Tobi's Fresh Net Faves 2022

The 3rd single from the album Lazybody (Last Night From Glasgow)

Written, arranged and performed by Annie Booth
Produced and mixed by Chris McCrory
Recorded at Chem19, Blantyre and Green Door, Glasgow
Mastered by Samuel J. Smith

Vocals & guitar: Annie Booth
Bass: Jack Richardson
Drums: Gavin Lamont
Pedal steel: Conor Smith
Guitars etc: Chris McCrory

℗&© 2021 Annie Booth

Nowhere

Taken from "Let's Talk, Pt. 2" out January 28th 2022.

www.wasuremono.co.uk

Song written and recorded by William Benjamin Southward.

WASUREMONO - Fill Your Lungs

Wow! thrilled to have made Tom Robinson's BBC 6 Music show and Fresh Faves 14.2.22!! This is from my 2nd album The Awakening. Made using loops/samples with love, by Helen Meissner.
How often do we ask ourselves ‘who do we want to be?’ It’s something that gets asked a lot of us when we’re younger isn’t it? But with a twist, everyone wants to know WHAT we want to be.
As an adult, after years of conditioning, we might need to go back to that question, and look behind the masks. It’s difficult because for many we have become the persona we felt society demanded of us. So in a way it’s clean slate time, time to ‘play’ in a way. To really fantasise. And it’s not easy. We’re conditioned to conform and fit into society, seamlessly and obediently.

New roles emerge and old roles change throughout our life. Masks are worn. Pretty much all the time. What’s appropriate in one setting most certainly is not in another. We often learn the hard way. And it’s sometimes toe curlingly embarrassing. And we struggle to forgive ourselves. It’s a real problem. It stops us getting out of the boxes we’ve allowed ourselves to be put in. And gradually saps our energy and joy til we might feel like a 2D version of ourselves.
Am I being too dramatic here? Sorry if this does not resonate. I know it will for a number of people reading. Our fear of doing something which is ‘wrong’ or which makes people think we are a loser, or which makes people talk about us in a way we feel to be disrespectful or unkind is palpable. Which is a million times worse if we find we actually agree with some of it at some level (or would if we’re being honest with ourselves). Being ‘found out’, being called a fraud, a fake... does that strike fear into the heart of you? Make you feel sick? If so we have to go there.  It’s also sometimes called Imposter Syndrome. What if someone realises that I am actually winging it and making it up as I go along? Join the club!
Perhaps we’ve striven to be the child our parents always wanted? The pupil the teachers were proud of? The friend that never let anyone down? The lover who always excited? The star at work? The parent who loved unconditionally and didn’t ‘fuck their children up’? (thanks for that ironic cross to bear, Philip Larkin). And perhaps we’ve not been 100% successful in those quests?
The reality is we cannot please all the people all of the time. And anyway, how people react really does say more about them than about us. We might have inadvertently touched upon one of their red flags, one of their insecurities about themselves and they then overreact to something that really, is NOT a big deal to other people. Ever noticed this?

Well we all have a choice about how we react to someone else’s behaviour towards us. And I have learnt to, in the most part, notice it, assess it and then move on. 
As we can’t guarantee to please others, we might as well please the most important person in your life. You. And as a bonus, if you are comfortable and accepting of yourself, kind and perhaps loving and tolerant(like you would be to a friend?), you will draw people into your life who recognise those qualities. And do yourself a favour. Others, manipulators or narcissists, will be attracted too as they will see that they can have a very nice life with you, thinking you are a pushover. Please always notice your interchanges and exchanges with them. And as soon as something happens which presents a red flag for you, investigate it, discuss it and act on your instinct if you realise this person is not as good for you as they might have appeared early on. People CAN change and you might be the first person to have pointed this unacceptable behaviour out to them. So give them a chance to redeem if that’s what you both want. But just keep an eye out for your own red flags and don’t ignore them. It’s better to be in a good relationship with yourself than a bad relationship with someone else.

So WHO do you wanna be – NOW?

Who Do You Wanna Be

No Photographs of me Exist
Music Written & Performed By Esslemont
Features on the EP 'Never Really, Never Never'.
2021

No Photographs of me Exist

No Photographs Of Me Exist

Eraser

Awesome sample from Cleo Sol and Lee Hazelwood helped made this track very easy. Nice vibes they say. Who says that anyway? Check out the originals here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IdLgRpa3W0 and Lee Hazelwood - Let's take a walk down Valhallavägen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxkRpW5hqfg

Big Sister

Stream 'Scooters' now: https://listen.hipdozer.com/scooters

Scooters is the second single from the project, and the song explores relationships, the passing of time and the arrival of winter. The self-produced song blends mellow hip-hop & melodic R&B, and it also features Bristol-based artist Slowe, who has received radio support on BBC Radio 1.

