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Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, James McAlister

The independent record label, 4AD is releasing an album by a group that features Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly and James McAlister. The music video below is to their track titled Mercury from their upcoming album titled Planetarium, set to be released on June 9, 2017. The video was directed by Deborah Johnson, aka CandyStations.

Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, James McAlister - Mercury (Official Video)

From the same album, Planetarium, here is one more music video for their song titled Saturn. The video was directed by Deborah Johnson, aka CandyStations.

Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, James McAlister - Saturn (Official Video)

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Hiatus Kaiyote - Live in Australia

MusicLoad.Com presents Hiatus Kaiyote filmed live performing Shaolin Monk Motherfunk

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.

Hiatus Kaiyote - Shaolin Monk Motherfunk

Hear and see one more great song and music video by Hiatus Kaiyote on our network here: http://www.thequietstorm.com/2017/07/hiatus-kaiyote.html

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Morcheeba - Live in Germany

MusicLoad presents the full concert film of Morcheeba, Live in Cologne Germany

Just below, is a full concert of Morcheeba live at the Gloria Theater in Cologne, Germany on July 20, 2010 during the promotional tour of their Blood Like Lemonade album.

Morcheeba - Live in Germany

Connect direct with Morcheeba at Facebook.com/morcheebamusic

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Earth Beat Movement (aka EBM) - Be Stronger (From Italy)

MusicLoad.Com presents Earth Beat Movement's latest album, Be Stronger

Here is a super good reggae act out of Tuscany, Italy, that calls themselves Earth Beat Movement, sometimes known as EBM. They are a five member group that was founded in 2012. EBM is fronted by a female lead singer named Irene “MisTilla” Bisori who sings mostly English lyrics and in some of the group's songs, blends Italian in.

In 2015, they booked their first official tour, performing in approximately 40 venues up & down Italy. Their future schedule includes shows around other parts of Europe including a show in Kranj, Slovenia on March 24, 2017 at TrainStation, followed by more shows in Italy, then Slovakia, Poland, and a show in Germany on December 26, 2017.

If you like positive reggae, this group might just suit your fancy. Enjoy!

Earth Beat Movement - Be Stronger

EBM - City Lights

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Kelly Moneymaker - Stone Butterfly (Music Video)

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!

Kelly Moneymaker - Stone Butterfly

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Crosby Morgan

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.

Connect direct with Crosby Morgan at CrosbyMorgan.Com, Facebook.com/crosbyleandrul, Twitter.Com/CrosbyYeah, Soundcloud.Com/CrosbyMorgan and CrosbyMorgan.Bandcamp.Com

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Purple - Hard Rocking Fun from Texas

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

Connect direct with Purple at PurpleTexasMusic.Com or at Facebook.Com/PurpleTexasMusic or at Twitter.Com/Purpletxmusic

We featured them twice on our network before, and you can hear and see more of their music at:

The following link features three music videos for Wallflower, Loco Leche and Wrong Way
http://www.musictelevision.com/2014/09/purple.html

The following links features their music video to their song titled Thirteen
http://www.musictelevision.com/2014/11/the-latest-purple-music-video.html

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More from Cold Specks

MusicLoad presents live songs from Cold Specks Neuroplasticity album

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!

See the latest music videos by Cold Specks at: http://www.musictelevision.com/2015/01/cold-specks.html

Connect direct with Cold Specks at ColdSpecks.Com

The raw passion of Carmen París

MusicLoad.Com presents Carmen París - Pa' mi Genio

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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Kendji - Andalouse (A Live Take)

Cover of Kendji's debut album

Here is a tasty live recording of a highly present guitarist/vocalist named Kendji performing on French web show called OffTV. Bravo!

Kendji - Andalouse

Connect direct with Kendji at Kendji.Fr

Kim Churchill - Canopy (Live on Mahogany Sessions)

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)

Connect direct with Kim Churchill at KimChurchill.Com, Facebook.com/kimchurchillmusic, Instagram.com/kimchurchill1, Twitter.com/KimChurchill and Soundcloud.com/kim-churchill

Trixie Whitley - Live at Studio Brussel (Belgium)

MusicLoad.Com presents Trixie Whitley performing live on Studio Brussel

This is just Trixie from Ghent, Belgium and her electric guitar playing her her own kind of funk. Trixie is amazing with her full band studio records, but her raw stripped down versions of songs like this one are always a great treat. They give more of a peek into her songwriting genius. This was filmed on January 8, 2013 at Studio Brussel, a Dutch-speaking radio station in Brussels, Belgium.

