The RnB album reimagined for 2024

In honor of April, I share reimagined R&B classics

- album is missing two tracks due to copywrite:

#9 BFM 040124 ReRnB XO
#11 BFM 040124 Wandering Eyes

ReRnB

ummiprayerbook reimagines gospel.

Come as you are into this sanctuary of sound. Here, musicians spanning genres, generations, and geographies come to celebrate with their bodies, lift their voices, open their eyes, speak their truths, curse their burdens, and open their hearts. 

 In the tradition of BFM, jazz winds through hip-hop beats and classical melodies, all reaching towards a shared divine score, gathered up into a single musical congregation. Praises be.



TRAX
1. "CHURCHBLACK" by perple, Ron Isley, Lauryn Hill, Johann Sebastian Bach, E. Power Boggs, Black Coffee, Hezekiah Walker & LFC, comaSIWA, Sault


2. "ALLEYSandPEWS" by perple, Jay Electronica, Black Thought, JID, Ludwig Van Beethoven, E. Badu, J. Cole


3. "GIVETHANX" by perple, J. Cole, Sunday Service Choir, Kanye West, Hezekiah Walker & LFC  


4. "SUNDAZE" by perple, SoCreative, Kanye West, Really Doe, Nas, Black Coffee, Sunday Service Choir

5. "TONGUES" by perple, SoCreative, Kanye West, Really Doe, Nas, Black Coffee, Sunday Service Choir


6. "BROOMCLOSET" by perple, Ludwig Van Beethoven, E. Badu, J. Cole, The Cool Kids


7. "HYMNAL" by perple, J. Cole, J Billz, Megan Thee Stallion, Yuki Chiba, Claudio Monteverdi, Charles Medlam, Drake


8. "PSALM V" perple, Swizz Beatz, John Coletrane Quartet, comaSIWA


*disclaimer*
While some of the music indeed "slaps", you will meet some disonnance here, some disharmony. It aint all "smooth" because life ain't all smooth.

ummisprayerbook

Purple rains from heavy skies,
Gently drumming on your roof.
Each droplet sings a lullaby,
Step inside this listening booth.

Let it pour, let puddles form,
Let tears dance upon your skin.
Stand and embrace love's storm.
Let its magic sink within.

Healing
Healing

CIVIL SUITES

Daylights Saving

BLACK AUGUST MUSIC / BAM 21.2 ALOT

Album: Salty Suites
Artist: comaSIWA
Source: LIST COMPREHENSION

Salty Suites

COMPREHENSION

Album: Salty Suites
Artist: comaSIWA
Source: LA LA LAGOS

LA LA LAGOS

IMPROVISATION x comaSIWA, CYANIDE REMIX x Daniel Caesar & Koffee, Inner Light x Elderbrook & Bob Moses, Underwater x RÜFÜS DU SOL


I don't play music so much as play *with* music. A musical idea I borrowed from hip hop lives here, the break. Extending the break to create and extend dance a beloved technique I play with often. Emerging from the waves, Rufus, a band my very hip-hop loving big brothas introduced me to.

BooWee

BFM CYAN

The RnB album reimagined for 2024

In honor of April, I share reimagined R&B classics

01 BFM 040124 ReRnB Crack Callback

02 BFM 040124 ReRnB Ego Battle

03 BFM 040124 ReRnB Lesson Time

L'Orfeo (SV 318) (Italian pronunciation: [lorˈfɛːo]), or La favola d'Orfeo [la ˈfaːvola dorˈfɛːo], is a late Renaissance/early Baroque favola in musica, or opera, by Claudio Monteverdi, with a libretto by Alessandro Striggio. It really is rhythmic and bluesy.

06 BFM 040124 ReRnB Orfeo's Place

The RnB album reimagined for 2024

In honor or the April, I share reimagined R&B classics

07 BFM 040124 ReRnB Hold Onto

10 BFM 040124 ReRnB Cause

BFM 040124 ReRnB Cause

BFM 040124 ReRnB Orfeo's Place

Is album was born at the tail of 2021, my most prolific year of music to date. This album is a cohesive allegory on the condition of immigrants of the African diaspora in North America circa 1972.

DUPE

The modern dance superman himself, Black Coffee, greets the Wailers in this conversational, uptempo negro spiritual of a street bop. Frank Ocean and John Mayor provide demure accompaniment.

BFM is maturing folx. We continue to bridge genres, geographies, and generations to bring brilliant artists on the sonic stoop for all to enjoy. Music never gets old.

ZAZA

BFM 082224 WAYZING

BFM 120824 SLOWED

perple, Ron Isley, Lauryn Hill, Johann Sebastian Bach, E. Power Boggs, Black Coffee, Hezekiah Walker & LFC, comaSIWA, Sault

BFM 121024 CHURCHBLACK

Two lovers who've loved hard and held fast for 7 years reflect. They have changed gradually and now facing one another, their eyes seek light lovingly and sadly away. 

I’ve been emerging from a period of mourning. The anger is more diffuse, more spread out, thinner. The longing is subsiding, acquiescing. Thoughts of blame, right and wrong are losing their grip on my mind. My heart wakes in early-early morning to a new day. Feels like 3-4am just before sunrise. This song memorializes my thoughts and feelings. A horcrux, a vessel, a portkey, a token of love.

BFM 012925 CAROLBURY HILL

dance. dance. dance through it. dance all the way up. dance all the way down. are you with me, valentine?

perple

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