Erykah Badu "Honey"

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Ho sognato Obama

Per capire cosa ascoltiamo, secondo me occorre ripercorrere la storia.

Il tutto, sapendo che quando appreziamo questa musica nera, siamo dentro le particolari vicende ed i sentimenti di una civilta'.

Dal mio piccolissimo canto ho cercato di presentare questa volta due faccie socio politiche, emblematiche e forti sopratutto per la cultura afroamericana: Martin Luther King Jr (cui ricorreva l'anniversario del suo compleanno il 21 Gennaio) e Barack Obama (attuale leader democratico candidato per le presidenziali). Ho confrontato poi le loro figure grazie alla musica che nella maggior parte dei casi ferma il tempo e le emozioni e le racconta in diversi modi.
Ho potuto fare questa puntata grazie e sopratutto al materiale musicale di cui disponevo. Anche per questa volta tutto questo raccoglie il mio entusiasmo!!! Da qui, la solita parentesi per gli artisti ed i loro progetti, jingle e connessioni.

Ovviamente, da parte mia, non c'e' stato un approfondimento.

Dall'inizio alla fine... Blazin' The Official Soul/rnb podcast in Italy! Qui su funnypodcast.podshow.com

01 - Souldiggers - it's funny (sigla iniziale)
02 - Sheila E (Chromeo Voice Dave1) e Funny che ritaglia i pezzetti della canzone extented - The Glamorous Life
03 - Billie Holiday - Autumn In New york
04 - Soulride - Mr Radio
05 - Elizabeth Shepherd Trio - Melon
06 - Bing Ji Ling - So Natural
07 - Peven Everett- Testin Me (Pillow Mix)
08 - Discorso di Martin Luther King Jr "I have a dream" condensato in circa 5minuti con il brano di J Dilla "Nothing Like This"
09 - Bren - Arrigato(Thank You)
10 - Dj Alibi - One Day
11 - Strange Fruit Project - Get Live featuring Erykah Badu
12 - Mike del Ferro - Tritomba
13 - Queen Makedah - Tell Me
14 - Nico Royale "sei mia" jingle
15 - Desdamona - refrected light
16 - Jewel - hey instrumental
17 - Howard Hewett - crystal clear
18 - norman hedmans tropique - one for ahmad
19 - Faz aka Ef.ei.zee - (sigla finale)

Buon ascolto!

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Bing Ji Ling iPod Video.

Bing Ji Ling is interviewed for segment on artists who use the iPod creatively.

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Mmescafrancesca.

Per questa puntata ho trovato un po' di novita' che non avevo mai suonato. Ho cercato poi di raccontare le svariegate storie degli artisti che propongo, per un'ora "soulful" in cui potrete rilassare la vostra mente ed ascoltare delle canzoni non affatto dozzinali, piu' degli artisti con la A maiuscola!
Ah... poi monologhi, jingle, saluti, scatch e tante cose....

Sotto la copertina di Smell Smoke di Miles Bonny dal quale ho pescato il brano "you".

Dall'inizio alla fine... Blazin' The Official Rnb/Soul Podcast in Italy! Qui su funnypodcast.podshow.com

01 - Souldiggers - it's funny (sigla)
02 - Kyoto Jazz Massive - Mind Expansions
03 - Hezekiah - soul music
04 - Joey Sommerville - I Want You Back
05 - Daughters and Sons - Gods of Almost
06 - Soulride - MR Radio
07 - Goapele- Go Find A Way
08 - Semokee - On The Rise
09 - Miles Bonny - you
10 - Scion Presents Daptone Records Remixed Volume 19 - Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings - My Man Is A Mean Man (DJ Spinna Remix)
11 - Soulride - riff to the smooth
12 - Giant Panda - TKO
13 - Ann Nesby - i apologise
14 - Jimmy sommers feat Vikter Duplaix - If I Knew

Buon ascolto!

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Capitolo 12 - Miles Bonny

Miles Bonny e' trombettista, grazie al babbo che praticava lo strumento. Vorrebbe suonare piu' spesso cio' che ha imparato dalle Jazz Radios che ascoltava da ragazzino. Sperimenta con la voce essendo piu' che intonato. Pratica l'arte del djing dalla fine degli anni 90 e possiede tanti, ma tanti tanti vinili.
Sempre dallo stesso periodo che va dal 1999 fino ad oggi, produce beat dal suo studio a casa. Il suo e' un sound individuale, costruito di lounge jazz, fatto di trombe, attorniato dal soul tradizionale e radicato nella cultura della ricerca di tutte le discipline artistiche da lui trattate. Immerso nell Hip Hop, che e' fatto da lui istintivamente e che dice che e' "come parlare". E' meta' artistica dei Soundsgood insieme a Joe Good...
Curiosita: suo padre negli anni 70 conosceva lo zio di Madlib.

Qui, un po' di cose che ha fatto. Qui invece quelle che fa.

By TIMOTHY FINN
The Kansas City Star

Relaxing at home on his porch swing, Miles Bonny plays his trumpet. “It’s the most honest thing I can do,” he says. “So much of (life) hip-hop is prerecorded, and the rapping is like talking."

