R&B/SOUL

Bluestaeb - WHOA WAIT feat. Ric Wilson & cay caleb.
First single for the new album "GISEKE", coming on @jakarta-records on July 23.

Stream & Vinyl Pre-Order: https://fanlink.to/whoawait

Mixing together with S. Fidelity 
Mastering by Zino Mikorey

WHOA WAIT feat. Ric Wilson & cay caleb.

Single + instrumental out now: smarturl.it/sotjstevie

Richmond, Virginia soul outfit Sons Of The James (singer Rob Milton & producer/musician DJ Harrison) follow up their acclaimed 2020 debut LP 'Everlasting' with a new single. 

Here, the duo team up with fellow RVA multi-talent, Calvin Presents, to cover the Stevie Wonder classic, "Love's In Need Of Love Today." 

Released on May 13th to coincide with Stevie's 71st birthday, the message of the original still rings all too true – a full 45 years after its initial release on the seminal 'Songs In The Keys Of Life' double album.

"Love's In Need Of Love Today" 

Written by Stevie Wonder 
(Black Bull Music/Jobete Music Co. ASCAP) 
All rights reserved. 

Personnel: 
Rob Milton - vocals 
Calvin Presents - vocals, Rhodes, synthesizer 
DJ Harrison - drums, bass 

Produced by DJ Harrison & Calvin Presents 

Recorded & Mixed by DJ Harrison at Jellowstone – Richmond, VA 

Mastered by Kelly Hibbert at Almachrome 

FSX-055-01 © 2021 Fresh Selects.

Follow:
@therobmilton
@djhsounds
@calvinpresents
@freshselects

Sons Of The James & Calvin Presents "Love's In Need Of Love Today" [Stevie Wonder cover]

Single out now everywhere: smarturl.it/rwjntbt

London multi-talent Royce Wood Junior continues the rollout for 'No Two Blue Ticks', his first LP in over 5 years, with a new two-sided single. 

Long known for being early on producing rising British R&B talents like NAO, Jamie Woon, Kwabs, & JNR Williams (all of which appear on the new album) – here RWJ continues that proven track record by introducing 2 new talents: the goosebump-inducing blue-eyed soul shriek of Burhou frontman Ross Hutchison (also known as Shirazpapi) & the airy, angelic falsetto of Lucey Way.

Personnel: 
Lucey Way - vocals
RWJ - backing vocals, guitar, keys, synth, programming
Jamie Woon - backing vocals
Ross Hutchison - backing vocals
Dave Okumu - bass
Gareth Lochrane - flute
Jake Meadows - harp
Moose Curtis - percussion

Produced, Mixed & Engineered by Royce Wood Junior 

Written by James Wood

Mastered by Kevin Tuffy @ AIR Studios 
Tape Processing by Jimmy Day

Cover Painting by RWJ

Executive Producers: RWJ & Kenny / Fresh Selects

FSX-050-03 © 2021 Fresh Selects.

Follow:
@roycewoodjunior
@freshselects

Lyrics:

Won't let a thing rely on fact,
And now you're to blame for lies and attacks, yeah
And all that you mean
Only two ways – to crumble or crack
And nowt left to say when love just don't matter
On what will we cling?

Yeah yeah yeah…

I'm with you now
In the rocket's red glare
I'm with you now
For the twilight's last gleaming
I'm with you now
For this

And oh, the old days
Where dawn once cracked
And now this new phase,
Where life just don't matter, yeah
And how will we sing?

Yeah yeah yeah…

I'm with you now
In the rocket's red glare
I'm with you now
For the twilight's last gleaming
I'm with you now
For this

I'm with you now
In the rocket's red glare
I'm with you now
For the twilight's last gleaming
I'm with you now
For this

No Two Blue Ticks

Royce Wood Junior "With You Now For This" (feat. Lucey Way)

Single out now everywhere: smarturl.it/rwjntbt

London multi-talent Royce Wood Junior continues the rollout for 'No Two Blue Ticks', his first LP in over 5 years, with a new two-sided single. 

Long known for being early on producing rising British R&B talents like NAO, Jamie Woon, Kwabs, & JNR Williams (all of which appear on the new album) – here RWJ continues that proven track record by introducing 2 new talents: the goosebump-inducing blue-eyed soul shriek of Burhou frontman Ross Hutchison (also known as Shirazpapi) & the airy, angelic falsetto of Lucey Way.

Personnel: 
Ross Hutchison - vocals
Royce Wood Junior - vocals, guitar, piano, keys, synth, programming
Jamie Woon - backing vocals
Lucey Way - backing vocals
Dan Gulino - bass
Dan See - drums
Moose Curtis - percussion

Produced & Mixed by Royce Wood Junior 

Written by James Wood, Dan See, & Cassia "Cosha" O'Reilly

Engineered by RWJ and Alex “Lexxx” Dromgoole

Mastered by Kevin Tuffy @ AIR Studios 
Tape Processing by Jimmy Day

Cover Painting by RWJ

Executive Producers: RWJ & Kenny / Fresh Selects

FSX-050-03 © 2021 Fresh Selects.

