With Africa on My Sleeve
I never got to wish you all a great new year, so allow me to do it with this fourth edition of the “Chill Fi Life” series. I hope that, like me, you’ve started 2022 at a blazing pace, and by now you are finding it hard to keep up with the momentum. This is...Continue reading
To celebrate another year passing by and letting go (if only for a few hours) of the difficulties that have characterized 2021, I wanted to push this new edition of Pure Lounge to near overload. That’s why I’m releasing three in quick succession. Just as the last two drops (PL13 and PL14), “Pure Lounge 15”...Continue reading
I’ve been told countless times that when you get stuck, it doesn’t hurt to take a step or look back in order to move forward. I fell back on that, looked back at my time in Rome, and even spun a few songs I used to play heavy back then. And just like that, the...Continue reading
To celebrate another year passing by and letting go (if only for a few hours) of the difficulties that have characterized 2021, I wanted to push this new edition of Pure Lounge to near overload. That’s why I’m releasing three in quick succession. Just as its predecessor (and the next drop in the series), “Pure...Continue reading
To celebrate another year passing by and letting go (if only for a few hours) of the difficulties that have characterized 2021, I wanted to push this new edition of Pure Lounge to near overload. That’s why I’m releasing three in quick succession. “Pure Lounge 13” and its two successors were inspired by the serenity...Continue reading
I thought the title of the playlist and — just for good measure — its first track would explain everything I wanted to convey with it. But I was “persuaded” to provide a descriptive intro to “Summer vibe 1”. So, this one is for the chill days in the summer, when you are not doing...
If, like me, you’ve been enduring dreary weather in the western hemisphere, the abundance of sunshine we now get has been a relief and a delight. And the music to pair with that general feeling should be as spirited in mood. That’s what you get with ‘Pure Lounge 12‘. I felt the spirit and even...Continue reading
Steady minds easily get through the daily grind, don’t they? Well, this playlist should help you maintain the proper disposition for the laborous weekdays. Whether you need to drown out the humdrum noise, to decompress, or to boost those neurons during an intense work session, “Chill Fi Life” — the third edition — will meet...Continue reading
You best believe I wasn’t going to wait a whole ‘nother year before revisiting this concept. As usual, I am pretty confident this selection will lift you up and fill you with positive and festive energies. Most of the songs on this playlist are from my stash of favorites; frankly I haven’t stopped listening to...Continue reading
It’s throwback Thursday and I felt we all needed special flight back to the Jamaican reggae golden eras — with a little nod to home. So here are classics after classics! As you navigate through this playlist, let yourself be floaded with these reggae riddims, and bop along to the toasters that are still mainstays...Continue reading
