this is a pretty song perfectly Perfected 

I dedicated this beautuful song to an old gf back in 2018 , i requested it one time at a party hoping she would react, she didnt even mention anything about this song. I guess it wasnt special for her as it was for me . 🔥💪🏽 her loss

This is one of them that you can just feel through your whole body!

The first single off the Return to Paradise LP by Monster Rally, which dropped on October 29th as a limited edition 12" (plus digital).
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Following his move to Los Angeles from Ohio, Ted Feighan has returned with the next installment in his growing oeuvre as Exotica beatsmith, Monster Rally. Feighan’s third full-length as Monster Rally, Return to Paradise, is decidedly faster paced and more percussion-heavy than last year's Beyond the Sea, producing an aesthetic that closely resembles his live performances. The tracks melt together in a mysterious, blissful, and romantic haze invoking that signature Monster Rally thrill of being in a timeless, hypnagogic limbo. The album is pure pictorial fantasy, translating the images of a half-century of National Geographics into 17 tracks that’ll have both tiki drink connoisseurs and scotch aficionados swaying and bopping to the sweat and crackle of Feighan’s latest beatscapes. As with his past releases, Feighan is eager to have his passport stamped, reluctant to stay in one paradise for too long. His wanderlust samplings travel from Peru to Japan, Detroit to Maui, and Ghana to Barcelona expressing the pageantry and ceremony of destinations only the truly intrepid have tasted before.

The artwork of Return to Paradise is greatly inspired by the LP jackets of classic Exotica albums: Martin Denny's Quiet Village, Les Baxter's Jungle Jazz, and Arthur Lyman's Bwana to name just a few. Over fifty different varietals of flowers and plants from around the world decorate the blossoming arrangement on R2P’s cover. In addition, the packaging features printed sleeves showing a take on traditional Hawaiian patterned prints of native flowers and tropical birds. The inside of the gatefold jacket is a visual imagination of the kind of space Return to Paradise inevitably occupies. 

Return to Paradise

Orchids

Monster Rally - Orchids

...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

Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting On You) (BADBADNOTGOOD Reinterpretation)

Dedicated to Drago Flores: loving father, husband, friend and human being, who embodied the human qualities that we should all strive to achieve: happiness, truth, hard work, compassion, humor and LOVE. Rest in peace.


Sometimes, we're just so lucky, 
it's gross, it's disgusting, 
But why, why me over you, 
no abuse, excess food, 
without any loved ones to lose. 

(chorus) 
I'll never leave your eyes 
I'll never leave your eyes 
We all fly sometimes 
I'll never leave your eyes 

There are constant complainers 
with dissatisfaction. 
But maybe if you sat and took a look into the past, 
you'd see how some people's closest loved ones don't last. 
But why, is it so easy to fight people? 
And so hard, to show love, for people? 

(chorus) 

(chorus*) 
I'll never leave your eyes 
I'll never leave your eyes 
I'll never leave your eyes 
We all fly sometimes 
(x2) 

that's all I can say...


Recorded in Chicago, IL 
Mixed by Padorr 
Mastered by Harley Rayner of Mt. Eden 
Album Artwork by Padorr

For Flores

Vinyl: http://smarturl.it/MariaUsbeckVinyl
Spotify: http://smarturl.it/MoaiYYoSpotify
Apple: http://smarturl.it/AmparoApple
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Maria Usbeck's solo debut, Amparo, is a collection of songs written and recorded across the span of three years in Ecuador, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Barcelona, Lisbon, Easter Island, Costa Rica, Florida, L.A. and her home in Brooklyn. Though the songs were composed electronically, Amparo called for an acoustic treatment, so Usbeck spent a winter in the studio recording the arrangements live with producer Caroline Polachek and mixer & engineer Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson. Fleshed out in full sonic color on the marimba, xylophone, quena flute, piano, and harp, the album stretched into something hi-fi and expressive, meditative but not meandering.

Amparo stems from Usbeck's desire to compose in Spanish, her native language. Growing up in Quito, Usbeck was immersed in salsa, merengue, bachata, and Andean music, but was more attracted to German and American culture than to her own, and moved to America by herself at 17. After five years of fronting new wave outfit Selebrities and writing songs in English, Usbeck experienced a delayed-onset homesickness and knew it was time to "let the mother tongue speak." The impulse manifested itself directly: Amparo takes its title from Usbeck's middle name and her mother's name, and translates roughly as "to guide, protect, and embrace." Usbeck wields her Spanish lyrics cleverly while folding in snippets of several other far-flung tongues: Rapa Nui from Easter Island, Quichua from Ecuador, Bribri from Costa Rica, and Catalan. Because these lyrics were composed while visiting the countries from which they originate, their usage is more impressionistic than literal, like a mockingbird imitating fragments of other bird calls. Similarly, Usbeck reinterprets the Ecuadorian music that she grew up with as a newcomer, returning home with fresh ears, and as such the sounds are very much her own.

