{"id":16251,"date":"2023-07-19T00:07:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T23:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/?p=16251"},"modified":"2023-07-19T02:54:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T01:54:47","slug":"night-beats-rajan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/night-beats-rajan\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Beats &#8216;Rajan&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Danny Lee Blackwell is on righteous fire right now; hot on the heels of his Abraxas album \u2018Monte Carlo\u2019 and the last <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thenightbeats.u.s\">Night Beats<\/a> offering \u2018Outlaw R&amp;B\u2019 {and who can forget the absolute classic &#8216;That;s All You Got&#8217; single that preceded it in 2020} he\u2019s dropped this stunning and diverse collection.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s bursting with a wide range of influences spanning and blurring multiple genres and multiple decades, but there\u2019s no point trying to study it; just dive in, soak it up and go with the flow. Whatever goes on in his musical mind isn\u2019t constrained by genres or rules and that\u2019s the beauty of the whole thing. It is uniquely Night Beats.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s red hot from the first seconds \u2013 \u2018Hot Ghee\u2019 is a languid swirling and exotic soundtrack to the best 60s counter culture film you ever imagined. Psychedelia is thrown around as a description a lot at present; this is the real thing and it continues, as does the fuzzy soundtrack vibe with \u2018Blue\u2019; a shimmering dream, straight out of a Jess Franco 70s dimly lit smoky nightclub scene.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Night Beats - Blue (Official Audio)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3TI_OqC6Z-A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Nightmare\u2019 is ludicrously cool with a streetwise bassline and a blissed out choppy disco feel, This should get you shaking your bones\u2026and it won\u2019t be the only time. The album continues in that kaleidoscopic fashion; varied, richly layered and beautifully crafted but more importantly stacked with soul and crystal vision; like time travel, conjuring up heat haze childhood memories that you probably never had, it hits a universal timeless feel so that you can\u2019t help feel you\u2019ve heard it all your life even if only in dreams. It covers a lot of territory \u2013 the steamy dub-influenced \u2018Dusty Jungle\u2019 &nbsp;with its faraway flute echoes, the heartbroken psychedelic disco of \u2018Thank You\u2019, the more familiar twangy guitar and outlaw styling of \u2018Cautionary Tale\u2019, even a darker turn on \u2018Osaka\u2019 with its fleeting glimmers of warped&nbsp; gospel and lysergic blues, all ending in a similar style to how it began with \u2018Morocco Blues\u2019, a delicious shimmering raga drone full of eastern vibes and mysticism.<\/p>\n<p>Danny\u2019s voice is more soulful and evocative than ever and can sound hurt and melancholy but never maudlin. The hippest of hip priests spinning exotic tales, laying out visions of the past but promises of a better future.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Rajan\u2019 is filled with catchy songs dripping a cool poise and manifesting the timeless joy of music, it offers us an escape route from the dull and predictable and I\u2019m happy to take that route. Every summer needs a soundtrack and here\u2019s everything you need for a sweet soul filled 23.<\/p>\n<p>As the man himself says (I think!) \u2018fly away through the ether, from the madness\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Available now on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FuzzClubRecords\">Fuzz Club<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/suicidesqueezerecords\">Suicide Squeeze<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/garypowell2323\">Gary Powell<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danny Lee Blackwell is on righteous fire right now; hot on the heels of his Abraxas album \u2018Monte Carlo\u2019 and the last Night Beats offering \u2018Outlaw R&amp;B\u2019 {and who can forget the absolute classic &#8216;That;s All You Got&#8217; single that preceded it in 2020} he\u2019s dropped this stunning and diverse collection. It\u2019s bursting with a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":16256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1438,83,6,93,71,85],"tags":[1519,1521,1518,1520,1515,1428,1432,1175,682,1066,1176],"series":[],"class_list":["post-16251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bands","category-exotica","category-features","category-garage","category-music","category-soul","tag-suicide-squeeze","tag-visionary","tag-night-beats","tag-album","tag-psych","tag-fuzz-club","tag-fuzz","tag-exotica","tag-garage-rock","tag-psychedelia","tag-soul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16251"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16265,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16251\/revisions\/16265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16251"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=16251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}