Category: Music
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Music News of the Week is your one-stop round up on both major and minor happenings in the world of music.
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WHO: Meelo ft. Goya Gumbani GENRE: Jazz, Soul, Electronica FROM: London & Brooklyn MEMORABLE LYRIC: “Eyes on what’s next / I stay on the prize / I stay on what’s mine / I stay on the grind” London artist Meelo’s new release featuring the dextrous Brooklynite Goya Gumbani is clearly a labor of love. Taken…
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Ella Mai on R&B’s cross-frontier between the US and UK, accepting the discomfort in growth and the value of vulnerability. Ella’s roots were nurtured in England, gathering the necessary know-how in music from her years at the BIMM. In 2015 she dipped her toes in the water with a SoundCloud release titled Troubled and she…
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GUAP caught up with Xadi to get an idea of what goes on beneath the cryptic canvas of his pensive penmanship. Read the full interview below. Xadi is now a powerhouse of creativity. And with the release of his latest self-produced EP, Floating In Lilac, he presents us with an example of some of his…
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![Mwanjé is Using Her Imagination to Summon The Diaspora [interview]](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Mwanje-14543030-scaled-1.jpeg)
Mwanjé is a fountain of knowledge. A polymath in her own right. The 23-year-old’s fire is stoked by a determination to share her origins and experience with the world. Even as I write this it is becoming quite apparent that no black and white page of writing could ever capture her full vibrancy. Although there…
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Music News of the Week is your one-stop round up on both major and minor happenings in the world of music. This week’s news the Streets vinyl reissue of their 2002 classic ‘Original Pirate Material’, Beyoncé performs at the Compton Tennis Courts and Questlove recieves Best Documentary at the 2022 Oscars, Phifedawg’s posthumous album has…
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With new artists emerging left, right and centre we have decided to create ‘On Our Radar;’ a series where we will routinely put the spotlight on some incredibly talented and criminally underrated artists from around the world. GENRE: rap FROM: Nottingham, UK Nottingham’s Bourne has just two songs in his discography so far and we’re…
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![Five For Friday: Léonie Barbot, Clavish, [@RasharnPowell], [@LcLevi] & more](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/PLAY2_COVER-scaled-1.jpeg)
The tide of new music never seems to stop coming in and Friday being one of the most intense days for new music we can understand if it all feels a little overwhelming. That’s why we’ve delved into the deepest and darkest corners of the musical ocean to bring you Five For Friday: our weekly…
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![GUAP PREMIERES: [@LagoonWavey]’s “Highway”](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/credit_Alexander_James.jpeg)
WHO: Lagoon Wavey GENRE: Neo-Soul, Alt R&B FROM: Barbados MEMORABLE LYRIC: “Told you don’t fall for me / or pick up the phone and call on me” As Lagoon sings he let’s harsh feelings simmer below the surface layer, constantly threatening to bubble up but never quite boiling over. Following his recent COLOURS debut, Barbados-born Lagoon…
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Shaé Universe is a steadfast source of harmony; whether that is demonstrated by her calm presence or whether that is channelled through her delphic vocals. Even as she munches a granola bar to refuel at the end of a long day on set, sweet-sounding hums sneak their way through in between bites. “I’m very, very,…