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Installment #062

Sometimes you have to step back, slow down and re-assess your next steps. So after a couple months, we're back in it with Session #062 along with a few other releases. This one is just a versatile audio journey that is in this case best experienced solo. Feel visualized audio. Much much more to come & love to everyone always.

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Session #062 (April 2022) [www.thesession.live]

Written by Trey Graves, TiRon & Skye Louise
Produced by Trey Graves
Arranged by Trey Graves & TiRon
Additional Drum Programming by theekidspex
Background Vocals by TiRon
Keys by Daniel Abraham
Guitar by Jamaal Franklin
Mixed by TiRon
Mastered by Brock McFarlane for CPS Mastering

Charm

#1 Ft. Skye Louise

FIND LIGHT prod Poe Leos

WGFT X IG GIRLS X GYAL WINE REFIX BY J3

Sample: Zayn- sHe
Idea helped: https://soundcloud.com/barry-emerica

She.

Download: http://soundcloud.com/dwnldnknwn/nknwn-018-1

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nknwn - 018 (DL in Description)

Emmavie IWD X Clash Mix

Hey Guys, hope you're all well. I've been working on a lot of music since the confinement. Haven't been this productive in a long time.  We're usually living in a fast paced society. So even if it sounds weird to some people, I appreciate that I had the opportunity to take life at a slower pace and finally start create again. Here's a song I want to share with you. Its a very personal one I wrote while being in quarantine. Hope you enjoy it! 
And while it seems that my life is slowly starting to take its normal course again, I hope you stay healthy out there and take something with you from this uncertain time. 
Lots of Love, Su

Lyrics: 
All I gotta know
Is are you all in
Cause I need to make sure
You're not just playing games
Cause I gave my heart away already
to some playas before
They took it for granted
Leaving me damaged
I'm bringing some baggage
I can't take this no more

Now all I can do
Is to put my trust in you
Now all I can do
Is to put my trust in you
I'll open up again
Giving love another chance
Will have to leave the past behind
So I can let you in

I wasn't myself for a long time
Was chasing for satisfaction
But never been fully satisfied
I can't hide from who I am
Still you crave for every inch
Was trying to fill the void I felt inside
But you kept waiting
No matter how many demons 
I have to fight
You giving me hope
You make me feel alive
I know it's not just temporary
Cause it never felt so right
But I'm bringing some baggage
Please don't take me for granted 

Now all I can do
Is to put my trust in you
Now all I can do
Is to put my trust in you
I'll open up again
Giving love another chance
Will have to leave the past behind
So I can let you in

Beat: Knxwledge -thats allwekando

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All I Can Do (rough)

Segue (For Myk)

On their third full-length release, Potatohead People widen the frame of their progressive musical vision and deliver a far-reaching yet approachable set of moods and grooves.

Mellow Fantasy continues to showcase the trademark instrumental prowess of the duo and their ease with the loose but hard-hitting drum style brought to the fore by Jay Dee’s influential productions, but goes well beyond basic boom bap bread and butter, with singer-centered R&B and uptempo bumps sharing the stage. 

Beginning in 2008 as a Vancouver-based hip-hop production team, Potatohead People (Nick Wisdom and AstroLogical) have collaborated with a fantasy league of MCs, including Frank Nitt of Frank’n’Dank (the 2013 breakout jam “Back To My Shit”), Illa J (producing an entire album for J. Dilla’s younger brother) and the late Phife Dawg (the beloved A Tribe Called Quest co-founder’s last recorded verse was over one of their beats).  

Setting them apart from other Dilla-influenced beatmakers is the way they push the scope of the style, working the corners with their own unique touch. At its most basic, “the goal has always been making really dope loops,” they explain. By using slices of their own rough instrumental ideas, finding “a chord progression or texture that you can hear again and again and never question it,” they’ve taken this fundamental concept and elevated it to new levels of melodic, harmonically complex music.

