| Genre | Unknown |
|---|---|
| Date (CEST) | 2013-10-27 10:23:19 |
| Group | OMA |
| Size | 141 MB |
| Files | 14 |
| M3U / SFV / NFO | |
Gregory_Porter--Liquid_Spirit-WEB-2013-OMA
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Tracklist (M3U)
| # | Filename | Artist | Songname | Bitrate | BPM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 01-gregory_porter--no_love_dying-oma.mp3 | Gregory Porter | No Love Dying | Unknown | Unknown |
| 2 | 02-gregory_porter--liquid_spirit-oma.mp3 | Gregory Porter | Liquid Spirit | Unknown | Unknown |
| 3 | 03-gregory_porter--lonesome_lover-oma.mp3 | Gregory Porter | Lonesome Lover | Unknown | Unknown |
| 4 | 04-gregory_porter--water_under_bridges-oma.mp3 | Gregory Porter | Water Under Bridges | Unknown | Unknown |
| 5 | 05-gregory_porter--hey_laura-oma.mp3 | Gregory Porter | Hey Laura | Unknown | Unknown |
| 6 | 06-gregory_porter--musical_genocide-oma.mp3 | Gregory Porter | Musical Genocide | Unknown | Unknown |
| 7 | 07-gregory_porter--wolfcry-oma.mp3 | Gregory Porter | Wolfcry | Unknown | Unknown |
| 8 | 08-gregory_porter--free-oma.mp3 | Gregory Porter | Free | Unknown | Unknown |
| 9 | 09-gregory_porter--brown_grass-oma.mp3 | Gregory Porter | Brown Grass | Unknown | Unknown |
| 10 | 10-gregory_porter--wind_song-oma.mp3 | Gregory Porter | Wind Song | Unknown | Unknown |
| 11 | 11-gregory_porter--the_in_crowd-oma.mp3 | Gregory Porter | The "In" Crowd | Unknown | Unknown |
| 12 | 12-gregory_porter--movin-oma.mp3 | Gregory Porter | Movin' | Unknown | Unknown |
| 13 | 13-gregory_porter--when_love_was_king-oma.mp3 | Gregory Porter | When Love Was King | Unknown | Unknown |
| 14 | 14-gregory_porter--i_fall_in_love_too_easily-oma.mp3 | Gregory Porter | I Fall In Love Too Easily | Unknown | Unknown |
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████ GENRE...[ Jazz GRABBER.[ --- ████
████ LABEL...[ Blue Note ENCODER.[ Lame 3.98.4 ████
████ YEAR....[ 2013 QUALiTY.[ 320kbps ████
████ SOURCE..[ WEB MODE....[ Joint-Stereo ████
████ PLAYTIME[ 63:41 min REL.DATE[ 10.26.2013 ████
████ TRACKS..[ 14 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA ████
████ SiZE....[ 146,0 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA ████
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████ 02 Liquid Spirit 03:46 ████
████ 03 Lonesome Lover 03:21 ████
████ 04 Water Under Bridges 03:42 ████
████ 05 Hey Laura 03:29 ████
████ 06 Musical Genocide 03:56 ████
████ 07 Wolfcry 04:20 ████
████ 08 Free 05:11 ████
████ 09 Brown Grass 04:27 ████
████ 10 Wind Song 03:34 ████
████ 11 The "In" Crowd 03:47 ████
████ 12 Movin' 05:00 ████
████ 13 When Love Was King 07:03 ████
████ 14 I Fall In Love Too Easily 07:58 ████
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████ TOTAL: 63:41 ████
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████ Liquid Spirit marks Gregory PorterÆs Blue Note ████
████ Records debut, which arrives on the heels of ████
████ two critically acclaimed indie label albums ████
████ that quickly propelled Porter to the upper ████
████ echelon of contemporary male jazz singers and ████
████ earned him two GRAMMY nominations. Don Was, ████
████ President of Blue Note, encouraged Porter to ████
████ stay true to his artistic vision. ôI firmly ████
████ consider myself a jazz singer but I enjoy ████
████ blues, southern soul, and gospel,ö Porter ████
████ says, ôThose elements make their way inside my ████
████ music. And IÆve always heard them in jazz.ö ████
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████ The singer retains the same core musicians ████
████ that accompanied him on his previous two discs ████
████ û pianist and music director, Chip Crawford, ████
████ drummer Emanuel Harrold, bassist Aaron James, ████
████ alto saxophonist Yosuke Sato, and tenor ████
████ saxophonist Tivon Pennicott. On a few ████
████ selections, Porter complements that ensemble ████
████ with trumpeter Curtis Taylor, and organist ████
████ Glenn Patscha. Producer Brian Bacchus also ████
████ returns, as well as arranger and associate ████
████ producer Kamau Kenyatta. Porter describes the ████
████ making of Liquid Spirit as very organic. ôI ████
████ didnÆt say, æOK, this is a Blue Note record, ████
████ let me get a Freddie Hubbard sound,Æö Porter ████
████ explains, ôI didnÆt have any agenda with this ████
████ record.ö ████
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████ Porter wields one of the most captivating ████
████ baritone voices in music today. It emits ████
████ enormous soul that conveys both the emotions ████
