The Live Music Scene
Live Music - Our Ethos - Why we do, what we do...
At Pure::Social before we accredit any other strings to our bow, we are musicians and we realised that we wanted to do something a little different on the Live Music Scene...
Going out to live music events is more than just following a band, artist or genre. Live music is more about the skill, the talent & how it makes you feel when you hear it.
Too often music is restricted to a single style where the events only cater to one type of audience. We understand that there is a need to bring together people like us who love listening to live music & don't care so much about the genre.
Neo-soul Music - The soul of today's day...
Neo-soul (also known as nu soul) is an ultra chic & cool musical genre which fuses contemporary R&B, 70s soul, hip hop and jazz. The third major generation of fusion music from R& B Neo-soul sits nicely after its predecessors New Jack Swing & Hip-Hop Soul, Neo-soul came along with the likes of Tony Toni Tone & exploded with the timeless contributions from of D'angelo & Erykah Badu.
Neo-soul still has an undoubted resoundingly cosmic, pull for the masses. Young savvy music lovers in the US & UK alike love nothing more than the contemporary sounds of seductive neo-soul. Although many young artists have refused the term neo-soul from being thier own musical descriptive, for the sub-genre itself, it is an important relief of existance to anyone who is anyone.
Many of the UK artists that are currently on the underground music scene tend to steer in the direction of creating the textured neo-soul sound. To truley capture the rhythm of neo-soul with the life story lyrics whilst still having a crowd grooving to your beat, is simply musical poetics and an artform in itself which many unfortunately fail to acheive.
Neo-soul in its essence tends to work best when an artist is lyrically skilled to deliver a message – such as Jill Scott/India.Arie or when the neo-soul artist can consistantly hold and sit on a guitar groove marrying their vocal contribution - like say D'angelo/Lynden David Hall or when the neo-soul artist can bring some cosmic energy – such as Erykah Badu's earlier works or lastly when the neo-soul artist has their own sparkle to add - Goapele/Terri Walker
