19.11.08

Colonel Red - Blue Eye Blak (2005)

British Modern Soul, What Else?!

Who are your favourite singers?:
For his emotional and soulful voice: Marvin Gaye. For his sheer magic and musical story-telling genius: Stevie Wonder. For his extremely rare gift of expression: D'Angelo. For his sheer awesome sound and power: Ottis Reading. The most amazingly powerful singer 2 bless us: Aretha Franklin and lastly the most charismatic spiritual brave true and devoted individual: Bob Marley.

What influence has your upbringing had on your music?
An extremely positive one in terms of the music I listened to. The culture coming mostly from my father, the politics that come from being a black mixed race family growing up through the 70’s and 80s in Britain. School in a predominantly Irish, Asian and Black area. Influences ranging from Muhammad Ali to Bob Marley to Malcolm X to the IRA to Gandhi, all of these figures were important to all of us at some point and many more. To be on the street when I was a kid it was important to know what was what and to have your own styled identity was to be respected where as now I feel this quality has been lost in the kids doing their best to fit in with each other. I can still remember the feeling of embrace at being different! -Barto-

  1. Blue Eye Blak
  2. Gotta Be A Place For Us
  3. Meet Me In The Middle
  4. Sanctify
  5. Save A Prayer
  6. Everyday People
  7. Freeze Frame
  8. U Gimme That Feeling
  9. Movin On
  10. Night Walker

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6 commentaires:

Anonyme a dit…

it's great that you've spotlighted such a talented and overlooked artist - pity the link doesn't work ....

Anonyme a dit…

It's working , you just have to clic on the name of the album and the regular page of mediafire appears

BlackStar a dit…

Yup and now the link work as always.


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