Mrowster#NowPlaying #FalsettoFriday #AfroBeats #NigerianMusic #AfricanMusic
#BNXN & #Sarz - "Emotional High" (2026)
Ṣa ma jo, a ma yo [let's dance, let's dance]
#FalsettoFriday #Falsetto #NowPlaying #TundeAdebimpe
#TVOnTheRadio - "I Was a Lover" (2006)
I was a lover before the war
I Was a Lover, by TV on the Radio
from the album Return To Cookie Mountain
#JeanGrae - "Intro" (2008)
For a brief moment there, Jean seemed poised to be crowned queen of the world - or, at least queen of NY's underground #hiphop community. It never really happened, though not for lack of quality: I reckon her Jeanius album recorded w/ producer #9thWonder to be one of best #rap albums of the noughties. The #falsetto disco coo in that magical #Syreeta sample is dreamy, but it's Jean herself who lights this one ON FIRE
"Roll your windows down / And turn the woofers up / New giddy city get that liquor in your tinted cups / Picture me kicking this pretty then remember the words"
#NowPlaying #FalsettoFriday #Funk
#ChildishGambino doing his best #BootsyCollins impression
#NowPlaying #FalsettoFriday #Soul #Gospel
#Syreeta feat. #GCCameron - "I Wanna Be By Your Side" (1974)
This song has an ecstatic, pearly-gates quality to it, like Syreeta and G.C. are indeed right there by your side, clad in white, ushering you across a warmfuzzy threshold into heaven. But what to make of producer #StevieWonder's totally wild - some might say ecstatic - drumming during the crescendo? Or for that matter, the way the song doesn't end, but just cuts off cold . . .
#NowPlaying #FalsettoFriday #Rap #EmoRap
You might not, but me I still mourn the loss of #JuiceWRLD - in all his drug addicted, anxiety ridden, auto-tuned glory. He had lots to say! Sometimes, even in #falsetto. No doubt he would've said a lot more had he lived. RIP.
Juice WRLD - Black & White
Is it odd that when someone mentions New York rock 'n' roll, I don't first think #VelvetUnderground, or #Ramones, or even #SonicYouth - I think New Jersey's #TheRascals? Led by #falsetto-king #FelixCavaliere, their street corner #BlueEyedSoul is so evocative, I'm immediately transported down some hot, crowded avenue in the NYC-of-my-imagination.
I'd Like to Take You Home
The Beautiful South - "From Under The Covers" (1989, Go! Discs)
#TheBeautifulSouth were one of the odder success stories in the history of #Britishpop. Literate, heavy-drinking northerners with roots in Hull's #TheHousemartins, they paired lightly soulful, near-MOR pop with some of the most bitterly vicious lyrics ever to burn up the charts. And burn 'em up they did: their best-of collection, Carry On Up The Charts, went #1 in 1994 and eventually 6x platinum. Sing along everyone:
"It's 7am, and we're coughing up the phlegm / Spitting out the taste of night before / And we'll vomit and we'll choke just to climb their tatty rope / Well, this city has its charm and its claw"
From Under The Covers
#FalsettoFriday #NowPlaying #soul
#Prince and the Revolution - “Sometimes It Snows in April” (1986)
And here in Orkney, sometimes it hails
Sometimes It Snows in April
#NowPlaying #Congo #Uganda #AfricanMusic #FalsettoFriday
#KingdomMolongi - "Emanuel" (#NyegeNyegeTapes, 2025)
"singing together in an imagined language concocted from elements of Lingala, Swahili, Kikongo and French . . . Considering pre-linguistic communication, liturgical music and glossolalia (better known as speaking in tongues), their improvisations evolved into trances"
Emanuel, by KINGDOM MOLONGI
from the album Kembo