Incognito Livestream Concert May 30th

Incognito is performing two concerts via Livestream on May 30th. The show will be available for replay 48 hrs after the performance. The jazz-funk band promises to play the hits as well as new songs from their 4-decades long catalog. Tickets and t-shirts are available now from the Mandolin box office.




Maysa: Love Is A Battlefield Lyric Video

[youtube id=”C0eweyN1ruo”] Maysa’s lyric video for “Love Is A Battlefield” centers itself around the kind of struggles people go through to assert their humanity. Images of immigration ban protestors. Rosa Parks and the Lovings whose interracial marriage broke miscegenation laws reinterprets “Love Is A Battlefield” as a song no longer strictly confined to romantic notions of love. Maysa is plain about her song choice:

“The reason why I chose ‘Love Is A Battlefield’  has a lot to do with the way
the world is today and all of the things we are going through as a people.
As humans, we are surrounded by people who are not choosing love first.
People are choosing money over love and compassion. To me,
‘Love Is A Battlefield’ is just that, a battle to allow love to
reign over everything”
Love Is A Battlefield is also the title of her next album coming out May 26th and she calls it her “political cry” through the words of others.



Maysa Preps New Album With Love Is A Battlefield Single

https://soundcloud.com/shanachie-1/maysa-love-is-a-battlefield

Maysa has unexpectedly prepared her 13th studio album, Love Is A Battlefield and she has covered the single by Pat Benatar.  Maysa has connected with longtime collaborator Chris “Big Dog” Davis and producers The Heavyweights and Jason Miles to create an album of time-worn classics and new music from Luther Vandross and Big Sean. Maysa commented on the surprise of covering Benatar’s song:

“The reason why I chose ‘Love Is A Battlefield’ is that it has a lot to do with the way the world is today and all of the things we are going through as a people.  As humans, we are surrounded by people who are not choosing love first. People are choosing money over love and compassion. To me, ‘Love Is A Battlefield’ is just that, a battle to allow love to reign over everything.”
Maysa’s Love Is A Battlefield will be released May 26th on Shanachie Entertainment.



Incognito-All I Ever Wanted Featuring Maysa Lyric Video

[youtube id=”zE1W_xqIEI4″] Incognito and Maysa have made music together again for Incognito’s In Search Of Better Days album coming out June 24th. Bluey wrote “All I Ever Wanted” for Amy Winehouse, who was an Incognito fan and who he had a brief discussion with about a collaboration. Winehouse’s relationship with Blake was used as inspiration for “All I Ever Wanted.”