Mantra is the new single from Surf Coast multi instrumentalist Immy Owusu and his first with Melbourne label Hopestreet Recordings. Mantra is a dreamy slice of Immy’s ‘Afrodelik’ approach to music, a sound that spans psychedelic rock, funk and West African roots.

Immanuel Kwabena Dreesens-Owusu grew up in two worlds: the sea bleached lifestyle of Torquay and the Surf Coast with its rock n roll soundtrack, and the musical heritage of his Ghanaian / Dutch family. Immy’s father Kojo is one of Australia’s best regarded West African musicians and his grandfather Koo Nimo is a legend of Ghanaian Highlife and Palm Wine music active since the 1960s. From them Immy learned Ashanti music and its instruments, added a fuzz pedal and began to experiment. 

Immy spent much of the pandemic living in his caravan in the bush near Bells Beach where he wrote Mantra, letting the Australian landscape and the African rhythms percolate to create a dreamy track with unstoppable momentum. Raw and rhythmic bass and drums at the forefront, Mantra opens with a roughly picked guitar hook. Echo vocals come from all around, spooky but not ominous, telling us to face our fears and give them up to a higher power. ‘When you worry, when you’re feeling down. All your darkness, give it all to me. This is my mantra’. The track builds with layered synthesizers and pads drawing you into an unfamiliar world. 

Of Mantra, Immy says ‘My family always said as a kid that when I was worried about something that I could give these negative feelings up to the Angels, The Great Mother, Jesus, God or the Universe, depending on which family member I was asking.’

Immy Owusu - Mantra

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The Grand Maestro from Brussels is back from a months long road trip with some mighty good Latin grooves - all vinyl mixtape !

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North Carolina-based artist Rosali makes songs that take their time in revealing their full power. What might first appear to be restrained, introspective compositions will stretch slowly outward, snagging your attention with a subtly sideways guitar lead or an exceptionally raw lyric you didn’t catch the first time around. Rosali’s softly glowing music is malleable and deceptively fluid, able to appear patient and refined or at the edge of unraveling depending on how closely you chose to look. Her latest album, Bite Down, made with Omaha’s Mowed Sound was released in March on Merge Records. 

Check out her mix for Radio L’envie now streaming on Mixcloud, Soundcloud, Spotify! 

Stealers Wheel - Late Again 
The Mamas & The Papas - Step Out 
Mazzy Star - She's My Baby 
Yo La Tengo - Double Dare 
Dead Moon - Don't Burn the Fires 
The Groundhogs - Cherry Red - 2003 Remastered Version 
Gary Stewart - She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles) 
Bonnie Raitt - That Song About the Midway 
John Cale - Big White Cloud 
Sparklehorse, PJ Harvey - Piano Fire 
Nico - I'm Not Sayin' 
Alison Krauss & Union Station - Every Time You Say Goodbye 
Link Wray - Black River Swamp 
Wipers - Return of the Rat 
The Stooges - Loose 
PJ Harvey - Missed 
Low - Like a Forest 
John Conlee - We Belong In Love Tonight 
Neil Young, Crazy Horse - Cortez the Killer - Live 
Robert Wyatt - At Last I Am Free 
Linda Perhacs - Dolphin

L’envie #198 :: Rosali

This week on Putumayo World Music Hours, Dan Storper and Rosalie Howarth explore Blues music around the world. In Blues music you’ll often find what’s called the “blue note” –  that slight “bend” in certain notes in the scale, and it can be heard in the music of many countries.

