“Chocolate City” - Parliament Funkadelic
“If they come to march on ya, tell ‘em to make sure they got their James Brown pass”
Posted February 7, 2010 at 10:36pm by llimllib
“Kaira” - Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabaté
The Kora is a really lovely instrument, and Toumani Diabaté one of its masters.
I’ve posted about Ali Farka Touré’s son before, but here’s the master himself.
The whole album is full of great grooves, it’s basically just these two masters jamming with each other the whole time.
Posted February 4, 2010 at 3:14pm by llimllib
“Spill the Wine” - Eric Burdon & War
This video makes me wonder two things. 1) Was Eric Burdon the Björk of the 70s? and 2) how hard was the director of this video trying not to show the white guy with an afro and apparently no purpose?
Posted February 3, 2010 at 12:51pm by llimllib
“Protect Ya Neck” - El Michels Affair
What was that you said? That I wasn’t posting enough funk/soul covers of the Wu Tang Clan? Well, problem solved.
You should check out the shimmy shimmy ya cover too, it features kids singing the chorus. Amazing.
Posted February 2, 2010 at 3:06pm by llimllib
“Journey in Satchidananda” - Alice Coltrane
Despite being a big Coltrane fan, I’d never read much about him, and I had no idea that his wife made amazing music like this track. Hat tip to Gilles Peterson for hipping me to Alice Coltrane.
Posted February 1, 2010 at 1:49pm by llimllib
“Paranoid Android” - Brad Mehldau
Posted January 31, 2010 at 11:22am by llimllib
“Valley of Life” - McCoy Tyner
This fits in really well with a lot of the minimal music I’ve been listening to lately, and bridges the gap into the jazz world as well; McCoy Tyner was one of Coltrane’s favorite pianists.
Compare to Spirit Fingers
Posted January 30, 2010 at 1:32pm by llimllib
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“Fanta” - Coulibaly Tidiani et l’authentique Dafra Star de Bobo Dioulasso
African guitar sounds just makes me so damn happy.
Via the most excellent worldservice blog.
“Cars” - Cookin’ on 3 Burners
A nifty breakbeat cover of the Gary Numan classic that sadly lacks the wonderfully 80’s video of the original.
Posted January 28, 2010 at 7:22pm by llimllib
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“New York Counterpoint - Fast” - Steve Reich
A lovely modern fugue. When the two main voices come together at 3:30, I get chills down my spine.
