Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Brownswood Bubblers Four Compiled By Gilles Peterson

Gilles Peterson's annual round-up of up-and-coming or unfairly overlooked artists drops neat and tidy this week with a fourteen track selection of future soul, downbeat hiphop and mellow world grooves. Opening duties are given to Stones Throw phenomenon Mayer Hawthorn, the one man retro-soul mission with a stunning sound on 'Maybe So, Maybe So' uncannily recalling classic Curtis Mayfield. Souleance's 'MaƱana' ticks the bass-heavy post Dilla bracket with ease, while El Michels Affair roll out the coolin' 'Shimmy Shimmy Ya'. Lisa Papineau's all too brief 'Rene Thomas' is an odd delight somewhere between Bat For Lashes and Goblin, while Mali's Oumou Sangare takes the tracklist to Africa. We'd have to recommend checking Keaver & Brause's ace nugget 'Awake', but the best is saved for last with Floating Points scaling astral heights on the exclusive 'Peroration' feat. Fatima and Lone provides one of the many highlights from last years 'Lemurian' LP with the psychedelic compressions of 'Sea Spray'. Lovingly selected and beautifully presented, get in...(Listen/Buy at Boomkat)

1. Mayer Hawthorne - Maybe So Maybe No (2:57)
2. Souleance - Manana (5:16)
3. yU - Fine (2:17)
4. El Michels Affair - Shimmy Shimmy Ya (2:23)
5. Lisa Papineau - Rene Thomas (1:47)
6. The Misled Children And Odean Pope - Dadadun (4:13)
7. Kafka - The Kafka Anthem (3:16)
8. Oumou Sangare - Iyo Djeli (6:36)
9. Jam Da Silva - Dia Santo (4:50)
10. Keaver And Brause - Awake (2:33)
11. Soundspecies - Can We Call It Love (With Ahu) (4:22)
12. New Look - Everything (3:54)
13. Floating Points - Peroration V Ft. Fatima (5:35)
14. Lone - Sea Spray (3:56)


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