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Blue was written near the sea, while observing this beautiful landscape with a deep feeling of freedom.

The idea is to help your mind travel with this very emotional melody, and to let your dreams set sail as you listen to the piano notes.

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A love song inspired by the bowerbird, who spends years constructing strange and elaborate nests out of stones and discarded spoons, and straws - often all in blue.

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Here is the new album from the one-man beatmaker project from Serbia - Ogi Feel the Beat. This is downtempo and abstract hip-hop, embodying the spirit of the 90's. Minimalistic, overall kind, with interesting melodies and samples. This is the author's third solo album released on Label Cantroll.

From the author: "Endless Searching is probably one of my best albums. I often post new music on my Soundcloud - and what got the most response - was selected for this release. It's old-school, even timed like it should take up a full CD. Thanks to the musicians who joined the recording: Marko Smiljanic and Aleksandar Cupara (from my hometown Paracin), as well as Mark Shishlev from Russia. Keep the Retro alive!".

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from The Melodie to the Rhythm , with a strong vocal . Yóungvik is an amazing artist to watch . And the video by iyke Lawrence will take you on a mind blowing

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"The Truth" is the new record from George Mensah. A track that possesses warmth, groove, impact, and addiction.

George has a distinctive London sound, which has seen him work with Joel Corey, MNEK, Secondcity, Max Chapman, Eden Prince, Sammy Porter, and Joshwa.

"The Truth" is released on LoveJuice Records.

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The Shaun Johnson Big Band Experience is a rare newcomer to traditional pop...fusing a big band spirit with an inventive edge...at once more risky than Buble, more modern than Sinatra. Shaun, an Emmy award-winning crooner (and lead singer of the internationally known vocal group, Tonic Sol-fa) indelibly stamps vocal jazz and swing with a contemporary punch - to the delight of both traditionalists and newcomers - emerging as an original voice in the continuing tradition of the American singer.

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Shaun shares:

I wanted to write a song inspired by the Andrew Sisters as well as Bing Crosby and dedicated to the idea that one person multiplied by another can seem so much greater than the sum of its two parts. This has definitely been true in my experience. The fantastic harmonies are courtesy of Abigail Flowers who has recently been hailed as "Best Jazz Vocalist" by the Nashville Industry Music Awards. Often, in the Big Band Experience's live performances, I highlight certain musicians or small groups within the band. "Multiplied by Two" is no exception. Aaron Moe plays throughout the tune with an impromptu arrangement on alto saxophone and Dave Stanoch lays back with a one-take, live groove. Both instrumentalists are clinicians, authors and teachers who've stuck with me since I started this musical adventure. I may have to rename the song - "Multiplied by Three." The Big Band Experience set out to offer a taste of a true big band...the style and the pulse, the horn arrangements and the intimate crooners. As a singer-songwriter who appreciates many genres of music, my original compositions can sometimes be all over the proverbial map. Recently, I've been thrilled to find high school jazz vocalists sending me their versions of "Multiplied by Two" - some with an upright bass, others simply a cappella. I'd like to think "Multiplied by Two" may be at home in the feel of the Great American Songbook, and that this is noticed. If so, I've truly succeeded.

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Looking up from the concrete jungle, you can see the conflict and passion hidden inside. This song has a message to survive the days of patience. Swinging fast Jazz grooves and positive melodies carry you in the shining starry sky, while time flies.

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Hijaz: The wail from a foreign land

This song is the wail of the helpless feeling of "homesickness" of people who are in search, especially those who are in search of themselves.

The story was formed by the encounter of a person, on a musical journey who had lived abroad for a long time and finally returned to his homeland, with other souls that are constantly in search like him. First, the wailing sound of ney was heardand then the words of Mevlana Celalettin Rumi…The melodies and rhythms that were revealed always reminded the same endless longing, which is the longing for the "essence" where one cannot stay distant from "oneself".

Undoubtedly, it is Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi’s words that best describe this longing.

The first 18 couplets of the Masnavi are about the "ney", which is pulled off from the reed bed and cauterized inside with fire, narrating its cries in the hands of a master and trying to return to its homeland. Nevertheless, this search, this cry never ceases. As the poet Ahmet Cemil Cankat from Urfa said, being on a foreign land is always hard...

Manchester’s Marconi Union have offered up their introspective blend of electronics and atmosphere over the course of the discography, and there’s a certain graceful manner in how their richly melodic compositions unfold, evoking a weight and emotion through experimentation and boundary pushing.

The new single “Strata” sees Marconi Union diving headfirst into their expansion of sound. "Strata is a rare example, for us, of a track that we tried out live a few times before committing to the album version,” Meadows explains. "It’s one of the most up-tempo pieces we've ever written, it has an energy and emotion which for us borders on elation.”

For the first time on Signals, out November 5th on Just Music, there is a distinct propulsive nature to the proceedings that add a more rhythmic touch and wide-reaching perspective. Signals was informed by the bands’ admiration of a number of different drummers and this played a significant part in helping shape its sound, an admitted shift following the release of the largely beat-less Dead Air. The upcoming album combines synthetic textures with organic sound, and merges the familiar with the unknown, transporting the listener deep into their imagination. The one-word title is both mysterious and evocative, suggesting a multitude of images that range from high-tech electronic messaging to ghostly abandoned radio stations and even that most basic level of human expression: body language.

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The dynamic instrumental cinematic funk/soul duo, Hot Mustard, is proud to announce the release of their debut album, Mother Sauce, on Eddie Robert’s (New Mastersounds) Color Red label. Drawing influence from mid/late 1960’s and early 1970’s funk and soul, the building blocks of first generation boom bap hip-hop, multimedia artist and guitarist/producer Jack Powell and bassist Nick Carusos successfully work their own distinctive flavors into classic recipes with Mother Sauce. Simply put, Hot Mustard is as retro as it is radical, and the end result is nothing short of intensely addictive. Track by track, the debut album offers an unpretentious, yet decadent menu of sonic flavors, effortlessly weaving chopped dry-aged drum arrangements with buttery bass lines, twang infused funk guitar licks and 70’s synth-inspired string nostalgia, all while retaining the time-honored, refined sense of taste that made labels like Stax and Atlantic Records household names. Fueling the record throughout is Big Brass Beats, the all brass horn section out of Brooklyn, NY, featuring horn parts written and arranged by Grammy-nominated trumpeter Jordan Mclean (Antibalas) with Dave “Smoota” Smith (TV On The Radio) holding down the trombone.

“The collaboration with Jordan and Dave ended up being an essential part of the album. When two different worlds collide, sometimes it can be messy, but other times it works in unique and interesting ways. With this record, it felt like we had created something strange and special, while keeping it fun and refreshing,” explains Powell.

On August 20th, Hot Mustard’s second single, “Window Seat,” will drop on all streaming platforms. Accompanying the single is the animated video, a delightfully odd tale created by Jack Powell who goes under the artist moniker of Opus Thimble. HM’s unique musical vision becomes consummate with the addition of Powell’s Monty Pythonesque visual animations. “The video, to me, is basically ‘a day in the life of a creative introvert’. It’s one of the days in which you get the win, so to speak. I try not to indulge much of what the video means to me personally because I think that it’s important to give the viewer an opportunity to apply it to their own life in the way they feel it.” says Powell.

Accomplishing timelessness in any art medium is always the gold standard, and with Window Seat, both sonically and visually, Hot Mustard has accomplished this and more.

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