November 2011
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October 2010
1 post
Chante Moore - I Want To Thank You →
The beautiful Alicia Myers gospel song that Chante covered and truly made her own! Singing the song completely from the heart. We had such a wonderful time making this record. Louis Silas, her record label boss gave us a 16 piece string section budget on many of the tunes!! …. you can really hear this to great effect here….check the end. Beautiful rhodes by Adrian Reid too, of Jazz...
September 2010
1 post
July 2010
3 posts
Memories of Sunday 18th July 2010
I want to recount my amazing day just this Sunday past…
In the morning my family and I went to St Pauls Cathedral. My nephew Theo is a chorister there ( he’s Joanna Laws boy!!) We heard the incredible cathedral choir perform Mozarts Coronation Mass with the London Sinfonia orchestra under the mighty dome in that glorious building. It was stunningly beautiful , quite overwhelming to me...
SIIS Fairplay at Somerset House...the whole show...
YouTube - 01 - Soul II Soul gig, Somerset House, London, 2010, Happenstance Radio.mp4
June 2010
2 posts
BP Gulf oil crisis
Hi Folks, I wanted to pass this on to you all,
Dr. Masaru Emoto, a scientist from Japan, has done acclaimed research and publications about the characteristics of water and how, among other things, water physically responds to emotions. He has proposed a prayer for the Gulf situation. He uses the Hawaiian healing prayer, Ho’oponopono, as part of it, at the end. Right now, most of us...
April 2010
1 post
Taizé - Brother Roger: “All of us are seekers” →
Brother Roger of Taize in 1990…speaking so beautifully about faith. Such a great man…whose wisdom and insight lives on in Taize and all over the world in the community’s work for peace and reconciliation amongst all people. RIP and God bless you Roger.
March 2010
5 posts
The Heart of Everyday Life →
This is a great site for some daily wisdom and enlightenment if you so wish!! Not faith specific…or particularly theistic…but words of understanding gathered from many varied sources. All to help us live kinder more loving and peaceful lives….Here here to that!!
Joanna Law "Skin on Skin" →
Incredible song by my talented and soulful sister Joanna. Incredible too that it never got a release?!…Love the whole sweeping vibe of the song. Jo’s voice all over the airwaves again with Way Out West remix of their hit The Gift…which samples her singing ‘The First Time Ever’….cant keep a great voice down!! Watch out for new songs from Jo later this...
Chante Moore 'Free/Sail On' →
This is the cover of Deniece William’s glorious tune that we did with Chante….originally produced for DW by one of my all time heroes and inspiration: Maurice White.
You can imagine the thrill it was to do this wonderful song with Chante….who does the original total justice in the way a good version should…with respect and honour but also a real...
Living Beyond Appearances: Tao Te Ching Verse 41 →
Good stuff for this day xxx
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Heres ‘Feel The Need’… the JT...
February 2010
6 posts
I WILL FOLLOW - UNA MAS →
This is the original version of the song I Will...
Kenny Thomas - "Him" →
A stunning, beautiful song by Kenny Thomas that never had a proper release back in the 90s…of which I am extremely proud. I produced it with my then production partner Ross Anderson. Danny D gave us a good budget at Chrysalis to make a great modern soul record…with great live musicians,inc. Darren Abrahams on drums, Randy Hope-Taylor on bass, Full string section ( Gavin Wrights London...
January 2010
16 posts
Here is the one and only Chante Moore , the...
jamaicanlabelart.com →
V cool website shown to me by a good friend and total vinyl junkie!! loads stuff here…all Jamaican labels….amazing art.
FG
xx
Placido Domingo
Which means Peaceful Sunday….my wish for all-a-youze out there in FB land…and frankly throughout the whole land!!
Persistence quotes....
This is from my kids school, by
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
African-American Abolitionist, Social Reformer
And……
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bear with me folks too....
just gettin to grips with this…a beautiful blog site though, hatsoff to tumblr for providing.
The biggest tune I have had anything to do...
Hello and welcome to The Funky Ginger's 1/2 FULL...
I would like to start by saying my tumblr is always half full ….never half empty( ok I fibbeth, there were one or two times)….BUT, I have found thru my 48 years of time on this small rock adrift in space…that its much the best way to approach life, the universe and everything.
If your tumblr is half empty then it makes you a grumpalump most of the time and therefore those around...