Malia - Black Orchid

 

˙Title: Black Orchid
˙Artist: Malia

˙Style: Jazz, Soul, Vocal Jazz
˙Released Date: 2012.01.12
˙Format: CD
˙Producer: Emarcy

01. My Baby Just Cares For You
02. Don't Explain
03. Baltimore
04. Feeling Good
05. Four Woman
06. I Love You Porgy
07. If You Go Away
08. I Put A Spell On You
09. Keeper Of The Flame
10. He Ain't Comin' Home No More
11. Marriage Is For Old Folks
12. Wild In The Wind
13. That's All I Want From You
14. I'm Going Back Home

Malia is a singer who from Malawi which is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. Her mother is from Malawi and her father is from the United Kingdom. She moved to London when she was a teenager. A budding singer, she heard a French song by Liane Foly while in New York and made contact with the French producer of the song, André Manoukian. She is up to now working with him.

British jazz vocalist Malia was born into a family of mixed African and English heritage in the small East African country of Malawi, which borders Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia. Growing up with only the two local radio stations (one in the native tongue, the other in English) and her father's Beatles-heavy record collection, Malia was not exposed to a large variety of music. I believe you can feel the huge emotions through her soulful vocal, and enjoy this precious Black Orchid.

DJ Cam Quartet - Diggin'

˙Title: Diggin'
˙Artist: DJ Cam Quartet
˙Style: Jazz Hip Hop, Acid-Jazz, Jazzy-Beat ,Lo-Fi, Downtempo
˙Released Date: 2009.09.10
˙Format: CD
˙Producer: Inflamable Records

01. Nebulosa
02. Montara
03. Everybody Loves The Sunshine (feat. Inlove)
04. Boss Guitar
05. Think Twice
06. Little Sunflower (A Tribute To Freddie)(feat. Inlove)
07. Quincy
08. Mystic View
09. Climax (feat. Fillet of Soul)
10. You've Got To Have Freedom (feat. Inlove)
11. Inside My Love (For Minnie)

Don't know what to do in the cold raining day? Maybe you can watch TV, play games or even sleep all day long. But I have a better idea, how about having a cup of coffee with some relax jazz music? Just click the play button and enjoy the incredible world  which DJ Cam creates !!

Look at this album cover, a golden sky with shadow of the hill. This could symbolize the style of DJ Cam's works. DJ Cam (born Laurent Daumail in 1973) is a French DJ. His tunes are almost entirely a hybrid of both hip-hop and jazz music, and is presented in an abstract manner.
I believe you can heard these two kinds of music combine together in harmony way.

 His first LP was Underground Vibes in 1994, and was revolutionary for its time, featuring familiar jazz samples and  heavy hip-hop influences. His second studio album was Substances, which carried on with the tradition of its predecessor. He released The Beat Assassinated in 1998, which contained cameos from underground rappers, and also released The Loa Project vol.2

In 2003, he departed his regular sound for the Soulshine LP, which featured an appearance by Gang Starr's Guru (Credited as Baldhead Slick). He went back to his hip-hop roots in 2004 with Liquid Hip-Hop, in 2006, he released an iTunes exclusive Best Of compilation, featuring a new song at the end.

DJ Cam has recreated many classic masterpieces, such as Bobby Hutcherson's "Montara", Roy Ayers's "Everybody Loves The Sunshine", andDonald Bird's "Think Twice" ans so on. I really recommend this album to those who wants to have a beautiful time.

Kenichiro Nishihara - Sweet Swing For Hershey's

˙Title: Sweet Swing For Hershey's
˙Artist: Kenichiro Nishihara
˙Style: Jazz Hip-Hop, Piano
˙Released Date: 2011.10.19
˙Format: CD
˙Producer: FIL

01.Waltz For Debby(intro)
02.Waltz For Debby feat. Maia Hirasawa
03.LOVE feat. SHANTI
04.Hershey Bar feat. Sari Nakamura
05.It's Only A Paper Moon feat. Yuka Deguchi
06.Mister Sandman feat.日之内エミ
07.Cheek to Cheek feat. HanaH
08.Sweet Swing Interlude
09.Baby Baby feat. Tamala
10.Kitty(Baby Baby Interlude)feat. Tamala
11.Down With Love feat. Sari Nakamura
12.Why Don't You Do Right feat. Yuka Deguchi
13.Sweet Swing(Outro)
14.Anthropology[Bonus Track]


Let me give you little sunshine in the cold winter day.
Look at this lovely girl in the cover.I would say  this is also totally a lovely jazzy album!!
I wanna I talk about the background of the album and some brief info about the artist - Kenichiro Nishihara

Kenichiro Nishihara (西原健一郎) is a Japanese manufacturer of jazz and hip-hop music.
In this time, he made a concept album(concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being improvised or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing to a single overall theme or unified story.) for a worldwide known chocolate brand. This is a program which named"Sweet Swing for HERSHEY’S". As same as the name, we could feel the warm and sweet feeling which the whole songs gave us.

This album contains many soulful vocals, some of female vocals even came from Sweden and Spain, such as SHANTI, Maia Hirasawa, HanaH, day エ ミ, and Tamala. The songs are featuring some famous songs, like Bill Evans ''Waltz For Debby'', and Nat King Cole "LOVE" which are remix again and turn these into more soulful and jazzy style. 
The 7th song, "Cheek to Cheek" is very familiar to me. I always could sing the lyric "Heaven, I'm in heaven, and my heart beats so that I can hardly speak..." even I was a little girl.

After the Outro song "Sweet Swing", we still have final bonus track which in order to memorize the legend person in Jazz field, Charlie Parker. I believe if you listened this album, you would have happy mood in every time.