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Big respect to the Barbican for playing host to Desdemona, Peter Sellars and Toni Morrison’s enchanting take on Shakespeare’s Othello. Toni’s poignant prose, beautifully framed against a backdrop of desert illumination and surreal silhouettes, added untold depth to Desdemona’s tragic tale of...

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Ebru - Swim Good

how lovely is this?!! i usually stay hatin on cover versions (because people are just taking the piss now) but Ebru's version of one of my fave Frank Ocean tracks is just so delicious!

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we got some grand feedback for Eye Know and there have been some blinding reviews for Pretty Ugly. this one from the Guardian Music Weekly podcast made me smile widely. like seriously you could cut me down the middle and see the smile running right through! lol

press play if you've got a spare 6mins&3secs

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How Your P*$@y Works (If You're Ready To Learn) - Brian Mcknight

rinsed out R&Bizzle conventions bore me to tears but Senior Mcknight takes that shit to new heights

my 1st reaction "What on earth Brian??!!?!?"

How can a man riff "bet you didn't know that it could squirt" with a straight face like he might be singing "One You're like a dream come true" 

Too funny

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Israel J Allen @ IGOSPELUK Sing Inspiration 2012! Gospel & Soul

Love this! Such an amazing event;-) 

My Role: Marketing & PR Mgmt

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One 1 Pound Fish, Queens Market

okay, so he's funny and he has a great voice! but if you're gonna go and bodder a man at work at least buy a fish to rockstone! they're only £1

"yeah, yeah do your fish song for me" no please no thank you you know?! he just wants to upload my mans likeness to youtube hoping to make some advertising revenue when it hits 30k views

i should go and drop him a release form template so he can get wise to the game and stop getting rinsed out. or he should make them buy 6 fish for £5 before he sings a note...

#thatisallforthemoment

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and yes I do acknowledge the irony of uploading the same said video to my blog but it is to illustrate a point and not to exploit the fish peddler any more than he already has been. plus i really really love his riffs. his voice is pretty raging;-)

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The Internet - She Dgaf

loving this differently. the whole album is a bit spesh too. other lovelies on repeat right now are They Say & Love Song −1. love her voice. love the beats.

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Ben L'Oncle Soul‪ - Elle Me Dit‬ (She Told Me)

i think i love him a bit. worked his show @ KOKO last month n was completely blown away. The live show is everything that soul music lovers have been missing. i hate comparisons but i'll do 'em if it means you buy/support/go see an artist. this artist. Ben and the whole band including bv's/back up dancers are amazing! the smoothness of the Temptations, energy for dance of James Brown, vocal agility of Ray Charles.... what more do you need man?!

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DVA:Why You Do feat A.L. (Hyperdub 2012)

by Hyperdub

This is a video for 'Why You Do' by DVA and featuring A.L. from the his debut album Pretty Ugly, released on Hyperdub in March, 2012

Lots & lots of love for him, her and this;-)

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Made this video during a power cut in London - it's taken from Scratcha's album 'Pretty Ugly' released on Hyperdub 19.04.2012 Video Shot and Realised by Hiroo Tankana and FX's by Kieran Finch.

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As a singer and songwriter, Carleen Anderson came to prominence as the lead vocalist for the Young Disciples, best known for the classic chart hit ‘Apparently Nothing’. Aside from being shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize and recieving a Brit Award nomination, she has worked with an array...

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When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only happened to me singing jazz. It doesn't happen when singing pop. I get so deeply into the music, it feels like I've become someone else.

Rita Coolidge

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Every Shoe Has A Story pt3

From: Poste Mistress @ Office, November 2008

Price: £25 from £80

Worn: Never...

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The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.

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Merline Adassa Bonner - My Grandmother

     Whenever I'm afraid of change I think of You.                                      

 In Memoriam| Merline Bonner| 17th February 1929 – 25th October 2009

                                                          Miss Banna

On the banks of the Pindars River, in humble Arthur's Seat

There lived a little light-skin girl I would like you all to meet,

She goes by the name of Merline, the daughter of Ole U,

And gentle Miss Estella, who many of you knew.

Her father he adored her, for he knew he had a gem

And she in turn, she worshiped him, the very best of men.

She grew in grace and beauty, she washed her brother’s clothes

Those lazy good for nothings, why she loved them, heaven only knows.

And then she met our father, Nathaniel was his name,

An outsider from Brown's Town but she loved him all the same,

They married and moved to Monday Hill, in early wedded bliss

But when she got in a mood he’d say ‘a wha do u missus?”

They called her 'Mother Pepper', she told you what was what,

And you’d better not upset her as her temper it was HOT.

She bore Lynette and Velma but soon had to say goodbye,

For  England now was calling and there she had to fly.

In those days London was a terrible place, they didn’t like black faces

But gentle Merline, full of grace, soon  put them in their places.

Six more children followed, in those years we’ll always cherish,

With uncles, cousins, friends and aunts, in old St Stephen’s Terrace.

And then one day a letter came, 'Ole U is going blind

You’d better come and see him, there might not be much time'.

And when she sat by the old man's side he said “Miss Merline is really you?”

'Yes is me pupa' his child replied, and they shed a tear, or two.

But it was Miss Estella who went first, so sudden, without warning,

She just took sick and then she died, one bright Jamaica morning.

Ole U he wasn’t far behind and soon he joined his wife,

By the old house on the hill in Guava Ground, together in death as in life.

And back in England nothing changed, she worked her fingers to the bone,

'Til one day she said 'right you lot, me and Bonner, we’re going home'

So she returned to her father’s land just like she said she would,

And we all knew, without a doubt, that she was gone for good.

There was one more death before her own, the passing of Mr B

But soon they will be reunited, beneath the star-apple tree.

On the banks of the Pindars River, in humble Arthur's Seat

There grew a child, our mother, whose like you'll never meet.

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You showed us what it was to love, you never turned your back

You gave us everything you had and nothing did we lack.

You lived out your days under the Jamaican sun, your dreams of life fulfilled,

As we lay you now beneath the stars, in your beloved Crofts Hill.

You used to say 'angels can’t do better when man has done his best'

But mummy you were our angel, God keep you and God bless.

  Written by Peter Bonner

Calrendon, Jamaica

November 6th 2009.