████ and intellect of any given song without ████
████ relying on vocal histrionics. In The New York ████
████ Times, Nate Chinen wrote: ôGregory Porter has ████
████ most of what you want in a male jazz singer, ████
████ and maybe a thing or two you didnÆt know you ████
████ wanted.ö Jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater ████
████ praised Porter in the pages of JazzTimes by ████
████ saying, ôWe havenÆt had a male singer like him ████
████ in a long time. HeÆs such a wonderful writer. ████
████ HeÆs a story teller.ö ████
████ ████
████ Indeed Porter has an amazing gift for writing ████
████ poignant songs based upon personal experiences ████
████ with a relatable and emotional immediacy. Even ████
████ more, his hooky melodies penetrate instantly. ████
████ Recommencing with the water analogy that ████
████ characterized his debut disc, Porter sees ████
████ Liquid Spirit as a logical progression in his ████
████ burgeoning discography as it touches on some ████
████ of the same themes, particularly the highs and ████
████ lows of romance, his childhood, and ████
████ socio-political observations. More pointedly, ████
████ he views the title-track, a rousing, ████
████ hand-clapping gospel-jazz romp, dealing with ████
████ replenishing ôthirstyö listeners with more ████
████ substantial music, as the flipside to last ████
████ yearÆs ôBling Bling,ö a blistering song on his ████
████ previous album Be Good on which the ████
████ protagonist had so many artistic gifts to give ████
████ but no one to give them to. ████
████ ████
████ In part, ôLiquid Spiritö is based upon ████
████ PorterÆs reflections on new fans, worldwide, ████
████ who come to him saying, ôWhere have you been?ö ████
████ or ôHow come IÆve never heard you before.ö ████
████ ôNot saying that I am æwhat is,Æ Porter says, ████
████ ôBut I think maybe what IÆm doing is what ████
████ people actually want to hear. There are some ████
████ people who want that liquid spirit û a ████
████ soulful, thoughtful sound û and they havenÆt ████
████ been getting it.ö ████
████ ████
████ Similar sentiments occur on ôMusical Genocideö ████
████ and his riveting take on the Ramsey ████
████ Lewis-Dobie Gray classic, ôThe æInÆ Crowd.ö On ████
████ the former, Crawford hammers a dark rhythmic ████
████ figure against JamesÆ bluesy bass ████
████ accompaniment as Porter declares his refusal ████
████ of accepting the insistent squashing of ████
████ quality, diverse music and culture by a ████
████ mainstream in favor of disposable, homogenized ████
████ pap. The latter showcases Porter sauntering ████
████ through a finger-popping groove as he croons ████
████ Billy PageÆs lyrics about finally breaking ████
████ into the big leagues of so-called A-listers. ████
████ ôI did this song in a way of being ironic. IÆm ████
████ so inclusive; IÆm so against exclusive ████
████ groups,ö Porter says, again reflecting on his ████
████ ascending cosmopolitan fame. ôSomeone asked me ████
████ recently if I felt like I was in the æin ████
████ crowdÆ of jazz. I answered, æyes and no.Æö ████
████ ████
████ Liquid Spirit contains two other standards û a ████
████ testifying reading of Abbey Lincoln and Max ████
████ RoachÆs ôLonesome Loverö and a pithy treatment ████
████ of Sammy Cahn and Julie StyneÆs ôI Fall In ████
████ Love Too Easily,ö which features Porter ████
████ alongside CrawfordÆs gorgeous piano ████
████ accompaniment and JamesÆ emphatic bass ████
████ counterpart. ôOn each record, I try to pull ████
████ something from the people, who deeply ████
████ influenced me. [ôLonesome LoverÆ] is me giving ████
████ some love to Abbey Lincoln,ö Porter explains. ████
████ Regarding ôI Fall in Love Too Easily,ö he ████
████ reveals that itÆs just one of those standards ████
████ that speaks to him on a deeply personal level. ████
████ ôI can live in that song. ItÆs a hard song to ████
████ sing but given my personality, IÆm cool being ████
████ vulnerable.ö ████
████ ████
████ PorterÆs ôheart-on-the-sleevesö lyrics play an ████
████ integral role in his appeal. Somehow heartache ████
████ fuels some of his most winning compositions. ████
████ Such instances happen on the misty-eyed ████
████ piano-duo ôWater Under Bridges,ö a lament ████
████ dealing with challenges of shifting past a ████
████ broken relationship. While ôMovinÆö boasts a ████
████ peppy exterior thanks to its funky groove, the ████
████ lyrics tells a different story as the ████
████ protagonist tries to win back a fleeing lover. ████
████ ████
████ ████