Follow:
@roycewoodjunior
@freshselects

Lyrics:

All around the metropole, a deathly breeze
Flung around the doughnut hole’s peripheries
All the dumb roses replaced by weeds
And art is just some brand ‘round here

Even if we automate the rivers clean
Everything in Helvetic, clinic beauty
Life’s been dyed to grey from green
The Earth don’t understand what we’re doing here

Yeah – and our only stance is to film the blistering
Our little rock in the gutter
It was our design, we’ve got to charge our batteries
And we held it down and watched it bleed, yeah

Oh, to be a human babe – a godless blink
Sucking on the Milky Way’s umbrella drinks
Only glum tumblers, where once was skin

And I don’t own no flowers
I don’t got no power
I don’t possess nothing here
I’ll no longer cower
I don’t need ‘Jim Wood Towers’
When I’m just powder scattered here

Yeah – and our only stance can be to let them listen in
Stored in the cloud, every mutter
It was our design, the world’s a person factory,
It’ll hold you down

Royce Wood Junior "Umbrella Drinks" (feat. Ross Hutchison)

The first song on Royce Wood Junior's sophomore full-length 'No Two Blue Ticks' – out now on Fresh Selects: http://smarturl.it/rwjntbt

Produced & Mixed by Royce Wood Junior

Written by James Wood, Dan See, Charlie Platt & Veera Lummi

RWJ - vocals, guitars, synth, programming
Jamie Woon -  backing vocals
Lucey Way -  backing vocals
Ross Hutchison - backing vocals
Charlie Platt - piano
Dan See - drums
Moose Curtis - percussion
Modulus Quartet - strings

Engineered by RWJ and Alex “Lexxx” Dromgoole

String Arrangement by Veera Lummi
Strings Engineered by Rick David

Follow:
@roycewoodjunior
@freshselects

Lyrics:

I'm out cold like hope, stoned and limed
My man had 4 jacks and I the drink and moonlight
I'm out cold like old satellites
I shoulda called it but I'll know for the next time

I'm out cold from ode-stolen lines
I had a fall back but shot through like a TEC-9
I'm out and cold but I'm still motivated for the next life
Would ya, babe 
Would ya, babe 
Would ya, babe – let me slide?

Would you really let me
Would you really let me
Would you really let me
Would you really let me slide?
Would you really let me
Would you really let me
Would you really let me
Would you really let me slide?

I'm out cold like ghosts on The Rye
I tried to duck out but got caught by a stiff right
Ohhh now it's just that back 9
I'm out cold again, the failure of a lifetime

I'm out a cold and every moment's slipping by
Still hoping truth still betters style
I'm out cold now, having fallen from some withering height..

Would ya, babe 
Would ya, babe 
Would ya, babe – let me slide?

Would you really let me
Would you really let me
Would you really let me
Would you really let me slide?
Would you really let me
Would you really let me
Would you really let me
Could you really let me slide?

Royce Wood Junior "Slide"

An album highlight from Royce Wood Junior's sophomore full-length 'No Two Blue Ticks' – out now on Fresh Selects: smarturl.it/rwjntbt

Produced by Royce Wood Junior

Written by James Wood, Jamie Woon, Dan See & Charlie Platt

RWJ - vocals, piano, guitar, synth, programming
Jamie Woon - backing vocals
Charlie Platt - synth bass, piano
Dan See - drums, percussion
Moose Curtis - additional percussion

Engineered by RWJ and Alex “Lexxx” Dromgoole

Mixed by RWJ & Jimmy Day

Mastered by Kevin Tuffy @ AIR Studios
Tape Processing by Jimmy Day

Follow:
@roycewoodjunior
@freshselects

Lyrics:

Oh, there's a person you admire
The one that someone else turned out to be
The version that you're holding from your baby
Caught on your tongue 
Were the words that could make it all holy
Favourited ya
Was a little bit alone

Drowning out – the fact that it's already
Drowning out – yeah, the fact that it's already
Drowning out – fact that it's already drowned
Makes you drown, makes you drown, makes you drown

Oh, there's that vision in the fire
The one that kicked the murder out of me
The one that hung the firmament so greyly 
Caught in your soul
Were the grapes of a load lightening
Double tapped ya
Felt a little less alone
Drowning out – the fact that it's already
Drowning out – yeah, the fact that it's already
Drowning out – fact that it's already drowned
Makes you drown, makes you drown

Drowning out – the fact that it's already
Drowning out – yeah, the fact that it's already
Drowning out – fact that it's already drowned
Makes you drown, makes you drown

Royce Wood Junior "Too Early To Say"

Teamed up with Harleighblu for „Queeen Dem“, the third track
from our collaborative album „She“ due for release october 2019

Release Date: 04.09.2019
Title: Queeen Dem
Artists: Harleighblu, Bluestaeb (P) & (C) / Label: Harleighblu & Bluestaeb
Lyrics: Harleighblu, Janne Robinson
Composer: Bluestaeb

Featuring excerpts of the work “This is For The Women Who Don’t Give a Fuck”By Janne Robinson

Exccutive Production by Bluestaeb & S. Fidelity
Mastering by Zino Mikorey
Creative Direction by Leon Giseke
Photography by Svenja Trierscheid

R&B/SOUL

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