New Remix! free download

New Remix from the homey and collaborator Nevin Thomas of the track O.O.M.M.

One of my favorite tracks from my original album "Truthseeker"

Featuring awesome strings from Paul Dateh and more..  Enjoy & download for free!

Update 3.26.12

Hey all!  Just shooting a little update into cyberspace about what's going on in my world!  

Aloe Blacc & The Grand Scheme are currently at home and resting from a lengthy 16ish months on the road in support of the Good Things record and the success of "I Need a Dollar" around the globe!  Got to do some amazing things, highlights include playing Glastonbury, Montreaux Jazz Festival, TV spots on Conan, Jules Holland New Years Hootenanny, Strictly Come Dancing,  multiple performances on Taratata and much more..   as amazing as it was, needless to say we are overjoyed to be home with our family and friends again!  I spent a couple days this last week in Red Bull Studios with Aloe and crew recording some new songs written with piano player Jon Batiste.

  

On the Joel Van Dijk Project front, I have been in woodshed working on some new material for my upcoming project fusing the blues into some more modern elements..  There is no projected release date for the project but you can hear some previews of the material from the boards of Soundwaves Radio Episode 171 featuring yours truly!  Courtesy of friend and DJ Seano, this went live on KPFK90.7 here in Los Angeles.   Just as well, upon my pilgrimage to the motherland (Grass Valley, CA) I visited twice on the air with Steve Baker and Thom Myers Blues Show on KVMR 89.5 as well as visited Thom and The Bandana Blues band for the final Sierra Blues Society's Jam (pictures below).   My first time onstage at a club was at one of these events when I was 15 years old playing the blues, sitting in with blues legend "Fingers" Warren..

 

Other hightlights so far have included playing with Aloe at the Deepak Chopra Sages & Scientists Symposium (great informative seminar with some brilliant minds), one of shows with Mary Akpa (mostly recently seen on the TV Show The Sing-Off), sitting in with great band at The Floor Improv in Hollywood, and getting back in at Manifest Music Productions (currently back in recording/producing rock band "Holly" as well as session playing and more)...

All in all, a great year in progress!  Thanks for staying informed and checking out the site, hoping to have some new music coming your way soon.  Peace and Blessings to ya'll in cyber space!

New JVD project "A Kind of Blues" announced

Greetings,

The newest JVD project in process and soon to be hitting your ears!  This EP (or album, we shall yet see the scale of the result) is a blend of beats and blues sensibility within the modern age and a classic taste of revolution.  Coming soon in 2012!

New Release: "Is There Any Room"-LoveLogiq

Here's a new track my man LoveLogiq wrote to and recorded for his upcoming EP "Logiqly Speaking."  Cowritten and Produced/Played by JVD.  Featuring drums by the one and only Bennie Rodgers II and keys by Ron Avant.

01 Is There Any Room by Love-Logiq

Toby "Evolutionary" EP released! Produced by JVD & The Manifest Music Productions crew!

Toby, formerly of hip hop group "Inverse" released his new EP "Evolutionary" today.  Th EP is completely produced and played by JVD and his good friend Adam Berg and the production team at Manifest Music Productions.   Also featuring singers such as Mary Akpa, Ultralove, James Kinney, Deacon The Villian etc...

 

New music from The Kaj "We Gon Groove"

Happy New Years everyone!

Here is a new track from The Kaj for your ears and years!!

Much more music to come this year from The Kaj and many more!

 

The Kaj.com

Outasight x Cook Classics x JVD

A new track from the man Outasight!  Produced by Cook Classics with guitars and writing from JVD.  Congrats to Outasight x Cook for their recent placements on a Pepsi commercial and his entrance onto the dance charts in the US!

Free Download! Octopotamus remixes "Change" from Truthseeker

My good friend Octopotamus (also known as Douglas Charles Showalter)  remixed this track quite nicely!! Download for free and enjoy!!!

Change (Octopotamus Remix) by Joel Van D

Bridget Barkan covers "What's Going On" (Marvin Gaye)

Produced by DJ Anas Canon of The Kaj, all instruments by Joel Van Dijk

Aloe Blacc & Joel Van Dijk cover Rolling Stones "I Got The Blues" for MOJO Magazine compilation

Pick up a copy of Mojo for this compilation!