some serious Jai Paul vibes on this one..

Any word on the full track being finished?

They rly be the goats at making the best Music of all time and never dropping the finished version

Have had this liked for like 4 years, wheres the full release 😭

Finally seeing an official
Release after all
This time wild

finish this half of a masterpiece bro please. or let me sample it please?

a.k. paul

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Additional voices: Reinen, K. Ustinov

"Ohhh... yeah!" vox was recorded circa 1990, my dad on production

Cheers Mate

BBE Music is thrilled to announce the release of Modern Love, a diverse compendium of specially commissioned cover versions of rarities and classics in tribute to David Bowie.

Featuring an array of artists such as Jeff Parker, We Are KING, Meshell Ndegeocello, Helado Negro, Khruangbin, Matthew Tavares, Nia and more, Modern Love seeks to champion Bowie’s lesser-known connection to soul, R&B, jazz, funk, and gospel. The prominent jazz influences throughout Bowie’s final album, Blackstar, were a key inspiration for curating this collection of reimagined Bowie songs with these artists. The resulting album is an eclectic tribute featuring a group of artists who not only fit together creatively, but who, like Bowie, straddle different worlds musically, with soul and jazz at their core.

Modern Love offers a fresh look at Bowie’s trailblazing career, aiming to highlight the often overlooked relationship between his back catalogue and musical genres traditionally pioneered by artists of color. The project was curated by music executive and DJ Drew McFadden, alongside BBE Music founder Peter Adarkwah. “I felt that the connection between Bowie and R&B, jazz, funk, gospel and all things soulful, had never really been explored before — at least not so much in covers, which tend to lean more towards rock and pop,” says McFadden. “Certainly, there’s been plenty of Bowie covers over the years, but none that have really tapped into what seems to have been a big part of his core musical
style and direction.”

Modern Love is an interactive sonic map. Here, seventeen artists make their way into the varied regions of his sundry catalog and circle back with seventeen unique re-imaginings of both his cornerstone and lesser-known tracks. Some, in atmosphere, feel like a sly alternate take from original sessions (Khruangbin’s ethereal, funk infused version of “Right” from Young Americans); others nod at the source, then wink before diving into the deep waters of another musical stratosphere (Sessa’s sexy Tropicalia-drenched “Panic in Detroit” from Aladdin Sane). Still others take tunes down to the studs and then re-arrange the moody interiors: Meshell Ndegeocello’s pensive “Fantastic Voyage” from Lodger and Tavares’ clever take on “Heroes” which is restructured into a kinetic hardbop-esque backdrop, fronted by ice-cool, held-back vocals. The bullseye these artists aim for is Bowie’s fearlessness. “Fame was an incredible bluff that worked,” he once reflected. “Very flattering. I’ll do anything until I fail. And when I succeed I quit too.”

Modern Love packs us off on a journey that balances on risk’s sharp blade. Track-to-track, it explores what happens when a musician throws out notions of should and safe and stretches beyond the known. These artists use Bowie both as a guide and a prism: A way of being and seeing. Their offerings, widely divergent, explore the inheritance from an artist who freed himself from labels, genres and, consequently, pigeonholes. While he was at it, he decimated fixed notions about territory (or terra) itself; boundaries hemmed-in his creative process, but his essence remained free to roam. He may have vanished in earthly form, yet, as he also promised in the lyrics of “Modern Love,” But I never wave bye-bye . . .” This compilation assures us that his spirit swirls around us. His force is alive to all of us and, here, it is summoned with an incantation that celebrates possibility.

Khruangbin - Right

Day 7.5093 (keiyaA Remix)

13 - SAULT - Bitter Streets

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NAO vs. A. K. Paul - So Good

@Sonnymoonmusic are Brooklyn duo Anna Wise and Dane Orr, the dream team who have quietly been releasing albums and sharing stages with the likes of The Roots and Flying Lotus. You might recognise Anna from Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy-nominated Good Kid, m.A.A.d city and should definitely listen out for her on his new album To Pimp A Butterfly – she features on several tracks including Institutionalized alongside Bilal and Snoop Dogg and These Walls with Thundercat. Taken from their forthcoming third album, The Courage of Present Times (due for release via @GLOW365 on 24th March) we are pleased to present the premiere of Sonnymoon’s next single. Grains Of Friends is full of @Dirty-Projectors style vocals that dance over a series of clicks, claps, muffled basslines and field recordings that take us back to summertime playtimes. It's time to move to the groove.

