Daft In Africa (right click and “save as” to download)
Check the waves as we welcome Proof and Freddy Anzures to drop an afro-futuristic soul slap. The recurring Sanguine theme of retro-futurism (check: Android Boogie) resurfaces, this time with a focus on fusing music and technology stemming from the African diaspora. Don’t [...]
fflood brings the soul to sanguine
Passing Me By (right click and “save as” to download)
It’s February, the month of love, and Sanguine Soul starts it off right with an episode we call “Passing Me By”. Roughly inspired by the Pharcyde song about juvenile infatuation, we channel the youthful heart’s flutter and innocence into [...]
Verdant Volts (right click and “save as” to download)
For this week’s episode we tried out something new. Shelmatic jumbled some marbles in her mouth through the whole show, and I (Z Note waxing digital right here) tried to conjure strange words in a fruitless effort to describe the music of Bay Area experimental [...]
Android Boogie (right click and “save as” to download)
King Most split between man and machine
Since the industrial revolution, people have leveraged arts to explore the concept of merging human soul with technology (see Fritz Lang’s Metropolis or read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein). With androids being the epitome of humankind’s effort to merge machine and homosapien, [...]
Disco Breakdown (right click and “save as” to download)
It seems we’re coming full circle with the history of hiphop and disco music. The inchoate beginnings of hiphop emerged from dance parties in Bronx projects where everything from James Brown to Kraftwerk and KC and the Sunshine Band could be heard. The first [...]
Don’t Sweat the Technique
The times are changing for hiphop. The raw, funk break and heavy lyricist sound of the late 80s and early 90s doesn’t carry the genre forward today. Just ask New Yorker columnist Sasha Frere-Jones (although if done right we could “Tream ‘Em Right” like Chubb Rock all over again).
Despite the [...]
The Elements
A few days ago, Mama FeelGood and I asked ourselves, “How would we represent the fundamental elements of nature through music?” The result is episode 34 of Sanguine Soul. With Shelmatic and Z-Note in LA, the Mic Mistress and I cobbled together a show dedicated to the four elements: Wind, Water, Earth, [...]
Give It Up, Turn It A Loose
James Brown In the Jungle Groove
Honey “The Carnal” Knuckles and Z “The Humble Magnaminous” Note go back to the roots of Sanguine Soul with this week’s episode, “Give It Up, Turn It A Loose.” We look towards the one and the only, the funkiest there is, the godfather [...]
Bounce
It’s been a while since the entire Sanguine Soul family rocked the airwaves together. With the return of Honey Knuckles, and a visit from Shelmatic up from LA, Sanguine Soul brings the party on this week’s episode, Bounce. Join us as our special guest, Kush Arora, injects bass into Pirate Cat’s [...]
Synesthesia
The fortuitous gift of sensation astounds me. Our eyes pierce the window of the world from close to far. Our ears capture the smallest vibrations in the air. With tongue and nose we indulge in the flavors of this earth. And our bodies lunge into textures fine and grainy, substances liquid and solid. But the [...]