SDC DIGITAL: May 2017

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The Rhythm Express

Artist: The Rhythm Express
Title: Jolene ft Maiko Watson
Label: 7 Arts/Side Door Records
Genre(s): Americana / Reggae / Country

“This is great...love the arrangement and Maiko’s vocals. We will add to Fresh Air.” Sandy Mowat – Producer Fresh Air CBC National Radio Canada

“Excellent version.” Kerry Doole – FYI Music News

A few months back I was turned on to a haunting YouTube clip of Dolly Parton singing her most recorded song, “Jolene”. The original 1973 track had been slowed from single format to long playing 33 1/3 speed. That listening experience was both eerie and a revelation. No doubt, Dolly Parton possesses a grand set of pipes. Slowed down it becomes more evident, in that every inflection, bend in a vowel, a word is extraordinary and rocked with emotion.

With that in mind and captivated by the change of tempo, I began hearing other possibilities. What if this was done with a reggae feel - early Bob Marley and Wailer’s rhythm section style and backing vocals reminiscent Marley’s backup singers, the I-Threes. Acutely aware Parton and a cappella sing group Pentatonix just won a Grammy for Best Country Duo/Group Award with an updated version of ‘Jolene’; the song’s alluring story, sumptuous melody and sweeping beauty was more than the Rhythm Express could resist. In fact, we decided to keep the song’s country charm with a guest appearance from guitarist Tim Boviconti of Ron Sexsmith/ Burton Cummings fame. Tim’s lap steel, acoustic and electric guitar keeps our ‘Jolene’ rooted in tradition.

Great songs lend themselves to all sorts of interpretation. ‘Jolene’ rocks our world.

Enjoy
Bill King
Email: billkingpiano@gmail.com

Lead vocal: Maiko Watson
Produced/arranged/keys: Bill King
Executive Producer: Everton 'Pablo' Paul – drums/percussion
Recording engineer: rhythm guitar – Shane ‘Shaky J’ Forrest
Guitars: electric/lap steel – Tim Boviconti
Bass: Jesse 'Dubmatix' King
Violin: Elizabeth Rodriquez - violin
Mix: Michael Haas
Writers: Gunnar Jorstad/Dolly Parton – Velvet Apple Music
Recorded: Side Door Records

Battle of Santiago

Artist: Battle of Santiago
Title: La Migra
Label: Made With Pencil Crayons
Genre(s): Afro-Cuban / Canadian post-rock / Dub
Release Date: April 28 2017

NOISEY FEATURE: http://bit.ly/2o3vDtf

“art-rock, dub, electronica and Afro Cuban jazz into a dense and worldly mix.”
Jim Farber New York Daily News, New York, NY

“The Battle of Santiago" deliver it all. Ancient knowledge, great dance beats, and musicianship. What a great act!”
Ismael Ahmed, Host of “This Island Earth”, WDET, Detroit, MI

A more timely album title would be hard to find: Battle of Santiago’s third release, La Migra, literally translates to “deportation police,’ certainly a topic of great discussion in North America as of late. Tapping in to the climate wasn’t a purposeful decision – the album title was chosen before the change of administration – but the emotion behind the sentiment is still the same. “We chose this title last year, simply because all of the band members have had to migrate to Toronto for one reason or another. We often have trouble crossing the border because of our diverse heritage, something we expect to be even more difficult in the coming months.”

The Battle of Santiago (BOS) band members are half Canadian, half Cuban, resulting in a unique and formidable sound. Led by Michael Owen (bass and production) the band’s sound never veers far from their distinctive blend of Canadian art rock and afro-Cuban jazz – twisted through a dub lense.

http://www.thebattleofsantiago.com https://www.facebook.com/thebattleofsantiago https://twitter.com/Battle_Santiago https://www.youtube.com/user/thebattleofsantiago https://soundcloud.com/the-battle-of-santiago

Gavin Hope

Artist: Gavin Hope
Title: For All We Know
Label: Slaight Music
Genre: Vocal Jazz

Beautiful album! max radio support
Radio Monte Carlo / RMC2 Radio - Italy

Toronto Star’s - Peter Goddard - 4 Stars; “Among the many extraordinary things about this CD – the top solo debut this year so far – is hearing a singer find himself. What really puts the CD in the big leagues is Hope’s take on “But Beautiful”.

Gavin and I started this journey at Lula Lounge at a fundraiser for Sing! Toronto Vocal Arts Festival. Preceding that occasion Id’ never heard this glorious voice only in harmony with singing group The Nylons on the Ted Woloshyn Show @ Newstalk 1010 in 2012.