A jazz-like responsiveness to the input of collaborators is a key component of how the team works. “We like to get the artist involved when the beat is an early idea, and build the beat around the vocals, getting inspired by what they do.” 

On Mellow Fantasy, they had some impressive inspiration. Pos from De La Soul immediately connected with “Baby Got Work,” a sophisticated slap that went through several iterations before settling into its ultimate form. Appropriately, the song’s diligent construction echoes the ethic of the grind in the clear-eyed, precisely dovetailed lyrics fans have come to expect from the Daisy Age don. “Baby Got Work” is the album’s lead single, hitting on 9/25/20.

Befitting Potatohead People’s origins as a hip-hop group, cameos from Illa J and Slum Village’s T3 on the summertime teaser “What It Feels Like” and Vancouver veteran Moka Only (the sassy, vanity take-down “Ungodly”) add to the unimpeachable rap bonafides. 

The hometown connections continue with Lotusland local Kapok slinging verses on a couple tracks and rising stars Kendra Dias and Clear Mortifee, who stake serious claims as names to watch with standout vocal turns on the low-slung neo-soul “Break Even” and the upcoming second single “Hidden Levels,” a high-flying house/future boogie hybrid. Following up their successful 2019 collabo “Single Life,” Bunnie makes her return to action with the group on “Kettle Boiling.” Ranging further, Reggie B, who broke on the scene with his lead on Onra’s “High Hopes,” shines on the optimistic bounce of “Bring The World A Little Closer.”

Threaded throughout are interlude instrumentals that comfortably manage the neat trick of being musically intriguing while retaining an accessible, gut-level thump. Look no further than the statement-making, Yussef Kamaal-like funk fusion album opener “1st Light” and their nod to overlooked Vancity synth pioneer Dale Jacobs (“Ode To Mr. Jacobs”) for clues to where Nick and Astro’s hearts are at.

Mellow Fantasy, released 10/30/20 on Bastard Jazz and available on vinyl and all digital platforms, is Potatohead People’s most evolved collection yet, rooted in earthy low end but elevated, expansive and reaching new musical heights.

Mellow Fantasy

Potatohead People - Break Even (feat. Kendra Dias)

There's nothing left to say to you
Don't act like I ain't pay my dues
I'm picking up the pace, It's all about the chase
You could try to fake the moves
But that'll be a way to lose, yeah
Just another phase, the summer 'fore you place, yeah

Man, for real, that's just how I feel
Everything is honest, when a nigga know what's real
See, I can make a song about the shit that really kills
But you would shut it down because you hating on my skills
I put you in a headlock, for like 3 shots
4 more, 5, 6, 7
Heavily armed military goons, it's nonstop for you niggas
Please carry on
It's fuck

Fuck y'all
Yeah
(Fuck this)
Yeah, fuck y'all
Yeah
Fuck y'all, fuck y'all

Nigga all I hear is (Rah-rah-rah-rah)
Can't reply, way to high for all that (Yah-da-da-da)
Yea I know, niggas used to be, gang-gang-gang-gang
But in life, there are things that we just can't maintain
Gangland is the main frame

Heartbeat of the city, is where we were born
I didn't know shit about shit back when you put me on
You told me what was legit, and what was ludicrous
Never let the homegirl know I was new to this
(Stupid lil niggas)
See I was a November baby, so I was the kid brother
We was in the same grade
Whatever we did, yo, we did together
Damn near live together, and when we got older I thought we were gonna win together
But I played you my first song and you hated it
Sent you another 5 and you never replied

Now you tryna hit me on that (Rah-rah-rah-rah)
When you know I ain't really on that (Yah-da-da-da)
Fast forward 5 years later, I'm getting paper
Might see me in the sky, in my scraper
But it's

Fuck y'all
Yeah
(Fuck this)
Yeah, fuck y'all
Yeah
Fuck y'all, fuck y'all*

For real, mayne
I just wanna sign my deal, mayne
Gotta keep it live, keep it real, mayne
Keep it trill, mayne
Know the deal, mayne

Segue (For Myk)

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