Voices & Sounds

To me, music is a beautiful mix of voices and sounds held out over an extended period of time. In this music blog I post the music that's really resonating with me on a particular day; I will do my best to post something different every day. I hope you enjoy the music and possibly discover something new :)

[lifemapping]

It’s hard to take a bad photo when you’re standing in a meadow along the Northern California coast at sunset. 

[frankocean]

I read in the paper that my brothers are being thrown from rooftops blindfolded with their hands tied behind their backs for violating sharia law. I heard the crowds stone these fallen men if they move after they hit the ground. I heard it’s in the name of God. I heard my pastor speak for God too, quoting scripture from his book. Words like abomination popped off my skin like hot grease as he went on to describe a lake of fire that God wanted me in. I heard on the news that the aftermath of a hate crime left piles of bodies on a dance floor this month. I heard the gunman feigned dead among all the people he killed. I heard the news say he was one of us. I was six years old when I heard my dad call our transgender waitress a faggot as he dragged me out a neighborhood diner saying we wouldn’t be served because she was dirty. That was the last afternoon I saw my father and the first time I heard that word, I think, although it wouldn’t shock me if it wasn’t. Many hate us and wish we didn’t exist. Many are annoyed by our wanting to be married like everyone else or use the correct restroom like everyone else. Many don’t see anything wrong with passing down the same old values that send thousands of kids into suicidal depression each year. So we say pride and we express love for who and what we are. Because who else will in earnest? I daydream on the idea that maybe all this barbarism and all these transgressions against ourselves is an equal and opposite reaction to something better happening in this world, some great swelling wave of openness and wakefulness out here. Reality by comparison looks grey, as in neither black nor white but also bleak. We are all God’s children, I heard. I left my siblings out of it and spoke with my maker directly and I think he sounds a lot like myself. If I being myself were more awesome at being detached from my own story in a way I being myself never could be. I wanna know what others hear, I’m scared to know but I wanna know what everyone hears when they talk to God. Do the insane hear the voice distorted? Do the indoctrinated hear another voice entirely?

[voicesandsounds]

R.I.P. Prince Rogers Nelson.

[lifemapping]

[lensblr-network]

Yosemite Valley 10/2015

photo by Life Mapping  (lifemapping.tumblr.com)

[voicesandsounds]

#450) Gallant - Weight in Gold (Brasstracks Remix)

[damsel-indetrap]

Pictures I send instead of emojis Part 1… Because sometime emojis can’t say “fuck you and ya mova cause she raised you wrong”

[damsel-indetrap]

Repost because y'all never reblog bastards

[voicesandsounds]

#449) Roman GianArthur - High and Dry

This entire EP is a cover/mashup of D’Angelo and Radiohead and it’s pretty solid.

[voicesandsounds]

What the fuck is REALLY going on, Frank?! First you play with my emotions with your non-existant album release date and now this? Don’t get me wrong, I love me some Kanye but I been looking forward to seeing you perform since I bought these damn tickets! *runs off crying* *slams door*

[lifemapping]

D'Angelo was incredible at Outside Lands 2015

[voicesandsounds]

😍

[coffeeandpics]

Pfeiffer Beach, California

[coffeeandpics]

PSA: My boy Frank getting heat because people thought his album was going to drop July 20nd. I bet it is because people failed to noticed #July20 is a cutoff of #July2015!! You can scroll to the left on tags to see them all… That being said the new Let’s All Get Mad At Frank time is July 31st 2015 @ 11:59PM.

[voicesandsounds]

Yall slow...

[voicesandsounds]

#448) Chance the Rapper - Good Ass Intro ft hella people...

Bruh, the nostalgia... 

[voicesandsounds]

#447) Sam Sparro - Infinite

[voicesandsounds]

#446) Jamie xx - Gosh

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#445) Big Data - Clean ft Jamie Lidell

[voicesandsounds]

#444) Slumberjack - Body Cry ft. Father Dude

[voicesandsounds]

#443) Son Lux - Change is Everything