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AURORA - The Flood
Song of the Day: After last summer’s album What Happened To The Heart?, the acclaimed Norwegian singer-songwriter Aurora Aksnes returns with a shimmering, soaring, sparkling new pop single of self-analysis, out on Decca/ Universal
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Muireann Bradley’s debut album, I Kept These Blues
Song of the Day: Not a new song, but a lovely remastered and recently re-released version of the classic Rev. Gary Davis song performed with beautiful finger-picking precision and wonderful vocal charm by the teenage folk, blues and roots Irish singer-songwriter from Ballybofey in County Donegal, from last year’s debut album, I Kept These Old Blues, out on Tompkins Square, and now Decca
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Sans Soucis - Sexed and Sexual
Song of the Day: A sensual, funky and stylish new dance number by the London artist, written through the lens of a very personal early teenage story, a song about sexual liberation, but also a critique of the hyper-sexualised society we live in
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Jordan Rakei
Song of the Day: The latest single by the silky-voiced London-based New Zealand-Australian soul singer brings also punchy horns and orchestra in a jazz-funk-Motown-style fusion, and comes from his forthcoming album, The Loop, out on 10 May via Decca Records
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Sans Soucis - Mexico City
Song fo the Day: An uplifting single for a winter Monday of pop-funk escapism to a hotter climate by the London-based Italian singer-songwriter Giulia Grispino and co-producer Cid Rim (Clemens Bacher) with guest vocals by Charles
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Jordan Rakei - Flowers
Song of the Day: A beautiful, soaring, ode to patience, growth, his first love and wife, by the silky-voiced New Zealand-Australian musician, singer, songwriter and producer.
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Steam Down: (We shall) Overcome
Song of the Day: A superb, powerful, stirring fusion of hip hop, jazz, afrobeat and other genres with guest rappers, by Deptford-based collective formed by multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Ahnansé
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Melt Yourself Down’s latest single
Song of the Day: A single o blistering pace and riff released a couple of months ago by the London band that fuses jazz, punk, jazz, funk and North African influences, led by tenor saxophonist Pete Wareham and joined by vocalist Kushal Gaya
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Tony Allen 1940-2020. His music lives on in this and upcoming posthumous releases, including the album There Is No End
Song of the Day: Another fantastic posthumous release by the legendary drummer and Afrobeat pioneer from a forthcoming album, There is No End, here featuring the writer Ben Okri and rapper Skepta on vocals
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A youthful Van Morrison and Them in the mid-60s
Song of the Day: A triple Sunday treat from the early days of Van Morrison and his fellow Belfast boys, showing his raw, powerful voice, anger, lust, and in the final song, the tenderness yet to come
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