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COWBOIS The Swan, Royal Shakespeare Company, Friday 3rd November 2023 This exuberant new piece by Charlie Josephine (who co-directs with Sean Holmes) is a Wild West yarn about a backwater town where the menfolk have all buggered off because of the Gold Rush and haven’t been heard from since, leaving the women and children to fend for themselves.  The women adapt to survive, performing…

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Nicola Conte - Umoja - the host of musicians on his new album take his sound even closer to the ideal of 70s-era soul-jazz

Renowned Italian spiritual jazz master, DJ, producer, guitarist, and bandleader Nicola Conte proudly presents his new album Umoja via London based label Far Out Recordings. A joyous exultation across ten tracks, Umoja taps into the abundant well of knowledge Conte has amassed over his career as connoisseuring compiler and archivist of deep jazz, latin, afrofuturist, bossa-nova and soul music from around the world. Expressing unity, oneness and harmony in Swahili, Umoja coalesces universal feelings through the multifaceted global music Conte has spent his life studying and researching. The music of Umoja draws on the deep-dug 70's independent spiritual and free jazz sounds, private-press soul records, and African and Afro Caribbean rhythms in Conte’s collection. But he equally recognises his debt to many of the decade’s more celebrated musical icons, such as North American cosmic jazz masters Lonnie Liston Smith and Gary Bartz, and Afrobeat originators Fela Kuti and Tony Allen. Proudly revivalist, Umoja was recorded direct to analog tape, with just two takes for each track. “Searching for an unadulterated, spontaneous, almost improvised feeling”, Nicola made sure that the few overdubs were also transferred to tape in order to retain the colour and warmth of the analog sound. “Very little post production or editing has been added, so what you hear is largely what happened in those magical live sessions”. Zara Mcfarlane - Lead Vocals On Arise/life Forces/freedom & Progress Bridgette Amofah - Lead Vocals On Dance Of Love & Peace/soul Of The People/flying Circles Myles Sanko - Lead Vocals On Into The Light Of Love Timo Lassy - Tenor Saxophone Teppo Makynen - Drums Pietro Lussu - Fender Rhodes , Wurlizter, Acoustic Piano Alberto Parmegiani - Guitar Abdissa Assefa - Congas & Percussions Ameen Salim - Fender Bass & Double Bass On Freedom & Progress/Flying Circles/Umoja Unity Marco Bardoscia - Electric Bass On Dance Of Love & Peace/Arise/Life Forces Luca Alemanno - Fender Bass & Double Bass On Soul Of The People/Heritage/Into The Light Of Love Simon Moullier - Vibraphone On Arise/Heritage Dario Bassolino - Fender Rhodes Piano & Moog On Soul Of The People/Into The Light Of Love Magnus Lindgren - Flute On Into The Light Of Love Fernando Damon - Drums On Heritage Milena Jancuric - Flute On Heritage Pasquale Calo’ - Tenor Saxophone On Flying Circles Hermon Mehari - Trumpet On Freedom & Progress Paola Gladys - Vocals On Flying Circles/Freedom & Progress Chantal Lewis - Vocals On Into The Light Of Love Jaelee Small - Vocals On Into The Light Of Love Produced By Nicola Conte Music Composed By Nicola Conte & Alberto Parmegiani Except Into The Light Of Love By Conte/Parmegiani/Sanko Arise By Conte/Parmegiani/Mcfarlane Soul Of The People By Conte/Parmegiani/Amofah

THE KITE STRING TANGLE : THE PRIZE (FEAT. BRIDGETTE AMOFAH)

like driftwood you pick me up, and now watch me wash away. like you forgot it gets cold at night and you need kindling to start the flame. 🌊🦋🌵 the prize — the kite string tangle x bridgette amofah

///// the szn has changed, but this song makes me feel like it’s still summer

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PLAYLiST: haus bruh

🎧: SPOTiFY | APPLEMUSiC | SOUNDCLOUD

JAM Alert: The Prize (feat. Bridgette Amofah) - JackLNDN Remix by The Kite String Tangle, Bridgette Amofah, JackLNDN Listen: https://open.spotify.com/track/3MWxfQA78cThYEFJp6t8Hw See More Jams: http://bit.ly/tnjspotify

Thursday night vibes…

You ever set a vibe so deeply for yourself that you just throw everything else away, put your headphones on and coast?

Tonight I’m walking down a road filled with jazz and intention, and I’m watching the night go by. This definitely feels like a diary post, and it is. You have to enjoy this vibe with me tho. If you’re ready, I have a couple of selections for you. Click the link and it will take you to the streaming service of your choosing.

Starting off with probably the best record Harry Connick Jr. has ever made in his life IMO:

Slinky, spidery.. screaming horns.. a little speakeasy feeling. It’s a creeper, it’ll keep you warm tho.

Legendary Canadian jazz pianist (and one of the reasons I love jazz) Oscar Peterson plays the most lush and comforting version of Over the Rainbow you are ever going to hear below..

Two more and then you can go, I’ll literally kick you out..