Episode 24.35
Airdates: August 26th - September 1st, 2024

Featured:
1. Blues Etilicos - “Canceriano Sem Lar (Clinica Tobias Blues)” (From the albums “Dente de Ouro” on Excelente Discos and “Blues Around the World” on Putumayo)
2. Laye Sow - “Kayba” (From the album “Djamano” On Orange World Records)
3. Luther Allison - “Part Time Love” (From the albums “Luther’s Blues” on MCA and “Mississippi Blues” on Putumayo)
4. Tangle Eye - “John Henry’s Blues” (From the albums “Alan Lomax’s Southern Journey Remixed” On Zoe Records and “Blues Lounge” on Putumayo)
5. Taj Mahal Meets the Culture Musical Club of Zanzibar - “Catfish Blues” (From the albums “Mkutano” On Tradition & Moderne and “Blues Around the World” on Putumayo)
6. Botafogo - “Slide Blues” (From the albums “Solo Blues Acoustico” on DBN and “Blues Around the World” on Putumayo)
7. Amadou and Mariam - “Mon Amour, Ma Cherie” (From the albums “Sou Ni Tile” on Universal Jazz France and “Mali to Memphis” on Putumayo)
8. The Unseen Guest - “Listen My Son” (From the albums “Out There” on Tuition and “Blues Around the World” on Putumayo)
9. Big Mama & Victor Uris - “No Way Out” (From the albums “El Blues de L'Ombra Blava” on Discmedi and “Blues Around the World” on Putumayo)
10. Tinariwen - “Chatma” (From the album “Amassakoul” on World Village)
11. Daby Balde - “Waino Blues” (From the album “Introducting Daby Balde” on World Music Network)
12. Amar Sundy - “Najma” (From the album “Najma” on Dixie Frog)
13. Arthur Adams & B.B. King - “Get You Next to Me” (From the albums “Blind Pig 25th Anniversary” on Blind Pig and “American Blues” on Putumayo)

Blues Around The World

Grey DeLisle is an Emmy-nominated voice actress, songwriter, stand-up comic, single mom, autoharpist & independent touring musician who runs her own record label. She is tired. 

Check out her mix for Radio L’envie now streaming on Mixcloud, Soundcloud, Spotify! 

Photo Credit: Julia Dillon 

Old 97's - Valentine 
The Drifters - Some Kind of Wonderful 
The Zombies - Care Of Cell 44 
Washington Phillips - Lift Him Up That's All 
Iris DeMent - Let the Mystery Be 
Johnny Cash - I Still Miss Someone 
Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Heart Like a Wheel 
The Beach Boys - That's Not Me 
Emmylou Harris - Till I Gain Control Again 
The Hollies - Sandy (4th Of July Asbury Park) 
The Doobie Brothers - What a Fool Believes 
George Jones - Walk Through This World With Me 
The Cure - Boys Don't Cry 
Dolly Parton - Down from Dover 
Loudon Wainwright III - The Swimming Song 
The Carter Family - Fifty Miles of Elbow Room 
John Prine - The Oldest Baby in the World

L’envie #199 :: Grey DeLisle

03. Rayko - Metropolis Nights (Vocal Mix)

2015 [brasil, downtempo] Voodoohop @ Cabaret - Fusion Festival

(112). BoM - Ethnic & Exotic Jazz Mix

(Mix) 112. BoM - Ethnic & Exotic Jazz Mix (World Music In Jazz, Hang, Duduk)

Get Wise is a collection of heavy mid 90’s hip hop.

Mixed by Kev Luckhurst

All tracks selected & recorded from the vaults of Andy Edwards, Simon See and Kevin.

Get Wise Productions 2008.

GW001.3 (Digital)

GW001.2 (CD Repress by Rarekind Records)

GW001 (100 Hand printed & numbered)

Please send feedback if you like it.

Massive thanks to Ewan at Rarekind Records in Brighton for pressing up CDs.  Twice.  Ewan stocks some of the heavist hip hop vinyl around, and often accepts wants lists…  Check out his very very good shop here.

Get Wise Volume 1

Hosted by former KFOG personality Rosalie Howarth and Putumayo founder Dan Storper, the Putumayo World Music Hour (PWMH) is an internationally syndicated radio show that takes listeners on a weekly journey through the music of many different cultures.

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