Goapele’s sound is at one moment R&B and then Funk and then Jazz and then Pop and then right back to Blues. She can be cool and heartbreaking and her music and lyrics have a Billie Holiday feel. Her music is like a painting where you can see the influences of the Dutch Masters, the Impressionists, the Surrealists all at once. And just when you feel that you have figured it out — she’ll bring the house down with a Motown influenced song. What Goapele does so well, is that she takes these iconic sounds and weaves them together to form something so beautiful it’s hard to describe in words. It’s one thing to do this on an album but quite another to do it in a live performance. Goapele does it — and does it perfectly.

Goapele dropped a new EP of remixes for “Play”, a key track from her recent Break of Dawn album. Josh One, Beat Ventriloquists, & Substratum offer new takes on an already great song.