rescuing musical virtue in distress.
Now, more than ever, is the time when music can be used as a powerful tool, or as Hereami himself says, as “weaponised art.” It’s fine if you just want to write songs about fun and frivolity, after all, it's the perfect medium for escapism and euphoria, but perhaps with such dark clouds gathering around... Continue Reading →
If Feng Shui is the ancient art of being at one with your environment, 1st Klase takes this idea and applies it to a broader, more modern world. The song celebrates the idea of creating a harmonious world around you, through which you can live life to the fullest, and is unapologetic about its single-minded... Continue Reading →
My Baby is a collection of songs inspired by the transient nature of life. A reminder that even the most precious things, and especially the people, can be taken away from us without warning. But it is also a reflection on the world round us and these two threads are woven lyrically and emotively through... Continue Reading →
I think that you can make a fair argument for the idea that “world music” is dead! Though it was probably only ever a term coined by middle managers playing Bulgarian folk music at their dinner parties in an effort to make themselves seem more interesting. The world has become such a culturally cross-pollinated place,... Continue Reading →
It’s the curse of our modern lifestyle. You find the one that you want to spend the rest of your life with but then gradually gravitate towards spending so much time indulging your own passions and pastimes that you neglect the one thing that should be most important in your life. We all need space but... Continue Reading →
We’ve all been there. You break up with the significant other in dramatic fashion. You head out to the into the night with that “I’m better off single anyway” refrain floating around your brain. The world is your oyster, you can do what you want, you are young, free and …stupid! You stagger through the... Continue Reading →
The world abounds with young R’n’B wannabes, wrapping their hopes and dreams in a pop-groove and sending their thoughts out into the world to hopefully connect with like-minded individuals. And that is all very well and good but it essentially just perpetuates the tried and tested. More songs about young love, about meeting the one,... Continue Reading →
Music has always been a useful part of any emotional healing process. As a listener it reminds you that there are others who have gone through the same turmoils and heart-aches, as an artist it is a way of putting down on paper the thoughts and emotions racing around your head and in doing so,... Continue Reading →
Taking the sassier grooves of the R&B signature sound and running them through a hip-hop soundscape, Ajay Brown uses this musical springboard to push, not just the boundaries of his own music but perhaps urban music itself. Whilst Real Situations comes from an autobiographical place, discussing his own life and loves, stories and struggles, it... Continue Reading →