Here is a 18 year old Canadian songwriter and emerging recording artist from Toronto. According to her Facebook profile, she is also a music teacher in Ontario. As we have been following her for several months, she has made several recordings and has been paying those proverbial dues. She has written her own songs, recorded and made videos to her songs in the last few months and it seems that she made some great strides.
MusicLoad is proud to present Alexandra Hawse and the lyric video to her song titled Count Me Out.
Their own description of themselves embedded into the website of Hiatis Kaiyote describes their music as: "Multi-Dimensional, Polyrhythmic Gangster Shit".
One year ago, MusicLoad first featured a video of group here. We noted that they are an "Australian act that has a unique sound that they consider to be "future soul". Members include Naomi "Nai Palm" Saalfield on vocals & guitar, Paul Bender on bass, Simon Mavin on keyboards and Perrin Moss on drums & percussion."
The recording below features Hiatus Kaiyote performing their song titled Shaolin Monk Motherfunk during sound-check at The Workers Club, in Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia. It was filmed by Maxamillion & Si Jay Gould. This is not their latest, it's part of their classic stuff.
Here is a great Australian act that has a unique sound that they consider to be "future soul". Members include Naomi "Nai Palm" Saalfield on vocals & guitar, Paul Bender on bass, Simon Mavin on keyboards and Perrin Moss on drums & percussion.
The video below was filmed + produced by Ash Koek at a warehouse party at the Seed Factory in Clifton Hill, which is in Melbourne, Australia. Enjoy!
We are pleased to present a long time friend Kelly Moneymaker (a great session musician/producer/songwriter and member of the R&B group Exposé) and her new song titled Stone Butterfly from her latest album named Stone. The video was filmed by Christopher Michael McGann and Peter Reckell, live at Molly Malone's in Los Angeles, a legendary small music venue where many many greats have performed during their 40 years in business. Kelly Moneymaker is one very soulful Eskimo. She is backed by Herman Matthews (drums), Michael Mennell (bass), Gabriel Moses (guitar) with Guest Musicians Bill Churchville (trumpet), Terry Landry (sax), George Friedenthal (B3), Lynn Fanelli & KW Miller Backing Vocals. Enjoy!
Just below is a music video to a song that was love at first listen by a refreshing new artist onto our radar by the name of Jackie Bristow, who is originally from the deep South of New Zealand.
The song is titled Whistle Blowin' from Bristow's Shot of Gold album. The song feels like it should be a hit on CMT and Country Radio nationwide. The album was produced by Mark Punch and the beautifully shot music video was directed and produced by Mark Tierney.
A dynamic emerging young singer, guitarist, songwriter, and recording-engineer named Crosby Morgan is someone we caught live while she was busking on the Venice Beach boardwalk on a sunny Southern California day.
It was love at first listen. The way she touched and plucked her strings was what sucked me in like magic, picking so smooth rambling like a freight train that it grabbed my ear and spun me around to look as she was heading into the very first song of hers that I feel lucky to have come upon. Bought her record, referenced in the above photo and heard all of her songs, not once, but for numerous enchanting spins.
Her voice has a purity reminiscent of early Joni Mitchell. This is not meant to insinuate that Crosby is emulating anyone, because she most certainly is not. She is doing her own thing and it's sweet.
She has been paying her dues busking and honing her skills in the fine craft of recording. Her music, her presence and her obvious artistic and personal sensitivity has an authenticism that is delightful as it comes across in her music on the street live and in her recordings. After hearing some of her story, it is apparent that she's a real dedicated artist to the core and she rates high on this network's list of artists who are worthy of attention by music lovers everywhere.
This first song below is titled breathe. It is the opening track to her album titled BLESSED MEMORY.
Next is song #2 and the title track on the BLESSED MEMORY album.
Next is her song titled Blame. It is track #6 from the BLESSED MEMORY album.
A band simply known as Purple is a great hard rock trio that kills! And they know how to have fun while they do it. Hanna Brewer is on drums and vocals, Joe "Prankser" Cannariato is on bass guitar and Taylor Busby on guitar and vocals. They recently returned home to Texas fresh off their European tour of several sold out shows.