DJ Miles Bonny prepared for a gig recently at the Hangout, 3611 Broadway. The next Feel Sexy night there is scheduled for Feb. 17. “Smell Smoke” is Bonny’s new solo album.
“He uses samples of stuff people normally don’t use, like lounge jazz, and then flips it and makes it sound cool.”
JOE GOOD ABOUT MILES BONNY

To fully appreciate the music on “Smell Smoke,” the new solo album from Miles Bonny, it helps to understand the man who created it.

And to appreciate the music that lives in the mind, heart and soul of Miles Bonny, you must go back to his boyhood, to his father, to the trumpet, to jazz. “I was influenced a lot by my dad and his interest in some really obscure music,” Bonny said recently. “We didn’t have cable TV until I was 13, so I listened to the radio, a lot, usually to whatever he was listening to.

“When I helped him in his woodshop, he’d be listening to NPR or WBGO, the local jazz station. That’s where I first heard Clifford Brown and the song ‘Tiny Capers.’ ”

His father, Francis Bonny, is a woodworker on the side, by day; by night, he is a professional trumpet player based in Teaneck, N.J., where Miles spent most of his boyhood.

Since the late 1980s, Francis Bonny has played trumpet in “Phantom of the Opera,” the longest-running show on Broadway. He regularly invited his only son into his music world, bringing him to rehearsals and performances, introducing him to legends like Tito Puente and giving him rare opportunities that resonated with his son.

“I remember during a performance of ‘The Nutcracker,’ ” Bonny said, “I got to sit with the orchestra, and the guy on percussion let me hit the tambourine during the live performance.”

(And his dad isn’t the only music luminary in the family: Miles’ grandmother, Helen Lindquist Bonny, is a renowned music therapist and founder of the Bonny Institute.)

By the time he’d entered grade school, Miles Bonny was playing the trumpet, though it wasn’t necessarily his favorite instrument.

“I played it from grade school through high school,” he said. “I was in jazz band, orchestra, marching band. I wanted to play drums, but they wouldn’t let me switch.”

That’s because he was so good at trumpet. In August 1999 Bonny enrolled at the University of Kansas to study music and carry on the family tradition.

In Hashinger Hall, the arts dorm at KU, he made friends with musicians who were hip-hop fans doing intriguing things with turntables and keyboards and samplers — making beats and crafting rhymes.

That’s where he befriended local music stalwarts such as Andrew Conner and Richard Gintow (who would later form Ghosty) and beatmakers-rappers like Nezbeat and Joe Good.
“I remember Andrew showing me a CD from his band in South Dakota,” Bonny said, “I was like, ‘Whoa, you got your own CD?’ ”
And something clicked.

During his first semester at KU, he got an offer to enroll in the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He turned it down. “It just didn’t make sense at the time,” he said.

Bonny eventually withdrew from music scholarship (his degrees are in American Studies and African-American Studies), but he never left his trumpet behind.

You can hear his horn throughout “Smell Smoke” in cuts like “Sing Your Song,” a trippy jazz ballad with piano, bass, brushed drums and Bonny on vocals and that trumpet, an accent that renders an extra, irresistible flair.

That song illustrates the diversity of his influences, which begin with trumpeters like Clifford Brown and Roy Hargrove and include everyone from Sting, Jamiroquai, Ben Folds Five and Gil Scott-Heron to albums like Donald Fagen’s “Nightfly” and D’Angelo’s “Voodoo.”
“That was big for me,” he said. “When I figured out how Roy Hargrove did the trumpets on that, I was like, ‘Man, I want to be involved in something like that. These are my people.’ ”

To Bonny’s friends and collaborators, “Smell Smoke” was something of a revelation coming from a guy who was best known for creating exotic or eccentric beats for rappers to rhyme over.

“It’s exciting, it’s different,” said Marcus Johnson (aka Smoov Confusion), a rapper-singer in the hip-hop troupe the Soul Servers. “It’s very soulful, but it’s still hip-hop. It’s not an everyday sound.”

“I think a lot of people were surprised to hear Miles by himself,” said Joe Good, Bonny’s collaborator in the hip-hop duo SoundsGood. “The record is amazing, but it also turned out exactly the way I thought it would. Miles always had it in him to be a solo artist. He can do so many things. And ‘Smell Smoke’ completely represents who he is. It’s honest, it’s not contrived.”

In SoundsGood, Bonny composed the beats that Joe Good rapped over. In 2005 the duo released its second full-length CD, “Biscuits & Gravy,” a dynamic hip-hop album that shivers and rings with obscure elements of jazz, soul and R&B.

“He wanted to be as non-hip-hop as he could get,” Joe Good said, “without going completely outside the boundaries. He uses samples of stuff people normally don’t use, like lounge jazz, and then flips it and makes it sound cool.”

Last year Scratch magazine dissected some of Bonny’s beat work, revealing fresh traits and strokes that go back to Bonny’s music foundations: “The free-wheeling ‘Voices’ is an uptempo number littered with crisp horns and crisp drum programming. The untitled last track samples trumpeter Booker Little for some retro Buckshot Lefonque type flavor.”

