KALAK

To Remember (feat. Photay & Kushal Gaya)

Tommy Brenneck is an American multi-instrumentalist, writer and record producer, perhaps best known as the founder and leader of Menahan Street Band, and core member of The Budos Band. Tom also produced renowned soul artist Charles Bradley, performed with the iconic Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, and has worked closely with Mark Ronson, Amy Winehouse, Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus. Brenneck is the founder of Dunham and Diamond West Records whose studio is based in Pasadena, CA.
Dig into this all 45s mix of 60s soul, r&b and funk 
JEFF DALE - DON’T FORGET ABOUT ME BABY 
THE HARMONICS - LET ME GO 
RHETTA HUGHES - HIS HAPPINESS 
MIKE WILLIAMS - I’M A LONELY SOLDIER 
BARBARA LYNN - TELEPHONE RING JEFF DALE - A SUFFERING PAIN 
CREATIONS - I’VE GOT TO FIND HER 
THE JAGGERZ - (THAT’S WHY) BABY I LOVE YOU 
CHUCK JACKSON - I KEEP FORGETTIN’ 
THE LINTONS - LOST LOVE 
LEE JONES & THE SOUNDS OF SOUL - THIS HEART IS HAUNTED 
ELLA WASHINGTON - THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER (ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE FENCE) 
JAMES BROWN - GOODBYE MY LOVE

L'envie #166 :: Tommy Brenneck

Linkwood Family - Piece of Mind

Diboujone est un créateur du Sud Ouest illustrant une musique onirique liée à l’océan.
Multi-instrumentaliste/ DJ/ Beatmaker issu de l’apogée de soundcloud, l’amour du jazz et de la neo-soul l’a naturellement orienté vers la composition pour d’autres artistes.

Accumulant +10 millions de streams au cours des 5 années passés, il distille parmis ses démos favorites et libère le 1 avril 2022 son premier projet éclectique de 10 titres, Colorful Vol.1 chez Délicieuse Records/ Hipdozer.

Ce projet orchestré/ mixé/ masterisé par Diboujone y comporte 15 artistes provenant de 5 pays (FR, BEL, USA, UK, CAN). On y retrouve des invités de marques tel que IAMDDB, Mokaboka ou Vendou.
Il décide ensuite de quitter ce label pour monter muxu records sur lequel il sort ses morceaux et collaborations mais aussi des sorties personnelles d’artistes comme Vida Motel, Emmafleurs, Germinal, DK Dizzy, Kagome.
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Diboujone is a creator from the South West, illustrating a dreamlike music deeply connected to the ocean.

A multi-instrumentalist, DJ, and beatmaker born from the golden era of SoundCloud, his love for jazz and neo-soul naturally led him to composing for other artists.

Accumulating over 10 million streams over the past five years, he carefully selected his favorite demos and released his first eclectic 10-track project, Colorful Vol.1, on April 1, 2022, via Délicieuse Records/Hipdozer.

Entirely orchestrated, mixed, and mastered by Diboujone, this project features 15 artists from five different countries (France, Belgium, USA, UK, and Canada), including notable guests such as IAMDDB, Mokaboka, and Vendou.

He later decided to leave the label to launch Muxu Records, where he releases his own tracks and collaborations, as well as personal projects from artists like Vida Motel, Emmafleurs, Germinal, DK Dizzy, and Kagome.

Diboujone - 25.03.24

Lock in to 2 hours of Oscillation - habitual soul, funk, jazz, broken beat & reggae gems with tracks from The Stingers, Winston Laro, Dreamcast and more.


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Oscillation - March 2024

Transmission Towers are operational, broadcasts have been received across the globe. Transmission One is inbound and ‘Sparse’ is the second oscillation from Mark Kyriacou and Eleanor Mante’s highly anticipated debut album, on Luke Una’s E Soul Cultura label. A stripped back, slo-mo cut of heads down, Detroit-flavoured deep house merged with futuristic machine soul.

The foundations for ‘Sparse’, laid with a pulsating kick and echoing rimshot, are simple, raw and immediately effective. Claps and clicks interject like strikes of light through the darkness. Channelling sonic architects such as Theo Parrish and Ron Trent, sounds with signatures bring an emotional presence. Pensive chords and deft piano keys sweep you up, with that subwoofer shaking bassline, rattling across the cosmos. Anchoring the track, Eleanor’s vocals entice from the depths with a soulfulness that is threaded through all of what Transmissions Towers do. 

Late-night reflections, cross-temporal reverberations, ‘Sparse’ is a timeless slice of emotive brilliance.

