This is worth checking out - Special "J Dilla's Donuts" tribute show in Chicago last month on this blog: http://funkit.virose.net/?p=5402 First of 3 videos below. Makaya McCraven was a "guest star," which in this case meant he was behind the drum kit from start to finish. Knowing I'm a Makaya fan, my brother-in-law got me tickets for Xmas. Wasn't sure about it, as I'm not much of a hip-hopper and knew nothing about J Dilla. I was a solid 25 years older than the average audience member.
Turned out to be a fantastic show. Big band including singers, horns, and strings played full & soulful arrangements of the album tunes in sequence. (All 30 of 'em...most no more than a minute or two on the original album.) I enjoyed this show a lot, and helped me understand where younger jazz guys like Makaya are coming from, who grew up in a hip-hop world. There are links to FLAC and mp3 files too, but I'm afraid to download them.
Homer Flynn has always been associated with The Residents as an owner of
The Cryptic Corporation, but not much is publicly known about him. He
set out to get to know him a little bit and his approach to creativity.
A group of Siberian percussionists have become an internet hit with an
exhibition of ice drumming on frozen Lake Baikal. In minus 20C, they
found by pure chance that the one metre thick ice has a distinctive and
haunting rhythm all of its own, reported the Siberian Times.
Sokreds (Sun Circle) is a permanent, site-specific sound installation created for the monument Dodekalitten
at Kragenæs on the Danish island of Lolland. When completed, some time
around the year 2025, the monument will consist of 12 megaliths carved
out of solid granite by the Danish sculptor Thomas Kadziola. They stand
on a hill overlooking the sea in a circle 30 meters in diameter, 7-9
meters tall, and weighing up to 50 tons each. There will be 12 permanent
loudspeakers and two subwoofers hidden beneath granite sitting stones.
For now there are 10 megaliths, 5 of which have been sculpted. . .
- It is actually very close to where I live. . . And no, I haven't seen it yet.
That's pretty good - Two teens grooving on some Phil Collins. You knew that reaction to the drum fill was coming, but it's still priceless.
I think partly what they're relating to is the ostentatious (not to say over the top) production, which perhaps foreshadows much of the pop/electro music production they grew up on. Checked to see who the producer was on this 1981(!) album...kind of surprised to learn it was Collins himself
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Turned out to be a fantastic show. Big band including singers, horns, and strings played full & soulful arrangements of the album tunes in sequence. (All 30 of 'em...most no more than a minute or two on the original album.) I enjoyed this show a lot, and helped me understand where younger jazz guys like Makaya are coming from, who grew up in a hip-hop world. There are links to FLAC and mp3 files too, but I'm afraid to download them.
https://youtu.be/Lphw3IwlhSA
Justin Wright - Drone I: Meditation
Big City Orchestra at the 15th Annual Outsound New Music Summit
but it is an interesting new release.
Steve Reich - Six Pianos (At Home)