Following the success of last year’s Sometimes A Rose Will Grow In Concrete, Sy Smith has just released Sometimes A Rose Will Get A Remix, a brand new remix album made available for streaming and purchase on April 5, 2019.
  
This new project takes a second look at the entirely self-written and self-produced Sometimes a Rose Will Grow in Concrete, an album of jazzy, introspective musings about life, love, and society, from a Black woman’s perspective. Where that album swayed sweetly in a couture gown, the new Sometimes remix EP changes into a backless freakum dress to go dancing on table tops.
 
To begin, Sometimes…A Remix opens with a vibey deep house mix of “Sometimes A Rose Will Grow Into Concrete.” Now fully transformed into a bassy, soul-clapping thumper, one can skate to it by night or hold yoga positions to it by day. The short-and-sweet “Catastrophe” reaches full potential as an extended house banger, familiar territory for those who sampled Smith’s foray into electronic soul on 2012’s Fast and Curious.
 
Those looking for something sexy to grind to can skip directly to the dancehall remix of “Perspective,” guaranteed to keep that good arch in your back. The set also features a second remix that finds singer B.Slade trading electric cool vocals with Sy over a party-starter track that would make a perfect single this summer. Fans who have been with Sy since her indie inception on adventurous projects like The Syberspace Social will appreciate the trippy, new, color-shifted remix of “Now and Later.”
 
In the meantime, stream the lead single, “Camelot (MGA Dub Remix)” which takes the song’s original fairy tale and reinterprets it with reggae riddims, skanking guitars, and enough dubby horns to turn any Monday into a walk on a Caribbean shore.
 
As a bonus, Sometimes a Rose Will Get a Remix also includes a capella versions of each song. The soft strength of Smith’s naked voice standing alone on “Camelot” and soaring octaves high on “Sometimes A Rose” lends a vulnerability that invites the casual listener to lean in closer. Producers and musicians, however, should take full advantage of this opportunity to add their unique flavor to some remixes of their own.

Sometimes A Rose Will Grow A Remix

6. Perspective (DTLA - Pico Remix) Featuring B. Slade

I'm #SySmith. Singer. Songwriter. Style Muse. Lover of my craft. Been in the game pushing boundaries for years. Catch me in #Syberspace.

J'étudie la pratique de l'orgue Jazz à l'âge de 14 ans à Paris avec Armand Motta (pianiste de Barbara , Brassens) et j'ai mon premier synthé en 1976. Des études musicales en section T1 Musique au Lycée de Sèvres, avec dans la classe : Louis Winsberg du groupe Sixun et  Ludovic de Preissac. Je fais à l'époque partie de différents groupes pop/rock/funk et fais des rencontres musicales enrichissantes à l'aube des années 80 au Studio Vitamines à Gentilly et au Studio Witas à Chaville. En 1988, je découvre la MAO et je m'enferme alors avec synthés et ordis pendant pas mal de temps pour explorer tout ça et commencer à composer sérieusement. Passionné par le Jazz, l'énergie du Funk, j'aime la fusion des styles (electro/acid jazz/drum & bass/musiques du Monde). Quelque temps en 2006 au sein de Atif and Soul People et de Notsos sur Versailles. Mes claviers préferés sont l'orgue Hammond, le Fender Rhodes, le Wurlitzer et bien sur les synthés analogiques au gros son bien funky. Les rencontres qui m'on marqué : Rhoda Scott en 1974 au Club St Germain, Bertrand Richard (p.) qui m'a montré mes premiers accords de Blues, Philippe Khalifa (gt.), Stephan Gibu (dr. & bs.) des groupes de funk/gospel "Ray Sidney Firm Soundation" et "Soul Activation", Loïc Bordas (sax & bs.), Bernard Le Bellego, Emmanuel Barrache (gt. harmo.) des groupes "Quai Ouest" et "Chicago Line Blues Gang" , Patrice Barreau (dr.), les musiciens de 'Atif and Soul People' et de 'Notsos'...

Différents métiers : webmaster, infographiste, vendeur de pianos/orgues (Hammond, Gem, Viscount, Oberheim, Promotion d'artiste... 

Influences :

George Duke, Bill Evans, Chick Corea, Wendy & Lisa, Prince, Sheila E., Joe Sample, Rodney Franklyn, Bob James, Ricky Peterson, Michel Petrucciani, Bill O'Connell, Horace Silver, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Pierre-Alain Goualch, Ludovic De Preissac, Soulive, Isaac Hayes, Roy Ayers, Donny Hathaway, Till Brönner, Candy Dulfer, Maceo Parker, Don Braden, Sophie Alour, Meshell Ndegeocello, Marcus Miller, Rhonda Smith, Herbie Hancock, George Benson, Larry Carlton, Earl Klugh, Michael Sembello, Al Jarreau, Gino Vannelli, Steely Dan, Toto, Level 42, Weather Report, Barbara Denerlein, Lonnie Liston Smith, Joey DeFrancesco, Jimmy Smith, Take 6, Kurt Elling, Viktoria Tolstoy, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Robin McKelle, Eliane Elias, Bebel Gilberto, Gabriela Anders, Tania Maria, Ray Barretto, Natali René, Ani DiFranco, Randy Crawford, Rachelle Ferrell, Maxwell, Jill Scott, Angie Stone, The Brand New Heavies, Sarah McLachlan, Coldplay, The Beauty Room, Michel Colombier, The Cinematic Orchestra, [re:jazz], Ananda Project, Gaelle Adison, Everything But The Girl, Massive Attack, Morcheeba, Laurent De Wilde... 
Une admiration sans borne pour : George Duke, Prince et H.E.R.

Actuellement j'écoute :
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Actor, Writer, Producer, DJ and Podcaster and Co-Host of Dudes Brewing Podcast for NEW ZEALAND (NZ) and Australia (AU).

www.kelvintaylor.com

I play music closer to my soul and roots. A fusion of AfroHouse, AncestralHouse, AfroBeats, AncestralSoul, AfroPop, AfroArab and House.

love music that makes your body want to move no matter what

6. Perspective (DTLA - Pico Remix) Featuring B. Slade

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