The backbone of Amparo is percussion, vibrating throughout with timbales, tumbas, a talking drum, bongos, shakers, and an Indian flat drum, with the gaps filled in by her field recordings of birds, beaches, and jungles. The songs were written and recorded chronologically, with the exception of the closing track, a cover of Colourbox’s “Tarantula” reimagined in Usbeck’s Spanish translation. Amparo is a reflection of the textures of Usbeck's childhood. It is also a distinctly grown-up pop record – a travel diary, music made by a visiting outsider to tap into a shared core of human expression. Emotively, Usbeck is her most powerful on piano ballads "Uno De Tus Ojos" and "Jungla Inquieta," but is a magnetic narrator throughout, moving between whispers, chants, and lullabies. Amparo pulses with many stories in many voices, but they flow together seamlessly like water, leaving behind a wordless hum.

Amparo is released May 27 via Cascine in North America, Labrador in Euope and Rallye in Japan.
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Maria Usbeck - Moai Y Yo

Fold – Something Gives
Released September 12, 2016
CD & digital download

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Having included this track among his favourites of 2016 on the last day of the year Huey Morgan also provided the UK national radio debut on BBC 6 Music followed by a hat trick of spins from Gideon Coe. Kara Manning broadcasted the US radio premiere courtesy of WFUV, New York.

Something Gives is a timely vehicle for the keen eloquence of James Baldwin whose voice, along with that of the wonderful Alice Walker, is the basis of the track.

We've been feeling urgently compelled to respond somehow to the heavy sociopolitical escalations of late on both sides of the pond. This release is our way of bridging the distances & expressing universal solidarity as human beings. Musically the tune bears similarities to A Tribe Called Quest's jazzy hip hop vibes and Arthur Verocai's Brazilian way of joy and despair all at once.

All music written, arranged, performed, engineered, produced & mixed by Seth Mowshowitz apart from tenor saxophone arranged and performed by Emma Johnson.
http://www.johnsonmusic.co.uk/

Mastered by Erik Aldrey
http://www.erikaldrey.com/

LYRICS
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[James Baldwin]

[REFRAIN]
I'm terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart, which is happening in my country.

These people have deluded themselves for so long they really don't think I'm human. I base this on their conduct, not on what they say, and this means that they have become in themselves moral monsters.

It doesn't matter any longer what you do to me: you can put me in jail, you can kill me. By the time I was 17 you'd done everything that you could do to me. The problem now is: how you gonna save yourselves?

How you gonna save yourselves?

[REFRAIN]
I'm terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart, which is happening in my country.

There are days, one of them, when you wonder what your role is in this country and what your future is in it. How precisely are you going to reconcile yourself to your situation here, and how you're going to communicate that you are here?

The country has arrived at a place where it can no longer contain revolt. Human beings are not by nature non-violent, you know? You can only survive so many beatings, so much humiliation, so much despair, so many broken promises before something gives.

Before something gives.

[REFRAIN]
I'm terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart…

[Alice Walker]
We are being killed by people who don't feel – if we get down to that, that is the problem.

[James Baldwin]
I'm terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart…

[Alice Walker]
If you don't feel it you kill it because you think it doesn't feel either…

[REFRAIN]
I'm terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart, which is happening in my country.

[Alice Walker]
So away with that, we don't want that.

[James Baldwin]
I'm aware that something terrible has happened, which is very hard to describe.

Something Gives

Buy on iTunes

Off the debut album, The Visitor, out October 21st on Fat Possum Records / Fresh Selects

Pre-order here: http://smarturl.it/KadhjaBonet

The Visitor Tracklisting:
1. Intro – Earth Birth
2. Honeycomb
3. Fairweather Friend
4. The Visitor
5. Gramma Honey
6. Portrait of Tracy
7. Nobody Other
8. Francisco

Kadhja Bonet Tour Dates:
8/21 – Los Angeles, CA at Saint Heron
8/28 – Pula, Croatia at Dimensions Festival
9/17 – San Francisco, CA at The Independent

Kadhja Bonet - Honeycomb

I'm The Moon

as featured in celeste and jesse forever...original version available on light in the attic records
http://lightintheattic.net/releases/705-dreamin-wild

Baby (Biggest Crush edit) by Donnie and Joe Emmerson

From the Letter EP

sir Was playing live in 2020 as follows:

27, 28 February, Oslo, by:Larm Festival
18 March, Gothenburg, Oceanen
19 March, Aarhus, Atlas
20 March, Copenhagen, CPH:DOX @ VEGA Ideal Bar
03 May, Glasgow, Stag & Dagger Festival

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sir Was - Letter

"Favourite Kind Of Girl ft @flikkamusic

Released via Blue Flowers Music
www.blueflowersmusic.com
@blue-flowers-music

Stream here - https://smarturl.it/GOTTS_FKOG

Favourite Kind Of Girl Ft. Flikka

Sunny Levine is a California-based Grammy award winning record producer, songwriter, film composer and artist. Mostly known for his work as a producer for artists including Jon Batiste, Shabbaz Palaces, Happy Mondays, Pete Yorn, Scarlett Johansson, Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti, Alekesam, Shaun Ryder, Lenka,  and Hugh Masekela.

Sunny grew up surrounded by music. His father is renowned record producer STEWART LEVINE (Simply Red, Minnie Riperton, Dr. John, Joe Cocker, B.B. King, the Crusaders), his uncle is rap producer QD3 (Ice Cube, 2 Pac, LL Cool J) and his grandfather is QUINCY JONES. It would be safe to say that the boy grew up in some studios….

Sunny spent his formative years between Los Angeles, upstate New York and London.

Baby (Biggest Crush edit) by Donnie and Joe Emmerson

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