feb 2019

BBE Music is thrilled to announce the release of Modern Love, a diverse compendium of specially commissioned cover versions of rarities and classics in tribute to David Bowie.

Featuring an array of artists such as Jeff Parker, We Are KING, Meshell Ndegeocello, Helado Negro, Khruangbin, Matthew Tavares, Nia and more, Modern Love seeks to champion Bowie’s lesser-known connection to soul, R&B, jazz, funk, and gospel. The prominent jazz influences throughout Bowie’s final album, Blackstar, were a key inspiration for curating this collection of reimagined Bowie songs with these artists. The resulting album is an eclectic tribute featuring a group of artists who not only fit together creatively, but who, like Bowie, straddle different worlds musically, with soul and jazz at their core.

Modern Love offers a fresh look at Bowie’s trailblazing career, aiming to highlight the often overlooked relationship between his back catalogue and musical genres traditionally pioneered by artists of color. The project was curated by music executive and DJ Drew McFadden, alongside BBE Music founder Peter Adarkwah. “I felt that the connection between Bowie and R&B, jazz, funk, gospel and all things soulful, had never really been explored before — at least not so much in covers, which tend to lean more towards rock and pop,” says McFadden. “Certainly, there’s been plenty of Bowie covers over the years, but none that have really tapped into what seems to have been a big part of his core musical
style and direction.”

Modern Love is an interactive sonic map. Here, seventeen artists make their way into the varied regions of his sundry catalog and circle back with seventeen unique re-imaginings of both his cornerstone and lesser-known tracks. Some, in atmosphere, feel like a sly alternate take from original sessions (Khruangbin’s ethereal, funk infused version of “Right” from Young Americans); others nod at the source, then wink before diving into the deep waters of another musical stratosphere (Sessa’s sexy Tropicalia-drenched “Panic in Detroit” from Aladdin Sane). Still others take tunes down to the studs and then re-arrange the moody interiors: Meshell Ndegeocello’s pensive “Fantastic Voyage” from Lodger and Tavares’ clever take on “Heroes” which is restructured into a kinetic hardbop-esque backdrop, fronted by ice-cool, held-back vocals. The bullseye these artists aim for is Bowie’s fearlessness. “Fame was an incredible bluff that worked,” he once reflected. “Very flattering. I’ll do anything until I fail. And when I succeed I quit too.”

Modern Love packs us off on a journey that balances on risk’s sharp blade. Track-to-track, it explores what happens when a musician throws out notions of should and safe and stretches beyond the known. These artists use Bowie both as a guide and a prism: A way of being and seeing. Their offerings, widely divergent, explore the inheritance from an artist who freed himself from labels, genres and, consequently, pigeonholes. While he was at it, he decimated fixed notions about territory (or terra) itself; boundaries hemmed-in his creative process, but his essence remained free to roam. He may have vanished in earthly form, yet, as he also promised in the lyrics of “Modern Love,” But I never wave bye-bye . . .” This compilation assures us that his spirit swirls around us. His force is alive to all of us and, here, it is summoned with an incantation that celebrates possibility.

Khruangbin - Right

Credits:
Artist names: Ric Wilson, Yellow Days 
Production: Ric Wilson, George Van Den Broek 
Mix Engineer: Mike Malchicoff
Second Mix Engineer: Paul Matelski  
Mastered by Joe LaPorta @ Sterling Sound 
Cover Art: Yellow Days

Yellow Days & Ric Wilson - Life's Been Good To Me

Those Days

Those Days (feat. Leah Yeger)

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Joomanji - Spread Too Thin (feat. Lindsay Olsen & Nick Bianchini)

'Groove Curse' EP out now on 12" vinyl & digital -
Stream / Download: soulhasnotempo.lnk.to/SHNT001

Released 15th August 2014 via Soul Has No Tempo.

Soul Has No Tempo present Groove Curse, Jordan Rakei's long-awaited follow up to highly-acclaimed debut EP Franklin’s Room, his modern take on reggae-infused soul music. Groove Curse takes an evolved turn, with a sound Rakei describes as “raw, vocal-driven, groove”. With the first single off the EP, Street Light featuring Berklee College of Music Alumni, Gwen Bunn (vocalist and producer of Schoolboy Q’s Collard Greens feat. Kendrick Lamar), the release celebrates the skills of upcoming young musicians who are writing, self-producing and taking full advantage of their vocal and multi-instrumentalist talents.

Jordan Rakei - A Tribe Called Government [SHNT001]

