jimi hendrix, jim morrison, ntozoke shange, nina simone, fela, miles davis, bob marley, michelle ndegecello, tricky, the clash, the roots, tribe called quest, lee "scratch" perry, skin, oludara, last poets, gil scott heron, brain damage, love, the speeches of peaches, pj harvey, robert johnson, eric dolphy, thelonius monk, war,charlie parker, violent femmes, grace jones, curtis mayfield, tracy chapman, james baldwin,stooges, mingus, coltrane, alice coltrane, john lennon, beetles (white album), roy ayers, marvin gaye, patti smith, billy holiday,
Sounds Like
(they say)- an eclectic fusion of musical genres, creating an utterly unique and indefinable soundscape. (including a blend of electronic, hip hop, slam, blues, and dub like trip-rock pie)
i came to "earth an alien" the original title of poem that later became song for one zenzile track (www.zenzile.com) has been a life motif for me. Just ask my dad. He was witness to one of my first works of fiction i wrote as a awkward nerdy kid in which i described an encounter with extraterrestrial life forces which told me to have patience that now is (was) not the time for you to go "home". Maybe not too hard to imagine where this story came from... growing up chocolate chip in a predominately white suburb... but it was deeper than that. I didn't feel as if i fit anywhere. In the black community i didn't adhere to codes of blackness. Or it wasn't me. In the straight community I couldn't pass for girl and i had feelings for other girls. And though i wasn't a manhater (some of my best friends are boys) i always found myself putting my hands around their wastes during slow dances. And my dad was annoyed with me wearing baseball caps all the time. Out in the "real world" I tested my "Black ability" still searching for other aliens like me... and of course discovered all of them weren't necessarily black... I found links with others who were often hailed with calls and glances that said "wot are u- u freak", as we did not fit nicely into any category. And our lives were made difficult because of this. And we were told we should hate ourselves because of this. This made my little alien inside really angry and i began to shout about it. Make films about it. Write poetry about it and eventually write songs about it. After awhile i guess i realised nobody really fit.
Only some of us could pretend to fit. And the pretending leads to the tragedy of souls decaying whilst still clinically living. We live in a society that makes it difficult to be who we really are comfortably, and makes profit out of our discomfort, out of the spiritual deaths, and real physical genocides worldwide. People are dying in front of their televisions as well as in war torn countries. People are dying from hunger in the bars and pubs as well as in those third world lands, which have been stripped of their natural resources to benefit the few. People have been living in concentration camps both in their CCTV and debt filled existences as well as in various torture camps known and unknown. And that has been the impetus in someway behind the album i have been working on for the last several years HELIUM BALLOON ILLUSIONS--- I found myself travelling searching still for like souls, landing me for last several years over here on the small island that likes to call itself the Empire and working with misfits all over Europe... the making of HELIUM BALLOON ILLUSIONS has been a labour of love, with other like minded individuals who are also resistant to fixed definitions- internalised as well as externalised restrictive borders. peace to the aliens.
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Retrouvez TONY ALLEN dans une interview STRICTLY AFROBEAT concoctée par LA REVUE SONORE avec la complicité de l'ami Soro Solo.
C'est par là :
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La série Music Close-Up inaugurée par VINCENT SEGAL (moitiè à cordes de Bumcello) déboule aussi dans vos oreilles : vous allez voir !
www.myspace.com/musiccloseup
Voilà un p'tit nouveau morceau du Purple is my Sound (tanguy & k-rol's project) : unfaithful + Unfaithful part II en écoute chez nous bonne continuation chez vous ! la biz
Thanks for the add, I love your music btw!
If you get a chance, please take a listen to our first New Age release "Instrumental Piano Music" by Solo Piano Relaxing Music. We'd love to know what you think of it!
Regards
LR
Après moultes péripéties (merci au Zenz !), le projet de Purple is my Sound s'enrichit d'un nouveau morceau - "HNY [ALX]" - désormais en ligne sur le profil Myspace : www.myspace.com/purpleismysound + la version slam cliquez et écoutez ! Avis et commentaires bienvenus. à bientôt pour un nouveau morceau !
TRIPTYCK : www.myspace.com/triptyckproductions Management/Accompagnement d'Artistes et de Projets Production d'Artistes : Spectacle, Tournée, Disque Production de concerts et soirées
TRIPTYCK : www.myspace.com/triptyckproductions Management/Accompagnement d'Artistes et de Projets Production d'Artistes : Spectacle, Tournée, Disque Production de concerts et soirées
Oyez Oyez, Tombé du cul d'une roulotte, à la croisée de chemins boueux, le nouvel Ep d'1kub arrive sans prévenir ! 1kub & The Wicked Wicked, pour une nouvelle formule incisive !! Jetez y vous 2 oreilles et laissez vos commentaires.
Le premier album de Taliesin est désormais distribué par le label numérique Believe. Vous pouvez dès a présent écouter l’album sur Deezer, Last FM… ou le télécharger sur les plate-formes telles que Virgin ou la Fnac.
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