[MP3] The Souljazz Orchestra – Lufunki

First single from Ottawa, ON Afrobeat group, The Souljazz Orchestra‘s forthcoming new album (their 8th studio album!), Under Burning Skies. Clearly, they have been influenced by all the Afro Synth, Afro electronic stuff like William Onyeabor that’s been in vogue as of late, no? Y’all dig though?

[MP3] Benny Cassette – Sunrise Sunset

Here’s a cool record an old friend from my days at Jive records put me up on. RIYL the more ‘Island’/’World’ sound of Drake (‘One Dance’) and Rihanna (‘Work’). This is the official PR blurb with the background on it:

World-renowned as an influential and in-demand GRAMMY® Award-nominated producer with credits as diverse as Kanye West, The Band Perry, John Legend, Miguel, and The All American Rejects, Benny Cassette continues to simultaneously evolve as an artist in his own right. Today, Cassette announces his debut single “Sunrise Sunset” from his anxiously awaited full-length debut album Broken Hearts And Dollar Signs, due out later this year.

“Sunrise Sunset” is about trying to get to a place where life is simple and not letting the stress and happenings in the world get in the way of your happiness,” says Cassette. “I wanted the song to feel like the neighborhood I lived in as a kid like MacArthur Park (in southern California) and also something my grandma could dance to since she loved Spanish music so much.”

A born storyteller, Cassette quietly assembled the Broken Hearts And Dollar Signs album while traveling around the world. During his travels, he penned a series of letters addressed to those closest to him—everyone from old flames (inspiration for “Sunrise Sunset”) to his beloved grandmother. Now, each letter inspires its own song on the tracklist. Signed and sealed with his inimitable production, he delivers these songs with impassioned vocals and raw lyricism. He’ll unravel this narrative over the course of the next six months, debuting one music video per month until the record’s release.

ABOUT BENNY CASSETTE:

Benny Cassette has established himself as one of the music industry’s most sought-after visionaries behind-the-board. His influence can be felt throughout Kanye West’s groundbreaking Yeezus—for which the creator personally tapped Cassette’s talents after hearing him. Signed to West’s G.O.O.D. Music as a producer, he went on to produce for other A-list superstars such as The Band Perry, Miguel, and many more. Born and raised in Los Angeles’s MacArthur Park Latino mecca, the multi-talented Spanish-Italian personally took the spotlight with the single “Empires,” which Rolling Stone extolled as “emotive like Sting.” Meanwhile, Mass Appeal described his 2016 track “Be Wild” as “like you’re watching a tribal ritual in the woods, but the twinkling piano notes and Benny’s voice reassure you that the ritual is for blessings for the coming year.”

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[Music Video] A Tribe Called Red – We Are The Halluci Nation Feat. John Trudell & Northern Voice

The new A Tribe Called Red album, We Are The Halluci Nation just dropped and it’s pretty damn good. A huge step forward from their previous releases which I always felt were a tad overrated tbh. Here goes a video for the title track featuring John Trudell & Northern Voice.

Previously on the Kitchen:

– [MP3 + Music Video] A Tribe Called Red – R.E.D. Feat Yasiin Bey, Narcy & Black Bear

[MP3] BROOKZILL! – Saudade Songbook Feat. Count Bass D

Excited by the first new De La Soul album in 11 years that just dropped last Friday? Then ICYMI, FYI: the co-architect of that group’s seminal debut album 3 Feet High and Rising, Prince Paul has just dropped his first new music in a while, “Saudade Songbook”, the lead-off single from the Throwback to the Future, an album by BROOKZILL!, a hip-hop/Brazilian concept supergroup featuring Paul, Ladybug Mecca of Digable Planets, Don Newkirk and Gorila Urbano.

[MP3 + Music Video] A Tribe Called Red – R.E.D. Feat Yasiin Bey, Narcy & Black Bear

Massive collab between electronic-aboriginal music pioneers, A Tribe Called Red and Brooklyn hip-hop legend, Yasin Bey (bka Mos Def) with an assist by another Canadian artist, Narcy who you may remember when he was going by the name, The Narcicyst and I posted his ‘Hamdulillah’ video HERE.