Author: TJ Gorton

Mark de Clive-Lowe

Listen Here: Mark de Clive-Lowe, Live Remix Suite — We See You. We Are Here.

For the latest addition to BeatCaffeine’s Listen Here series, we feature an incredible live remix suite by Los Angeles-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Mark de Clive-Lowe that he produced for the La Ceiba Festival. The multi-media suite, which features spiritual jazz and pulsating broken-beat grooves with powerful visual imagery and spoken words of James Baldwin, activist Tamika D Mallory and real-time chants of Black Lives Matter is called “Sawubona: We see you. We are here.”

Khruangbin — Mordechai

Khruangbin release incredible new desert psych-funk album ‘Mordechai’

The Houston, Texas based trio Khruangbin (pronounced KRUNG-bin, a Thai word meaning “airplane”), featuring bassist/vocalist Laura Lee, guitarist Mark Speer, and drummer Donald “DJ” Johnson, follow-up their 2018 breakthrough release Con Todo El Mundo and recent notable collaboration with Leon Bridges (Texas Sun EP) with their highly anticipated third full-length album, titled Mordechai on the Dead Ocean label.

Roy Ayers — Jazz Is Dead

Soul-Jazz legend Roy Ayers releases incredible new album on Jazz Is Dead

Soul-jazz legend Roy Ayers, who made his mark in the seventies and early eighties with classic recordings like He’s Coming, Ubiquity, Red Black & Green, Vibrations, Everybody Loves The Sunshine, and so many others, has teamed up with Los Angeles based producers/multi-instrumentalists Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad (of also Tribe Called Quest) to release a brand new album on the newly formed Jazz Is Dead label.

SAULT — Untitled (BLACK IS)

SAULT releases groundbreaking album ‘Untitled (Black Is)’, speaking out against racism & police brutality

The mysterious group SAULT took 2019 by storm with two breakthrough albums 5 and 7. Over time, we have learned that this foward-thinking eclectic UK-based collective consists of producer Dean “Inflo” Wynton Josiah, vocalist Cleo Sol, and rapper/vocalist Melisa Young (aka Kid Sister). The trio has appropriately on Juneteenth, put out their third album Untitled (Black Is), which a powerful and timely release that speaks directly to the Black Lives Matter movement.

LISTEN HERE: Classic Albums Sunday | Nina Simone - Black Gold

Listen Here: Angela Davis & Terri Lyne Carrington speak to the impact of Nina Simone’s 1970 classic ‘Black Gold’

For this week’s Listen Here post, we are sharing a fascinating and informative episode from the Classic Album Sundays and Studio 360 podcast series This Woman’s Work, which highlights classic albums by female artists who have made a lasting impact on music and pop culture. On this episode, iconic activist and scholar Angela Davis, and drummer/composer Terri Lyne Carrington discuss Nina Simone’s 1970 classic album Black Gold, and it’s significant impact during the civil rights movement in the US.

Listen Here: Adrian Younge & Brian Jackson

Listen Here: Artform Radio w/ Adrian Younge & special guest Brian Jackson

As a way to help promote those that are speaking out against racism, I am starting a new ongoing feature on BeatCaffeine called “Listen Here” (named after Eddie Harris’ 1968 soul jazz classic) where I will share recommended media, literature, and other resourceful information that is addressing this issue. These recommendations will include podcasts, radio shows, books, art exhibits, anti-racist organizations and more.