETER 
JOYCE WRICE FT UMI - THAT’S ON YOU (JAPANESE REMIX)
RO JAMES FT MASEGO - SLOW DOWN
DINNER PARTY FT ALEX ISLEY & SNOOP DOGG - LUV U
DINNER PARTY FT MALAYA & PHOELIX - LOVE YOU BAD
FLWR CHYLD FT MIA GLADSTONE & ELUJAY - AURABLU
ABASE FT EMMAVIE & SCIENZE - SLOW IT DOWN
EMAMKAY - TEXTS 
ANDERSON PAAK - JEWELZ (PROD BY TIMBALAND)
JOY DENALANE FT BJ THE CHICAGO KID - BELIEVE
JAZMINE SULLIVAN - BEST OF ME
MARIO - NIKES FRESH OUT THE BOX
INDIA ARIE - THE TRUTH
MUSIQ SOULCHILD - SOBEAUTIFUL
ERYKAH BADU - OTHER SIDE OF THE GAME
ROBERT GLASPER FT LEDISI - GONNA BE ALRIGHT
TWEET FT BILAL - BEST FRIEND
BOB MARLEY FT LAURYN HILL - TURN YOUR LIGHTS DOWN LOW
ERYKAH BADU FT STEPHEN MARLEY - SO IN LOVE WITH YOU
AVANT FT KEKE WYATT - MY FIRST LOVE
LUTHER VANDROSS FT CHERYL LYNN - IF THIS WORLD WERE MINE
ROBERTA FLACK FT DONNY HATHAWAY - THE CLOSER I GET TO YOU
QUINCY JONES FT BARRY WHITE, AL B SURE, JAMES INGRAM & EL DEBARGE - SECRET GARDEN

Soul Surge Presents: Songs To Listen To Vol 22 (No Signal set)

Tracklist:

CHILDREN OF ZEUS - VIBRATIONS
DEMAE - LET GO
KOKOROKO - TI DE
EMIL FT AYEISHA RAQUEL - ASK YOU
JAMILAH BARRY - GLITTER
LIANNE LA HAVAS - BITTERSWEET
REUBEN JAMES - MY LINE FT COL3TRANE, JAY PRINCE, VULA & SOWETO KINCH
KADEEM TYRELL & BAKER AARON - HOW IT FEELS
BELLAH - BIG DREAMS, EMPTY POCKETS FT ALEXANDER LEWIS
TILLY BUSHAY - SURREY QUAYS
VEDA BLACK - SEVERAL COFFEES LATER
SIENNA HAMILTON - SAME PLACES
LIZ LUBEGA - AWAY
BELLAH - SUPERNOVA
MNELIA - BACK TO YOU
AMIA BRAVE - SWEET LOVE
FULL CRATE - MAGNETIC FT SUSAN CAROL & SERGIIO
ALEX ISLEY GOOD & PLENTY FT MASEGO & JACK DINE
JESSE BOYKINS FT J DAVEY - MEAN GIRLS
LEVEN KALI - MINE 
LINDA DIAZ - GREEN TEA ICE CREAM
SZA - GOOD DAYS
KAIIT - 2000 N SOMETHING
FLWR CHYLD FT AMARIA - MY MIND
LONDON. - UP IN THE AIR
SUMMER WALKER  - BODY (LIVE)
BELLAH - GOOD THING (LIVE)
PJ MORTON FT ALEX ISLEY - HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE (ACOUSTIC)
TIANA MAJOR 9 - SAME SPACE? ACOUSTIC
GINALUCA PORRO FT LALAH HATHAWAY - ANGEL
D’ANGELO - JONZ IN MY BONZ
THE ROOTS FT JILL SCOTT - COMPLEXITY
COMMON FT MARY J BLIGE - COME CLOSE
FLOACIST FT MUSIQ SOULCHILD - FOREVER 
JOONIE - SUNSHINE
MUSIQ SOULCHILD - SO BEAUTIFUL
AMEL LARRIEUX - FOR REAL
ERYKAH BADU - NEXT LIFETIME
MAXWELL - ASCENSION
RENE AND ANGELA - IMAGINARY PLAYMATES
ANITA BAKER - LEAD ME INTO LOVE
PEABO BRYSON - FEEL THE FIRE
LTD - WE BOTH DESERVE EACH OTHER’S LOVE
THE EMOTIONS - DON’T ASK MY NEIGHBOUR
ANITA BAKER - WHATEVER IT TAKES

Soul Surge Presents Songs To Listen To Vol 31

Although Charles may be new to some, she has held a long spanning relationship with music that goes back to girlhood. She was raised by a Haitian mother in Brooklyn where the sound waves in their home was filled with artists like Johnny Hodges, Frank Sinatra, Chaka Khan, and Nat King Cole. She attended the famed arts high school, LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts where she studied flute and vocals. Her early life was full of stage performances; as a kid she participated in musical theater, pageants, and talent shows in New York City. Eventually, she landed at the School of Jazz and Contemporary Music at The New School for college where she met artists like alto saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin and others. Perhaps better known as a singer, Charles has earned her title as a bonefide flutist. Her playing adds vibrant swaths of color and emotional texture to her music.

The album opens with a breathtaking rendition of Billie Holiday’s “God Bless the Child.” This song, and the album overall, flexes Charles’ impressive arrangement skills. The song features a powerful group of musicians—Benjamin Julia on electric guitar, Dezron Douglas on upright bass, Anwar Marshall on drums, Shedrick Mitchell on organ, and Tayzaro on cello. On flute and vocals, Charles floats above the soulful current of the band, singing the song over a dramatic blanket of electronic sound. The lyrics ring with equal power as the music. When Charles sings the lines “Yes, the strong get more/While the weak ones fade,” the connection to black women’s struggle is palpable. “My experience moving in the world as a black girl has always been, I have to be strong. I have to keep it together; I have to sort of live up to the standard,” says Charles.

At its core, Y’all Don’t (Really) Care is a clarion call for a more intersectional vision of the world in which black women can live more freely. The interlude “Pay Black Women” offers the most explicit instruction on some of the ways that care can be expressed. It contains a sample from a film project produced by Charles in 2021 entitled Love Letter to Black Jazz Girls.  Through the voices of three black women, the track draws attention to the racial gender wage gap but also to the treatment of black women artistic producers more broadly.

How Glad I Am (B side)

Melanie Charles is D'flower

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