Actually considering grabbing this from Guvera. Something else way off my beaten track. I really must be not quite myself today, lol. I think it was Aesop Rock's mention of Pluto that did it (Pluto...space...mothership...sometimes word association is the best kind of playlist), so I'll blame kargatron.
Gp, hm, how should I say this: you risk being viewed as obligated to feel horribly guilty at noting that you're merely "considering" grabbing the best of Parliament for free (or, strictly speaking, at minimal opportunity cost). As opposed to OMG I FINALLY FILLED THIS GAPING HOLE.
From the ocean comes a notion
that the real eyes lies in rhythm,
and the rhythm of vision is a dancer.
From the lookin' come the seeing,
one with real eyes realize
the rhythm of vision is a dancer,
and when he dance, it's always on the one.
-Mr Wiggles (G Clinton, B Worrell, M Hampton)
I'm with kargatron. Big.gaping.hole where The Funk outta be. Remember,
...funk not only moves, it can remove, dig?
The desired effect is what you get
When you improve your Interplanetary Funksmanship
-P.Funk (wants to get funked up) - Bootsy Collins
Interesting discussion on hip-hop, thanks all. It is a genre I've only ever tried on the popular fringes (Will.i.am and K'naan for example); I will follow up.
@greg, I think you actually started my little hip hop flurry a while back by posting the link to those free African albums.... @kargatron, Dr. Mutex, OK, I promise to fill the hole!
GP - if this or their more recent There's Me And There's You are on Guvera it would be worth a listen for you, as they combine electronic music with swing/ big band. The UK label is Accidental Records.
Re-Listening to this outstanding album from a couple years back...
...Prompted me to discover this intriguing one at Guvera.
Since the mid '50s, 72-year-old pianist-composer Randy Weston has explored jazz's pan-African connections. On this CD--named after the ancient Egyptian word meaning "transformation"--Weston pays tribute to the great Senegalese historian and educator Cheik Anta Diop and the ancient African-Asian encounter that took place thousands of years ago in China's Shang Dynasty.
Weston and his long-time collaborators--arranger Melba Liston, percussionist Neil Clarke, trombonist Benny Powell, bassist Alex Blake, and saxophonist-flutist Talib Kibwe--are joined by special guest tenor/soprano saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, African master drummer Chief Bey, and Min Xiao-Fen on the pipa and Chinese gong. With Weston's sparse and deep Duke Ellington/Thelonious Monk-birthed piano tones, the music moves and grooves with an ancestral air.
Along with the hip-hop conversation here's an interesting NY Times column about Kendrick Lamar and gun control. (related post at the Atlantic)
Also, unrelated except in the things to read category, this from Grimes is interesting. She got so much publicity on it yesterday from a Pitchfork article that she took it down for a while.
@amclark2, interesting article, thanks. And the bit about fantasies of control helps me put some other hip hop motifs in context.
ETA, other 2 pieces interesting too, thanks.
@thom <facepalm/> I had no idea that Shugo Tokumaru was on Polyvinyl...For __ONCE__ Amazon sent me an MP3 newsletter relevant to my interests and I learned about Shugo Tokumaru, after listening to his catalog on Rdio I picked up In Focus at Amazon. At the moment, I'm subscribed to Now Again, Domino, and Ninja Tune.
@elwood - I thought it was curious, because Polyvinyl doesn't really seem like your thing in general. How is the album (I'm not on that drip, and probably won't be for now if I'm going to add Ninja Tune and KRS).
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Actually considering grabbing this from Guvera. Something else way off my beaten track. I really must be not quite myself today, lol. I think it was Aesop Rock's mention of Pluto that did it (Pluto...space...mothership...sometimes word association is the best kind of playlist), so I'll blame kargatron.
that the real eyes lies in rhythm,
and the rhythm of vision is a dancer.
From the lookin' come the seeing,
one with real eyes realize
the rhythm of vision is a dancer,
and when he dance, it's always on the one.
-Mr Wiggles (G Clinton, B Worrell, M Hampton)
I'm with kargatron. Big.gaping.hole where The Funk outta be. Remember,
...funk not only moves, it can remove, dig?
The desired effect is what you get
When you improve your Interplanetary Funksmanship
-P.Funk (wants to get funked up) - Bootsy Collins
@kargatron, Dr. Mutex, OK, I promise to fill the hole!
@GP - yes me too, in particular K'naan, then followed by Black Eyed Peas after I saw Will.i.am on TV a few times
G.
GP - if this or their more recent There's Me And There's You are on Guvera it would be worth a listen for you, as they combine electronic music with swing/ big band. The UK label is Accidental Records.
...Prompted me to discover this intriguing one at Guvera.
etc. Cued up for listening!
The more I listen to this the more I enjoy the complex blending of sounds
Also, unrelated except in the things to read category, this from Grimes is interesting. She got so much publicity on it yesterday from a Pitchfork article that she took it down for a while.
Craig
(url=>amz)
From the History of Electroacoustic Music set at ubuweb.
ETA, other 2 pieces interesting too, thanks.
Craig
G.