Chris Dave gave an amazing show yesterday in Paris at the club New Morning with Pino Palladino, Kebbi Williams and Tim Stewart. All amazing musicians. The show was so great with a bunch of covers between hip hop jazz and free jazz. Here for you two songs I recorded (with the iphone so don’t expect too great) : Fall in Love (Jay dee) and The Root (d’angelo).

Enjoy.

Chris Dave & Friends – The Root (click right to download)
Download audio file (Chris%20Dave%20-%20The%20Roots%20-%20Paris.mp3)

Chris Dave & Friends – Fall In Love (click right to download)
Download audio file (CHRIS%20DAVE%20-%20FALL%20IN%20LOVE%20-%20PARIS.mp3)

I just found this on yesyesyall.org (Man, I love this blog!), I loved the cover they posted (I think they made it, beautiful) with this quote of D’angelo “Smack your ass, pull your hair“. As a big fan of D’angelo I was curious to see what was that. It’s a beattape by Chris P (I didn’t find anything about him on google unfortunately) made of D’angelo’s music only and as Chris P said “One Prince sample and one Digital Underground sample (both to enhance the particular beat), and ?uest’s drums from erykah’s “booty” on two beats. Other than that, it’s ALL D’angelo samples.“. This is dope I like it a lot, it’s not new but I never heard it before. I hope you enjoy it!

>>> Sulaiman, a emcee just took some of the beats fby Chris P to rap over, download it here.

Je viens juste de trouver ça sur yesyesyall.org (Ce blog est excellent!) avec une citation de D’angelo, Smack your ass, pull your hair“. En tant que fan de D’angelo ça m’a interpellé, j’ai donc écouté. C’est en fait une beattape de Chris P (inconnu jusque là et je n’ai malheureusement rien trouvé sur internet) composé de sample de D’angelo comme Chris P le dit lui même, “Un sample de Prince et un de Digital Underground et les drums de Questlove prient sur le morceau “Booty” d”Erykah badu. A part ça, ce ne sont que des samples de D’angelo“. Perso j’ai beaucoup aimé le projet, j’espère que vous apprécierez autant que moi.

DOWNLOAD the beat tape.

Chris P – Blood of Gawd
Download audio file (25%20BLOOD%20OF%20GAWD.mp3)

Chris P – Horny
Download audio file (29%20HORNY!.mp3)

Chris P – D’Rums
Download audio file (31%20D’RUMS.mp3)

Chris P – Still Horny
Download audio file (32%20STILL%20HORNY!!.mp3)

Chris P – Smack your ass pull your hair
Download audio file (35%20SMACK%20YOUR%20ASS%20PULL%20YOUR%20HAIR.mp3)

What Sulaiman did with those beats :

Not new but pretty rare until now, “1000 Deaths” is a song from a James river’s session around 2007. At this time, D’angelo was working on an album called “James River”, Questlove was saying they recorded about 11 songs and it was more rock & psychedelic than the funky Voodoo or the smooth Brown Sugar. But apparently this version of “1000 Deaths” is different from the one some people heard in 2007, did he work on it since? Let’s hope. As the song “Really Love”, “1000 Deaths” is not a finish song so don’t go to hard on him.

Pas nouveau mais jusque là très rare, “1000 Deaths” est apparement un morceau issu d’une session de James River, l’album sur lequel il travaillait en 2007, Questlove avait même dit qu’ils avaient enregistré 11 morceaux. Cet album était annoncé comme quelque chose de beaucoup plus rock et psychédélique que le funky Voodoo ou le très doux Brown Sugar. Cependant cette version de “1000 Deaths” est apparement differente de celle que certain chanceux ont pu écouter en 2007. A-t-il travailler ce morceau depuis? On l’espère.
Comme le morceau “Really Love” (sur lequel D’angelo ne chantait aucune parole), “1000 Deaths” est un son non fini donc restez transigeant.

D’angelo – 1000 Deaths
Download audio file (1000%20Deaths.mp3)

“Wow. finally a d’angleo link leak i had 0 to do with” – Questlove

Thx to rappersiknow.com where I first heard this song.

All the people that know me, at least a bit, know that I AM A BIG FAN of D’ANGELO. I used to have a big lists of songs and rare live, that i’ve lost because I did not back up… But well, I still live without it and get used to it (ah…). Today Voodoo is 10… Yes. A masterpiece, a classic. I wish I still had all those mp3 to share it with you for the occasion but ?uestlove did (well it’s audio that we – I think – all know), I invite you to go on twitter and listen to it.
10 years what a long time… Can we still wish for D’ to come back ? Watching all those live and listening to this album + Brown Sugar, I truly hope D’ is at least making some great music in the lab, even if it’s just for him. This man has such a great talent.