What a beautiful traveling song - we charted this journey at #8 for FSQ Top 10 August 2020 - http://fsq.lnk.to/august2020

...Like, imagine the Rolling Stones piled into a candy-apple red 1969 Eldorado Covertible, and every Girl Group from the 60's Motown Stable in a Greyhound Bus plus Louis Armstrong riding the side car of a WWII motorcycle helmed by Tom Waits all screeching tires in a torrid, fiendish, madcap car-chase tearing through downtown traffic at night. Provocative.

Just Like You

Collide and divide is what we do until we realise what we knew. This is a difficult album to release to the world. Though all my songs I write are as they are so personal and filled with my emotions and passions. I hope this serves as a homage to you Alex. I miss you every day. I wish I could of helped you like you helped me. You gave your life so I could live mine and I won't waste the gift you gave me. RIP Alex my dearest friend, this album is just for you. Shame you never got to hear it.....

Bass/Drums/Guitar/Piano/Synth/Vocals: Harry Gibbons.

Lyrics By: Harry Gibbons.

Produced By: Harry Gibbons.

Recorded & Mixed By: Harry Gibbons.

Mastered By: Harry Gibbons 

Lyrics To Be Added. At the moment I can't bear to look at them to write them down.

I'll Come Clean

I'm The Moon

My Name Is Nicole Willis

Still Got a Way to Fall

AMO AMO is Love, Omar, Shane, Alex and Justin 
Produced by Jim James 
Mixed by Kevin Ratterman 
Recorded by Alex Krispin and Jeff Fettig in Los Olivos CA 
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering 
Photo by Wyndham Garnett

Closer To You

From the album We're the Ones, released April 13, 2019
On limited edition clear orange vinyl & CD
Available at https://fold.bandcamp.com/album/were-the-ones

Also available on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/track/4Vybd9w9HxlrZyBn8DBeaW?si=VlHSF13CT0mmepw20SSL0g

Having been played 3 times by Gideon Coe on BBC 6 Music and made an editor's pick at Indie Shuffle, Teacher seems to be many people's top track from the album. There is a strong Brazilian jazz & psychedelic influence along with a Stereolab-esque indie sensibility and even a bit of Isaac Hayes and David Axelrod in the orchestration. It is a thoroughly organic sound with full horn section, string section, drums, bass and guitar all done live.

The speech is edited from a rather tender talk given to students by James Baldwin at a predominantly Black high school in Oakland, California 1963. On the one hand he highlights the function, importance and value of an education and finding self-worth in a white society. On the other hand there is a universal message about education being a two way street – that as students we must ask questions and as teachers we ought to keep our minds open to learning from those we teach.

We're the Ones

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Teacher

I spend too much time in calculation
I'm living all the time inside my head
My body and my mind are in separation
How do I get them back together again?

Somehow I lost the connection
Am I just a floating brain?
Is my blood still in circulation?
Is my blood still moving through my veins?
I spend too much time in calculation
I'm living all the time with these voices in my head
My body and my mind are in separation
How do I get them back together again?

Then something strange begins to happen
The ground is moving, blood orange in the sky
The mouth of the earth begins to open
"You know what you must do to survive"

You must move, love, dance more.

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Antidote

Words, music, vocal and guitar by Sans Soucis 
Bass by Alessandro di Barbera 

Producer by Sans Soucis 
Co-Producer by Davide Shorty 
Mixed by Lloyd Hinshelwood 
Mastered by Andy Baldwin (Metropolis Studios)
Cover by Sara Pozin

Visible

The Bamboos - Wilhelm Scream (James Blake Cover)

How Many Miles

OFFICIAL URL - ​https://hopest.re/LookAround

DANIELLE PONDER &
KARATE BOOGALOO

“Look Around” ​out July 24, 2020 via ​Hopestreet Recordings​.

New York singer and activist ​Danielle Ponder pairs up with Melbourne cinematic soul outfit ​Karate Boogaloo to deliver ​“Look Around,” a haunting reflection on the times we live in. ​“Look Around” was written in the studio with the band in the first days of 2020 when Danielle was in Melbourne, and at the time was conceived as a cry for help in the literal firestorm that was engulfing Australia. As 2020 progressed, the words that came in that moment of inspiration seemed to reflect each of the multiplying calamities this year has presented. When the death of George Floyd ignited indignation across the USA and the world, the lyrics to Look Around could not have been more apropos.

In Danielle’s words: “fires were raging through Australia and smoke covered the sky. It felt like all of our human sins had gotten the best of us and we were paying a price. I didn’t know that when I arrived back home in the U.S, the world would only get darker. I feel like my past self wrote this song for my future self knowing what was to come.” ​This song would help Danielle through what has been one of the most painful times to be Black in America.

Coming from different continents and different backgrounds was no obstacle to Danielle Ponder and Karate Boogaloo forming an immediate musical connection in the studio. Karate Boogaloo is a formidable studio band with years of studious focus learning soul music and its history. The instant connection is obvious on ​“Look Around”, ​as the band and Danielle sound like they’d been playing together for years rather than hours. Black Lives Matter, while being a US based movement, has a strong resonance in Australia where Indigenous people are massively over-represented in prison populations and in fatal interactions with the police. Thus, sales in July and August are going to be donated to the Equal Justice Initiative in the USA and Warriors Of The Aboriginal Resistance in Australia.

Danielle Ponder & Karate Boogaloo - Look Around

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