Been great seeing the love for the Grand Performances Cali Love orchestra show ā„ļø Played North Sea over the weekend with Ghost Note and wanted to throw it back to this performance from 2019 when I performed with the Re:Freshed Orchestra. Hope you enjoy! watch video on watch page
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Check out the full California Love performance up now on the āŖ@GrandPerformancesā¬ channel! Man!!! What a show-thank you to everyone who made it happen.
-Sly
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Ten years of celebrating Dre!
Tomorrow (Saturday 28th June), I'll be taking to the stage at Grand Performances, LA arranging, composing, and conducting a live, 30-piece orchestral celebration of Dr Dre. The event is free : grand-performances.squarespace.com/events/californā¦
You can also get the latest repress of The Invisible Man: An Orchestral Tribute to Dr Dre here: sly5thavenue.bandcamp.com/album/the-invisible-man-ā¦
Tomorrow's show is a special 10-year anniversary celebration of the original Cali Love performance with an orchestra at the Wilshire Ebell Theater to over 1200 people, including Dr. Dre himself. Check out footage from that show here...
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Really excited to be back in front of an orchestra next month. Been revamping these arrangements from 'The Invisible Man: An Orchestral Tribute to Dr. Dre' and we are gonna have a blast. Band is stacked. 30 piece orchestra.
FREE Grand Performances show - pull up Los Angeles!!!!
RSVP here: grand-performances.squarespace.com/events/californā¦
Get your copy of 'The Invisible Man...' : sly5thavenue.bandcamp.com/album/the-invisible-man-ā¦
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Was honoured to stop by @TheLotRadio in NY last week! Listen back to my full hour of funky selections here... watch video on watch page
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Thanks to everyone who came out and caught us at SXSW last week! You can check the full live performance at āŖ@MonksJazzClubā¬ here š„ watch video on watch page
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New JSWISS video! Out of Bounds - production by me. Go check it out. It's one to make you move š„ watch video on watch page
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SXSW showtimes and a Bandcamp sale š„
2025 marks ten years since the original Cali Love concert and Iām very pleased to say that Tru Thoughts have stocked a new repress of āThe Invisible Manā vinyl ā available now via Bandcamp with 10% off. Weāre also celebrating five years since āWhat It Isā with 25% off the CD and vinyl via Bandcamp.
sly5thavenue.bandcamp.com/album/the-invisible-man-ā¦
sly5thavenue.bandcamp.com/album/what-it-is
I jokingly call āWhat It Isā my pandemic baby. Just as I had been preparing to launch my first production album of original music, showcasing all the skills I had been working on, the world shut down. I am forever a student of The ClubCasa and was so happy to finally be able to bring all of these talented folks together on one record. āWhat It Isā features āŖ@denitiaā¬, āŖ@MarlonCraftā¬, Melissa McMillan , āŖ@thalmadefreitasā¬, Sene, ScienZe and Lexus. Artwork was done by the amazing Victoria Topping. I played all the instruments and programmed everything with a special guest appearance by my brother for life Sydney Driver.
The way everything works on streaming now, the only way for y'all to find this album is to go looking for it so that is my ask. If you go looking for it, it might come to others organically. Stream it, download it, get a vinyl. This music is too good to be lost to 2020.
SXSW show times below. Iāll be joined by Ryan Hagler on bass, Jackie Whitmill Jr. on drums, Kwinton Gray on keys and Matt Muehling on guitar.
Tue 11th Mar 8PM The Crystal Room @ The Driskill
Thu 13th Mar 6PM, Monks Jazz Club
Fri 14th Mar, 11-11.40PM, Zilker Brewing presented by Utopia Sessions
Also blessed to be joining the incredible āŖ@vanessa_zamoraā¬ twice:
Tuesday 11th March, 10PM, The Flamingo Cantina
Friday 14th March, 10PM, Taquero Vaquero
-Sly
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Landed in LA just in time to tell you that this is your final chance in this crazy Liberation year to order merch and vinyl š sly5thavenue.bandcamp.com/
I was just reviewing some numbers and for every 500,000 streams I have, 1 song is downloaded. Grateful either way that people are listening but just so you have an idea of how important Bandcamp is.
Appreciate everyone who's listened to the music, bought the record, come along to shows this year. So much more to come in 2025...
Much love.
-Sly
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Bandcamp Friday! Last one of the year. Thank you all for your support and buy the last of the Liberation merch for your loved ones as Christmas presents! 2024 truly was a Liberating year: sly5thavenue.bandcamp.com/merch
And keep streaming the Kassa remix š„
Getting ready to leave in a few days to head back to Austin, Texas for a few months to rest and prepare to relocate to Los Angeles in April. Looking forward to reconnecting with long time friends and making music.
Much love.
-Sly
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LA-based producer, composer, arranger, and multi-instrumentalist Sly5thAve. Known for his sophisticated compositions, Sylvester Uzoma Onyejiaka II aka Sly5thAveās sound is shaped by his faith in hip-hop, and deep understanding of soul, R&B and jazz.