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ReLoVe are great at fusing music from what might be termed world and roots genres and using those sonic building blocks to build their signature sound. This time out they give us Voices which blends funky basslines, soulful harmonies, busy drum salvos and folky fiddles. As always the individual elements are recognisable but the way... Continue Reading →
With live gigs now on the horizon it's the best time to be checking out new, grassroots music. Please support them in any way you can, share their music, buy CD or download and hopefully when the time comes you will find some of these cool artists playing live in your area. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2PO8poweo68wim2nepdBdF?si=bm9KTT15ROuE2sPYZQQqrg
As their array of past singles will testify, ReLoVe is a band with a wonderfully fluid sound, one that sonically shifts, hops boundaries, fuses genres, and embraces different styles as the whim takes them. But no matter which musical path they are exploring, their music is always identified and united by one core aspect. Groove.... Continue Reading →
All manner of sonic sweeties and nurishing noise that have kept me sonically fed and watered through out this last week. Have a listen, buy a few tracks, let's return the love to the grassroots music makers. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2eS1uD0RFHeinv4iHHcgxY?si=HlbYz0YyQhKBNtWfslgB_A
As soon as its sassy ska groove comes into earshot, Who Calls? takes me back to my youth, coming of age, as I did, in the shadow of the British Two-Tone movement of the late seventies, its exotic and earthy tones working their way into my very DNA and quenching my musical thirst. But that... Continue Reading →
What a difference a video makes! Around this time last year Stand On Love found its way to me and, if I recall, I waxed lyrical about the fact that ReLoVe was definitely a band untethered by genre or style. And whilst the video which accompanied it was great, the fact that it was in... Continue Reading →
ReLoVe are at it again, doing what they do best. And what they do best is make music that seems, no matter what style they pursue, inherently soulful, wonderfully accessible and sweetly soothing. Some bands are definitely what you call a “genre band,” they get good at one thing, one groove, one style, have one... Continue Reading →
Sometimes there is something going on in a song, something not strictly part of the music, a vibe that lingers between the notes, and energy that is more than the sum of the sonic parts, that adds that extra dimension, making an already good song into something great. It is often hard to put it... Continue Reading →
Funny how when we hear the term “world music” we automatically think of some niche music probably aligned with a specific tradition or culture, Mongolian throat singing, flamenco guitars, Japanese drum troupes and the like. But surely world music should just be something with universal appeal, that falls less into a generic furrow and more... Continue Reading →