████ Three of Liquid SpiritÆs best yet bruised ████
████ moments are ôWolf Cry,ö ôBrown Grass,ö and ████
████ ôHey Laura.ö ôWolf Cryö is another piano-voice ████
████ duo as Porter croons from the perspective of ████
████ romantic martyr, who constantly comforts a ████
████ friend, who never reciprocates the amorous ████
████ affections but instead routinely returns to a ████
████ bad relationship. On the somber ballad, ôHey ████
████ Laura,ö Porter, on the brink of breakup, pleas ████
████ for tenderness from a nonresponsive lover, ████
████ while on the melancholy ôBrown Grass,ö Porter ████
████ admits to leaving a solid relationship for ████
████ something that initially seemed more ████
████ fulfilling but quickly revealed to be the very ████
████ opposite. ████
████ ████
████ RomanceÆs sunnier side radiates on PorterÆs ████
████ carefree ôWind Song,ö a subtly whimsical gem ████
████ in which he sings of everlasting love and on ████
████ ôNo Love Dying,ö which deals with the same ████
████ conceit as Porter declares gently about his ████
████ longstanding love regardless of unforeseeable ████
████ bumps in the road. Porter also shares his ████
████ socio-political insight on the startling ████
████ ballad ôWhen Love Was King,ö and on the gritty ████
████ jazz-funk workout, ôFree,ö on which Porter ████
████ reflects on the struggles of a working-class ████
████ family that strives to make things better for ████
████ their children. ████
████ ████
████ Raised in California, PorterÆs mother was a ████
████ minister, and he cites the Bakersfield ████
████ Southern Gospel sound, as well as his motherÆs ████
████ Nat King Cole record collection, as ████
████ fundamental influences on his own sound. ████
████ Porter began singing in small jazz clubs in ████
████ San Diego while attending San Diego State ████
████ University on a football scholarship, where he ████
████ played outside linebacker. Eventually it was ████
████ music that Porter chose to pursue full-time at ████
████ the encouragement of local musicians including ████
████ his mentor Kamau Kenyatta. ████
████ ████
████ Kenyatta invited Porter to visit him in the ████
████ studio in Los Angeles, where he was producing ████
████ flutist Hubert Laws' album Remembers the ████
████ Unforgettable Nat King Cole. When Laws ████
████ overheard Porter singing along while he was ████
████ tracking the Charlie Chaplin song "Smile," he ████
████ was so impressed with the young singer that he ████
████ decided to include Porter on the album. ████
████ ████
████ Another fortunate twist of fate was the ████
████ presence that day of Laws' sister, Eloise, a ████
████ singer who was soon to join the cast of a new ████
████ musical theater production It Ain't Nothin' ████
████ But the Blues. Porter had minimal theatrical ████
████ experience but was cast in one of the showÆs ████
████ lead roles when the play opened in Denver, and ████
████ he eventually followed it to Off-Broadway and ████
████ then Broadway, where The New York Times, in ████
████ its 1999 rave review, mentioned Porter among ████
████ the show's "powerhouse line up of singers.ö It ████
████ Ain't Nothin' But the Blues went on to earn ████
████ both Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations ████
████ that year. ████
████ ████
████ Porter eventually put down roots in Brooklyn, ████
████ and in 2010 released his debut album Water ████
████ (MotΘma Music), which earned a GRAMMY ████
████ nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album. His ████
████ sophomore album Be Good (MotΘma Music) ████
████ followed in 2012 and earned him his second ████
████ GRAMMY nomination for Best Traditional R&B ████
████ Performance. ████
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████ Despite having now recorded or shared the ████
████ stage with the likes of Van Morrison, Wynton ████
████ Marsalis, Dianne Reeves, Nicola Conte, ████
████ Christian McBride, Kenny Barron, Buster ████
████ Williams and David Murray, Porter remains ████
████ grounded and humbled by all the new accolades. ████
████ ôSometimes I havenÆt had a chance to absorb ████
████ and enjoy some of the audiences that IÆve been ████
████ in front of, especially some of the icons of ████
████ the music like Wynton and Herbie,ö Porter ████
████ says, ôAnd they give me so much open-arm love; ████
████ I couldnÆt fathom that two years ago.ö With ████
████ the release of Liquid Spirit, PorterÆs soaring ████
████ career will surely ascend even higher. ████
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