The very cool basic and raw live recording below perfectly captures the essence of the coolness of Purple and the shooters and audio engineers deserve a big thumbs up. It was filmed in Austin last year by a local Texas event website called Do512 with sponsorship from Bud Light. Purple exudes the kind of unadulterated pure energy that we love and we appreciate those who know how to capture those kind of moments so well. mlv
Back in April 2013, we featured several songs by the Canadian group out of Montreal known as Cold Specks. That post with those excellent videos and live performances can be revisited at www.musicload.com/2013/04/cold-specks.html
The group has been out for the last several months promoting it's latest album titled NEUROPLASTICITY. You can catch them in January and February in Copenhagen Denmark, Berlin Germany, Hamburg Germany, Cologne German, Mannheim Germany, Munich Germany, Erlangen Germany, Wiesbaden Germany, Zurich Switzerland, Fribourg Switzerland, Geneva Switzerland, Milan Italy, Turn Italy, Bologna Italy and Barcelona Spain, Madrid Spain and San Sebastian Spain.
On Christmas Eve of 2014, the fabulous curators of music at Seattle Washington's KEXP-FM filmed this live in studio performance of the group featured below. Enjoy!
This is a heavy performance of Spanish recording artist, Carmen Paris, giving it her all. Singing with passion, she simultaneously straddles a djembe to serve up the beat.
Carmen París - Pa' mi Genio from the DVD titled Pa 'mi genio Live
This obscure footage is from a 2002 by Warner Music Spain which is not readilly available in most international markets, except for two private sellers who have the DVD available on Amazon who are selling PAL versions of the DVD. Just the audio of the entire concert is available at CarmenParis.Net
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MusicLoad first featured the surfer/musician/singer/songwriter Kim Churchill here in October 2012 with his fantastic live take of an original song he wrote titled Tides - (click here to hear/view) -
It's a great pleasure to have been following his travels since that time, as he has worked his way around the globe working non-stop. The cool thing about Churchill is that he knows how to enjoy the perks of world travel, as evidenced on his Facebook page and stream of photos that he shares.
Below is the latest well done live take video installment from Kim that was shot by the the U.K. based Mahogany Session blog. Enjoy!
Kim Churchill - Canopy - (Live performance on Mahogany Sessions)
Nneka is one of the modern living breathing greats on the international scene. Not enough well known yet, in my opinion, but so worthy of attention. She's a breath of fresh air for activists. A female Bob Marley of sorts, in a woman's spirit, stumping for her native Niger Delta people and all of humanity! Her activist songs tell or remind of many hard realities and hypocrisy of leaders, without naming names but one gets the gist. Her songs are a rallying cry for people to think. Not all of her tracks are activist oriented however and she is all over the map, sometimes defying genres, taking risks into uncharted waters.
This track below is at least four to five years old, maybe more. It is one of those cool songs that somehow ended up under the radar, but is a favorite to many die hard fans.
Lyrics
What is the mind without the heart
What am I without my shadow
What is life without knowing that death comes
What is a song without a melody
Needed to search myself to go back
Had no signs of hope before lost in the darkness
Not knowing what my fate makes of me
And oh ignoring the fellowship accompanying me
There were swamps, slums, gottas, brunks, love songs,
Hidden pleasure, ignored passion, secret worship,
Quiet movement and undissolved self loving
Now I know God has brought me here for something
What is the mind without the heart
What am I without my shadow
What is life without knowing that death comes
What is a song without a melody
My head says I lost my way
But my heart knows that my life is destined in anyway
A long road running towards stops where I pay
Pay, pay for what I have taken and is got what I deserving
Oh God knows very well that my sins are always before me
Yes he gives and he takes and he wounds and he breaks,
He destroys and he builds and still I know
That his love is endless grace
What is the mind without the heart
What am I without my shadow
What is life without knowing that death comes
What is a song without a melody
Tell me what your mind is without your heart
Tell me do you feel, do you feel happiness
Your heart, your heart, your heart
Your soul, your soul, your soul
Say we must destroy in order to rebuild,
In order to rebuild dont you know, dont you know
Your heart, Polarity must be for you and me, for you and me
One of the most cookin' local blues bands I've heard lately is a group of college chums who simply got together for some jams back in 2006 and are cookin' around town to this day. At present, MusicLoad.Com is featuring one of their tracks entitled Runnin' Around as a free mp3 download. Get on over to MusicLoad.Com while the track is still available. You will not be disappointed.
This post was created on April 10, 2009 by Gregory J. Chamberlain, with subsequent edits and updates by Mariana L. Villanueva for Indies Network
Hanggai is a traditional Chinese world music group from inner Mongolia, presently based in Beijing, China. It is one of the most interesting music groups MusicLoad has come across in quite a while. Whilst we cannot understand the Chinese lyrics, we are impressed and mezmerized by the quality of the instrumentation & compositions and the uniqueness of the voices. The music is pure and raw, yet it sounds as if the music is tailor made for a major motion picture soundtrack for the biggest of films. The music evokes a serious wide range emotions while listening. Enjoy! GC