2007 Curtis Haywood
1997 Brian McKnight
Curtis Haywood
2011-07-29
【MV】Ihsan Bilal - Big Band Theory
全方位前衛靈魂女創作歌手Ihsan Bilal，音樂有時讓人聽不出端倪（與名字一樣有「Bilal」的Bilal Oliver、Bilal Salaam一樣嗎？）。這一、兩年陸續發表單曲之後，首張專輯 Big Red Box 於七月底總算是推出了。
國外認為Ihsan Bilal有著Kelis的影子，各位覺得呢？
如果想試聽專輯，或聽聽她別的作品，請至：
2011-07-27
【抗顏】K. Jackson (of 3rd Storee) - Beach House Mixtape
十年前活躍的人物，時代變遷並未阻礙他們的前進腳步。
知名製作人／混音家／創作人Jon-John Robinson（K-Ci & JoJo、TLC、Jon B.）與美聲團體3rd Storee之一的Kevontay Jackson相遇，彷彿宣示著R&B與HipHop真的本一家。
於是Kevontay Jackson繼率先單飛的K. Young，他同樣選擇以縮寫K. Jackson之名重新出發，Jon-John則隨侍在側，為其量身打造羽翼。
這張搶先發表在專輯 Allow Me to Introduce Myself 之前的 Beach House Mixtape ，除了把Toni Estes、Ke$ha和Katy Perry請過來，還必須注意的是Captain Hook這位男聲，中和了K.充滿雄性氣息、欲求不滿的饒舌，也重回了3rd Storee時代。
翻唱U2的 With or Without U 算是抓到融合「黑白音樂」的精神， I'm Fly Mix 則以OutKast的 Prototype 為取樣音樂，作為穩重的最終曲。
原始下載頁面
回顧幾支3rd Storee的MV與單曲吧。
K. Jackson的單曲 S'More MV。
【容顏】George Duke & Jonathan Butler - Sarah, Sarah (live @ Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland, 1997)
原曲：改編Jonathan Butler之超級名曲
【色顏】Honey Larochelle - Clean Lust and Dirty Laundry
Vancouver born, Texas raised, Florida reformed, Brooklyn saved, Denmark adopted, Croatian loved, Miss Honey Larochelle has been making audiences around the world laugh, cry, and jump out of their seats. Fresh off another European tour, “The Urban Honeybee” has been buzzing in the studio crafting a kaleidoscope of music that spans adventures in love, sex, dance, intimacy, and honesty. “Clean Lust and Dirty Laundry” is a juicy exposé that showcases her crisp, soaring soprano gift and captures her dynamic songwriting and production skills.
Honey collaborated with an amazing line up of producers on “Clean Lust and Dirty Laundry:” Lions Share (Anthony Hamilton, Pharoahe Monch), Caviar (T.I), Danish Reggae producer, Pharfar (Beenie Man), and several up-and-coming geniuses. Her warm yet edgy mash-up of classic soul, hip-hop, and electro-pop is sure to make an impact on her listeners and on the industry itself. With the final touches blended and mixed by fellow Canadian Super-DJ Miss Erica Dee, you should bee excited.
Bee very excited.
Honey Larochelle, the “Urban Honeybee” with a modern day pin-up girl image, airs out her growth, transition, mistakes, and passions on a clothing line for the world to see. This is not your average mixtape built on other people’s beats or songs. The honey of this record is all-original ear candy.
Honey collaborated with an amazing line up of producers on “Clean Lust and Dirty Laundry:” Lions Share (Anthony Hamilton, Pharoahe Monch), Caviar (T.I), Danish Reggae producer, Pharfar (Beenie Man), and several up-and-coming geniuses. Her warm yet edgy mash-up of classic soul, hip-hop, and electro-pop is sure to make an impact on her listeners and on the industry itself. With the final touches blended and mixed by fellow Canadian Super-DJ Miss Erica Dee, you should bee excited.
Bee very excited.
Honey Larochelle, the “Urban Honeybee” with a modern day pin-up girl image, airs out her growth, transition, mistakes, and passions on a clothing line for the world to see. This is not your average mixtape built on other people’s beats or songs. The honey of this record is all-original ear candy.
2011-07-26
2011-07-25
【崇尚】Orrin Evans with Gene Stovall - This Masquerade
Pianoman
Orrin Evans
http://www.imani-records.com/
Frontman
Gene Stovall
http://genestovallmusic.com/
http://genestovall.bandcamp.com/
Orrin Evans
http://www.imani-records.com/
Frontman
Gene Stovall
http://genestovallmusic.com/
http://genestovall.bandcamp.com/
2011-07-22
【RHCP】A-Plus (of Souls of Mischief / Hieroglyphics) - Pepper Spray
Hip Hop fans who also enjoy the sounds of alternative rock group The Red Hot Chili Peppers will rejoice when they hear Pepper Spray, an EP release from A-Plus of Souls of Mischief/Hieroglyphics and production team Compound 7. The 7-song EP is a reimagining of some of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ most epic tracks as a backdrop for MCs A-Plus, Del and Knobody. The brainchild of Compound 7 member AAGEE (who suggested an EP release with production based entirely off the Chili Peppers), PEPPER SPRAY is a specialty project, according to A-Plus.
“The whole purpose is a Hip Hop tribute to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, inspired by their music and dedicated to their work. The cover is going to be a spin-off of one of their most popular covers – it’s a theme all throughout,”
he explains. “The songs are all topic-oriented, sonically as well as lyrically. It’s a conceptual EP, certainly. I don’t want people to look at this like it’s MY new album, it’s something I worked on but it’s obviously in a different lane,” emphasizes A-Plus. “I’m stepping outside of my paradigm to do something new, different and artistic.”
Standout cuts on Pepper Spray include Californication, which features Del. A-Plus explains the significance of Californication – “The way the song is set up, you have to hear it, its two verses then the beat changes, then the verses again, like a refrain. I instantly thought of Del after we finalized the beat. The subculture of California is snaky but its home, that’s what the Chili Peppers’ song is about so I just rapped about what California is for me in the same way - the positive and negative.”
Memories and experiences of tours & being on the road are a recurring theme of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ music as well as on Pepper Spray. “Road Trippin’ is a song about leaving to go on the road, and what it entails. Just being out from an artist’s perspective and how it’s a very hard but amazing job,” A-Plus reasons. “By the Way is another song about being on the road, but more of a specific story, of our tour bus getting pulled over, smelling like weed, me getting arrested, it’s a story – they’re both tour-story oriented.”
Pepper Spray, in drawing from one of the greatest alt-rock bands of this century and turning their sound into a Hip Hop format will undoubtedly draw new fans toward both genres of music and beyond. One thing is sure; Compound 7’s Pepper Spray is like nothing you’ve heard before.
2011-07-19
【換氣】Everything She Wants, Wham! + Zo! & Phonte + James Poyser & The ReBel Yell
應該是巧合吧
George Michael 的珠胎 Wham!
名曲之一的 Everything She Wants
出現在ZO!（也有驚歎號）的免費新曲作品裡
另一個重點是
James Poyser的團體 The ReBeL Yell 也在2009年玩了這首歌曲
（題外話：台北信義誠品 The Rebel Yell 的專輯進了一堆不知有人收購否）
但這歌並未收錄在正式專輯
需要的人可以自己找找
兩首比起來
The Rebel Yell 就是玩世不恭
而Phonte則是玩合聲玩上癮了～搭啦搭啦啦（居然還有 Remember the Time）
結論
Nu-Soul應該會在這兩三年內重新定義
並且在我聽完 Rahsaan Patterson 的新專輯 Bleuphoria 之後
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