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25TH AUGUST 2009
SOULCULTURE.CO.UK PRESENTS:
AALIYAH REVISITED TRIBUTE EP
Eight years to the day after the tragic passing of Aaliyah Dana Haughton, the original princess of R&B, ten of today’s progressively soulful artists have recorded interpretations of their favourite Aaliyah songs for Aaliyah Revisited - a 2009 tribute EP internationally curated by urban-music-and-culture online magazine SoulCulture.
Available immediately as a free download package, Aaliyah Revisited contains eight songs featuring indie soul artist and occasional Brand New Heavies vocalist Sy Smith (currently providing backing vocals for American Idol), Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Marsha Ambrosius, rising London soul talents Tawiah and Baby Sol, NYC-based beauty creator Jesse Boykins III, Danish R&B/Soul sensation Jonas, saccharine Basement Jaxx vocalist Vula, London-based producer Black Einstein, plus international future starlet Nikko Gray with California’s ‘cosmic conductor’ AFTA-1.
“Whatever happened to Major Tom?” is a question every Bowie fan has asked at least once since the 1995 'Hallo Spaceboy', the last we heard of Major Tom from Bowie himself. Black Einstein has removed the question mark and replaced it with their debut EP “Whatever happened to Major Tom?, released recently on BandCamp.
Black Einstein is the supasoulful vision of London based producer Colin Emmanuel and his collective who bring together mischievous fusions of funk, rap and jazz into soundspace.
Releases from the UK Hip Hop movement this year have (for the most part) been heralded for remaining firm in the past aesthetics of what the genre has stood for, delivering rough, provocative rhymes and beats that can rock any Hip Hop night in the West End.
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