Nadir Omowale – Blue LIghts (digital single)
Featuring Amp Fiddler, Caleb Gutierrez, The Will Sessions Horns, Christopher Spooner, Simone White, and Jeff Rebrovich.
Caleb Gutierrez – Closer (digital single)
Caleb Gutierrez’s second solo single, the soulful rock ballad “Closer”, written and produced by Nadir Omowale, praises the glorious moment when two people connect both physically and spiritually.
Nadir Omowale – The Right Kind of Crazy (digital single)
Written by Reavis Mitchell & Nadir Omowale
Published by Eclipse America Productions, Inc. (BMI)
Nadir Omowale returns with a scathing, purple tinged, post-Hendrix funk rocker.
“She might be out of her mind, but she’s The Right Kind Of Crazy”.
credits
Produced, Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by J. Nadir Omowale at EkoBase Media, Ferndale, Michigan
Additional recording by Simone White at Sim-1 Music, Sydney, Australia
Simone White: drums
Steve Caldwell: lead & wah guitars
Nick Gingras: synths
Jeff Rebrovich: freaky samples and programming
Steffanie Christi’an: vocals
Nadir Omowale: bass, guitars, keys, programming, vocals
Artwork by Mario Butterfield (www.mariobutterfield.com) @riodata
lyrics
(Reavis Mitchell & Nadir Omowale)
She got a body like a god damn bullet train
High tech freak sex yet so insane
She stank so good pheromones of fire
And I really couldn’t get any higherShe might be out of her mind, but
She’s The Right Kind of Crazy
She might be out of her mind, but
She’s The Right Kind of CrazyI get withdrawals cause I can’t get her off of my brain
I try to kick, but I just can’t stand the pain
But when I hit it then we up till the morning
And her hot rain soothes the callingShe might be out of her mind, but
She’s The Right Kind of Crazy
She might be out of her mind, but
She’s The Right Kind of CrazyOh yeah…She went to church and they told her she was going to Hell
She called me up and said, “Baby, will you drive me there?”
We on the road to total destruction
But I just can’t ‘scape the suction
She might be out of her mind, but
She’s The Right Kind of Crazy
She might be out of her mind, but
She’s my Kind of Crazy
First Listen: Caleb Gutierrez on SoulTracks.com
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We are proud that they have chosen to help introducer their readers to Detroit Latin soul stirrer Caleb Gutierrez. Check out his SoulTracks.com First Listen feature HERE.
Caleb Gutierrez – Addicted (digital single)
credits
released March 22, 2016
Caleb Gutierrez: lead & background vocals
Christopher Spooner: bass, keyboards, programming
Nadir Omowale: guitar, vocals
Amy Saari: keyboards
Raphael Merriweathers, Jr.: percussion
Billy Furman: flute, sax
Written by Caleb Gutierrez & Christopher Spooner (ASCAP)
Produced by Christopher Spooner & Nadir Omowale
Recorded by Christopher Spooner at Spotted Soul, Mt. Clemens, Michigan and by Nadir Omowale at EkoBase Media, Ferndale, Michigan
Mastered by Jim Falzone at Venus Mastering, Tampa, Florida
Photo by Marc Nader
Single artwork by Nadir Omowale
DJ Butterface – Butterfunk Vol. 1 (digital EP)
Producer, multi-instrumentalist, mashup maestro Michael J. Bazini (aka DJ Butterface) does it again. The New York native is known for his genre-bending remixes and mashups for artists like Public Enemy, Martin Bisi, Paranoid Social Club and Nadir. Now with the release of Butterfunk Volume 1, Butterface challenges dance music conventions with a set of drum heavy funk grooves, anchoring a landscape of electronic and techno textures along with some high intensity rock guitar.
“I used to play in different kinds of bands before I was a DJ, and have many musical influences. I became a DJ and a producer simply to become a better songwriter, looking at music from another perspective. “Butterfunk Vol. 1” is years worth of band, DJ and production experience and infusing everything that inspires me without any boundaries or limitations.
“Ultimately, it’s the Funk that keeps me going because it’s vibe is so irresistible to my ears. One day, Nadir and I were talking about what kind of Funk I would make, and Butterfunk Vol. 1 is the answer.”
Butterfunk is just the first helping of whole funkload of buttery goodness.
Steffanie Christi’an Interview on LOTL Radio “The Comfort Zone”
LOTL Radio’s The Comfort Zone offers insightful interviews With real artists who make real music. It doesn’t get any realer than Steffanie Christi’an. Check out this interview on the BlogTalkRadio network.
Bounce-Worthy: Steffanie Christi’an
Originally posted at SoulBounce.com
Steffanie Christi’an proudly proclaims she’s “way too much,” and with good reason. Not only is Way Too Much the name of her independently released six-song EP, it’s a state of mind and the term that the Detroit rocker uses to neatly sum up her state of sound.
Listening to one of her tracks and it’s hard to not hear a little bit of that Tina Turner growl spiced with some of dance singer Sonique’s feline-fierce range. But you’ll also hear injections of Rage Against the Machine and Alanis Morissette, alongside Billie Holiday, Janis Joplin, Prince and Tori Amos. If it isn’t clear, know that is one black woman who rocks hard, and confidently declares she can hold her own and the microphone when sharing the stage with the likes of contemporaries Res, Joiand Martha Redbone.
Detroit Free Press: Beloved Seger album gets musical translation in live Detroit tribute
Originally Published in the Detroit Free Press
By Brian McCollum
Detroit Free Press Pop Music Critic
July 13, 2014
It was the kind of fun, freewheeling night where history shook hands with 2014 and both came out better for it.
Before a mostly packed house Saturday night at 2,000-capacity Orchestra Hall, native son Don Was hosted a diverse collection of Detroit-related performers to take on Bob Seger’s beloved 1976 concert album, “Live Bullet.” Was’ latest Detroit All-Star Revue capped the day for Concert of Colors, the free fest that will wrap up today in Midtown Detroit.
“Bullet” holds a cherished spot in local rock lore, and for artists ranging from teen rocker Blaire Alise to 67-year-old Spyder Turner, Saturday brought a sense of hometown duty to go with a wide-open musical mandate: Play it how you want.
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