Yeah… this one’s for the rivers,
For the salmon that fed the forest,
For the trees that miss the stream.
⸻
[Verse 1]
Yo, build a ladder, let the salmon climb,
Up the river, up the flow, right on time.
Viable systems, that’s what we need,
For ecology’s rhythm, for the cycle to feed.
Dams on the river, some make sense,
Hydro for the people, keep the lights intense.
But too many walls where the wild should be,
Blockin’ ancient pathways to the cedar and fir trees.
⸻
[Hook]
Break down the dams that ain’t necessary,
Let the salmon carry nutrients to the sanctuary.
Forests grow strong from the gift they release,
Natural fish emulsion—roots find peace.
Yeah, damn dams, time to breach,
Restore the flow, let the salmon teach.
⸻
[Verse 2]
Before the concrete walls, they would run so deep,
Past the valleys and the canyons where the tall pines sleep.
Bodies break down, giving life to the ground,
Nitrogen rich, where the fungi are found.
Now we starving the forest, choking the streams,
Killing the balance, blockin’ the dreams.
So breach that wall, if it don’t serve the land,
Let the river reclaim with its powerful hand.
⸻
[Hook]
Break down the dams that ain’t necessary,
Let the salmon carry nutrients to the sanctuary.
Forests grow strong from the gift they release,
Natural fish emulsion—roots find peace.
Yeah, damn dams, time to breach,
Restore the flow, let the salmon teach.
⸻
[Bridge]
This is more than a fight, it’s a sacred call,
Water to the forest, balance for all.
From the river to the ridgeline, ecosystem tight,
Healing with the salmon, bring the world back to life.
⸻
[Outro]
So build the ladders where the power must stay,
But break the barriers that stand in the way.
Health of the forest, the ocean, the land,
Depends on free rivers—time to take a stand.

Let the Salmon Teach

De La Soul - Drawn Ft. Little Dragon

Self-made singer and guitarist @oscarjerome combines soulful strains with contemporary electronica and organic instrumentation, off his forthcoming self-titled EP.

Read more & buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2016/10/31/oscar-jerome-2-sides

Oscar Jerome - 2 Sides (STW Premiere)

rain
God you feel so far away
but now Your Tears are on my face
i feel Your Cold Embrace
what did i do now?
i feel sane
until You say my name
i can’t handle all the shame
my mistakes on Your Boundless Grace
You picked the wrong girl

and i don’t understand
You are thunder but You are my friend
You are perfect, You are great
why do You care for me this way?
why do You punish me everyday?
why is Your Love all i crave?
did You make me of cloud or sand?
will someone love me like You loved man?

ah oo, don’t understand
You are thunder but You are my friend
You are perfect, You are great
why do You care for me this way?
why do You punish me everyday?
why is Your Love all i crave?
did You make me of cloud or sand?
will someone love me like You loved man?

direct line to My Creator

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thunder

Buy or Stream Now - http://smarturl.it/JMSNTalkIsCheap

Written, Produced, Mixed and Performed by JMSN

All instruments Preformed by JMSN except:

Drums: Andrew Boyle
Piano: Aaron Provisor
Strings: Nora Germain
Additional Vocals: Joey Fatts

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JMSN - Talk Is Cheap

Do You Really

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Produced by @cpsl0ck , Nafets, & Brian 'Brobb' Robertson
Additional Moog by Iz Burns of the @burnstwins
Mixed and Mastered by Calin Enache at District Sound Lab
Cover design by Megayacht
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LYRICS:

INTRO x4:
Rubies Truly
Truly yours
HOOK x2:
(ahhhhh) Rubies Truly
Truly yours (ahhhh)

VERSE 1:
They telling you lies
Saying you’re value is equal to goal
And then when they bet on your life
They moving the liens off of the road
You deserve to you deserve to ear
You deserve to you deserve to dream
Aint absurd the universe it breaths
Birthstones color reef
Rainsh blood off leaves
Brainwash though tv
Throne no different than seat
Blue blood watch how they bleed
And I wanna see those mango tress again
I wanna feel myself feel feelings
I wanna love my friends
I wanna see my preacher walking good enough to dance Until then I extend my open hand full of

HOOK x2:
Rubies Truly
Truly yours (ahhhhh)
VERSE 2:
Birth stones for my birthday Feeling dizzy in the summer time Are you feeling aright?
Can you see the brights lights?
The cities on fire
The cities on fire
I just wanna feel myself (ay)
I just wanna feel my freedom
I just wanna wish my well
Open the gates to my kingdom and 
Swallow that, Rose
Open and , Close
Lock it and, Load 
Aim that shit just it go

HOOK x4:
Rubies Truly
Truly yours (ahhhhh)
OUTRO x2:
Don’t you say you fucked it up!
Cuz we could still be enough
Our years ahead and dust to dust Return where you running from my dear

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Ruby

171118_ThatJacobBeat

Guess what? It's Dilla's bday again and I'm so excited to share with you my 4th edition of what turns out to be an annual tradition. As always, paying a tribute to Dilla is easy and fun but also challenging at the same time, because his music is so inspiring and my musings wake up with the first note being played, but the challenge lies exactly in the same spot: what can I possibly add to such rounded and soulful music? the conclusion is usually similar every single time; just play WITH Dilla, rather than use him. So every year just before this special day, I'm sitting in my room and he is there, showing me this cool drum sound he just sampled or this warm beat, and he's asking me: Lamotta, would you mind recording a verse over that? and so I did. Happy Birthday!

Tracklist-
1. Hustle - taken from " Fantastic, Vol. 2 " (Slum Village)
2. Track 16 - taken from "Another Batch "  
3. Unknown name - Unreleased 1996 Beat Tapes

Talking about Dilla -
*House Shoes
*Robert Glasper

About Love #4 (Dilla tribute)

Joomanji - Where Are You ? (Love for JL)- Lindsay Olsen - Copasetic

QADIR

https://www.oscarjerome.com

bookings: jack@atc-live.com

Do You Really

Oscar Jerome

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