What transpired on stage was pure magic! This was Marvin, Luther, James Imgram, Pebo Bryson, all in one body. I knew then I had to secure studio time. That we did and two demo tracks landed on Slaight Music’s founder Gary Slaight (President and Chief Executive Officer of Slaight Communications Inc.) and Derrick Ross (President of Slaight Music) desk. A brief meeting ensued and deal struck.

I turned Gavin on to the seminal duo recording Tony Bennett/Bill Evan’s recorded some thirty-eight years back and reminded the bar had been set high – let’s make a play for it. The process was exhilarating and the results now public. For All We Know is for me one of the grand experiences of my professional music life. Finally, a big big hug and thank you to Shakura S’Aida for introducing us to the amazing Selena Evangeline. Another voice from beyond! Her debut duet on Lizz Wright’s ‘Salt’ completes the aural journey.

Gavin Hope - Vocals
Selena Evangeline – vocal duet (Salt)
Bill King – Produced and arranged - Steinway acoustic grand piano and Hammond B-3 organ
Engineered and Mixed by Michael Haas
Mastered by Michael Haas and Chad Irschick

The Hempolics

Artist: The Hempolics
Title: High & Gritty
Label: Shark Free Records
Release: April 2017
Format: Digital / 7" Vinyl

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDzqcJiagfk
Vinyl: https://goo.gl/vyExWW

The Hempolics push reggae out of the box fusing it with hip hop, soul, electro and pop inna modern low-fi dub style while staying true reggae rebels in spirit…

New single ‘High & Gritty’ is a true story of band leader Grippa’s spontaneous love affair with a Mexican beauty over in the land of the Zapatista’s, co-written and sung by Hempolics gang member Dandelion. It’s a reggae pop smash blazed with summery horn hooks and skilled dub effects and has already received early support from Lauren Laverne on BBC6 and was selected by David Rodigan as his ‘Scorcha of the Week’. Be sure to check the video for ‘High & Gritty’ filmed at the world famous Notting Hill Carnival.

'High & Gritty' is released with an eclectic set of remixes featuring a killer Jungle / Dubwise remix from FLeCK, a bouncy Dub from Umberto Echo, a party-starting version from DJ Maars and a variety of Dub rubs from Canadian maestro Dubmatix.

‘High & Gritty’ is a step forward on The Hempolics exciting journey moving on from the success of previous single ‘Me Love To Sing’ which was playlisted on BBC6 to much critical acclaim including Chris Hawkins describing the band as “the best new reggae band on the planet”. Take your eyes off The Hempolics at your peril. Ital business.

http://www.hempolics.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Hempolics

Longfingah

Artist: Longfingah
Title: Urban Mystic
Label: GuerillJah Productions
Genre(s): Dub, Reggae, Dancehall

Longfingah is one of Germanys premier reggae MCs. Over the past years he chanted his energetic style through the speakers of many club and festival stages across Europe and beyond, like Rototom Sunsplash (ES), Fusion, Reggaejam, Summerjam (GER), Uprising (SK), Boomtown (UK) & many more. Recently he toured Mexico, India and Japan with the Berlin based reggae-electronic band Illbilly Hitec. In the meantime Longfingah also produced a huge list of CD and vinyl releases, for example collaborations with Mungos Hifi, Dubmatix and Zion Train´s Neil Perch, to name a few. Currently he is releasing his 4th album “Urban Mystic” on the Berlin based label GuerillJah Productions.

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uRfAqZ4bBg

Now he‘s on stage with his new formed Live Dub Band „Sub Pressure Band“, which is staffed by well known reggae musicians of the Berlin scene, as Lukas Leonhardt (Wood In Di Fire/The Special Guests) on drums, Hardy Digital (GuerillJah) at the bass, Geoffrey (Brass, Wood & Wires) on the guitar and David (Jahcoustix/Darai) at the keys. By special interest, Longfingah is also available for a Soundsystem Showcase, regularly backed by GuerillJah´s DJ & Producer Hardy Digital.

www.longfingah.com
www.soundcloud.com/longfingah
https://www.facebook.com/Longfingah-441528395941392/

Kamaliya

Artist: Kamaliya
Title: Sign Your Name
Genre: Dance / Top 40
Label: TanArm Music Publishing LLC

As a one-woman powerhouse of creativity, Kamaliya has released, many Russian language albums, two hit English language albums. She is widely recognized as a multi-talented, multi-award winning performer who is about to release her 3rd English language album “Timeless” this year. This album is set to make another powerful impact on the UK and European dance/pop scene.

