yo <a href="http://hhhhappy.com/2013/08/28/introducing-ngaiire/">Ngaiire</a>, you're sounding amazing! looove this track x

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"Cross My Heart," the debut track from new ANTI- signing Son Little, is a box of bonbons filled with barbed wire.  Over a deceptively slinky groove -- shades of 70's Marvin Gaye, Leon Ware -- the singer croons, phrases emerging from the swelter, "sex and candy," "gonna get me some:" a lover's plea.  But the angular blues guitar lick over the top of the track is clue to a deeper, older invocation, as Son Little's lyrics bear witness to two departed friends, and, inspired by Trayvon Martin, offer a meditation on the ease with which black lives are erased -- even now, decades beyond the years when that smoky guitar line was invented. Son Little's voice soars like a young Stevie Wonder's as he testifies to his loss, and the "cross my heart" tag line reveals itself not as a lover's plea, but a defiant prayer to remember the lost.

The track is accompanied by an atmospheric black-and-white video that evokes the smoky milieus of Lester Young and Billie Holiday, reinforcing the themes of the song in its references to lost greats.

Look for more to come from Son Little in 2014.

Son Little

Cross My Heart

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Son Little - Cross My Heart

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Our design was to oversleep
On a worn out lullaby
Time's passing by with a rough and tumble heart
From the currents that underlie. 
Our crime was the deficit of eyes
In the shape of the dollar sign
Time's passing by but we took too long
And the idea crystallised.

And all the things I want to state
Are undermined by hesitation
lightness, is a mythic city inside.

Who's to say we've had enough
We were soulen, strollin', stolen, I stole it.
Who's to say we've gone too far
We were walkin', growin', rollin', owing.

Our design was to oversleep
On a worn out lullaby
Time's passing by with a rough and tumble heart
From the currents that underlie. 

And all the things I want to taste
On other's tongues and other's plates
Insight is, just a dream punch away from the light.

Friction of a distant time, 
I hope I don't pay the price,
For takin' time, changing mind,
take it to the borderline.

Nuff

From the debut EP: Bishouné: Alma del Huila.
Buy/Listen: goo.gl/VpMqFJ 
Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pv4ykKIllM
Produced, arranged, composed and performed by Gabriel Garzón-Montano.
Recorded mixed and mastered by Henry Hirsch at Waterfront Studios.
Assistant Engineer - Rachel Alina

Keep On Running

"Hey Mami", off the new self-titled release from SYLVAN ESSO, out 2 June 2014 on City Slang.
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Sylvan Esso - Hey Mami

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Blue Honey

NEW SINGLE: ONCE 
FIRST CUT FROM SECOND ALBUM BLASTOMA

Born in the Papua New Guinean town famous as the last place Amelia Earhart flew out of before meeting her demise, Ngaiire spent her first few years in NZ in an almost exclusively Maori primary school, exposed to as much ballet and opera as her parents could get her to. 

Returning to PNG a few years later, her first experience of live music was watching American college big bands on tour, and her flair for costuming developed by her fashion designer mother’s keen eye for the dramatic. 

Growing up listening to the reggae, Australian Top 40, and her Mum’s Mariah Carey and Cliff Richard albums, it wasn’t until Ngaiire’s family moved to Australian that her musical outlook went wide lens. She heard Ani DiFranco, Jeff Buckley, Tool, Sarah Vaughan, Debussy and Gershwin for the first time, and went to her first ever gig – Machine Gun Fellatio, officially blowing her mind, and inspiring a Visual Arts major work for highschool that essentially filled her mother’s loungeroom with fake gigantic phalluses. 

Joining bands and studying for her Bachelor of Jazz Studies at the Conservatorium of Music, Ngaiire somehow ended up on Australian Idol - hint: it was her incredible voice that did it. The more illuminating experiences, though, were touring extensively throughout the UK, Japan, Europe and Canada as a backing singer with Blue King Brown, and commencing an enduring collaborative friendship with electronic music don Paul Mac. Ngaiire, global citizen, now felt she had the universe in the palm of her hands. 

Releasing her future-soul debut Lamentations in 2013 to some acclaim, leading to her first ever slot at Glastonbury and shows with Alicia Keys and John Legend, Ngaiire has left no genre unturned in her search for herself. While she’s spent time writing music for dance companies, creating crazy sound installations for David Walsh’s MONA FOMA, collaborating with fashion designers, dreaming of working with Warhol and Phillip Glass and generally being a boho-R’n’B- weirdo-dilettante, the biggest project for this powerhouse performer has been new record Blastoma.

Without doubt, one of Australia’s most unique, eclectic and fearless artists, as evidenced by her electric shows, spine-tingling vocal deliveries and outrageous costumes, Ngaiire now releases Blastoma’s first single, ‘Once’. Co-written with mega-babes Megan Washington and Paul Mac, and produced by Paul Mac and Jack Grace, ‘Once’ is about taking risks that turn into revelations: story of her life. 

Strong and true and powerful. LITTLE ROLLING STONE

You can't stop this talented young singer's momentum. TONE DEAF

There is no doubt in my mind of the incredibly high value of her music in this world. BEAVER ON THE BEATS

Ngaiire is the very definition of originality. BBM LIVE

Single on iTunes Fri 10 Jul 

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Once [Blastoma Edit]

James Blake - I Need A Forest Fire (Feat. Bon Iver)(PolyFox Remix)

The second single from the debut album.

Produced by Tim Curnick
NGAIIRE : All Vocals
Tim Curnick, Jack Britten, Niall Anderson: Keyboards
Evan Mannell: MPC
Aiko Akrif: Percussion

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