As his reputation as an A-list beatmaker flourished, Bonny developed an itch to express himself lyrically and vocally, though not without respect for both.

“It’s easier to make beats than to write lyrics,” Bonny said. “If you write like Joe Good or I do, it’s even harder because we don’t talk a lot of nonsense or trash, so you’ve got to have something to say.”

As good as it is, Bonny considers “Smell Smoke” something of a stopgap. He’s more excited about the follow-up, “Incense & Wine,” which will feature him singing his own songs over beats composed by a collaborator in the U.K.
“They don’t sound like my beats,” he said. “They’re all live with lots of keyboards mixed with live drums and horn lines.”
They sound so unlike his beats, he said, that he figured the transition from SoundsGood to “Incense” would be too abrupt.

So he revived some of his own tracks and used them to make “Smoke.”

“It’s really not a ‘debut’ album because I didn’t really put ‘debut album’ effort into it,” he said. “It’s not that I didn’t try. It’s exactly what I want it to be. ‘Incense’ — that’s going to be it.”

It will be one of a few big moments in his near future. Bonny and his new bride, Jesse, are expecting their first child soon. In addition to his writing and composing responsibilities, he has a few regular DJ gigs around town, including a brand-new one at America’s Pub in Westport.

Bonny’s next live show is Sunday at the Peanut, Ninth and Broadway, where he DJs upstairs as part of “Hip Hop and Hot Wings.” He calls it a casual deal, where you can sit and chill and listen to him play a variety of genres and styles, from old-school R&B to new Thom Yorke and Fiona Apple.
Once in a while he’ll stop the recorded music and produce a little live jazz from his trumpet.

“People seem to enjoy it,” he said. “It’s the most honest thing I can do. So much of hip-hop is prerecorded, and the rapping is like talking.
“Yeah, it definitely represents my dad. But also, playing trumpet is the most honest thing I can do. You can’t play trumpet and not be sincere.”

Yes i do - Miles Bonny

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L'ultima parola.

Speaker Cenzou.

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Prossimo pensiero?

Ciao a tutti! Quest' anno, la mia trasmissione audio verra' utilizzata ancor meglio per compiere lavorii interiori da condividere. Spero che fornisca le basi per tralasciare pensieri negativi ed poi per scambiare musica, per essere un "ritrovo", un appuntamento che ci distragga dalle apatie e dalle difficolta' delle quotidie.

Il primo ringraziamento di oggi lo restituisco a Networkstudio5, la prima casa di ritrasmissione!

Ringrazio poi I Souldiggers per la loro passione e per la loro sigla d'apertura che per me e' stato un bellissimo regalo!
Inoltre un ennesimo grazie a tutti gli artisti che con la loro musica hanno dato vita ad una nuova trasmissione.

E poi grazie a tutti voi che ascolterete. Qui cito Nissardo, Dianalogic e poi Raheem di Urban Hang Suite (l'official site partner dello show).

Ok... si parte!

Alla prossima.

Dall'inizio alla fine... Blazin' The Official Rnb/Soul Podcast in Italy! Qui su funnypodcast.podshow.com

01 - Mark Rae - skio
02 - Souldiggers - it's funny (sigla)
03 - Thes One - North By Northwest
04 - The escorts - Heart Of Gold
05 - Marc Shyst - my place
06 - Soulride - MR Radio
07 - Fat Jon - Everywhere
08 - Kaze - Dynasty
09 - Blue Scholars - North By Northwest instrumental
10 - Bettye Lavette - let me down easy
11 - Animate Objects - this dance
12 - Presto - Late Night Tip
13 - Nick Ayoub - Love Scene
14 - Jamesking - reminisce
15 - Shon j - soul power
16 - Amber Ojeda - so in love
17 - Thes one - target
18 - Geoff Gascoyne - god only knows
19 - Soulride - riff to the smooth

Buon ascolto!

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Eric Roberson "Pen Just Cries Away"

da "Left" "Pen Just Cries Away" un video "concettuale" girato e diretto dal grande W. Ellington Felton, cantato da Eric Roberson e prodotto musicalmente insieme a Kev Brown.

Quanto mi piace.

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Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice

Weapon of Choice e' un guizzo di genialita' in video con protagonista un attore eccezionale Christopher Walken, il quale ha avuto la brillante idea di realizzare la sua coreografia, essendo stato per l'nizio della sua carriera ballerino e possedendo ancora velleita' di questo tipo. Il tutto e' stato diretto da Spike Jonze, uno dei piu' bravi videomaker.

Il video e' abbastanza vecchio, del 2000.

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What's Grand Canyon?

Rieccomi qui ad omaggiare Marvin Gaye che con "What's goin on" ha raccontato emozioni e sentimenti, turbamenti ed evoluzioni di una civilta' che trascorsi i tempi, rimane la stessa. Ora: mi son messa a canticchiare pure io al karaoke "What's going on" e mi sono divertita. Ho fatto un canto libero su una montagna alta alta.

Marvin - What's goin on Live 1974.

Se ce la fate, dall'inizio alla fine... What's going on "versione chipmunks" sul Grand Canyon Qui su funnypodcast.podshow.com

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