“Sign Your Name” is written by Sananda Maitreya (formerly known as Terence Trent D'Arby). It was an international success, reaching number two on the UK Singles Chart in early 1988 and number four on the US Billboard Hot 100. On the 30th anniversary of the single, it is revived with a new perspective by UK music producer Stuart Epps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWVsxBbmqr4 https://www.facebook.com/KamaliyaOfficial

Monty Greig

Artist: Monty Greig
Title: I Just Wanna Dance
Label: Indie
Genre: Classic Vocal Jazz / Latin Jazz

"Classic Latin jazz with a 40's sound" Brian Vita, WMWM FM 91.7 - Salem MA

Monty has been continuing in the tradition of classic jazz standard in the style of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Michael Bublé and others.

After a nomination for Jazz Artist of the Year at TIMA 2016, his most recent single, “Set This Heart on Fire” has been having such success that it has been picked up by over 120 radio stations worldwide.

Krak In Dub

Artist: Krak In Dub
Title: Amazonite ft Zion Train & Pupajim
Label: Fogata / Universal Egg
Formats: CD / Vinyl / Digital
Genre: Reggae

This sound explores luxuriant canopies, turquoise depths and gleaming skies raised by influential beat, blazing bass lines and crystalline keyboards.

01. Amazonite - Original Mix (03:28)
02. Amazonite - Iodine 53 Ft. Pupajim (03:25)
03. Amazonite - Zion Train Remix (04:15)
04. Amazonite - Sound System Mix (04:14)

Pure roots reggae junglist, Krak in Dub has come a long way from his early days as one of the original pioneers of the junglist movement in France. Now working with Jamaican legends such as Capleton and Demolition Man, and laying down screaming riddims and blazing basslines, he’s harnessed the original junglist free flow spirit, throbbing with roots and the soul of reggae into improvised liveset.

https://soundcloud.com/krak-in-dub
www.youtube.com/user/fogatasounds/videos
www.fogatasounds.com
www.wobblyweb.com/ue/
www.facebook.com/KRAK-in-DUB-108240762591139/

Julian Taylor Band

Artist: Julian Taylor Band
Title: Bobbi Champagne
Label: Aporia Records Inc
Genre(s): Funky Soul R&B / Blues

“This is what a sunset bonfire on the beach must feel like” Cyrus Pavel - Indie Shuffle

Written the day after I literally fell into a bonfire at a cottage party hanging with some friends. The song is actually named after a real person (a bartender) that I met at a gig. When I asked what her name was she replied "I'm Bobbi Champagne” and I thought it was dope. Her name was so unique that I asked her if he could use it in a song and she obliged. Hence the chorus of the song was born from the these two single real life events.

Website: https://juliantaylorband.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thejuliantaylorband/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jtaylorband
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juliantaylorband/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/juliantaylorband

Greta Gaines

Artist: Greta Gaines
Title: Tumbleweed
Label: Big Air Records
Genres: Americana / Folk / AAA
Release: June 2017

Greta Gaines releases her stunning new 7-song LP “Tumbleweed” featuring the title track as the first single.

For Greta Gaines, adventurer, songwriter, extreme sports trailblazer, activist, mother, mentor, TV commentator and producer, composer and dreamer, making records seemed to be out of her system after the critically lauded Lighthouse & the Impossible Love. With so much to do, two boys to raise and a high profile role in the legalize cannabis world as an advisory board member of NORML and a face of Women Grow, she’d made an album of elegance and great songcraft – and was satisfied with a musical output that includes 1999’s alt-leaning self-titled debut, 2004’s Triple A standard It Was Hot and 2006’s Can’t Kill the Flavor, followed by the hard roots/Americana Whiskey Thoughts. And then the election happened.

As the first Women’s World Extreme Snowboard Champion recalls, “I was feeling like I was going mad right before the election, like maybe truly getting ready to lose my marbles. I was walking in the woods with my dog, and I kind of heard angelic voices saying, ‘Begin again…’

“The lyrics (to ‘Begin Again’) poured out… That was the inspiration I needed to let the flood gates open, to sit down and write all day and all night until the muses stopped speaking to me. A deep sense of agitation started the process, and it didn’t stop until the record was recorded, mixed and mastered – all within a few months.”

Those seven songs mark some of Gaines’ most collected and evocative work. Pieces of Neil Young, traditional story songs, ‘60s girl groups through Nico’s sangfroid, world weary cowboy feels, mahogany vocals, bits of the Cowboy Junkies, Concrete Blond’s Johnette Napolitano, Laurel Canyon country, buoyantly jubilant garage rock all co-mingle on Tumbleweed in a heady mix of urgency and triumph.

