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derryl lekshen

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Shivering on my bed, waiting for some better days/ I called its name and then freedom came to me/ Bringing up the Good News, taking away my blues/ taking away my blues, taking away my blues... DL

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/10/2006
Band Members: derryl lekshen : voice, keys and prog.
Influences: diamanda galas, mahalia jackson, efterklang, erykah badu, shiina ringo, tonex, kaushiki chakraborty, ferran savall, golden gate quartet, antony and the johnsons, glenn hugues, a perfect circle, david bowie, autechre, jamie lidell, björk, andre benjamin, nancy wilson, ella fitzgerald, bryan gee, gilles peterson, astor piazzola, some telepopmusik, sade, ledisi, clark sisters, kim burrell, la goharvani du bengale, thomas otten, philippe jaroussky, tete, brel, henry purcell, jordi savall, schubert, some carl orff, buena vista social club, staind, muse, sheik abu el enin shiesha and some other sufi music, salt rain by susheela raman, stevie wonder, omar, soul strata, ellen mcillwaine, billie holliday, and on and on ...
Sounds Like: too dirty to be some squeaky clean funk-punk, too clean to be some supa-dupa-cool junk. Though it sounds like something, or may be its beginning...
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

moved by : mahalia jackson - trouble of the world

it's like I've been watching this for billion times but in the meantime, it's always the first time... Blues or gospel? both of it.
Posted by on Mon, 25 May 2009 10:32:00 GMT

words...

I thought it would be History, time of the braves, land of the freeBut it's just them laughing at it, repulsing the change, willing to rearrangeputting some milk in this black coffee, faking the evide...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:06:00 GMT

video of the week : KIM!!!!

Bless that cellphone camera, It made my day, my whole day! If you don't know kim, you're missing the point. She is the Gospel vibration, the real ish when you need to ease, don't say 'help' don't say ...
Posted by on Thu, 15 May 2008 12:37:00 GMT

playlist of the week

playlist of the week. Those are not only new pieces but things that do make sens right here, right now. Enjoy. 1. Jean baptiste shelmerdine "Rpdefile". This is just the last hottest thing I've listene...
Posted by on Mon, 12 May 2008 11:22:00 GMT

song to come : Hail freedom full of grace

those are lyrics of my first lp to come pretty soon. Hail freedom full of grace note : I was asleep, I gave up to that master-slave dialectic. I was among the weak and the pathetic. I lived reifi...
Posted by on Sun, 11 May 2008 22:50:00 GMT

lyrics are not what they seem : govinda my dear

I just felt like it, it came as it was already written somewhere, done in about 5 minutes : "I was born in ignorance, I was mute and blindand by unfortune or by chance, I got suddenly t...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:33:00 GMT