Tafari Anthony is a pop singer-songwriter steeped in R&B and soul. Blessed with a truly resonant beautiful voice, able to sing the lower and the higher notes with equal grace, Tafari pleases on every level. In a world full of rough edges, danger, and political unrest, Tafari is like a warm comforting blanket of goodness. Enter No Good (seen/heard here) a single about dealing with an obsessive, clinging lover, which denies the protagonist space to breathe. “How could I not know that you were obsessed When you started reciting my texts Empty hand…
Read MoreVodka Austin Favorite: Baby Rose has a voice that will knock your socks off. She was due to play at the canceled SXSW event this year, and you can definitely hear why she would be a great performer to go see live. That rich soulful voice is riveting, full of natural vibrato and honest emotion. Accompanied here by what I like to call a muted broken piano sound, Baby Rose has plenty of space to evoke the raw emotion of All To Myself. This track comes from her…
Read MoreCasii Stephan has a beautiful, rich, soulful voice, and a magic way of penning just the right notes to go along with the voice. That is all great, but the star in Trapeze Artist (seen/heard here) is the lyric! If you’ve all but given up on this world, are depressed by the hate and vitriol that you are exposed to daily, and just want a way to lift up your spirit and fill it with hope, then you’ve found just such a song to help you get there. Trapeze…
Read MoreOver the next few months, interspersed between normal Vodka mined musical posts, will be Vodka’s favorites of the Austin 100 (in no particular order), NPR’s tracks of musicians that performed at SXSW. This year, of course, the event was canceled, so these artists need a bit more publicity to reach a broader audience. Watch for the tagline Vodka Austin Favorite or if you search for these tracks later, simply put “vodka austin” in the search. Let’s begin! Devon Gilifillian takes soul music to a new level, allowing himself to touch…
Read MoreWay back in January of 2013, Vodka reviewed a sunny bit of Winter warmth from CosmoSoul called Sunny Days from the band’s 2011 long-player, Sunrise. The band, with beautiful soul and r&b vocals provided by Alana Sinkëy, is still out there and released their third long-player, Walk, in 2017. On The Road (seen/heard here) gives you a snap-shot view of that long player and the diversity of the music within. Alana’s vocals here are as wonderful as ever, but listen to the music! On The Road’s instrumentation owes as…
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