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PAUL CULLEN Dreamdance & Paradise Independent
A smooth, hip project featuring romantic and lush arrangements and melodies from former Bad Company bassist, Paul Cullen. On DREAMDANCE & PARADISE, Cullen borrows Mediterranean, Latin and Jazz elements and enhances them with ambient moods, chilled grooves and his unique vocal style to create a long-playing album that is sure to fill your environment with a lush mood and sophisticated vibe. This diverse musician spends much of his time with Italian wine importer PortoVino… where he is able to merge his two passions, “groovy Italian wine and cool jazzy music,” by bringing his Unplugged and Uncorked performance and tasting to various venues and wine related events. We’re pleased to have discovered this exceptionally relevant musician for both SmoothJazz.com and SmoothLounge.com and we invite you to experience Paul Cullen’s delicious original compositions on DREAMDANCE & PARADISE at your earliest convenience by uncorking your favorite PortoVino wine and pressing play!
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FPC For Popular Consumption For Popular Consumption
Ten tracks of mesmerizing sound are contained on a new self-titled release FPC(For Popular Consumption)! There’s a broad range of musical styles from liquid, dreamy chill tunes to quiet and contemplative pieces that could rival Beethoven compositions. FPC opens with “Too Long,” a delicious acoustic guitar song supported by keyboards and synthesizer. My personal favorite, the lushly arranged “Remember Mickey” is an emotionally stirring Moby-esque ballad. “Drifting (for Anna)” is embellished with winding piano lines. Other highlights include “The Hunger, “Still,” and “The Reading Girl.” A Canadian native, FPC's mastery of music engages listeners by taking them to a pensive place. All in all, FPC is a cinematic soundscape full of imagery, distant lands and provocative moods. Fans of chill, electronica and lounge genres will likely flock to this project, but the truth of the matter is that it has mass appeal for the audiophile in all of us!
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JONATHAN FRITZÉN VIP Nordic Night Records
VIP, Jonathan Fritzén’s follow up album to his debut LOVE BIRDS, is a solid smash! According to the twenty-something Swedish multi-instrumentalist, “VIP has a groovier, deeper urban sound, while keeping the elegance I aimed for on my first album.” We couldn’t agree more. Guests on VIP include NuGroove artists, guitarist Jay Soto and saxophonist Michael Lington, Swedish artists Laila Adéle and Greger Hillman, and some of Sweden’s top studio musicians. Jonathan also brought in Ollie Olsson for mixing (Snoop Dogg, Robyn) and Björn Engelmann for mastering (Backstreet Boys, Cardigans). JF is one of the most exciting new artists we’ve had the honor of discovering… this incredible talent grew up listening to SmoothJazz.com Radio in Sweden and now is in fact, one of our brightest stars. VIP is filled with 11 sizzling hot tunes that will fill your world with groove and joy! This is indeed a Very Important Project!
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DWAYNE KERR Higher Calling Dmanns Music Group
Erykah Badu’s flutist since 1998! Ms. Badu says “As I watch my friend in amazement, the high tones and trills become part of me, helping me to grow onstage. I don’t know which is sweeter, his tone or his soul.” After listening to this album and researching Dwayne’s background and temperament, I can appreciate her dilemma. HIGHER CALLING is absolutely captivating, by design… a project that’s mid to up tempo, with feel-good vibes and catchy melodies that, as he puts it, “you would whistle or hum to yourself.” Highlights include a fresh and stunning read on Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine,” with Erykah guesting on wordless vocals, the captivating “Being with You,” featuring beautiful interplay between Dwayne’s flute and Kirk Whalum’s tenor sax, and “Chillin’,” featuring the virtuoso guitar work of Matt Marshak. I also enjoy both the full and unplugged versions of the John Mayer “Daughters.” The whole is truly greater than the sum of its parts on HIGHER CALLING – Highly recommended!
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KUSH For Your Mind Body and Soul Kush-Music.com
Lounge, downtempo, chill out, nu jazz, electronica music lovers must make 2010 the year to discover Canada’s KUSH! Brainstormed and reared by bassist Etric Lyons since 2002, KUSH has created compelling grooves of meaning with delicious and intelligent musical textures. The band excels at live performance in addition to offering up a digital sonic landscape of lush. The mostly instrumental collection and catalog available for you on KUSH-MUSIC.COM will introduce you to a world of feel good music for the mind, body and soul featuring what Lyons refers to soulful house music. Fans of Thievery Corp, St. Germain, Buddha Bar and Café del Mar compilations will appreciate KUSH. A collection of tracks and albums just begging for a film soundtrack… inspiring, refreshing and sophisticated! Get your KUSH krush on and get over to KUSH-MUSIC.COM to check out their very latest releases… a guaranteed good mood awaits.
