Jordannah’s Sex Mixtape for Soul Mates

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A soul mate can be described in many different ways, but the thing that truly separates a lover from a soul mate, is a connection that goes deeper than experiencing butterflies in the tummy, or constantly trolling your love’s social media accounts just to feel close to them when they are not around. A soul mate is a person whose presence you can sense, and whose thoughts and feelings are things that you perceive even if those thoughts and feelings are not spoken.

Soul mates possess a level of binding attraction that can effect a person to the point where they other person feels like they’ve known them all their lives, even upon the first encounter. When that deep sense of familiarity hits, there is no telling what type relationship may spark from it.

There is a misconception that soul mates end up spending their entire lives together, but this is idea isn’t entirely so. Some believe that soul mates have unresolved relational issues that occurred in a past life (I know this is getting kooky, but stay with me…), so loves can meet soul mates who have they have experienced a painful relationship with in the past, and their current life encounter is a chance to resolve the issue. This type of soul mate connection can make some people who feel a deep connection with each other also feel uncomfortable or confused by the strange combination of love and disdain that they feel for a person they just met.

It’s also thought that you only have one soul mate per lifetime. But understanding that soul mates are just people who you have a strong tie or connection with can debunk that idea. You’re BFF who you’re attached to the hip to can be a soul mate. That person who you have casual sex with once a month can be a soul mate, your little brother of sister can be a pain in your butt and a soul mate as well. The point is, in regards to romantic relationships, it’s ok to understand that some of your very deepest bonds and ex lovers could have been in your life to serve the purpose of teaching you lessons of love, sex and romance.

I’ve created a mixtape that will help you tell the person you you really notice and feel a strong bond and affinity for, that you think they may very well be, your soul mate.

1. Stay – Rihanna

2. Boss Inside – Adam Green

3. Any Way That You Want – Spiritualized

4. Body and Soul – Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse

5. You’re All I Need – Method Man and Mary J. Blige

6. Walk the Line – Johnny Cash

7. The Promise – Tracy Chapman

8. Left and Right of the Moon – The Warlocks

9. Grand Children – Grand Children

10. Within You Without You – The Beatles

Click here to listen to download the Soul Mate Mixtape.

Hazlewood & Sinatra’s Cult Psych Classic: Some Velvet Morning

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“To attempt to logically fathom the lyrics of this vague and nonsensical contemporary adult psych ballad without the aid of a powerful psychedelic would be a lost expenditure of time.”

A short time after Lee Hazlewood wrote and produced the massive hit, “These Boots of Made For Walking” for Nancy Sinatra in 1966, the producer and singer continued to record songs together, and released a plethora of tracks as an uncomfortably sexy (the age difference between Sinatra and Hazlewood was strikingly apparent) psychedelic pop musical duo.This eerie emotionally tongue twisting track, Some Velvet Morning was released in 1968, and came no where near the success of “Boots”. Nonetheless, the song is a psychedelic classic that is as mythical and logically off putting as it is darkly sexy and creatively presented.

If “These Boots are Made for Walking” is a pseudo masochistic overture to the inner workings of the heart and the outer consequences of love, then “Some Velvet Morning” is the even darker (if not relationally ominous) side of that moon, as it insinuates the presence of a non physical and romantic spell that forced Hazlewood’s character in the song to allow Sinatra’s character “Phaedra” infiltrate his tripped out, testosterone latent life.

To attempt to logically fathom the lyrics of this vague and nonsensical contemporary adult psych ballad without the aid of a powerful psychedelic would be a lost expenditure of time. There are so many elements to this unique track that contributed to its Billboard chart disappointment and cult success that only deciphering the lyrics and tone of the song too deeply would sully the abstract grandiosity of this ballad.

Compositionally, Hazlewood and Sinatra’s parts are written in two different time signatures. Hazlewood’s solo is in 4/4 and Sinatra’s part is in 3/4. This track is also said to have been recorded live, and was distinctly set apart from other pop songs of the era. A psych rock love ballad about a man on drugs who had an encounter with a mysterious nymph like creature must have been beyond some music listeners,because the song only reached number 26 on the Billboard charts in 1968, but historically, this song set the stage for an era of psychedelic music that continues to make it’s mark on western culture to this day. It has been covered just short of 20 times from 1968-2010, and arguably opened doors for psychedelic rock to hit the pop mainstream, as the only other successful bands who changed time signatures in their music were groups like, Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, Jethro Tull and Frank Zappa.

Who would have thought a psychedelic cowboy and a pop princess who had experienced a string of pop failures would come together to make psychedelic history.

Throwback Review: The Vandelles – Strange Girls Don’t Cry

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Throw back review in celebration of the release official of The Vandelles’ album Strange Girls Don’t Cry

This review was written for and rejected by Baltimore City Paper in October of 2012. I was able to publish this piece on a music blog that I founded and ran called TPR-Mag…and now I’m able to reshare this review in light of The Vandelles’ official July 9th release of their sexy and iridescently tout album,Strange Girls Don’t Cry.

Jasno is one of those rock and roll survivors that continues to keep himself and The Vandelles as fresh and relevant as humanly possible. So without further ado, here’s my review of Strange Girls Don’t Cry by The Vandelles.

Stream the full album here.

The Vandelles’ ”Strange Girls Don’t Cry” is a maturely composed love-centric psychobilly album that highlights the truths and follies of love, sex and relationships as Jasno Swarez sees it. The most prevalent distinction between “Strange Girls Don’t Cry” and The Vandelles’ previous releases is that the band truly pushes the envelope in regards to experimenting with traditional pop and ballad-based rock compositional structures.

“Strange Girls Don’t Cry” is a post-modern Frankie and Annette-esque testament of the true challenges of modern day love and the confusion of emotions that tend to complicate the daily musings of reality. Good Boys Don’t Lie is a sexy and simplistic, yet experimental, beach ball pop song that accentuates the foundation of the record’s subject matter and general soundscape.

The album seems to be telling the story of a strange girl who is just out of reach of Swarez’s scope of affection. The music compliments the story with songs like In the City and Never See the Summer. Nonetheless, it should be recognized that Swarez’s voice is clean, powerful, and confident. The confidence and competence of the vocals (which are accompanied by lovely and feminine back-up singers on almost every track) enhance what would be a simplistic and somewhat minimal (particularly in regards to the percussion) experimental beach-pop, psychobilly album.

Swarez repeats the statement “I’m going to make you mine” in different variations a few times throughout this album, and songs likeNocturnal and Miles Away reflect the darker and more painful expressions experienced through love with the use of heavier drone effects and deeper, more dissonant tones.

The six-minute-long first track I’m Way Ahead of You embodies some ofThe Vandelles‘ earlier explorations in heavy experimental rock aesthetics, but this album seems to be more about poise, strategically restrained pop composition, and Jasno’s issues with girls.