Eh up!
Presenting my world in sound over the past four months or so.
My end-of-year, on-the-eve gift to you.
Minimal chat – just mega minutes of brilliance across time and space.
Music to hibernate with, reflect on or have a little kitchen bop to with loved ones over the holidays.
Thoughts and feedback to [at] amarofpatel on socials or you can write to me in the comments.
Please support the artists by clicking the links and picking up some of these releases.
Wishing you all good things next year…
Stay close 👐🏾
ARETHA FRANKLIN – Somewhere [Atlantic]
QUINCY JONES – Gula Matari [A&M] 🕊
QUINCY JONES – Tell Me A Bedtime Story [A&M]
RUFUS WITH CHAKA KHAN – What Am I Missing? [MCA]
QUINCY JONES – Listen (What It Is) [A&M]
MICHAEL JACKSON – The Lady in My Life (Extended Version) [Epic]
QUINCY JONES – Midnight Soul Patrol [A&M]
NALA SINEPHRO – Continuum 1 [Warp]
CAPTAIN GANJA AND THE SPACE PATROL – Alien Circus [Bokeh Versions]
GUMBAE CULTURE – Take It Easy [Death Is Not End]
GUERRA, DE PAIVA, HORNSBY & KONRADSEN – Big Time Sensuality 2 [Ulyssa]
ROSIE LOWE – In the Morning [Blue Flowers]
Thoughts on the live show
STEVEN JULIEN – PAYN ME MIND (featuring Kristian Hamilton) [K7]
MOIN – We Know What Gives (featuring Coby Sey) [AD 93]
See Moin live in London
NILUFER YANYA – Mutations [Ninja Tune]
MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO – Trouble [Blue Note]
ASHER GAMEDZE & THE BLACK LUNGS – Melancholia [International Anthem]
ONENESS OF JUJU – Space Jungle Luv [Strut]
LYNDA DAWN – Love is Callin [First Dawn]
52ND STREET – Tell Me (How It Feels) [First Word]
LATIMORE – I Get Lifted [Soul Jazz]
DAWUNA – Diaspora [Sun Royalle]
Interview with Clash
HERMIT AND THE RECLUSE – Sirens [Obol of Charon]
Dylan Green’s KA tribute for Hearing Things 🕊
KA – Solitude of Enoch [Iron Works]
Interview at Red Bull Music Academy in 2016
KA – Broken Rose Window [Iron Works]
DAMON LOCKS – Click [International Anthem]
DOECHII – Profit [Top Dawg]
Live on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
RAPSODY – Marlanna [Roc Nation]
LL COOL J – The Force [Def Jam]
LEX AMOR – A&X (featuring BXKS) [Modern Oak]
See Lex live in London
ASHLEY HENRY – Synchronicity [Believe]
SKEE MASK – GG’S Interlude
Interview with RA
D’MONK – U Just Don’t Know What U Do 2 Me (live) [Touching Bass]
STEVE SPACEK – Could It B Ur Luv [Spa]
MICHAEL J BLOOD – Spawna [BLOOD]
A GUY CALLED GERALD – People Moover [Laboratory Instinct]
AUDREY POWNE – Feed The Fire (musclecars Dream Dub) [BBE]
PRINCE – Movie Star (Yoruba Soul mix) [Yoruba Soul]
BRANDY – The Ritual (Chateau Flight Remix) [Yellow Productions]
TENDERLONIUS – Underworld [22a]
SALAMI ROSE JOE LOUIS – Dimcolareprise (Live at 2131 North Kacey Street) [Brainfeeder]
KARANTAMBA – Makeh Eya Yea [Teranga Beat]
MAZE FEATURING FRANKIE BEVERLY – You (live in New Orleans) [Capitol] 🕊Frankie Beverly gets his 💐 on Questlove Supreme
Before Maze there was Raw Soul. This 1975 performance in San Fran ❤️🔥
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