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LR-60 & Mr. MOODS Ultraviolence Independent
A very chilled out vibe emotes from LR-60 & Mr. Moods’ new collection of tunes on ULTRAVIOLENCE… industrial sexy if you will. I love the way chill and lounge-inspired music is heading. Gone are the days when there was just a cold pulse and soulless beat… maybe it’s the warmth of LR-60’s divine trumpet playing (Skip Warren) or the intoxicating rhythms from Mr. Moods (Christian Denis)… for sure the melodic direction of ULTRAVIOLENCE sets a deep groove for fans of ambient jams. This is a project that will transport you to a super relaxed atmosphere with the highest quality musicianship and production. Fans of future jazz, nu jazz and thrill-to-chill jazz will love ULTRAVIOLENCE! It’s a must have addition for that icy cool collection of killer music you have.
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LAWSON ROLLINS Espirito Baja/TSR Records
Sharpen your global IQ with ESPIRITO, the second solo masterpiece from guitar virtuoso Lawson Rollins. Expounding on the vision from his INFINITA debut, Rollins teams up once again with Shahin Shahida and Dominic Camardella as co-producers. ESPIRITO is an adventurous amalgam of musical cultures. The strength of this project is rooted in its ability to engage the listener by skipping across borders and continents like stepping-stones. Having been blown away by its initial spin, it was on subsequent visits where I found the vibrant playfulness of Lawson’s musical mastery truly revealed… “Moonlight Samba,“ the first Smooth radio single, features vocal ad-libs from Brazil’s Flora Purim. Love the western twist of “Blue Mountain Bolero”… and “Footprints” is a dreamy number that leaves you quiet and centered. With today’s skyrocketing airfares and fees and now even more security, leave the tarmac behind and take a journey with ESPIRITO. The world is yours… no passport required - just your music player!
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SADE Soldier of Love Epic Records
The singer who is easily the most recognizable and most-played vocal artist on radio for three decades and who has been the poster child of our genre since it’s inception, is poised for the release of her first album in ten years! Her 2000 release, LOVER’S ROCK sold 3.9 million copies in the U.S. Yes, Sade Adu has regrouped the band that bears her name, and SOLDIER OF LOVE is due for release on February 8th. The first single is the title track and it is marching its way straight up the charts. The groove is rich and compelling and the lyrics are deep and drenched with experience of love, which as we know is often a battlefield, hence this evocative line “I'm at the borderline of my faith, I'm at the hinterland of my devotion… in the frontline of this battle of mine… but I'm still alive.” Welcome back Sade… soldier on girl, we’ve been waiting a long time!
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WALDINO After Hours LoveGypsies.com
The doctor of groove is back with one of the coolest releases of his prolific career… AFTER HOURS. The latest project from Waldino (aka Walter Liskiewicz) offers up a little chill out, a little romance, and a little groove… everything musical you require for your after hours lifestyle. The first track, “Seashore,” sets the tone for this super cool, slinky audio outing featuring the signature sensual Waldino sound that he’s become so popular for at college and Internet radio. That signature sound continues to include clever, catchy melodies, textured vocals, electrifying arrangements and stellar production. The retired Oral and Maxillofacial surgeon has transferred his concentration skills from the operating room to the studio… where he has created ten hot new tracks plus a sexy remix of the album’s first single, “Seashore” for a total of eleven new Waldino tracks on AFTER HOURS. Mojito it up and spin the latest from Waldino tonight!
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THE WARHEADS The Warheads Projects TheWarheads.com
We discovered the Warheads at the beginning of our SmoothLounge Radio launch a handful of years ago… their music is innovative and unique as it combines an incredible arsenal of recording technology and musicianship. Using both old school analog and new digital mediums, the Warheads have created a sound that is deep and intriguing on a variety of different projects dabbling in world rhythms and textures with occasional layered vocals, but mostly instrumentals… from their FUNK N’ GANDHI album featuring traditional Indian music over classic funk backbeats to their Asian fusion NIHON NOIR… Recording exclusively at Radical Sound Recording Studio in San Francisco, CA, the Warheads merge elements of global music with computer based audio electronics and acoustic instrumentation to include a free jazz, industrial chill sonic vibe on all of their nearly twenty releases… the result is neo cool. Find their complete catalog at TheWarheads.com!
