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Talking Heads - Remain In Light (1980)
What are you listening to? July 2018
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Karyn White - Ritual Of Love (1991)
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Los Lobos - Colossal Head
Incognito - Tribes, Vibes, & Scribes (1992)
Take a boy born in Mauritius, a woman raised in Baltimore, a band of mostly Brits, add a smokin' Stevie Wonder cover, and you end up with one of the hippest Brit Soul /slash/ Acid Jazz albums of the nineties.
I can still remember when a good friend (with slightly different musical tastes than mine) first played this album for me one drunken night. Game.Changer. He joked for years afterward that in the beginning I didn't like the band much, but a year later I was a bigger fan than he could ever imagine being of any musician.
Take a boy born in Mauritius, a woman raised in Baltimore, a band of mostly Brits, add a smokin' Stevie Wonder cover, and you end up with one of the hippest Brit Soul /slash/ Acid Jazz albums of the nineties.
I can still remember when a good friend (with slightly different musical tastes than mine) first played this album for me one drunken night. Game.Changer. He joked for years afterward that in the beginning I didn't like the band much, but a year later I was a bigger fan than he could ever imagine being of any musician.
Jodeci - Diary Of A Mad Band (1993)
Maybe it's the fact they're fellow North Carolinians. Maybe it's that their career started and grew when I was a young man of similar age and ... interests. Maybe it's that one crazy weekend in Virginia Beach when me and my boys kind of hung out with half of Jodeci at the height of their popularity, prowling the strip and listening to two of them air grievances about the other half of the group.
Or maybe it's just that this album, particularly the first half, is so damn good. The second half falters a little, as their first did slightly less so, once they mix in some upbeat tunes into the playlist. Thing is, the way the first half digs down into the groove, they don't necessarily need to go uptempo to generate energy. Their slow jams are imbued with energy.
Warning: Smokey Robinson and the Miracles this most certainly isn't. You have been warned.
Maybe it's the fact they're fellow North Carolinians. Maybe it's that their career started and grew when I was a young man of similar age and ... interests. Maybe it's that one crazy weekend in Virginia Beach when me and my boys kind of hung out with half of Jodeci at the height of their popularity, prowling the strip and listening to two of them air grievances about the other half of the group.
Or maybe it's just that this album, particularly the first half, is so damn good. The second half falters a little, as their first did slightly less so, once they mix in some upbeat tunes into the playlist. Thing is, the way the first half digs down into the groove, they don't necessarily need to go uptempo to generate energy. Their slow jams are imbued with energy.
Warning: Smokey Robinson and the Miracles this most certainly isn't. You have been warned.
Dionne Farris - Wild Seed, Wild Flower (1994)
Groovy, Woke, and Underrated.
Groovy, Woke, and Underrated.
Various Artists - Panther: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1995)
A mixture of contemporary remakes of 60s-70s Soul classics and newly written songs that capture the spirit of the movie.
A mixture of contemporary remakes of 60s-70s Soul classics and newly written songs that capture the spirit of the movie.
Mint Condition - Definition Of A Band (1996)
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The Heads - Rkt! (2018)
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Weezer - Weezer (1994)
Mary J Blige - Share My World (1997)
Maxwell - Embrya (1998)
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Fela Kuti - Buy Africa (1997)
Meshell Ndegecello - Bitter (1999)
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Hopesfall - Arbiter (2018)
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Dead Sea Apes - Recondite (2018)
Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Strings - Renegades (2010)
This is some weird Chicago sort-of avant-garde Jazz flute with strings malarkey going on. I can't really describe this. I can't do a RIYL, except in the vaguest broadest sense to bring up Alice Coltrane. I can't say, "Hey, MG member X will like this." This is like in its own rhomboid concentric circle.
Maybe you'll like this. Probably you won't. Sometimes I pull out a Nicole Mitchell album and switch it after a couple of minutes because I realized I wasn't in the mood for it. Today, right now, this is right on mood point.
This is some weird Chicago sort-of avant-garde Jazz flute with strings malarkey going on. I can't really describe this. I can't do a RIYL, except in the vaguest broadest sense to bring up Alice Coltrane. I can't say, "Hey, MG member X will like this." This is like in its own rhomboid concentric circle.
Maybe you'll like this. Probably you won't. Sometimes I pull out a Nicole Mitchell album and switch it after a couple of minutes because I realized I wasn't in the mood for it. Today, right now, this is right on mood point.
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DeVotchKa - How It Ends (2004)
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