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Tinashe – Aquarius stream Tinashe – Aquarius music videos Tinashe Interview at The Breakfast Club Power 105.1 (10/07/2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9AnV2rV5ls Tinashe Discusses Debut Album “Aquarius” and Early Success on Sway in the Morning Tinashe Performs “2 On” feat. Schoolboy Q on Jimmy Kimmel Live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caA0Ilrok1Q – Aquarius is the debut of R&B singer/songwriter Tinashe. If you’re judging her by the catchy “2 On” single, you’ll find a more diverse sound on this album. Aquarius contains deep, sensual, introspective lyrics, Tinashe’s enticing and breathy …
Geishas rock afros, corn rolls and dreadlocks. They fashionably freeze with the same intensity that break dancers pose on the floor, but artist Iona Rozeal Brown’s acrylic painted Asiatic people are in brown face, and they’re a clashing of sorts. Comic book motifs, Ukiyo-e prints, Kabuki theater, Noh, Byzantine religious painting, voguing and most notably hip-hop, mix together like two turntables playing tug of war with the cross fader. If Brown was a DJ (which apparently she is), she’d be taking viewers on a journey all …
Last month on 9-14-2014 Boiler Room hosted a special stream event in Marrakech, Morocco featuring spiritual folk musicians playing a style called Gnawa. The featured music ensembles were lead by two Maâlems (master musicians): Mohamed Kouyou & Mahmoud Guinia (who has played and recorded with saxophonist Pharaoh Sanders, saxophonist/clarinetist Peter Brötzmann, and drummer Hamid Drake). Electronic musicians James Holden, Floating Points, Vessel and Biosphere assisted in mixing the live audio of the two bands. Below are videos from two separate sessions and two Boiler …
Our Latin Thing (Nuestra Cosa) (1972) is a documentary that captures the Latin/Salsa music scene in NYC in the 1970s. This documentary features a lot of artists from the famous Latin/Salsa record label Fania (the Fania All-Stars) – a kind of “Latin Motown.” The artists in this documentary include Cheo Feliciano, Hector Lavoe, Adalberto Santiago, Ray Barretto, Willie Colón, Ismael Miranda, Johnny Pacheco, Larry Harlow and many others. Our Latin Thing is a time capsule that captures a moment in NYC’s Latin music scene, with the artists and musicians expressing the …
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