Horace Bray is a guitarist and singer based in NYC. A graduate of the University of North Texas Jazz Program, Horace now spends his time exploring jazz-adjacent genres and teaching.
In this age of streaming, it's easy to put together a playlist for your listening pleasure. But back in the day, it was an important thing to build your album so that the listener could play it from start to finish with no skips. Here's my list of #NoSkip albums I can still listen to,…
How Much Can A Heart Take
He projects a widescreen vision of R&B. His full-spectrum view encompasses everything from the explosive funky bombast to the soulful croon of seventies favorites and the turn-of-the-century swagger inherent in mid-to-late nineties classics. As a result, he emerges with a signature sound of his own that stretches from soulfully smoked out to enigmatically energetic. Lucky…
Doctor's Orders
Fading
Elijah Fox is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, and producer based in Los Angeles, CA. He grew up in Durham, NC and studied piano at Oberlin Conservatory. His piano composition "East Village" was sampled by Drake and 21 Savage on "Major Distribution" reaching number 3 on the Billboard Charts. Fox has also recorded/produced for Masego, YG, ScHoolboy…
Self Medication
I've always been a fairweather fan of Logic. I've always recognized his skills, but it wasn't until his latest release, College Park that I really got to see how dope he really is. And his dopeness is on full showcase with Self Motivation, where his flows over a Statik Selektah beat with the assist from Redman and, believe…
Darkest Hour
I think I first heard Sevdaliza in the background of a tv show. I just know the song "The Darkest Hour" was extremely haunting and atmospheric. I loved it. Not my usual speed, but dope none the less.
Sevda Alizadeh, known professionally as Sevdaliza, is an Iranian-Dutch singer, songwriter, record producer, visual artist, and director. In…
Oakaliens
Building off of my last music release, Lo Quality Theory, I decided to stay in the lo-fi space with this upcoming 2023 album, Kneel Before Todd. Lo-fi has always been my space, even when I was in the boom-bap vibe. So this feels like I'm in my element. I was planning on releasing this on February…
This was a hardest list to build for me. The truth is I don't listen to "albums" anymore. Back in the day, when you purchased an album from your favorite artists, it was like an event. You'd expect to have an experience-- listen to the music take you on a journey from start to finish.…
