Name: Stay Close To Me - Esther Hendricks by Esther Hendricks
Duration: 2 min 55 s
Description: A nice feel to this track. encouraging words. You'll like it

This track means a lot to me. I was lost for a while

Nice and deep prayer 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Debut Album for Annie Higgins- Annie Higgins and musical director Luke Gerber of Mel Blue embarked on a creative journey to craft an album that was musically satisfying and gave big feels to the heart. The intention was music that could be listened to with focus, or enjoyed with friends creating the perfect mood for backyard gathering and a glass of wine. Their focus was to infuse each track with a quintessentially Australian vibe and a touch of sass

Pot of Gold

Give Him The Flick

A nice feel to this track. encouraging words. You'll like it

Stay Close To Me - Esther Hendricks

And Now They Know (2011 Beats)

That Ill Ish

Don't look too deep into the themes of this project because there wasn't a whole lot of planning that went into this drop.
That being said I hope you enjoy the music.

Wano Arc

God Bless The Child

Listen on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/album/5RDLVz5X34jaTr91EsQ96m?si=6z1-ZtDySMyh-yfl4lx7pA

LOVE & HEARTBREAK

Hometown

Since launching in 2020, Claremont 56’s Claremont Editions series of compilations has delivered a trio of must-check collections featuring a mixture of unheard gems from the label vaults and brand-new, previously unreleased tracks. Label founder Paul ‘Mudd’ Murphy continues with this blueprint on 2024’s instalment, the fourth in total.

There's naturally some genuinely headline grabbing highlights amongst the nine tracks on display, starting with opener ‘Crossing’ – a fresh cut from C56’s in-house super-group Hillside (AKA Paul Mudd Murphy, Alex Searle and Patrick Dawes), featuring lead vocals from long-time friend of the family Quinn Lamont Luke. The track is prime Hillside: all rolling hand percussion, warming keys, simmering synth-strings, sun-splashed solos and blue-eyed soul vocals from the effervescent Quinn.

It sets a high bar, quality wise, but predictably the rest of the collection hits similarly heady heights. Mudd contributes two other tracks of note: a first collaborative outing with long-time creative partner Ben Smith for five years, Smith & Mudd’s ‘Journey Seven’ – a languid, slow-motion affair that hints at what we can expect from their forthcoming album – and a typically rich, jazz-fusion influenced solo excursion, ‘Massimo’s Steps’. As vivid, emotive and detailed as you’d expect, the track explores similar sonic territory to Mudd’s recent album, In The Garden of Mindfulness.

It's usual for Claremont Editions collections to include tracks from new members of the Claremont family. Editions 4 is no different, with Danish producer Fureby – a close friend of fellow Danes Mike Salta and Peter Visti – joining forces with Guy Moscoco and Brian Faber on ‘Halcyon (Extended Mix)’, a gorgeously kaleidoscopic Balearic groover rich in fluttering flute solos, simmering disco strings and sun-bright electronics.

Elsewhere, a few familiar favourites contribute suitably stellar tracks. Mai Fujinoya dons the Yamp Kolta alias for the first time since appearing on the first editions compilation in 2020, serving up the languid Japanese language Balearic pop brilliance of ‘Saturate’, featuring beautiful lead vocals by Yuzz. Krautrock-influenced duo Neumayer Station – who made their C56 bow on last year’s Editions collection – lay down a typically stretched-out, dubbed-out groove with Spaghetti Western soundtrack flourishes (the lilting and atmospheric ‘Bassrutscher’), while Ferdi Schuster invites us to dive into the immersive depths of ‘Resonance’ – a lightly art rock and progressive rock-influenced soundscape best enjoyed while lying flat on your back.

Slow-motion house specialists Hear & Now continue to join the dots between tactile Balearica and pitched-down Italian ambient house on the stunningly gorgeous ‘Chimaera’, while there’s a surprise return for a Claremont 56 favourite: Mudd’s sought-after extended mix of Bel’s 2018 single ‘Ready To Die’, a sing-along modern Balearic classic. This time round, it has been re-edited by Blank & Jones, who teases out the sun-soaked instrumentation before finally dropping the original’s emotion-rich lead vocals.

It all adds up to another must-check instalment of the indispensable Claremont Editions series. As usual, the vinyl version has been pressed in limited qualities and comes housed in a deluxe gatefold sleeve, complete with another stunning cover painting by illustrator Mark Warrington.

Hillside Feat. Quinn Lamont Luke - Crossing (Clip)

Unlike anything from this planet! (except maybe the 70's funk and soul that inspired it)

Spaced Cowboy

Science, Fiction

Daniel Caesar - Get You, Mac Ayres - Anymore Groove

Spleenless

Non c'è pace

I AM AN ANGEL, Pt. 1 & 2

Please stream my music on other platforms Like Spotify or Youtube, as I don’t earn much revenue here.

Pt. 1 (Song 1 - 35): 
https://open.spotify.com/album/4zcM4KPXDlu8EGJFXr6H4X?si=WJ1Uh4CpQnqbMSv61m5gzw
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mg_bwEGPz1mY70RS5qynZhv7e4noBUl1Q&si=cQqFWIc9b8UOLmGr
Pt. 2 (Song 36 - 70):
https://open.spotify.com/album/4uquaXHgHde0T8DpFU5jLa?si=AtQWdhiNSoOUY3dQCC8y4Q
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lhDVIf5lvJvi7vEXIZH7mub0UbEQSljTg&si=aizqAbXmr6_icqYt

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