Playlist/Dominic Valvona

For all our friends and followers alike in various states of emergence from a full coronavirus lockdown and the escalating events of George Floyd’s death at the hands of the police, let the Monolith Cocktail ease some of the anxiety, uncertainty and the rage with another volume of Dominic Valvona’s cross-generational, cross-genre Social Playlists (the 46th edition in fact).

Soothing the soul, embracing the eclectic the blog’s imaginary radisohow (or podcast if you prefer) brings together tracks from across time, genres and the globe to take the listener on a musical odyssey of discovery.

For those of you without access to Spotify, we’ve chosen a random smattering of tracks from Youtube.

Tracks In Full:

Mombasa  ‘Yenyeri’
Horoya  ‘Sete Curvas’
Chrissy Zebby Tembo  ‘Coffin Maker’
Colin Hare  ‘For Where Have You Been’
Dick Stusso  ‘I Am Not The Girl You Used To Know’
Stack Waddy  ‘It’s All Over Now’
The Research  ‘All These Feelings’
The Weather Prophets  ‘The Key To My Love Is Green’
Ludus  ‘Little Girls’
Itadi  ‘Ye, Ye, Ye’
Kashmere Stage Band  ‘Thank You’
Hooksy  ‘Flying Market’
Twin Hype  ‘Do It To The Crowd’
Neek The Exotic  ‘Backs and Necks’
Nolan Porter  ‘Iron Out The Rough Spots’
Rob Sonic  ‘Jesus Christ Super Tramp’
Tommy McGee  ‘The Hatch’
Mike Nyoni and Born Free  ‘It’s Only A Dream’
Allen Toussaint And Eldridge Holmes  ‘Gone Gone Gone’
Easy Kabaka Brown  ‘Belema’
Sola  ‘Tu Te Has Ido’
Crystal Syphon  ‘Have More Of Everything’
The Pretty Things  ‘Baron Saturday’
The Overton Berry Trio  ‘Hey Jude’
Shawn Phillips  ‘From All Of Us’
Jad Fair  ‘Haunted By Frankenstein’
The Dream  ‘Four Phone-Calls’
The Youngbloods  ‘Faster All The Time’
Quatermass  ‘Make Up Your Mind’
Sam Rivers, Anthony Cole, Doug Matthews  ‘Spark’
Nate Morgan  ‘Mrafu’
Clap! Clap!  ‘Southern Dub’
Psychic Ills  ‘Never Learn Not To Love’
The Pretty Things  ‘Parachute’
Drum Circus  ‘Groove Rock’
Thunder And Roses  ‘Moon Child’
Goran Kajfes Subtropic Arkestra ‘I’m On My Way/Patch Of Blue’
Sarah Webster Fabio  ‘Together/To The Tune Of Coltrane’s ‘Equinox”
Awa Poulo  ‘Djara Wilam’
Willis Earl Beal  ‘True’

Video Choices

Hi, my name is Dominic Valvona and I’m the Founder of the music/culture blog monolithcocktail.com For the last ten years I’ve featured and supported music, musicians and labels we love across genres from around the world that we think you’ll want to know about. No content on the site is paid for or sponsored and we only feature artists we have genuine respect for /love. If you enjoy our reviews (and we often write long, thoughtful ones), found a new artist you admire or if we have featured you or artists you represent and would like to buy us a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/monolithcocktail to say cheers for spreading the word, then that would be much appreciated.