brotherbeat's Soul Confusion was a monthly night I had in the East Village of NYC in the early 2000s in a living room sized bar that no longer exists. My sets were eclectic both in terms of genre and tempo; they created an aural stage for easy conversation, warm, each song distinctive without being intrusive, until you actually listened. The ebb and flow of the tempo mimicked that of conversation. It was mostly unplanned except for a core mix it mostly depended on what felt good

Soul Confusion is as close to an obvious brand as I can get. The genre thing bores me and it's easier to think of all music as soul music because that's where I feel it. brotherbeat's Soul Confusion became my long mix repository while I was in Barcelona and it will become the new home for my podcast.

brotherbeat's Soul Confusion isn't intended to be an active listening experience, it's a soundtrack for a life well lived.

To access the mix for each entry click "Episode XX" for the link.

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

brotherbeat's Soul Confusion episode 6: Ricki's in Love



At the end of the last episode I impulsively said that I'd focus on the music of Ricki Lee Jones, probably because of the sample of her voice in Little Fluffy Clouds. Focusing on an artist like this gives me the opportunity to explore there music song by song. It's about the song and placing it where it belongs. The first thing that I realized was that I had more of her albums than I thought, the second was how familiar all of her songs felt, like stepping back into a conversation from 20 years ago without missing a beat.

brotherbeat's Soul Confusion episode 6 ⇦ Link


Gil Scott Heron  The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Ricki Lee Jones  Woody and Dutch on the Slow Train to Peking
Earth Wind and Fire  I Think About Lovin' You
The Breeders  When I Was a Painter
Love  Dream
Nazare Pereira  Caixa de Sol
J Rawls  Remember When
Ricki Lee Jones  Flying Cowboys
Bill Withers  The Best You Can
Torres  Cowboy Quilt
Osibisa  Ojah Awake
Ricki Lee jones  On Saturday Afternoons in 1963

What's Left commercial

Donald Fagen  New Frontier
Ricki Lee Jones  Deep Space
Betty Carter  The Good Life
Slum Village  Bonafide
Liz Phair  Flower
Prefuse 73 ft Claudia &Alejandra Deheza  Pastel Assassins
Dan the Automater  Punjabis, Pimps, & Players
Serge Gainsboug  Requiem Pour Un Con (Bouf Le Panche)
Fela Kuti  Fe Fe Ne Eye Fe
Ida  Gravity

Gil Scott Heron  Evolution (and Flashback)

Ricki Lee Jones  Walk Away Renee
Frank Ocean  Godspeed
Donald Byrd  Flight Time
Funkadelic  Hit It and Quit It
PJ Harvey  Down By the River
King Britt  Gettin' Into It
Ricki Lee Jones  Dat Dere
Fairground Attraction  Allelujah
Cymande  For Baby Ooh
Ricki Lee Jones  Ghetto of My Mind
Nina Simone  Day and Night
Ricki Lee Jones  Comin' Back To Me
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