Fly My Pretties

Back in January 2012, I first consciously heard the music of Fly My Pretties and featured several earlier live music video performances from this fantastic musical collaboration of musicians from Wellington, New Zealand that only records live albums, in various locations around New Zealand. The different musical backgrounds of the members make for an eclectic mix of songs on their releases. Fly My Pretties was the brainchild of Barnaby Weir, front man of the Black Seeds and Mikee Tucker of Loop Recordings.

The latest Fly My Pretties IV CD/DVD set came out March 19, 2012. The 16 new songs on this 4th CD and DVD effort represent the best takes from the collective's November 2011 tour. These new songs were performed, filmed and recorded live across nine sold out shows. The tour also marked the collective's first international gig, playing an impressive sell out Melbourne date.

Via a unique collaboration, renowned visual/street artist Flox found inspiration in each song to create 16 original and dedicated pieces of art. A unifying thread throughout the show, the artworks were brought to life through projection, animation and visual trickery. Following the tour, these visuals were expertly mixed with the live video footage to create a seamless visual representation of the performances on DVD.

Here are 8 of the 16 tracks from Fly My Pretties IV CD/DVD set.
Enjoy! GC

Fly My Pretties - Doorstep Blues


Fly My Pretties - You Know Now


Fly My Pretties - Apple Heart


Fly My Pretties - Fallen From You


Fly My Pretties - Underneath The Stars


Fly My Pretties - Hit The Hay


Fly My Pretties - Am I Gonna Make It


Fly My Pretties - Turnaround


Connect direct with Fly My Pretties on Facebook at Facebook.com/FlyMyPrettiesNZ or at FlyMyPretties.Com

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Sending MusicLoad Love to Bobby Womack

MusicLoad and each of our friends sends our love, positive vibrations and prayers to Bobby Womack, wishing him a speedy elimination and full recovery from all of his health issues.

Hours ago, Bootsy Collins posted a message to his Facebook page that soul legend Bobby Womack has been diagnosed with some serious health issues and has been hospitalized for pneumonia. Later after Bootsy spoke with Bobby, Bootsy posted again and wrote: "I JUST SPOKE TO OUR FRIEND BOBBY WOMACK. He Wanted You All to Know That He Loves You & Thxs for the Prayers. Docs Says He Is In 1st Stage of Colon Cancer, He is Very Up Beat About His Future, we laughed & joked before we hung up. Thxs Funkateers, we will get him Back on the One! — with Michael Howard."

Bobby has has a new album coming out in June 2012 to be titled The Bravest Man in the Universe. A sound snippets is available on his website.

I love this first recording below and his preambling words that sums up the treatment that some true artists have gotten and hopefully avoided... Enjoy! - Peace Love Groove, GC

Bobby Womack - Close To You


He's done so many great collaborations on other artists projects. Here is a classic video of Bobby Womack with Todd Rundgren in the studio, first saw this via bassist Les July who had posted this to his Facebook page.


Bobby Womack - "(If You Don't Want My Love) Give It Back" - Bobby wrote and released this in 1971. This take below was performed on Later with Jools Holland with Jools Holland accompanying on piano


And... click here to listen to a fun track:
Bootsy Collins featuring Bobby Womack & Catfish Collins - Don't Take My Funk Away

Connect direct with Bobby Womack at BobbyWomack.Com

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Connect direct with Todd Rundgren at http://www.tr-i.com/flash.html

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Elle King

First wrote about the tight grooved rapper known as Epick back in 2008. Still dig his track entitled Hey. Not long ago I noticed a creative video he made to a song he wrote entitled I Don't Mind. It features a interesting artist named Elle King. Below is the Epick and Elle King collaboration on I Don't Mind, followed by Elle King, solo, and her track titled Home Free. Enjoy! GC

Epick featuring Elle King - I Don't Mind

Elle King - Home Free (from the indie film, Legends of La La)

Connect direct with Epick at EpickMusic.Com, Facebook.com/Epick-44588565097 and Twitter.com/epickmusic

Connect direct with Elle King at ElleKing.Com, Facebook.com/ElleKingMusic and Twitter.com/ElleKingMusic

Gomez

Can't help but love the music from the band UK based band known as Gomez. Here are some tracks that date back from 14 years ago until the present. Enjoy! Peace Love Grove, GC

Gomez - Airstream Driver (from KUT radio studios)


Gomez - Blind


Gomez - Get Miles (Opening track of Gomez' debut album "Bring It On" - 1998)


Gomez - (Title Track from 2006 Gomez album How We Operate)


Gomez - Shot Shot live on "Later with Jools Holland" (2007)


Gomez - (Title Track from Whatever's On Your Mind - 2011)


Gomez - Options (from album titled Whatever's On Your Mind - 2011)


Gomez - Ping One Down - (live on Later with Jools Holland - 2002)


Connect direct with Gomez at GomezTheBand.Com

Happy Birthday to Jova Radevska

The music of Jova Radevska from the Republic of Macedonia in the Balkins was featured here on the front page of MusicLoad before the blog was moved here. Totally fell in love with her sweet voice upon first listen of her track titled Se Raduvam i Taguvam, and had a phone conversation with her from London, where she presently resides. She was a delight to speak with. Wondered what language she was singing and eventually learned it was Macedonian, of course. Much of her music she is working on, however, is in English. She is a sweetheart. I love her spirit. - Peace Love Groove, GC

Jova Radevska - Se Raduvam i Taguvam (lyrics in Macedonian)


Jova Radevska - Growing Pains (lyrics in English)


Jova Radevska - Here And Gone (lyrics in English)


Jova Radevska - Litlle Bird (lyrics in English)


Jova Radevska - Se se menuva (lyrics in Macedonian)




Connect direct with Jova Radevska at JovaRadevska.Com
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