Traveling: South Africa

I can't think of a weirder place than South Africa. The nature takes your breath away, and people is the strangest mix of colours and languages and cultures that you can think about. And there's this deep, souring wound of recent history hidden almost everywhere. I've been in S.A. just for few days, but I definetely want to go back and stay longer cause I totally fell in love with the place. This is a little musical journey in that different world.


This is the kind of folk album that I can listen over and over without getting bored. There's blues in it, and beautiful verses, and this soft, kind of nostalgic athmosphere that totally traps you. Beautiful.


When I think of S.A. music I immediately think "voices". And Moloi is one of the most promising voices of the south african panorama. Born in Soweto, raised in the U.S, there's a little of this and a lot of that in his work. But most of all, there's this incredibly soft and versatile voice.


Speaking of mixed things... this album has a little bit of everything: dubstep, reaggae, hip hop and this political and angry lyrics that are worth a listening.


I chose this album cause I have kids and I know how hard it is to find good kids music. When I saw the smile on my little ones faces I knew this one was good.

Bonus track:

Goapele is one of the best NuSoul voices ever. She belongs to the golden era of Maxwell and Floetry, before the big bang with D'Angelo, Badu & co. So here she is, with her page on BandCamp and some beautiful tracks where her voice still brights.

Black in the 80's

I was searching around trying to put together some music for my new post tagged Black. And I stepped into this album. Firstly I didn't recognize the name, but when I saw the track list I had kind of a flash-back. Wonderful life? "that" wonderful life? Yes, that one. Back to 1987 mr.Colin Vearncombe aka Black made it up to the top-ten with this tune that became quite a classic of the 80's. Then he kind of desappeared, like many stars of that period. And, there he is, BandCamping with this very new album. He's quite freezed in the 80's but still sounds good. Same warm voice, same sweet feeling.