Cause this hyped for different reasons:
Whose swagger reminds me of:
Black Label Bicycle Club’s ’07 Bike Kill
Which harks on craftsmanship of a different note:
Result of Condor Cycles‘ collab with Richard James
Whose poise, if nothing else, lends an ear to the world of the Far-Too-Fast:
Filed under: Aural Pleasure, Visual Basics | Tags: mp3, Nicole Willis, The Soul Investigators
I’m trying to see the signs of where the first five chords of this song are directing me, but I just can’t get a grasp of the song they’re bringing me back to.
Maybe it’s just one of those familiar little riffs.
Regardless, this here is Nicole Willis meshing with the Soul Investigators.
Two songs here from her zero-5 album, Keep Reachin’ Up, that I’ve been feeling the past days.
Feeling Free
The Rhodes on No One’s Gonna Leave you is just killin me.
Shit, the Rhodes always kills me.
And the steady un-steadiness of the guitar’s pluck-pluck is so on point for this song.
Feelin’ Free is another one of those jams that opens up in such broad terrain. First time I heard it was just on the edge of my seat “where the hell is this going, cause I’m 30 seconds in and I still don’t have a clue what era this is, what lifeculture this is woven from”. Think that all ties in with the song title, lyrics, and hot crisps of Willis’ voice.
Other songs on Keep Reachin’ Up do the same. The song Holdin’ On is one that comes to mind. And it has a Rhodes solo that just blows it up.
In other news, Sesame Street has recently been taken over by MOP.
Yap that fool!
¡Up’n’Up!
Filed under: Aural Pleasure, Visual Basics | Tags: Bablee, Bonde Do Role, Chief Boima, Coupé-Décalé, DJ Znobia, Konono #1, Radioclit
Fuck Shit Up w/ Your Booty Bouncin Bump Bump.
That could definitely be used to describe some different current musics of the African Diaspora. Baile Funk, so sure. Jungle/Drum’n’Bass, no question. Hip-Hop/Rap, mos def. Coupé-Décalé? What the shit is that?
Its like the Carnival of Soca, Samba, Baile Funke, Zouk, Kuduro, and Chicago House. Coming out of the Coups, Civil Wars, riots, political and social firestorms, of the last…well, 9 years more or less (the ’99 Coup, the ’02 Fuck-all, the ’04-’07 Explosion, the current oppression by Soro) Coupé-Décalé is Côte d’Ivoire’s up-tempo response that’s being picked up all across the UK, France, and apparently much of Western Europe.
This is a mixer spotting:
Tony Allen v Bonde do Role w/ “Awa Nare Remix”
Usher v. Chief Boima w/ “Love in this African Club”
Bablee w/ “Tout Est Dedans”
Elephant Man v. Chief Boima w/ “Free Your Soul”
Angola’s DJ Znobia w/ “Mono Mono”
Radioclit w/ “Secousse”
and
Konono No. 1 w/ “Paradiso”
Now Bonde do Role can border Baile (if only because they poke fun at it at times), but this is minimized and refixed so as to let the West African underpinnings buoy up. Chief Boima mixes Usher, which ain’t my drinkydrank, but Boima stills kills it. Bablee’s Tout Est Dedans is next with some ridiculous polyrhythmic-ity that apparently is only a 3-minute cut from the tracks 19+min build…I’m loving this cut so Imma have to find that madness.
And then there’s “Free Your Soul”. Which is the jam.
Shit is the JAMMMMM.
And the seamless segue way into Znobia’s Kuduro hitter is…yep.
“Secousse” drops the second-to-last bit, actually weighing more on the Kuduro side, but it makes for a good set-up to Konono #1’s “Paradiso”.
Check the video for some visuals:
DJ Ramsey cuttin CASSETTE TAPES.
WHAT!!?
Seems like a work in progress, but its still blowin my mind.
And then there are these kids.
9 and 6 year-old Sara and Ryusei.
And look at the beautiful collection they got goin on behind them. Someones’ moms and/or pops provided right!
Filed under: Aural Pleasure, Visual Basics | Tags: Lost Art, Os Gemeos, Racionais MCs, Rappin' Hood
Since we tip-toed over São Paulo in the last post, I feel compelled to brush by it again. I’ve only briefly passed through the city and, well, it’s not small. And by that I mean it’s the fourth largest city in the world, hovering somewhere around 11 million people. And while Rio may be associated internationally with Baile Funk, Bossa Nova, Samba and some of their respective musicians – Jobim, Gilberto, Regina, Buarque, Veloso, Gil, Marlboro, Andinho, Tigrona (the list goes on) – there’s equally as much going on in São Paulo.
Hip-Hop is one:
Rappin’ Hood – A Bola Do Mundo
Rappin’ Hood – Sujeito Homem
Racionais MCs – A Vida e Desafio
Os Gemeos (The Twins) are representative of another thriving culture – graf.
There were throw ups and full pieces throughout the city (and elsewhere) and every one made the life in city-life a little warmer. Os Gemeos blew up in the 90’s through the help of 12oz Prophet and have finally put out a book and closed up shop with an exhibit in the Netherlands.
Finally, check out Lost Art – an incredible site visualizing the haps in Brazil. It’s created by a number of people in São Paulo who walk and travel and live and hope and play with/through their cameras. A really amazing site pumpin the meta-art.
São Paulo, you may be big and fat, dirty and all industrial, but damn, you can get down.
Filed under: Vidbit, Visual Basics | Tags: Ads, RocketBoom, São Paulo, Tony de Marco
São Paulo’s No Ad, CleanCity Campaign (Photo’s By Tony Marco):
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