Trixie Whitley - Need Your Love

Connect direct with Trixie Whitley at TrixieWhitley.Com

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Nneka - Mind vs. Heart

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.

Nneka - Mind vs. Heart

Connect direct with Nneka at NnekaWorld.Com, Facebook.Com/NnekaWorld, Instagram.com/nnekaworld and on Twitter.Com/NnekaWorld

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

Sofie Reed

Sofie Reed is a long time MusicLoad favorite. Here is one of her latest tracks titled Human Every Day

Connect direct with Sofie Reed at SofieReed.Com

Allen Stone

Thanks to my friend Leslie Monique Perry who turned me onto Allen Stone a while back....

Allen Stone grew up singing in big church choirs and in one interview he describes his early influences were Kirk Franklin, Fred Hammond and Mary Mary.

In all of the songs I've heard so far, he embodies the spirits of Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye and has a lot of Stevie Wonder influence.

This first song below is my favorite. Not only does it groove for days and days, but Stone sings truth to power and the lines are priceless. Singing about the growing deficit, the government spending more than it takes in, and talking about encroaching government who pretends to care. That's just in the first verse and he's just getting warmed up. Besides the substance of the song itself, I especially love the way it was filmed. The audio and video crew on this first clip did a seriously amazing job capturing Stone's true essence. Enjoy! GC

Allen Stone - Unaware (live from his mother's living room)

Here is a great live performance and interview at one of the greatest indie stations on the planet, KEXP-FM. Stone performs five songs: What I've Seen at 0:38, Contact High at 3:22, Interview at 6:27, Unaware at 14:00, and Satisfaction at 20:00.

Connect direct with Allen Stone at AllenStone.Com
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Melaaz - Great gem of a artist from France

Melaaz - Les Ghettos Croulent

Hollie Smith & Mara TK - Lives For Living (from the album Band Of Brothers Vol.1)

Hollie Smith is one of my favorite living soul artists. Fell in love with her sound in 2007, when I first wrote about her. http://blog.musicload.com/2007/09/hollie-smith-soul-girl-for-real.html

This song below, 'Lives For Living', is the first single off Hollie Smith's new album Band Of Brothers Vol.1 with Mara TK known for his work with Electric Wire Hustle. This record is her latest effort under her new EMI New Zealand deal. The song is subdued, but beautiful. It sounds great turned up so that the subtleties of the rhythm can come through. Enjoy!

SHEL - Music that is Pure Bliss

The Colorado based band, SHEL, is not just talented. This group of four sisters is very gifted.

Having spent their earliest childhood years with their singer/songwriter/guitarist father, they themselves are now firmly in the artist's seat.

The music of SHEL is a mixture of serious angelic pop vocals mixed with a blend of gypsy mountain classical rock and jazz.

They just don't sound like anyone else to compare them to.

Each arrangement is simply exquisite and unique.

SHEL's music is pure bliss and synchronistic harmony that perhaps only sisters from the same womb could possibly achieve. A~~t present, MusicLoad.Com is proud to have the privilege of being able to offer up a free mp3 of a beautiful SHEL song entitled Nicolo.~~ (Sorry - the song is not available at this time) The song is a beautiful pop classical lullaby that defies further description. Just check it out!

Connect direct with SHEL at SHELmusic.Com, Facebook.Com/ILoveSHELMusic, Instagram.com/iloveshelmusic and Twitter.com/iloveshelmusic

Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, James McAlister

Hiatus Kaiyote - Live in Australia

Morcheeba - Live in Germany

Earth Beat Movement (aka EBM) - Be Stronger (From Italy)

Kelly Moneymaker - Stone Butterfly (Music Video)

Crosby Morgan

Purple - Hard Rocking Fun from Texas

More from Cold Specks

The raw passion of Carmen París

Kendji - Andalouse (A Live Take)

Kim Churchill - Canopy (Live on Mahogany Sessions)

Trixie Whitley - Live at Studio Brussel (Belgium)

Nneka - Mind vs. Heart

Sofie Reed

Allen Stone

Melaaz - Great gem of a artist from France

Mojo Stone - Honey You've Gotta Give

The Black Keys - Tighten Up

Hollie Smith & Mara TK - Lives For Living (from the album Band Of Brothers Vol.1)

SHEL - Music that is Pure Bliss