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D'Angelo & Quest Love - Tell Me If You Still Care (Live, 2013)

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Dopeness! Playing in D'Angelo's first Voodoo band ’99 was one of the biggest musical learning experiences I've ever had. I was enthralled by the organic and intoxicating sounds of the soul, and funk textures. 
 On "Summer Cookout" I was going for a DMV ie. Maryland, DC, Virginia sound that is heavily influenced by the black church and soul music. The song describes a summer day of good Baltimore Seafood, a picnic or BBQ, friends, family, kids playing, cars driving through Druid Hill Park, sexy women, drinks, smiles and laughter in the air. I tried to capture a full warm hot summer's day in the city.
To do this what better ingredient then Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson who is a sonic architect of Vodoo, Adam Blackstone, both Philly's finest, and Baltimore guitarist Darryl Pearson who is one of my hero's from all the Timbaland and Jodeci records. I also employed guitarist Shon Hinton who played with the gospel quartet group the Williams Brother's, my Mentor Roy Hargrove who played on Vodoo, my wife Mashica who knows church music cold, and JK who sang with the soulquarians. On organ I used Timbaland cohort Craig Brockman. Lastly I added my signature Vocoder for the hook and my Jimi hendrix style pedal on my trumpet for a bit of extra grease and emotional cry.


Summer Cookout feat. QuestLove & Roy Hargrove

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Our Sunday music series, 'Sundays ride - ipanema' which we try et get out eWeek, inspirationally came from walking along a beach in RDJ basically Looking for my girl from Ipanema (long before I discovered all of Colombias hidden gems :) et stumbling across by accident, a surfing event held at Arpoador, et ive still got the t shirt! 

(on Musical Roots ...)
via Miami's South beach to Trinidad & Tobago not far from Brasil our adopted second homelands where it all started with the drum really, but nothing prepares you for the first time you hear Samba in a Rio street or sweet steel pan or the Mighty Shadow booming poverty is hell from a passing taxis boom box, just outside Smokey et Buntys ye olde Rum shoppe in downtown st james port of spain / youtu.be/ZKdDwwTaQTQ (https://medium.com/@gal_ngo/my-270-days-inbrasil-as-a-carioca-a-tri-part-musical-journey-or-my-brazilian-love-affair-auto-6eb316a18588)

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took on david bowies
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(2023/24/25 work/'wish' List of collabs & studio time avec the following) 




14 Charles Webster collabs 2025/26
01 Amp fiddler 'July' song rework cover
02 Little Dragon rework of Philipp Thimm & Raphael Hofman - Lolite Shadows / https://soundcloud.com/wuza-berlin/philipp-thimm-raphael-hofman-lolite-shadows 
03 David Morales Bad Yard Club 'the Program' classic 2022 mZumbi update
04 https://soundcloud.com/da-capo/no-rainbow and/or https://soundcloud.com/djnicodeandrea/woman-fka-mash-afro-glitch RMX/rework avec @adamport & @keinemusik 
05 Lady Alma & Peven Everett collab 
06 Any Mahogany Music collabs
07 Casamena Jimpster & St Germain grooves c'mon Lets go!
08 Ron Trent Trinidadian Deep & Jody Watley reunite special project
09 More Brazilian Samba adventures w masters at wok! KDope & Lil Louie
10 World plus Berlin Music promotions contd (inspiration Paul Simon)
11 Vintage Reggie Masters vault raids! (inspiration Adrian Sherwood)
12 tea w Kate Bush ... 

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