Katrah Quey – Solidary and Selections Volume 2 (and it starts)
I’ve been listening to this, at first by accident – you know how clicking gets when you’re a maniiaacc . Fresh drops on specific atmospheric walls. Good beats and good proportion to this remix album.
And now a raunchy groove to get your motion in a commotion! Haha, laugh that last one off. But it’s true. Thank Blog I ain’t a critic and I can use eashfa to show mainly, mostly love to artists who deserve it.
The Politik are Bembe Segue (all you Brasil fiends out there know her for sure) and producer Mark de Clive-Lowe. The sound is broken beat canvas, soul and jazz oil painting. The songs that I’m digging are High Priestess, with a laid-back sunny vibe reminiscent of Azymuth, Moonlight featuring BLU and Black Sun.
The record boasts a plethora of beat makers and rhyme sayers – Wajeed, Daz I-Kue (Bugz in The Attic), Jason Yarde and respectively BLU, replife, plus one of my personal favourites, Bahamadia. Such a diverse range within the creation process might have got the musical message shattered. Common ground was found to build upon, detonated, then reassembled. And the result is so fresh it might take some ears getting used to.
There’s a mixtape for you to download and preview the album (released 31.07.2007)
Goodies come in many shapes and kinesthetic flavours (and many a Madlib musical persona). Stones Throw are releasing the Yesterday’s Universe album (July 17). This is one of Madlib’s many projects, consisting of Yesterday’s New Quintet’s (Joe McDuphrey, Ahmad Miller, Monk Huges, Malik Flavors and Otis Jackson Jr) funked-up jazz experiments. Only, you do understand, those five names are guises of the same Madlib.
When you think about it, it’s not so much fantastical as it is a story, a tale of fantastical substance, which is part of how jazz affects the listener. But it seems very real, because it’s like poetic license, an understanding between you, the receiver, and the creator, to inhabit this wonderland for a while.
Yesterday’ Universe will walk us through Madlib’s prolific journey into jazz, ; it’s bound to mesmerize and I can’t wait for it. The album also features Karriem Riggins and Azymuth’s Mamão on drums.
An mp3 for ya:
Triosk are three guys from Australia with a taste for sounds derivative of jazz, but with a more compound style attached. Don’t get me wrong, this music might seem layered to the point of all absurdity at times, but it simply takes the beauty of jazz – improvization (they do improvise during their live sets) and an array of electronic artillery to craft waves of floaty+crackly music. Like a bowl of milk and cereal.
Triosk have been around since 2001 and sound like they know what they’re doing but they’re still fooling around: like on 20,000 Dollar Handshake there’s a fidgety piano in the background that has no logical reason for being there in light of the totally different beat from the rhythm section..
Also, in jazz as you might know, you basically play the piano backwards compared to classical music – you have to re-hash what you think you know about making the piano talk. Triosk have that backwards approach down, and I can’t figure what exactly sets the ambiance in my favourite track – Lost Broadcast, they have so many things going at once. That specific track suffers (pretty well I might add) from the ‘is it a bird is it a plane” syndrome. Chaos that isn’t random, that might strike you as oh-so Prefuse 73.
Intensives Leben certainly had that effect on me, but no one song determines the big picture of what Triosk sound like. You have to check them out for yourselves. Oh and another thing I love – no vocals, a sign of a superior breed of noise.
I'm a sucker for experimental that sounds good. Because some musicians use it as a guise to parade about unsightly amalgams of courageous sound.
Now, when you're experimental, you don't really have a label, you don't use lyrics to get a message across, you sound like you've been produced by Sigur Rós, stepped on the toe by Mogwai and hugged by Esbjörn Svensson Trio until you caught their genius-enzyme… well that is art my friend and not fart. It's fantastic music for sweeping leaves with your eyes. Or whatever. Jumping off a carousel. I'm not going to say this will be big. But you don't know me well enough to trust my instincts, do you. Hm.
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