Amel Larrieux doing everything and giving us this gem of a track..

And last but never least because I love to end on an uptempo wave, some Nicola Conte!

Everything Nicola Conte touches glitters in the light like diamonds; this track is no different. Bridgette Amofah’s vocals are unreal! Deep! Breathy! Sexy! It’s everything you could ask for on a regular degular Thursday night.

Thank me now, or thank me later. Enjoy your evening and enjoy some variety. 🍷

Your 4:20 tracklist for 30 November 2017 - Muskogee edition

104.5 The Edge - Lord Huron - The Night We Met 89.9 KCRW - talk KCRW Eclectic 24 - Fool's Gold - Nadine 90.3 KEXP - Kishi Bashi - Once Upon a Lucid Dream (In Afrikaans) 91.1 WFMU - some din on Strength Through Failure with Fabio BBC Radio 1 - Krept & Konan - Ask Flipz (ft. Stormzy) NPO 3FM - N.E.R.D. - 1000 102.3 OÜI FM - Walk The Moon - Shut Up And Dance OÜI Ganja - The Paragons - Knockin' On Heaven's Door 102.7 3RRR - Shonkytonk - I Hate Collingwood 94.5 2FBi - Shitkid - Favourite Thing ABC Triple J - The Kite String Tangle - The Prize (ft. Bridgette Amofah)

may musiccc

malibu - miley cyrus party's over - astrid s please stay - ali barter you - alextbh (feat. sam rui) sweet creature - harry styles rollin - calvin harris (feat. future & khalid) im in control - alunageorge (feat. popcaan) element - kendrick lamar the distance - san cisco hyperreal - flume (feat. kucka) new day - asgeir i like me better - lauv black girl magic - che lingo emotional - anjulie (feat. justice skolnik) long distance - sam gellaitry swish swish - katy perry (feat. nicki minaj) love - tilka your time - nick murphy (feat. kaytranada) biking - frank ocean (feat. jay z & tyler the creator) right now - haim bad liar - selena gomez the prize - the kite string tangle (feat. bridgette amofah) told you so - paramore the line - raye crying in the club - camila cabello surfin - kid cudi (feat. pharrell williams) all around the world - mura masa (feat. desiigner) daydream - nai br.xx fire that burns - circa waves feel good - gryffin (feat. illenium & daya) numb & getting colder (baauer remix) - flume (feat. kucka & baauer)

spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/1232478477/playlist/6oGUCddp4IHK8PX8ZJVP9d

Nicola Conte & Gianluca Petrella - Free Your Mind EP

Pioneering Italian musician and producer Nicola Conte and esteemed trombonist Gianluca Petrella team up again for their third EP on Schema, ahead of their forthcoming full-length project due out later this year. For those unaware, Conte and Petrella have been working together on and off since 2001’s New Standards. In addition to working together as musicians, the pair has fostered a close creative relationship, trading and discussing vintage gear and records in a bid to open each other up to as wide a range of influences as possible. This most recent offering further explores the themes and sounds found on their previous collaborations, Sun Song / Nigeria and African Spirits / New World Shuffle, with its heavily West African influenced rhythms and cosmic-leaning musicality. ‘Free Your Mind’ is a straight-up party jam, complete with a powerful horn section, playful synth lines and powered by a rock solid Afrobeat rhythm section. ‘Imani River’ sees the duo putting their spin on a spiraling 6/8 time signature, featuring otherworldly guest vocals from Bridgette Amofah, who also featured on the duo’s previous collaborative releases. The track offers a stark contrast to the feel good party vibes of ‘Free Your Mind’, taking on a somewhat spiritual demeanor, due as much to Petrella’s evocative trombone playing as to Amofah’s lofty vocals or the reeling nature of the percussion. Conte and Petrella bring the tempo up a notch or two with closing track ‘Infinity’, which lands somewhere between the dancefloor focused ‘Free Your Mind’ and more headsy ‘Imani River’, allowing the listener to get equally as lost in the song’s driving groove as the intergalactic sound-palette that floats on top of it.

(Stamp The Wax)

Netsky - When Darkness Falls (feat. Bridgette Amofah) (Official Video)

本日は珍しいメンバーで。辰緒のDJで日本酒がすすむ❗️w NICOLA CONTE & SPIRITUAL GALAXY featuring BRIDGETTE AMOFAH, THEO CROKER, MAGNUS LINDGREN, PIETRO LUSSU, MARCO BARDOSCIA, TEPPO MAKYNEN & ABDISSA ASSEFA DJ : TATSUO SUNAGA #料理 #深夜食堂 #居酒屋 #番長 #food #ケータリング #新香 #晩酌 #酒場 #大衆 #食堂 #ブルーノート東京 #dj #青山 (BLUE NOTE TOKYO)

"Nicola Conte & Gianluca Petrella feat. Bridgette Amofah - New World Shuffle (STW Premiere)" by Stamp The Wax

Spotify JAM Alert: The Prize by The Kite String Tangle, Bridgette Amofah See More Jams: http://www.thatnewjam.com/