“Tumbleweed has reinvigorated me into believing I will always want to write and record music. I didn’t want to fix or autotune anything. I’m finally a confident enough singer to let it all hang out as raw as possible.”

Greta Gaines www.gretagaines.com
Digital Music Marketing digitalmusicmarketing.com

Pat LaBarbera

Artist: Pat LaBarbera
Title: Deep In A Dream
Label: Radioland
Release: 1999 Reissue
Note: It was only released on CD in Canada

Winner Best Jazz Album - Juno Awards 2000

AllMusic Review by Scott Yanow

Pat LaBarbera has long been known as a hard-driving tenor saxophonist who is able to play consistently exciting solos. Deep in a Dream is a change of pace for LaBarbera sticks exclusively to ballads, including quite a few that are obscure. Backed by pianist Don Thompson, bassist Neil Swainson, and his brother drummer Joe LaBarbera, Pat shows the influence of John Coltrane (circa 1957-1958) in his tenor playing while sounding more original on soprano. On either horn, his solos are beautiful as he caresses the rare melodies and makes every note count. This is an underrated and very rewarding set.

Personnel: Pat LaBarbera (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Don Thompson (piano); Neil Swainson (bass) Joe LaBarbera (drums).

Recording information: D.A.V.E. Audio, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (09/22/1998-09/23/1998).

Photographer: Bill King.

D-Region & Code

Artist: D-Region & Code
Title: Madness” EP
Label: M Ocean Records
Genre: D&B
Release Date: 21st May 2017

DJ Hype - “Will support on my Kiss show”

DNBHQ – “Will play Madness on the Drum and Bass show on Pyro Radio”

DJ Aphrodite – “Great Release))”

DJ Mag - “Pat Fulgoni always gives that chilling vibes that I love! Good choice indeed.”

First track off the EP “Madness” drops in deep as the ocean slowly rolling waves of beats on a quiet day floats a huge melody spreading across a high production pitch-kick selection of liquid scything bass and velvety undercurrents of tech nodules across a deep ethereal soundscape, DnB vocal specialist Pat Fulgoni puts you under a spell with a spaced out heart felt vocal delivery explaining that what we are looking for is indeed Madness, all the elements wed together via a dreamy, weaving DNB aesthetic.

“Turn Up” feat. Jamaican Dancehall favourite Konshens, is an amped up high vigour powerhouse from the cut-up wasp’s nest of thrashing bass on the first drop to the perfectly weighted featherlight snares, fine-grained synths and oceans of space creating a whipping pace that never feels busy.

Driving a steam train of pure energy through the original “Madness” brings the drama of trumpet techy instrumentals that roll out into a powerful drumscape of snares over a tightly filtered bass line from DJ and producers K-i & Phuture Dee who wastes no time letting you know what time it is, to get on down to the floor! Amongst the breakdown and killer second drop makes this track a real hidden chest of treasure!

Last but not least “Turn Up” a weighty remix from label mate Loggi whose firing on all cylinders for this one, with an array of twisted liquid beats a sci-fi tech scudder suddenly emerges halfway through chomping at the ready, making way for a jungle amen adding a fierce fire in the mix.

https://www.facebook.com/D.RegionCode/
https://soundcloud.com/d-region-and-code

SDC Digital RadioWorks - New On the Charts for May 20, 2017

New SDC RadioWorks Artists

Monty Greig
I Just Wanna Dance (JAZZ)
Out: 11 May 2017
On: Indie

Various
Portraits In Jazz - A Tribute To Wes Montgomery
Out: 12 Sep 2016
Promo by: Radiodirectx

Rhythm Express - Jolene ft Maiko Watson
Promo by: Radiodirectx

	Longfingah Urban Mystic Out: 11 Apr 2017 On: GuerillJah Productions
	The Hempolics High & Gritty (REGGAE / D&B) Out: 17 Apr 2017 On: Shark Free Records
	Gavin Hope For All We Know (JAZZ) Out: 17 Apr 2017 On: Slaight Music
	Battle of Santiago La Migra Out: 3 Apr 2017 On: Made With Pencil Crayons

D-Region & Code
Madness (D&B)
Out: 10 May 2017
On: M Ocean Records

Pat Labarbera
Deep In A Dream (JAZZ)
Out: 15 May 2017
On: Radioland

Greta Gaines
Tumbleweed (AMERICANA/ FOLK)
Out: 6 May 2017
On: Big Air Records

Julian Taylor
Bobbi Champagne (Soul/R&B)
Out: 16 May 2017
On: Aporia Records

Krak In Dub
Amazonite (REGGAE)
Out: 15 May 2017
On: Universal Egg / Fogata

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