Life is complicated and busy. Did you notice? Keeping up with the music, movies and books that fed your youthful imagination and conversations is harder than ever, but even more important. Here's the good news: there's never been more great new stuff. The challenge is to find it.

So here are my highly opinionated views on sounds, sights and words that will help you keep it fresh and real, and links to the veins where the richest motherlodes can be found.

Feed your head.
- JumpingFlashJack

Friday, June 15, 2012

Psychedelic Soul: Michael Kiwanuka

Do you long for the "Summer of Love" sound of the Youngbloods?  Does the mention of Moondance make you a little woozy?  Maybe you came way too late for that party but have been wondering what Bon Iver would sound like if Justin Vernon had any soul?

If the answer to any of these questions is "yes", then you need some Michael Kiwanuka in your head right now.  A Londoner of Ugandan parents, Kiwanuka has clearly been mainlining post-Monterey Otis Redding, all of Bill Withers, and not a little Curtis Mayfield.  The fingerprints of the trippy part of the late 60's are all over this.  But what's not to like about psychedelic soul?









Somebody say "Amen". 

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