I hate modern life! Time flies by so fast and you can never tend to enough things. See, it's been 5 days since I've written a post for undomondo and I haven't done anything notable in the meantime, just tended to some things I've probably left untended for a few weeks. It's always a race to micromanage things, trying to get the ones left behind uptodate, while another thing gets left behind.
Anyways enough rant, we've got a clear blue sky here and I have been listening to more easy listening stuff in accordance. Here's a selection from some of the
downtempo/nujazz stuff I've been listening to on and off for a few months, there will be a second part of this selection tomorrow hopefully.
Bristol's
Ben Westbeech has an album on
Gilles Peterson's
Brownswood Recordings, modern urban soul/jazz/beat mixture from a talented songwriter, this one's over retro horn samples and with a great catchy hook. Germany's
Deja Move has urban downtempo beats over flurrying rhodes chords and percussions on a suitable track named
Warmin' out on
Audiopharm.
An artist collective I've first heard this year is
Free the Robots on
Elsewhere Studios, I've played a strange electronic beat tune from them on
Undomondo #12 but this time it's a sampled jazzy track their self titled EP has lots of diversity!. Next is the single off
Frankie Valentine's
The World of What on
Sunshine Enterprises, "Marinheiro So" featuring
Monica Vasconcelos on the vocals, lovely tune.
Tru Thoughts'
Jumbonics is the most different of the whole bunch, with a driving electronic bass and soulful vocals and more of a pop mentality than standard downtempo bizness. Last but not least is the eightpiece afrofunk outfit "
The Haggis Horns" and their blast of a track called The Traveller off
First Word Records.