Soul Children: Lanu: This is My Home

This new "Lanu" album on the Ubiquity label is off the hook! It caught me completely off guard and has turned out to be one of my favorites so far this year. I have to thank Nix for this one, if not for him I would have probably still been sleepin on this. Lanu is Lance Ferguson, he's from New Zealand and is currenlty based in Melbourne, Austrarlia. He's been around for a minute as leader/guitar player of the Melbourne funk outfit The Bamboo's. Apparenly Lanu is a Tongan word meaning color, and it was his nickname as a kid in New Zealand. The album is uptempo, on some soulful house, hip hop, jazzed out dancefloor or just sit back and chill shit. It doesn't really sound like anything that i've heard before, but the album reminds me a lot of 4Hero and Marc DeClive Lowe in the sense that it's like a peek into the future of jazz, hip hop, soul for the next millenium. Not only is the album extremely progressive musically, but it's also extremely concious lyrically. I've personally accepted the chorus from the track Dis-information as one of my latest mantra's "Don't you listen to those things they tell you... if there's a chance to say something then say it!" The album title comes from the song "Mother Earth" which features my man, LA based Aloe Blacc, and label mate Quantic and I think this one might be my favorite track on the album, so you can check it out below. I've also added "Dis-infornation" and "Let You Go" feat. Melbourne's Christin Deralas on Vocals. I've been hearing really good things about Melbourne's music scene of late, and this album has pushed it up on my list of places to visit in the search for universal soul worldwide.