Shane Koyczan 'To This Day'
Please take some moments to watch this. This is more than spoken word ‘artistry’ – though there is such artistry in this, such command of the art of storytelling by this Canadian poet and such incredible animated emotion by many different artists. But this is more than art. This is the best example of why storytelling is one of our most necessary crafts, as well as one of our most powerful healers…
Ivy 'Va faire ta guerre'
Va faire ta guerre (Go make your war) was written in 2011 for Amnesty International project Partners for Peace. A letter to the fat cats, to the warmongers, to “M. le Grassouillet / Le Souillé / Le Suprême de Poulet”.....
Mutombo Da Poet + M3NSA
A new track from Ghana’s Mutombo, first release from an album coming in 2013. This time – and foreshadowing many collaborations – Mutombo works with M3NSA.
Ponte Aérea Elétrica
“São blogueiros, escritores, cantores, dançarinos, atores / Djs, médicos, artistas plástico, palhaços, cineastas de guerrilha.Poetas / Porque a palavra não tem fronteira.”
Aja Monet 'Scared To Make Love / Scared Not To'
“I get most of my wisdom from woman. I practice it on my brothers.” In the track Us, Aja Monet roll-calls her women as the track cites James Brown’s It’s a Man’s World … “my litany for survival”. The track sets up an album that quietly but firmly secures Aja’s place in my own roll-call of inspirational women.
World Hip Hop Women: From The Sound Up
If you want a global update on the hottest women Hip Hop artists right now, check this generous mixtape from Nomadic Wax.
Omar Musa & Luka Lesson 'The Light'
I’ve been remiss in not linking to this, a video dropped in November. Melbourne-based spoken word artists Luka Lesson and Omar Musa in Istanbul transcending, produced by Tenicee.
Beats Artistry ~ Volfoniq 'Ernest Revisited'
Cher danseurs, you of refined and intelligent style, you who love to dance at the pace of the beat of your heart, you earnest folk who like to smile, with only a small delay I suggest to you this:
Tanya Evanson 'Language of Gods'
Out of Vancouver, Tanya Evanson brings her third ‘spoken wor.l.d’ music album exploring concepts of family, mythology, dialect, silence & technology…
Mutombo Da Poet 'I choose words, not guns.'
Take some time to listen to Mutombo Da Poet, from the city of Accra in Ghana West Africa.
Beats Artistry: MIDI East
MIDI East is a library of East-Euro/West Asian music – 9,000 midi files discovered “floating around” the internet by Aus/Berlin electronic musician, producer Brian May (DJ Delay / Beam Up / Sonical), and offered up to electronic musicians and producers with a challenge – to put down the synced sampler and do some hard work on some raw files and create some new electronic music.