jmsn | jmsn | the blue album

 
Detroit-birthed, LA-based producer and singer-songwriter JMSN hangs his proverbial hat astutely on gravitas: Mr. Berishaj respects the legacy of what Soul music is and ought to be. What else can one say? And with his debut tour de force The Blue Album, well, it awaits in the green room for an introduction. And yes, you’ll become very well acquainted.

This one has a mind of it’s own. It will push up on you like aggressive honeyed kisses, leaving bruises in all the right places and your breath will be nowhere to be found. But the erogenous zones it is most adept at satisfying are the yearning curlicues of your ears. And, as we all know the ears are the windows to the soulverse. Yep, I said it. So, Whatever you do don’t you dare sleep on this one. Trust. Peace.
 

 
Artist: JMSN
Album: JMSN:The Blue Album
Download:iamjmsn.com

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And on his latest album If There’s A Hell Below what is most poignant is what is absent and accounted for. Take a bow kind sir for allowing your mere mortal self to delineate from the commercial (as you always have) and center yourself in the eye of the storm. I so wish I could offer for your listening pleasure the track Grey for Summer or the unselfish majesty of No Poison, No Paradise. And Lord please don’t get me started on Hell Below for it transcends and elevates much like spliff smoke billowing from the temple-like nostrils of Jah himself.
 

 
For heads wanting to take such an imaginative journey into that other place were sound is the only substantive matter then purchase the stamped Black Milk ticket and get your transcendental groove on. Peace.
 

 
Artist: Black Milk
Release: If There’s A Hell Below
Tracklisting:
 
1. Everyday Was ft. Mel 2. What It’s Worth 3. Leave The Bones Behind ft. Blu & Ab 4. Quarter Water ft. Pete Rock 5. Hell Below ft. Gene Obey 6. Detroit’s New Dance Show 7. Story and Her All Mighty 9. Scum ft. Random Axe 10. Gold Piece ft. Bun B 11. Grey For Summer 12. Up & Out
 
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Methodist Girls opens with Sloppy Love. For me this doleful beauty elicits a poignant depiction of our human hearts. How emotions get jostled from lover to lover. Eventually we grow jaded, lovelorn and even cynical. But we plod on hoping and searching for love, and at times we find it no matter how fleeting or lopsided.

The pluck and spring of Paulding Light arises and dances shyly … You were looking for something I didn’t have… and I was looking for something you didn’t have.

Temporary bleeds into the white cloth of our mortality reminding us to discard our clothing unremember prayers and skinny dip into the unexpected. Another round of Two Hearted Ale, right after I finish a shot of Jameson with the friends I bring in the weekend with. The song Smoke is unspooling and curling about my ears in a bar not unlike the ghosts bumming drinks and laughter in a favorite haunt near you.
 

 
And so Nathan sings on, his is a voice that isn’t so much unleashed as it is poured straight from an oaken cast centuries old. A voice in possession of a timbre blue as the depths of Lake Huron, glint of lighthouse shine and truthful as cold bitten winters. Most Birthdays unravels it’s ribbons and wrapping paper only to discover the offering is only as appreciated as the heart and hands which hold.

So, after the party is over, the smell of nicotine is a stale cologne upon the soft skin of a drunken lover. We lay beside them upon sweat stained sheets. And as they mumble something indecipherable yet endearing we trace the rusty watermarks on ceiling constellations with our eyes. The track 1993 isn’t so much a song as it is a sign post, a mile marker biding us to look back smile through the tears.

Family Photo

Will you dance with me in this family photo? Ring your arms in mine
and hold my head up high. Oh the music is so sweet and this family
photo is fading clean. But the memories have released bleeding tears
for all to see. My heart is open wide, could be the flash of time in my eyes.
Yes, things will never be the same and that’s who we’ll blame when the dusts
forgets our names.

One of things I love about Nathan is his ability to coin lyrics like Michigan miners once hauled copper out of the Upper Peninsula. In a time capsule measuring 2:07 across I find my hands tied and I am blindfolded by simple and precious beauty.

More than anyway life is about the furtherance of love. Live given and love taken. We all got the sickness and if we stop lying to ourselves we’ll cozy up the most immutable law of them all, love can heal all wounds.

Telephones is playing as the light is being sifted from the our Michigan sky the twin gods of time and miracle. The horizon is going all pale pink and watercolored orange. The clouds are buoyant and suffused with gun metal grays and edged with pure lit light. I pass wood shaded greenery and I realize July is the pinnacle of summer and it is all downhill from here on out. But right now, I got music to settle into, and right now I am alright with all of that.

Methodist Girls closes with the bonus track Brightly and like the rest of the gorgeous every person’s album we’re reminded to take the good and only the good. Everything else is a distraction and a unwanted burden. Yes, the good, the bad and the ugly of life happens to us all but..