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Premiere: Sonnymoon - Grains Of Friends

Lyrics: Laila & Gia Nevarez
Singer: Laila Nevarez
Prod: Matthew May

Doomed-
Darlin' I saw you that day, holding her so close.
I wish I could say that I'm done, but I don't even know?
Got me feeling so low, leaving me on the floor.
How do I get through to you, when you hurt me like you do?
Am I doomed for wanting you?
Am I cursed for knowing I'll never be her?
& you got me here all alone, sitting with all this pain.
I don't wanna cry no more, this is killing my brain!
Got me all fucked up & I don't wanna feel.
Playing with me, knowing you ain't got shit to say!
Darlin' it's a quarter past two, said you'd text right back.
Kept me here waiting, looking like a damn fool!
So why, do you keep hurting me like you do?
Make me insecure, holding power like you do.
Tried texting you, turning blue to green,
Wait! did you just block me? I can't see a thing!
Played me, like one of your video games.
Just to turn me off, I couldn't do the same!
I wouldn't treat another, the way that you do to me.
Picking me up, putting me down, it's driving me insane!
Baby, I don't wanna hurt no more, this, oh this is killing me!
Why, you keep me coming back, to throw me, like you do?
I wish I could say that I'm done, but I can't get over you.
I'm doomed, for wanting you like I do,
Doomed, for loving you like I do.
I wish I could just get over you, but I'm doomed, ooh doomed.

Doomed

Written and Produced by Anup Paul. Vocals, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Synthesisers, Percussion and Programming by Anup Paul. Sound Design and Effects by Anup Paul. Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by Anup Paul. Recorded at Spicy Benefit Studio and The Doogh, London, England.
℗ 2016 A. K. Paul
Artwork © 2016 Paul Institute
http://paul.institute

LANDCRUISIN'

A.K. Paul ~ Watchin' U   (Demo)

vocals and lyrics by @ruthvenofficial
art by @zouassi
type by daniel gamage
<3

way u want - strange loops & s.r. nelson

drums: mike "blaquedynamite" mitchell
errythang else: jon bap

LYRICS:

Don't you know you have my love?
Girl and we don't play no parts, well except for who we are
I just want you babe
I want the in's and out's
The up's and down's

Don't you rearrange yourself for no one else but you
'Cause baby I just want you to be you
No, you don't have to change for me
I just want you to be you
'Cause you know it makes me melt when you be youself

Oh girl, this ain't no exchange
And there ain't no dotted line where you can sign your name
I just want you babe
I want the in-between's and all around

Don't you rearrange yourself for no one else but you
'Cause baby I just want you to be you
No, you don't have to change for me
I just want you to be you
'Cause you know it makes me melt when you be youself

You Be You(single)

Originally shared by reddit user/Le_Daft_Knight

Post Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/jaipaul/comments/e6pi01/ak_paul_i_wont_feel_guilty_feat_jai_paul/

Original Youtube Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPcZbDwQS7Q

Please message me if you want it taken down.

A.K. Paul - I Won't Feel Guilty (Live Demo at Laylow London)

A joint made in lockdown. 

All instruments, vocals, production and mixing etc. by me. Mixed down to Maxell XLII cassette at my flat, using my gf's 1979 Sony TC-K55 mkII.

Also, I'm on Instagram now:
https://www.instagram.com/a__k__paul/

Thankhs 𓉑
Anup

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A demo by A. K. Paul that was premiered on the Apple Music Special "Paul Institute: Magical Thinking".

A.K. Paul ~ Watchin' U (Demo)

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