Sweet Relief Musicians Founder, Victoria Williams speaking about the charity and the making of the first two compilation albums.  Recorded in 1996.

Victoria Williams - On Sweet Relief And The Making Of Both Albums

Paradis, Paradise

Son D' Afrique

Son D'Afrique - Sound Of Africa by Dr. Kodjo " Robezz" Attivor

I be moving fast even on a slow day <3

Recorded by Nick Joseph/Palm Beach Records
Mixed/Mastered by HDStudios954 on Instagram
Cover art by Cause Traffic on Instagram
Produced by GC 

All net proceeds received by SoundCloud from "SoundCloud Presents: i am OTHER, Volume 1" will go to Sweet Relief and Help Musicians UK, two charities working on the frontlines of providing direct relief to the artist community. In addition to streaming the compilation, If you'd like to donate directly to their efforts, please visit helpmusicians.org.uk/support-our-work/make-a-donation?cp=IG-COVID-SOUNDCLOUD and https://www.sweetrelief.org/covid-19-fund.html

[LYRICS]

I be moving fast, even on a slow day
Lately its been all about the cash, had it with the no pay!
I've been hurt. Didnt feel no pain
Closed my eyes, prayed I'd be okay 
And I was
Now it's just my cuz and me burnin propane 
Put it out cant smoke the whole thang
Pullin up right to to show mane 
Gotta show my people how it goes mane

Yeah I'm feelin right, righteous
They ain't livin life, like this
They ain't ballin like this
Boy I'm all hits no miss

Put the lights on me! 
Ima do my thang
The boy dance like a diamond ring 
I could show you to the world, all kinds of things 
Baby say I got the flow so I make it rain.

Said she love my voice, baby I love YOU 
The way she give it to me, baby I OWE YOU
I can take you to the beach, I could take you to the pool
Either way to me, everything all cool

This that, how does it go when you sayin my name 
X4
She said baby I know, its gon all be ok
Baby I know, we gon make it one day 
Baby I know, you gon find us a way

That's why I'm glad that I got you
My rock
When I roll 
It's a whole nother story and plot
I've got options and lots of them holes in the rock
Beneath me, I can see how they want me to drop

But I aint ever gon stop this 
This the light in the abyss
Ima fight em off with my fists 
When I feel em coming I ain't running bitch

Ima changed man with the game plan 
I can count my friends on the same hand 
That I write my raps with
Yeah it's that quick
Only money talk, if its not CLICK

(Hook)

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Slow Day (Prod. By GC)

#SCxiamOTHER.

All net proceeds received by SoundCloud from "SoundCloud Presents: i am OTHER, Volume 1" will go to Sweet Relief and Help Musicians UK, two charities working on the frontlines of providing direct relief to the artist community. In addition to streaming the compilation, If you'd like to donate directly to their efforts, please visit helpmusicians.org.uk/support-our-work/make-a-donation?cp=IG-COVID-SOUNDCLOUD and https://www.sweetrelief.org/covid-19-fund.html

Rickey Smiley

Vanity Tape is the first installment of a series of mixtapes from Dot Cromwell. The "Vanity Tape" finds Dot flexing his lyrical acrobatics, experimenting with genre-bending production, and bookmarking his current mind state. True to form Dot continues to pull beautiful songs from challenging places, while visually welcoming everyone into a world he called "LAVNDR CLOUDS".

The "Vanity Tape" was recorded and released across 2020 & 2021 featuring animations of the "LAVNDR CLOUDS" dream world that Dot continues to pull music from.

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Vanity Tape

God Bless

Pay How You Feel 💰

God Bless (Produced by W. D. Hytes)

Inara George welcomes a new bundle!

The Bird and The Bee vocalist has been getting together with producer Wendy Wang for a couple of hours, here and there, off and on over the past few years, working on a handful of songs that will now be released as the three-song bundle “The Youth of Angst” via Release Me Records on June 5th.

“Wendy started playing with The Bird and The Bee when we released our second album,” George says. “I remember being impressed with her right away. That was about 12 years ago, and since then she’s become an in-demand producer and songwriter, as well as a dear friend and collaborator. I’m equally proud of her and in awe of her.”

George continues, “There was no rush on my side, and Wendy’s been super busy with her own career, so it took a few years to finish by getting together for a few hours every so often. Maybe I had it in mind to make a full album? Or maybe a traditional EP?”

As it turns out, George got the word “bundle” stuck in her head after a conversation with a friend.

“Maybe I just thought she said ‘bundle?’”

No matter, it stuck, and in fact “The Youth of Angst” feels like a bundle. Fresh, even considering its long development, and innocent, even with a song called “Sex In Cars”.

“I wrote ‘Sex In Cars’ after the artist Terry Allen asked if I’d be a part of an art installation he was creating for The Contemporary Austin. When he asked me to write the song, I immediately thought of a photograph by RJ Shaughnessy that I had bought as a gift for my husband.” The cover of “The Youth of Angst” features that Shaughnessy shot and the song itself is as bare as the subject matter. 

