Lost and found. I guess that is how I would describe this important piece of music. To make it short: Live at Café Haag was recorded on the 20th of Januar 2006. Back then we used to have a session once a week, played a couple of gigs and were even offered to play a tour in Germany. However, around this time we all were focused on our studies and I moved to east Germany and later to Finland. Live at Café Haag shows only a fragment of what we did and I believe that each one of us shares the same thought: we've got to sit down, write and record an album.
enjoy!
I am honored to announce my first official blog post on www.Okayafrica.com (OKA) .
I'm sure you guys want to know how this happened, right? well, as I was doing some marketing for my current release "Born in the Land of a Thousand Hills" (www.mishoothedrumkit.com). I tried to get in touch with okayafrica and thought that they might be interested in what I do. I sent an e-mail with all press information and four months later I received a reply. They liked what I do and asked me if I liked to write for okayafrica and have my own blog. I was very surprised. A few emails later, I received the writers instructions and wrote my first post about my man Portformat. They posted it on the first of September 2010. Thank you for supporting the Afro and Afreuropean movement okayplayer!
Okayafrica.com is part of Okayplayer.com, one of the worlds most important blogs about Hip Hop. It was founded by The Roots Drummer Amir "Questlove" Thompson in 1987.
Okayplayer began as a platform for artists of the Soulquarians and Native Tongues collectives such as The Roots, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Common, Erykah Badu, D'Angelo, Slum Village, Jay Dilla, former A Tribe Called Quest members Q-Tip, Phife Dawg and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, De La soul, Busta Rhymes, Floetry, Meshell Ndegeocello, and more. Nowadays other artists such as Kanye West, Flying Lotus, Lupe Fiasco, Kid Cudi,Wale and more are supported by Okayplayer.com
About Okayafrica.com (OKA):
Highlighting the freshest, newest music coming off of the continent and from the Diaspora, OKA features cutting edge music from the hills of Freetown to the Brooklyn underground, from Soweto to the highlands of Kenya and much more. With roots in traditional African rhythms, harmonies, and beats, the new sound of Africa fuses these traditional elements with the most progressive sounds, from hip-hop to electronica, from pop to indie rock, creating completely original music.
Freddie's Note:
Midway is a collection of instrumentals that i have been working on for the past year and half (or so). Because a lot of music styles inspire me, i just wanted to present my range as a hip hop/soul producer, not just with this album, but also me as a producer in general. I’ll continue to release free music and mixes, so please support by purchasing this album, and future albums when they become available.
How did we arrive at the 99 blogs listed? We started with an index of more than 500 fashion blogs and beauty blogs from around the world - some from first hand knowledge, others discovered from countless hours of following blogrolls, network publisher listings and links left in comments. After eliminating the ones that were abandoned or infrequently updated, we calculated data, did some math and assigned a score representative of general content quality, popularity and buzz. The 99 most influential blogs span multiple categories: from the street and personal style of trendsetters around the world, to behind the curtain looks at the people who create and shape the fashion industry - and of course the bloggers who stay on top of who's wearing what, and where to buy it. Are these the best fashion blogs? Best is subjective, but it's certainly the best measure of global style influence to date.Go to directly to www.signature9.com
A German bridge is feminine (die Brücke), for instance, but el puente is masculine in Spanish; and the same goes for clocks, apartments, forks, newspapers, pockets, shoulders, stamps, tickets, violins, the sun, the world and love. On the other hand, an apple is masculine for Germans but feminine in Spanish, and so are chairs, brooms, butterflies, keys, mountains, stars, tables, wars, rain and garbage. When speakers were asked to grade various objects on a range of characteristics, Spanish speakers deemed bridges, clocks and violins to have more “manly properties” like strength, but Germans tended to think of them as more slender or elegant. With objects like mountains or chairs, which are “he” in German but “she” in Spanish, the effect was reversed.
In a different experiment, French and Spanish speakers were asked to assign human voices to various objects in a cartoon. When French speakers saw a picture of a fork (la fourchette), most of them wanted it to speak in a woman’s voice, but Spanish speakers, for whom el tenedor is masculine, preferred a gravelly male voice for it. More recently, psychologists have even shown that “gendered languages” imprint gender traits for objects so strongly in the mind that these associations obstruct speakers’ ability to commit information to memory.
Here are two videos of one of Brazil's finest soul singers.
