Heart String Special

Heart String Special (feat. Liv.e)

Prod. By Iman Omari

of the "High-Loops" Tape

Buy @ http://imanomari.bandcamp.com/album/high-loops  


"Samadhi EP" Coming this Summer<<<< (This is the vocal EP)

Addicted [Flip]

deeply in love with this song so i decided to chop it.

JoosexAGO - "Julian" (produced by mozaic) C&S

Just a song............THAT JUST SO HAPPENS TO ALSO HAVE A MUSIC VIDEO!!!!

Music Video: https://vimeo.com/92992346


Infinite Everything

Poetry & melanin in their purest forms. 

Prod. BENADRYL



Colors (feat. Dezaihr)

w/ @femdotmusic

soundcloud.com/laskospace/sets/femdot-lasko-insight

premiere and interview via MISHKA:
mishkanyc.com/bloglin/2015/06/05…beats-femdotdotcom

Suede

BLOCK  RADIO  ALL THIS LOVE

1. want and need you (0.00)
2. don't be selfish (0.31)
3. call me (1.39)
4. touching me up (3.18)
5. hey girl (5.20)
6. spinning (7.40)
7. talking to the birds (9.24)
8. sneak upstairs (11.44)
9. when you came (13.26)
10. i love you (16.51)

Panty Soakers 2

Sugar pam ft. Bmbsperry

Liv.e : phunkintro. (Mndsgn Remix.)

Mixed by Melanie Charles
MAstered by BaeBro


Make Jazz Trill Again

Lamp Is Low (You used to love me Live Bootleg)

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.

Lamp Is Low (You used to love me Live Bootleg)

Melanie Charles is D'flower

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