“Wendy and I recorded several different versions of this song,” George explains. “But there was something about more production that seemed to make it slip away from its initial intention.” The version that made it to the final recording is actually the original voice memo that George sent to Allen. “I still haven’t had a chance to see that installation, I hope I can someday... soon,” George says.

Innocence isn’t just for “Sex In Cars” here. Youth… memories of... loss of… is at the core of this group of songs that, although just a bundle, plays with a moving, dramatic arc.

“‘1973’ is a song I wrote for a friend,” George explains. “She lost a child almost ten years ago and to mark his birthday every year, I write a song. The songs end up being about him, but also but her and ‘1973’ is really a love song about our friendship. As for “Brother,” it’s pretty simple: “I wrote this song for my brother, haha. No one will ever know you better than your brother can.”

“The Youth of Angst” is the first in a planned series of collaborative releases “with a little theme and not the huge pressure of a full album,” George says about how she plans to make this long experiment into something more frequent. For this release “I wanted to write from the perspective of my younger self, but also with the idea that I could never actually have that perspective again. I suppose this bundle is nostalgic for a time and feeling that isn’t really possible to recreate, or only possible to recreate in my imagination.”

Understanding what once was and what will be is especially important now, in the new reality of 2020.

“I think we are all kind of grappling with this reality right now. We can only move forward from here. Life won’t be the same for a while, or maybe ever. But it’s nice to dream about the past while reimagining the future, and I like the idea of doing these little collaborations, especially in these times of isolation.”

Inara George’s three-song bundle “The Youth of Angst” arrives on June 5th via Release Me Records.

The Youth of Angst

Inara George - Sex In Cars

Stream / Free DL: https://psymb.io/ConceptObject

I've teamed up with the incredibly talented Zebbler Encanti Experience for our tune "Concept Object". The song bears the name of the now postponed tour we were on together, but hopefully this will hold you over until we can get back on the road. Watch out for that second drop.. it's a doozey ;)

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Psymbionic & Zebbler Encanti Experience - Concept Object

Ben funks presents the Diffrent Music show on Subtle Radio. This month, Itti joins for a chat about life in lockdown and his new 'AWRA005' release on Diffrent sister label, Are We Really Alone?, plus a guestmix fit for the end of the world!

Tracklist: https://www.instagram.com/p/CDwG8GnJ6td/

Itti 'AWRA005' is available now @ www.shop.diffrentmusic.com

Diffrent Music x Subtle w/ Ben Funks & Itti (July 2020)

Dear Family,

When I wrote my new single “We Are Safe”, I was scared out of my wits.

This year like most everyone...  I witnessed situations, events and traumatic images, both personally and globally, the magnitude of which I never could have ever before imagined. 

There were too many moments to count when the world I woke up to became unrecognizable and looking very much like a nightmare. 

In a time when myself and my closest friends and family felt most terrified, I finally reached a breaking point where I could no longer tolerate another moment of being suffocated by the fear that had consumed me. 

While at the same time feeling so completely powerless, I wanted to take a stand and most sincerely try to at least make an attempt to contribute something to the planet that could be of help and assistance to those of us who wanted to regain and return to a place of strength within, self reliance, safety and healing from this avalanche of trauma both in the present and from the ghosts of my past unresolved that kept turning up in my psyche throughout this year like ghouls from a classic Stephen King horror novel. 

I discovered there were many places in my being of grief from my childhood still unhealed. This year has unearthed and uprooted so much. 

This song is a prayer, an affirmation, a mantra and ultimately a statement of hope. My wish for all of us, is that this song is of help during those isolating moments of fear, doubt, when it appears that all is lost and we may feel left alone where there is no where else to turn. 

Ultimately this song is an anthem of Faith and the inner journey of developing the belief in the possibility of arriving at the moment where reconciliation within becomes reality. 

Even as I share this and as the song is being released into the world, fires in California are raging... sacred land inhabited by some of my dearest friends and inspirational leaders of sacred music who have now been ordered to evacuate without any certainty that they will have a home to return to. 

My heart continues to ache and it is only through my daily spiritual practice and my unwavering belief in the power of Music itself, that I haven’t broken to the point where I’ve become paralyzed/immobilized in the face of the year I never expected to find myself or any of us in. 

Thank you for listening and receiving this music and whatever elixir it may contain for you. Please keep up the fight to keep your heart open, even in the moments where it feels and appears that that the world is conspiring to crush it. And know without a doubt that I am in your corner fighting along side with you, with the hope and the faith that we will ALL live to see the day arrive where we can be reunited together again and sing this song to each other. 

I’ll look forward to meetIng you there and hearing how loud WE will sing. 

From my heart to yours,

Mikey

We Are Safe

8/21/2020

home recorded version of Joan Osborne's One Of Us

Joan Osborne's One Of Us

Sweet Relief Musicians Fund provides financial assistance to all types of career musicians who are struggling to make ends meet while facing illness, disability or age-related problems.

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