I didn’t catch that sunset yesterday
I couldn’t find the time but it found me today
It kept reminding me of when you walked away
You were so beautiful but then you left just like a passing day

So now I’m left with all the stars for company
6,000,000 broken little hearts they comfort me
We’ll wait around just for another chance to see
The sun arise again to give us hope we need

Shining brightly in my eyes, you woke me up to realize
That these moments come and go just like the wind, the rain, the sun, and the snow

Tomorrow’s forecasted to be a cloudy one
And though I love the clouds that don’t sound too much fun
You might’ve said goodbye and told me we were done
This game is over but my life has just begun

Shining brightly in my eyes, you woke me up to realize
That these moments come and go just like the wind, the rain, the sun, and the snow

So go on and enjoy your life, it’s going pretty fast
In all of these relationships so few of them will last
Back then these days were future, soon they’ll be part of the past
So please just make the best of them oh girl that’s all I ask

Shining brightly in my eyes, you woke me up to realize
That these moments come and go just like the wind, the rain, the sun, and the snow.

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Watch Sean Pettit rediscovering his home turf in British Columbia. Logan Pehota gets dropped into remote Alaska and uses a lighthouse as a home base, there he launches a helicopter expedition and finds fresh terrain to attack.

See what Pep Fujas does in the back-country on a pure white canvas of fresh snowfall. Who’s trekking the grueling 100km (62 Miles) historic high alpine route between Chamonix, France and Zermatt, Switzerland? The answer? It’s
Julien Regnier and company and yes, it looks like a lot of fun.
 
Buy Tracing Skylines here.

My favorite segment. Witness Karl Fostvedt and few friends take urban skiing to a whole new level by spending time searching for the perfect jib, drop and jump amidst the concrete jungle and urban blight that is found amongst the dilapidated segments of Detroit.
 

 
At the films end, watch Bobby Brown as he brings the crew back together for a spectacular spring session to wrap up a winter wonderland season that won’t soon be forgotten.
 
The soundtrack is pretty dope as well. Give it a listen. Peace.
 

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My head is literally spinning. No, not from overindulgence of the mind altering sort. But, from the total euphoria which comes from good news. The year is 2013 and what a year it will be. This the inaugural year of the St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival Detroit. Yeah, Detroit! Like right down the street from me. I’m excited. The Motor City is finally getting it’s groove back, and with an international music line-up it’s sure to be one of the nation’s premiere music venues to take in this summer. Laneway Festival Detroit takes place on Sept. 14th at Meadow Brook Music Festival in Rochester Hills, Mich. Ticket info HERE. After the jump, check out one of the highlights that’ll be bringin’ it this year. Peace.

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The Detroit-based beat collective, formed in 2011 by Shadow Attack and Jaws That Bite. This is the house that groove and is a beacon for massively sick beats in the Midwest and beyond. The economy in The Motor City may be on the ropes but the beats are alive and kicking. Peace.

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What you get when you conjoin nasty beats by Black Milk with gorgeously pornographic lyrics by Danny Brown? Well, you get a pretty good time vibing out not really giving two good GOTDAMNS! But that’s just me spouting off about my Detroit homies.  But you really can’t blame me ’cause the EP is just that dope! So, if you’re the type to get your head into raps alternate universe madman on the mic then give this a few spins on Ouija board planchette. Although this joint dropped back in November via Fat Beats Records. But, don’t use tardiness as an excuse not to wild tha fuck out. Peace.

Black And Brown EP ( iTunes or Amazon your choice)

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Yes, it is Week 5 of The ScollasWebTour Series and someone is in a romantic mood (You?). And with the young up and coming Detroit R&B crooner Scolla playing softly in the background the energy is pure seduction. But this isn’t puppy love nor is it trite infatuation. This is a bonafide grown-ups scenario. You know, where a man has been checking out a woman (or vice versa) and decides it’s the perfect time make a move. Words will be spoken, digits will be exchanged, and time will be spent lavishly. In the end, if all goes well, some slow and smouldering lovemaking will ensue. And it’s no coincidence that this song drops just in time for Valentine’s Day (Mark your calendar Bro), so make your next move your best move: clean up the crib, get some new sheets, purchase some new cologne (I suggest Van Cleef & Arpels Midnight in Paris), make reservations at no less than a 3 star restaurant, and most importantly, introduce your would-be lover to the wet and warm vocals of Scolla. Peace.

Get “Tell Me If You Down” via MediaFire or HulkShare. Enjoy.

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Don’t write off Detroit and more importantly one wouldn’t be wise to take its native son Scolla lightly. There is an old mantra, “Work hard. Play Harder.” But in the case of Scolla and what he has accomplished it would seem as if he has changed the mantra into, “Work Hard. Work Harder!” No question Scolla is on a come up and he’s bringing cats with him. On the J. Parker produced Even & Odds track we have more than able-bodied riders in Floridian emcee, Quest and Brooklyn’s own D. Julien to lace this one up with raw truth and beauty galore. And check the Swag bag for your free Even & Odds download via HulkShare or Mediafire. Scolla is finishing up his currently untitled R&B EP so stay tuned I’ll keep you posted. Peace.

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