After a year of highs (collaborating with legendary MC Rob Sonic, and Rhymesayers producer Sol Messiah) and lows (the murder of friend and crew member Alonzo Rodgers) Lane Shuler leans in to a softer and nostalgic sound to close out his “Season 3” release run with new single ‘Jehovah’
Will Johnson is back on production for this one, and the song is soft and reminiscent of downtempo ballads by artists like The Weakerthans, Craig Finn, and Limbeck, with the typical lyrical wordplay we’ve come to expect.
Lane said:
“I heard a song right when lockdown started called “I Wrote This Down”, by the band Limbeck. I wanted to try to capture that same spirit in this song, which I consider a goodbye letter to the campuses, relationships, and friends that I’ll never see again. I’ve lost fellow artists, local legends, and fans. This is a nostalgic look back at a past that simply doesn’t exist any more, and reckoning with that reality.”
Savile Row’s cover of the early 1990’s dreamy dance-rap classic “Set Adrift on Memory Bliss” by PM Dawn is a song that the members of the group always loved, based on its melding of smooth pop elements and a conscious hip hop lyrical delivery.
As fans of music with a deep love of many different styles, the members of Savile Row embarked upon creating a modern version of the PM Dawn classic, as it was a track they felt was very reflective of their own genre (a hybrid of musical styles).
With that, the desire to collaborate took hold and the group reached out to Brad Fischetti of late 1990’s/early 2000’s pop group LFO (Summer Girls, Girl on TV). With Brad also being a big fan of the track, he immediately signed on to do a verse. The result is a fresh and fun take on a classic pop track.
Savile Row are veterans in the Florida and US music scenes. With branches into the metal, hip hop, punk and pop music scenes, members G Mike Jr. (vocals/guitar) and Karizma (production/synth/guitar) had long been performing with previous acts throughout the USA before coming together in 2021 to form the group.
Their debut EP ‘Steak & Lobster’ dropped last summer and features a plethora of features including Kool Keith, Sadat X (Brand Nubian), Vast Aire (Cannibal Ox), Michael Christmas, Princess Superstar, A-F-R-O, and Mr Muthaf**kin’ eXquire. The results are a tapestry of hook-laden, thought provoking, fun and emotive tracks that stand at a junction of hip hop, pop, alternative and dance music.
Savile Row plan to release their debut full length in 2023.
Following the incredible success of debut single ‘Halloween House’, harvesting over 16K streams, and receiving International radio support, Montao returns in 2023 with new single ‘Outflow’. Now we have entered a post lockdown dystopian world, it begs the question, what actually happened…?How does reality sit now, what is the ‘new normal’, is it new anymore? As seamless as the ocean, was it all a dream? Have you woken up, or still asleep? Whatever people’s experience of Covid was, spending endless months at home listening to horrific news, whilst a silent enemy lingered floating amidst the atmosphere. Within this reality there was a calming but distorted silence, the Outflow…
Outflow is out now– https://ffm.to/outflow
Tunisian oud master and vocalist Dhafer Youssef has released his tenth studio album, Street of Minarets, out today via Back Beat Edition. Written from the fifty-something Dhafer of today to his teenage-self, the album offers a gift for the dreamers, the lovers, the fighters, and the obscure. Joined by musical icons including Herbie Hancock and Dave Holland, Street of Minarets continues to spotlight Dhafer’s seamless ability to build a bridge between Indian, Arabic, and Western classical and jazz music.
STREAM STREET OF MINARETS HERE
Speaking to the importance of Street of Minarets, Dhafer shares, “This album is for a young Dhafer armed only with his oud and music sheets. The kid who, 30 years ago, landed in Vienna carrying an instrument and a backpack. The kid with no more than a few coins in his pocket, no source of income and no lifeline to support him in this new city. Young Dhafer had a plan, a dream: to share his music and to make this his livelihood. And this dream was everything — the key to his delivrance, the source of his inspiration and the roadmap to his fulfillment.”
“My childhood memories were not merely depressive wanderings of the mind, but a point of reference, a root stretching into the present to allow for the growth of new branches, and to give life to this album,” he continues. “Here, I develop voice effects which are reverberations from my childhood. The sound of megaphones perched high atop the village resonate on this album. This sound is within me. It has never left me, lives inside me. And now it is time that I share it with you. The fruit of my sufferings and raptures, depressions and ruminations, successes and doubts, Street of Minarets is my offering to you.”
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