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...Van Rompaey is at Viva Lous and the Yakuza The trailblazing Belgian-Congolese singer and rapper Lous and the Yakuza – whose sound blends silky R&B with trap and Afrobeats – describes working with Ghesquière...
...We went from a very smooth kind of R&B to a very cool way of inflecting our rock’n’roll approach.”...
...He’s a brilliant multi-instrumentalist and also sings, so it’s a little bit of jazz and a little bit of R&B. It’s just very smooth, easy and fun to listen to.” Curator Jessica Bell Brown talks taste...
...Eventually she lands on three picks: R&B country artist Breland, who is supporting her on her upcoming UK tour, American rock band Greta Van Fleet and a wild card, Dan McCafferty, lead singer of Nazareth...
...Romance is in rude health throughout Desire; tender sentiments appear alongside messy glamour, lust and mystique (including the alt-R&B throb of “Bunny Is a Rider”, originally released in 2021)....
...July 7-9, northseajazz.com Wireless, London This London weekender brings the best in hip-hop, grime and R&B from both sides of the Atlantic to Finsbury Park....
...For British designer Edward Barber, who together with Jay Osgerby has worked with design companies such as B&B Italia, Knoll and Vitra, the disparity between low-cost and high-end design can be explained...
...Renaissance adds dance music to her usual palette of R&B, soul, pop and hip-hop. It is the first of a trilogy recorded during the pandemic....
...“Pretend” is a supple R&B ballad laden with late-night vibes and sparse shimmers, with expertly delivered vocals and rap from “Tank” Ball....
...The style is mainly limited to supper-club soul, blues and R&B, but the accompanying band brings some deft touches to it. Backing female singers add doo-wop harmonies to Morrison’s growls and slurs....
...John Van Reenen, Ronald Coase chair in economics at LSE: The UK will lag behind other developed countries....
...His style emerged from a distinctively British fertile crescent in the 1960s where the worlds of jazz, R&B, blues and light entertainment overlapped....
...“Born to Be Free” is supper-club R&B, with electric organ shimmering like candlelight and guitars and cymbals ticking away like the sound of cutlery and chinked glasses....
...Clark, London; DIA Cohen, New York Polymath 1,035: Tony Mouler, Birmingham, England Crossword 16,242: Helen Hillier, Dorset, England; JP Bowman, the Netherlands; C Wren, London Polymath 1,034: Peter Van...
...John Van Reenen: It will not....
...If Debt/GDP is about 1 now (UK-US levels) you can run a primary deficit of (g-r) — where g is growth rate and r is real cost of borrowing — and keep Debt/GDP constant....
...Instead, I will increase investment in R&D to £22bn a year. That is the fastest and the largest increase in R&D spend ever....
...Glasper’s edgy merging of jazz, hip-hop and R’n’B became a core component of the revamped label’s aesthetic, and Glasper and his bassist Derrick Hodge also acted as producers and talent scouts....
...The James Hunter Six Whatever It Takes (Daptone Records) “He’s one of the best voices and best-kept secrets in British R&B and soul,” Van Morrison has said of James Hunter....
...One of the shops would carry Pye R&B singles and EPs — you went in and they’d say, ‘We’ve got this Bo Diddley thing in . . . ’ I’ve still got my old records. They’re in boxes....
...It was reportedly the largest series B fundraising in Thailand at that time....
...Van Morrison Keep Me Singing (Caroline International) Van Morrison’s 36th studio album, Keep Me Singing, is his first set of new songs since 2012’s Born to Sing: No Plan B....
...John Van Reenen, professor, MIT economics department and Sloan management school It has not and it will not....
...Yet David Sanborn’s soulful mix of blues holler and angular modernism has defined the sound of sax in pop and R&B for more than two decades....
...It’s just a random, very funky R’n’B track that had been covered by the Stones, and was a particular favourite of mine at the time....
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