Transmission Towers - Sparse

If 2022’s The Children Of Scorpio was the debut album that turned people onto the world of Project Gemini aka Paul Osborne, Colours & Light is the body of work that will be buried deep into their hearts. It is a majestic album, bringing together the worlds of folk rock, psych soundtracks and hazy cinematic funk.
 
A growing confidence and ease emanate from the writing and production of this sophomore LP, bolstered by the reception to his standout debut. “It’s a more layered and diverse record” Paul mentions, “with a more outward-looking, global sound, born out of the records I was listening to and the musicians I was lucky enough to collaborate with”. It feels relaxed yet self-assured, with a kaleidoscope of sounds that twist together in a mesmerising fashion.
 
The theme of the album developed naturally through the lyrics Paul began writing. A creative process both plagued and fed by insomnia, nourished by relationships, entwined in emotions, nights out, nights in and the after-effects on the human condition. Relatable themes yet seen through the prism of a soundscape that takes in many a different culture and scene. From acid folk to psych-funk, Francophile elements to Anatolian and Eastern inspirations, all interlocking and rotating as one.
 
Drawing inspiration from those he admires, Colours & Light radiates with collaborations. The title track, which tips its hat to a live 1973 TV version of Pentangle’s ‘Wedding Dress’, features the folk rock, guitar brilliance of Jack Sharp from Wolf People/Large Plants.
 
Elsewhere, two tracks are blessed by the sultry, smokey French vocals of Gloria’s Wendy Martinez, ‘Extra Nuit’ and ‘Entre chien et loup’. The former echoes Paul's love of classic French psych-pop from the late ’60s and early ’70s and artists such as Laurance Vanay, Calcium, Leonie, and Serge Gainsbourg. Martinez's sublime vocal work nestles perfectly within Paul's psych-folk-funk productions, as her Gloria partner, Alexis Morel (aka Kid Victrola) sprinkles a dose of entrancing guitar line magic on proceedings.
 
The list of collaborations extends further with Raz and Markey Funk, drummer Tony Coote and percussionist Paul Elliott all featuring. Regular collaborator and underground icon Barrie Cadogan (Little Barrie) returns along with Bert Page from The Cromagnon Band, who between them provide a hit of whacked-out, fuzzed-up country guitar and Moog madness respectively on ‘Lost In The Woods (Bacchanal)’.
 
Rounding off the record Paul’s daughter, Olivia Osborne, supplies the keyboard intro on the penultimate track ‘Twilight’. Dorian Conway from The Soundcarriers (whose bandmate Paul Isherwood returns on mixing duties) then layers echoing heavy flute parts to magically capture the psychedelic sunrise images brought to mind. 
 
Balancing light and shade on this record, there is beauty and tension all wrapped up in Paul’s vivid and visceral, storytelling gift.

Project Gemini - Lost In The Woods (Bacchanal)

Project Gemini - The Sun Devil

Project Gemini - Lost In The Woods (Paranoia)

 Liebe Verrint von Vacuus Natus 

Lyrics :

1.

Liebe zerrinnt wie Sand in der Hand,
nichts bleibt bestehen, kein Herz, kein Band.
Treue ist Glas, das im Schatten zerbricht,
ein Schwur ohne Halt, ein flackerndes Licht.


2.
Wir halten uns fest in geliehenen Schwüren,
um Schuld zu ertragen, um Schuld zu verspüren.
Alles vergeht, kein Versprechen hält,
nur eine Kette aus Angst, die uns niederhält.

(instrumental) 

3.
Sich fallen zu lassen ist Selbstverrat,
ein Opfer des Ichs, ein kalter Pfad.
Hochzeiten thronen wie Tempel aus Stein,
Gefängniss gebaut aus „Wir wollen sein“.

4.
Freiheit verkümmert in goldener Zier,
wer bleibt, der verliert. 
Bedingungslos geben heißt: Asche verwehen,
ein Teil von sich für immer vergeben.

(Instrumental) 

Alles vergeht – kein Versprechen hält,
nur eine Kette aus Angst, die uns niederhält.
Sich fallen zu lassen ist Selbstverrat,
ein Opfer des Ichs, ein kalter Pfad.

(Instrumental) 

(Outro) 
Im Sturz in die Arme, ein Dolch in der Brust,
die Liebe ein Grab, die Nähe nur Lust.
Verloren im Spiegel, das Selbst weicht zurück, 

verleugnet, ertränkt – im Phantom eines Glücks.



Liebe Zerrint

@benson_myvinylweighs on the boards for this weeks episode with nearly 90mins beats & raps.

Sunday Sessions Nº379 w/ Benson

Record label. Record shop. Film label. Since 1989.

Project Gemini - Lost In The Woods (Bacchanal)

Mr Bongo