Harbours

Scooters

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Webmoms & Ciaran Austin - Scooters (ft. Slowe)

Keeping Me Up All Night

RESET MY PASSWORD

Don't Stop ft. Isla Wolfe - CLEAN RADIO EDIT

'General Cogs' is gritty, manic and unashamed. Written mostly in lockdown, it follows two imaginary army soldiers yearning for the life they had before, just as we found ourselves doing.

General Cogs

This song is written off the back of a relationship ending out of your control. You are sad, you wanna cry, eat ice cream on the sofa and drown in your sorrows; but then you start to feel like you’re losing who you are and what you’ve always preached about. Why are you sitting there, feeling sorry for yourself with your 3rd bowl of Ben and Jerry’s phish food? This is not you, if anything you’re sorry for no one else but the person who lost you at the pinnacle of your life, I mean look at you, you’re a God damn superstar 

So in the words of Missy Elliott, FLIP IT & REVERSE IT. Regain control and say goodbye to the silly person who almost made you forget that.

Sorry for you, mate- enjoy the song lol

sorry for you, mate

We Talkin'

We Talkin' (feat. Jazz)

Misericorde, a song about self-serving leaders who deem themselves above the rules they set for others. Written a while ago though so of the zeitgeist we wanted to release it now!

Digital release on 11th Feb 2022,  part of the upcoming album, Universe Arrangements. 

Bledig, a mix of Trip Hop, Prog and Contemporary Jazz, which the trio describe as “Prog Hop”

Sax by Nick Gibson

Artwork By Richard Miles 'Steve Plays Flute' https://www.flickr.com/photos/richard--miles/

Mastered and drum recording by Paul Win-Stanley https://paulwinaudio.com/

Mixed and produced by Richard Brincklow

Bledig are:

Hannah Boulton: Vocals
James Purvis: Drums
Richard Brincklow: Keys

Misericorde

Pylon Dolphin

A Secret road

Madeleine Mosse And Matt Bauer - A Secret Road

LET LOVE
(Music: Roberts/Read / Lyrics: Nagel)

the woman in my dream stands barefoot in the garden / her auburn hair as wild as horse-clouds racing overhead / she doesn’t see me there / she’s looking in the water / at the wings of dragonflies flashing blue against the light / and i can hear her laugh though she makes no sound / and i can feel her touch through air / i want to take her hand and make her proud / of who i will become / so she will stay a little longer // “let love,” she speaks – / “let love be your blood / let love fly free / let love heal” // the drops against the window start to blur my image of her / like the shimmering of runes on a timeless wall of sleep / or the flickering of wings as blue becomes a rainstorm / and i turn away to find the softest chord shapes in her name / and i can hear her laugh though she makes no sound / and i can feel her touch through pain / i want to take her hand and make her proud / of who i will become / so she will stay a little longer //
“let love,” she speaks – / “let love be your blood / let love fly free / let love heal me”

MING NAGEL – vocals / JON READ – keyboards, flugelhorn, backing vocals / ALAN ROBERTS – guitars / JAMIE VARLEY – bass guitar, backing vocals / DAVE TIDMARSH – drums / SU ROBINSON – clarinet / RUSS COLEMAN - trombone

Track 13 from the album, "If This Is the End" (2021)

Let love

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Congratulations On The Numbers

Ultimatum is the hot new single created by producer RGEN and singer songwriter JayBay.

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This song captures the high energy of Amapiano (South african house) and blends it seamlessly with cinematic orchestral elements you would expect to hear in a blockbuster movie. Within seconds "Ultimatum" captivates its listener and puts them into a trance, moving relentlessly with the driving rhythm and bounce of the percussion. Interwoven with powerful melodies, lyrics and themes that are widely relatable. The result is an undeniable hit record that is here to stay.

Ultimatum (Radio Edit)

A honest account of mental health with an anxious sounding beat.

Anxiety

Powerfully uncool electronic pop grooves for sarcastic introverts.
Working the Recovery Chronic Depression/Anxiety
Trekkie 🖖

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