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Black Milk returns alongside his band Nat Turner (Aaron "Ab" Abernathy on keys, Malik Hunter on bass, and Zebulun "Z" Horton on drums) with a live instrumental LP, The Rebellion Sessions, a jazz-funk opus recorded over the span of one week. 

On "The Rebel," Black adds a verse to an instrumental off The Rebellion Sessions entitled “4 Blacks.” The Rebellion Sessions out now!

iTunes: https://itun.es/us/KVo_ab
Bandcamp: https://blackmilk.bandcamp.com/album/the-rebellion-sessions

The Rebel

Sugaring Season

Magpie

Beth Orton- Magpie (Radio Edit)

Fun Lovin’ Criminals frontman, songwriter, broadcaster and actor Huey Morgan will release his eagerly awaited debut solo album 'Say It To My Face' on Naim Edge Records on 29th October 2012.

Morgan is a rock 'n' roll Renaissance Man, the half Puerto Rican / Irish ex-Marine who, since moving to London in the mid-2000s, has become a charismatic presence across the UK's cultural spectrum - one of Britain's’ best loved radio DJs (on both BBC 6 Music and the mighty Radio 2), winner of a Sony Radio Award too and already multi-million selling as part of the legendary - Fun Lovin’ Criminals, a unique ground breaking rock and soul band that found influences in hip hop, swing, blues and funk. Huey Morgan, force of nature, a man with a paid-for Scottish Lordship (possibly fake), is a long way, now, from the Ladies Man who twinkled his wise-guy way through his incorrigibly Fun Lovin' 90s.

'Say It To My Face' is drenched with the same omnipresent effortless cool of Morgan’s famous gritty vocal style and deft blues licks. Morgan abundantly explores the roots and soul influences on his solo material that he’s become celebrated for sharing on his BBC Radio show.

Missing his native New York, yet inspired by the gift of a re-issued 1920‘s Martin acoustic guitar, Morgan set to work on 'Say It To My Face' enlisting help from his life-long musician buddies he'd played with for years in an occasional band of booze-brothers called the Tangiers Blues Band: Chris Scianni (strings), King (bass), while Frank Benbini (Fun Lovin’ Criminals) chipped-in with drums. Pete Levin, a member of Grammy winning Blind Boys of Alabama (keyboards), Naim Cortazzi (ukulele) - also a member of the group New Yorkers along with Frank Benbini, plus harmonica from Grammy-award winning lensman Danny Clinch (a favourite of Springsteen and taker of the famed Tupac Shakur 'Thug Life' shot, now the man behind Morgan’s new art-work). A gang augmented by legendary class: steel-pedal from BJ Cole and production from Morgan, along with Grammy-award-winning Tim Latham (Fun Lovin’ Criminals, De La Soul, Lou Reed).

Morgan’s disarmingly candid storytelling recalls the bluesmen of old, but with a unique twist befitting the post hip-hop generation. 'Say It To My Face' is a bold, beautiful, poignant, funny, profoundly authentic old-school rock 'n' roll blast, his baritone croon now giving Tom Waits a considerable run for his tobacco-flavoured money. It's a New York Blues bonanza packed full with songs about the human condition: from the grooved-out, hilarious ‘Stick It To The Man’ (like a New York Happy Mondays, indirectly inspired by 70s U.S baseball player Dock Ellis who took LSD on the pitch) to the woozy, country 'n' western opus ‘Fall Into Me’. There's the funkadelic squelch of ‘Dirty Bird’, the honky-tonk holler of ‘New York Bluez’ and the early-Rolling Stones reminiscent serenade to ‘Shaniqua’ (shady goings-on between lovers). Wise words follow in the languorous stoner-blues of ‘The Ripple’ (a rumination on action, consequence and regret), the boisterous profanity of ‘The Way It Was Before’ and the country-hoe-down ‘Christmas By The Side Of The Road’ (a soldier doesn't make it home for Christmas). The closer is simply stunning. A multi-layered dreamscape of a song, ‘The White Guard’ is an epic paean to sorrow and time's arrow, named after Mikhail Bulgakov's Russian Civil War novel with lyrics adapted from the opening page: ‘In the days of blood as in the days of peace, the years fly by.’

Huey Morgan, 44, has made a grown up album about other grown-ups, for other grown ups. “The kids will find something in it,” Morgan assures. “I know that because a lotta kids listen to my radio shows. But my music is for people my age. And I tried to stay away from everything that's normal. Because normal is not me.”

www.naimedge.com 
www.hueyandthenewyorkers.com 
Released by: Naim Edge Records 
Release/catalogue number: naimcd180 
Release date: Oct 29, 2012 

The Ripple

Huey & The New Yorkers - The Ripple

Hailing from the dark streets of Southeast London, Stellify are stamping their presence on the alternative rock scene with their unstoppable, Blues fulled Fuzzy Rocknroll.

Stellify was formed in early 2012 by frontman, James Howlett and guitarist Richard Costello. They called upon the dirty, fuzzy overtones of bassist, Carlos Dittborn, and the thunderously dexterous skills of drummer Daniel Iriondo to complete the line up. Their obvious connection and musicianship has attracted a loyal following the world-over. There are whole chain of influences making up the Stellify sound from Muddy Waters, Cream and The Rolling Stones to Queens Of the Stone Age, Band Of Skulls and The Black Keys.

Stellify's development has been progressive, steady and constantly gaining momentum, setting a solid base for a bright future. With their impending new release "Shun" backed up by a number of shows and festivals throughout 2016 their sights are set on the here and now; on delivering heart-and-soul rendered rock n roll to their fans.

Stellify are without doubt here to stay and when it comes to making their own unique brand of Rock'n'Roll it's only a matter of time before they'll be strolling down the hall of fame.

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