Charles Bradley - 2011 - No Time For Dreaming

Charles Bradley é o mais novo soul man que emerge pela Daptone, por entravés de sua divisão Dunham Records. ele é irmão da fabulosa Sharon Jones, diva do deepsoul que é acompanhada dos Dap-Kings. Charles Bradley é somente acompanhado da Menahan Street Band, esta que ja fez outras parcerias com o soulman através de uns dois compactos pela Dunham, uma deles esta postado por aqui e trás consigo uma de suas melhores composições "The World (Is Going Up In Flames)". Charles Bradley também ja gravou com a Sugarman Three, outra banda da daptone. ele ja tem experimentado tocar com bastante gente da daptone, pois foi por essa galera que ele foi "descoberto" tocando na noite do Brooklin sob o nome Black Velvet. o impacto imediato é como se houvesse uma pontada teletransportadora para meados dos anos sessenta e Bradley nos oferece o mais puro humus do deepsoul dos ultimos tempos de hoje em dia.

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01. The World (Is Going Up In Flames)
02. The Telephone Song
03. Golden Rule
04. I Believe In Your Love
05. Trouble In The Land
06. Loving You, Baby



07. No Time For Dreaming
08. How Long
09. In You (I Found A Love)
10. Why Is It So Hard?
11. Since Our Last Goodbye
12. Heartaches And Pain

Esse video ta bem pesado e com altíssima qualidade. vale a pena ver. é o clipe de lançamento do album. dirigido por Poull Brien foi filmado pelas ruas e telhados do Brooklin, onde Charles Bradley curtiu sua infância antes de migrar para o Alasca, local onde maturou seus tons e dotes vocais.

Charles Bradley - The World (Is Going Up In Flames)

Menahan Street Band & Charles Bradley - 2008

01 - the world (is going up in flames)
02 - heartaches and pain

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Menahan Street Band - 2008 - Make The Road By Walking Sample

Funk / Instrumental / Soul

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"The Menahan Street Band is a collaboration of musicians from Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings (Dave Guy, Homer Steinweiss, Fernando Velez, Bosco Mann), El Michels Affair (Leon Michels, Toby Pazner), Antibalas (Nick Movshon, Aaron Johnson) and The Budos Band (Mike Deller, Daniel Fodder), brought together by musician/producer Thomas Brenneck (Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Budos Band, Amy Winehouse) to record hits in the bedroom of his Menahan St. apartment in Bushwick, Brooklyn. With influences reaching beyond the funk/soul/afrobeat architecture of their other projects into the more ethereal realms of Curtis Mayfield and Mulatu Astatke, the Menahan Street Band creates a unique new instrumental soul sound that is as raw as it is lush. Their debut album, Make the Road by Walking will be released on Dunham Records, Brenneck’s new imprint of Daptone Records, a joint venture devoted to bringing the Menahan Street sound from Brenneck’s bedroom out into the world. The album is marked by eerily quirky arrangements, featuring vibes, horns, piano, organ, percussion and even a strange bling sound that Brenneck creates by tuning and plucking the strings of his guitar on the wrong side of the bridge. However, it is not the textures themselves that make the new sound of Menahan Street so exciting, but rather the way the sounds are incorporated into the heavy rhythms and bold melodies of the compositions."

01 - Make The Road By Walking
02 - Tired Of Fighting
03 - Home Again!
04 - Montego Sunset
05 - Karina
06 - The Traitor
07 - The Contender
08 - Birds
09 - Esma
10 - Going The Distance
11 - Heartbeat

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