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Talibah Safiya

"Black Magic"

Deep Water 2024

Release date :

02-23-2024

(USA)

Something is happening in Memphis

Musicians:
Talibah Safiya - vocals
Madame Fraankie - guitar 
ANTE - multi-instrumentalist 
Marcella Simien - vocals (Track 5)
Yella P (Damion Kereem Pearson) - harmonica (Track 4

Tracklist:
01 Sunshine 01:11
02 Black Magic 03:14
03 Papa Please! 03:43
04 Jack and Jill 03:32
05 Have Mercy 03:02
06 Have Some Mo 01:09
07 Delicious 03:24

Listen to samples
00:00 / 10:20

Produced by Ari Morris & Brandon Deener 

HILL COUNTRY BLUES REIMAGINED

Yes, the Memphis sound is rising again. Talibah Safiya designs jewelry and makes music, exploring and celebrating the rebirth of the inseparable and indisputable sounds from the city of Memphis. Chosen to show the world the regeneration of musical art of one of the most effervescent neuralgic centers of American music, rock'n'roll and soul music of a new generation of creators for whom the blues also reveals itself as an avant-garde of unprecedented format. R&B and new soul emerged from the imagination of producers and musicians with a look that tries to go beyond the horizon, a warm, suggestive and ruthless voice that exalts the beauty and splendor of songs that have no limit or time. Talibah Safiya and her colleagues allow us to guess what the future will be like by suspecting what the past was like, and this is a lesson that we should not waste.

PREVIOUS RECORDINGS 2015 - 2023

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·"LOVE SPELLS (LIVE)"
2023 - Album
 

·"A WILD ONE"
2020 - Single
 

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·"WAITING ALL NIGHT"
2022 - Single
 

·"SPEAK YOUR MIND"
2022 - Single
 

·"HEALING CREEK"
2019 - Single
 

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·"IMAGINE THAT"
2022 - Single
 

·"MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT"
2017 - Single
 

·"UP & DOWN"
2020 - Single
 

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·"WE SHALL SEE"
2021 - Single
 

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·"ALREADY HIGH"
2023 - Single
 

·"ANIMAL KINGDOM"
2021 - Single
 

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·"YOU SAID"
2023 - Single
 

·"RISE"
2015 - Single
 

·"SWEET HEAT"
2015 - Single
 

·"BE THANKFUL"
2019- Single
 

·"THE GREAT DISGUISE"
2020- Single
 

·"TEN TOES"
2020 - Single
 

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·"LES FLEURS"
2021 - Single
 

T.S.

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High Water Records was founded in Memphis in 1979 by ethnomusicologist David Evans along with Dean Richard Ranta and the Memphis State University. While the city of Memphis had been the cradle of rock'n'roll with Sun Records and the southern soul of Stax, High Water Records produced the first recordings of Hill Country Blues of bluesmen like Junior Kimbrough, Jessie Mae Hemphill and R.L. Burnside, and also among many others, harmonica players Hammie Nixon and Chicago Bob Nelson, singer Little Applewhite, guitarist Waynell Jones or drummer and singer Hezekiah Early with his band The Houserockers. The first recordings of High Water Records were in 45' format until 1983 when the label also adopted the LP format. From 1997 all recordings in the catalog were redistributed by the Californian label Hightone Records.

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JUNIOR KIMBROUGH

JESSIE MAE HEMPHILL

R.L. BURNSIDE

Opening a new era for High Water Records, a program was created to preserve the music of the Memphis region that promoted the High Water Artist Residency with the will of finding local musicians and providing them with experience in the industry and to catalyze the dissemination of the old catalog and provide new artists with a renewed spirit. In 2022 the first resident artist to star in the premiere of the renovated High Wather was Memphis native singer Talibah Safiya. During the 2022-23 academic year, Safiya collaborated on several projects with students and music industry program partners in recorded and live performances and hosted master classes for School of Music students.

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