I just recently ran across The Dream EP by Michigan Ann Arbor Charles Trees (released by the French label Musique Large as part of their Tour De Table series).  Musically, Charles Trees, style on The Dream EP is in the same vain as some of the Brainfeeder artists (Flying Lotus, Ras G, FLYamSAM) mixed with some of the more R&B/Soul laden artists on Stones Throw such as Dam-Funk.

Or in the words of BLEEP:

Hallucinatory bump-soul-tronics….Trees is a Michigan producer with a clear love of psyched up R&B and slo-mo funk styles, rubbed up with the kind of schizoid beat patterns resonant of fellow Musique Large peoples, Debruit and Fulgeance.

Take a listen to the official snippet and judge for yourself:

Recently reissued by the German label Dug Out (ran by one of the former owners of Honest Jon’s record shop in London) Dadawah’s Peace and Love blends Nyahbinghi drumming with a overtone of psychedelic guitars.

Below is a version of ‘Zion Land‘ which is included on the reissued copy of the album:

This was my first exposure to both Ras Michael (also known as Dadawah) and the reggae reissue label Dug Out; will not be my last.

Looking forward to this…

Tame Impala are a three piece psych rock band from Australia whose sound can be described, summed up in their own words, as:

The Tame Impala sound is one equally informed by The Beatles as it is beat poetry, by Turkish prog as it is by Turkish delight, and by English folk as much as homeless folk, and it’s a breathe of fresh air that reeks of all of these at times and none at others.

The band just recently released a new video for ‘Solitude Is Bliss’ from their upcoming album InnerSpeaker which is due to be released on Modular later this month:

Tame Impala – ‘Solitude is Bliss’ from Modular People on Vimeo.

I was just recently turned on the new Foals album Total Life Forever. Their new video for Spanish Sahara sums it up.