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Warm My Soul by<br />
Blundetto<br />
by Erik Magni<br />
Blundetto is French radio DJ Max Guiget’s<br />
musical alias. He has worked at<br />
Radio Nova in Paris since 1998 and has<br />
now put out his second album titled<br />
‘Warm My Soul’, a set where he has<br />
invited several guest artists, among<br />
them reggae singers Courtney John<br />
and Jahdan Blakkamoore. “I only invite<br />
people I admire, and so my policy is a<br />
bit wait-and-see with some people to<br />
see where they go with my track, like<br />
<strong>Reggae</strong> Music Lives<br />
by Gramps Morgan<br />
by Erik Magni<br />
Gramps Morgan – a regal member of<br />
the internationally renowned reggae<br />
band Morgan Heritage – is back with a<br />
the rasta man Courtney John, for example.<br />
We met out in Jamaica and later I<br />
sent him some demos without giving<br />
him any particular instructions. He<br />
didn’t let me down,” explains Blundetto<br />
in a press release. ‘Warm My Soul’<br />
was recorded together with several experienced<br />
musicians and is a melting<br />
pot of latin-soul, reggae-dancehall and<br />
jazz-funk with an additional, cinematic<br />
feel to it. And everything was recorded<br />
in Blundetto’s home studio, something<br />
that has affected his sound. “I always<br />
listen to and record music at a sensible<br />
volume, and I like sounds that caress<br />
the front of the brain bulb gently. I try<br />
new solo album. ‘<strong>Reggae</strong> Music Lives’<br />
follows-up on his debut studio set ‘2<br />
Sides of My Heart’ released in 2009,<br />
and hit the streets on April 24. The<br />
release his debut album led to performances<br />
on a string of high profile<br />
tours with soul singers John Legend<br />
and India Arie as well as the impris-<br />
to produce an emotional response because<br />
that’s what I appreciate in other<br />
people’s music. I prefer my instrumentals<br />
to conjure up passion, melancholia<br />
or love rather than get everyone on<br />
the dance floor,” he says. ‘Warm My<br />
Soul’ collects eleven jazzy tunes and is<br />
available now as digital download.<br />
oned Jamaican deejay Buju Banton.<br />
“I’ve grown so much as a producer,<br />
song writer and vocalist. Overall, my<br />
experience from touring and working<br />
with India Arie, watching John Legend<br />
perform every night, touring with different<br />
artists, working with the different<br />
producers on this album and getting<br />
a chance to work with my brother<br />
Peetah one-on-one writing songs, has<br />
brought me to a whole other level,”<br />
says Gramps Morgan in a press release.<br />
The majority of the tunes on<br />
‘<strong>Reggae</strong> Music Lives’ are produced by<br />
Gramps Morgan himself, but producers<br />
such as Clive Hunt and Kemar “Flava”<br />
McGregor have also been involved.<br />
“My experience really came into play in<br />
making this. I think this album is really<br />
the best of the brand called Gramps<br />
Morgan, as a product, you finally get<br />
the sound of Gramps Morgan. The first<br />
album was just discovering, getting it<br />
and learning myself. Gramps Morgan<br />
has been born on this album,” explains<br />
Gramps Morgan. The album’s first single<br />
The Almighty topped the charts in<br />
South Florida and New York while Life<br />
Too Short, released on March 28th,<br />
advanced in the fight for justice in the<br />
case of the fatal shooting of the unarmed<br />
17-year old Trayvon Martin in<br />
Florida earlier this year.
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