Greetings! The Mint Collective is a group of people from different beats all using their blessings to promote, market & increase visibility for creative endeavors.
We ♥ music, art, creativity, traveling, technology, food and drink, love, life, laughing and lots more. Its fun, really, sometimes even splendid.
Por mi inaugural post en Minty, I want to show some love to the album Bad Bad Things by Blundetto. This crew represents many nations, as well as many genres, but if it had to be put in one genre, i’d choose headnod. Blundetto is based in Paris and already collaborating with Hindi Zahra, Budos Band, Shawn Lee, Lateef the Truthspeaker, Chico Mann, Tommy Guerrero y mas.
Gorgeous Parisian vocalist Hindi Zahra is poised to release her first full length masterpiece Handmade in just a few weeks. We’ve long awaited Handmade since first introduced to Hindi’s voice on the Blundetto project. As the mystery behind this amazing voice continued to build, Giant Step - as they tend to do so well, introduced Hindi’s blessings to many worldwide causing quite a buzz.
As a preview to her upcoming album, Hindi has put together a lovely acoustic version of one of the most haunting and attention-grabbing tracks “Beautiful Tango” off the new album as well as released a free download of “Fascination” along with a wonderful interview she did with Filter Magazine recently. Keep your eye out for Handmade which will drop October 11 - right around the same time that she will start a tour.
José James has masterfully combined jazz, hip hop, soul and freestyle elements into his music, has propelled some of the most epic musical projects of the past few years and is poised to elevate genre-blending consciousness for many years to come. From covering Coltrane’s “Equinox”- which got the attention of worldwide musical tastemaker Gilles Peterson who later put out his first album, to re-inventing Freestyle Fellowship’s “Park Bench People”José James has carved a very special and much needed niche into musical culture worldwide.
Prior to José’s recent Los Angeles show, we had the distinct pleasure of speaking with him to touch base and get a more in-depth look at how he’s gotten to where he is, what this next steps will be and who he’s collaborating with musically, spiritually and wholeheartedly to get there. We rapped about his Panamanian percussive influence from his father, tried to pinpoint why experimental music is more abundant overseas as well as where he’s had some of his most memorable shows.
Watch out for José James + Taylor McFerrin in Jan 2012 with a Japan tour slated and then up next, José’s new album - set to drop in early 2012.
It was a pleasure and honor to chat with José and we are deeply grateful for his music and many infinite blessings he’s shared with us.
Preview Minty posts on José here, here, here and here. Yeah, we ♥ him.
