I got this music all wrong. On Monday night, after a rotten day, the best my late-night patience could come up with was this:
Shabaka and the Sons of Kemet
Tuned in late and, at 1' 08", I seem to listening to them do their "Somebody to lean on/Molly Malone/Frere Jacques"-medley. But I dunno why they're bothering because it's a bombastic bore. The beat's ok - funk but too crudely heavy to be interesting; this is just nodding music to me.
Oh!, it was "Rastaman Chant", music for stoners. Of course!
Jez Nelson says, "They'd be a good party band." It's good to be light-hearted but in my head it just lumbered, neither light nor hearty. Has the smug insincerity of intoxication that can just as quickly turn to fights/knives.
Matana Roberts - Found her tone uninteresting at the outset but the piece became compelling till the cod trad' portion. Didn't recover anything for me in the breakdown (nor from the segue to the next band).
Shabaka and the Sons of Kemet
Tuned in late and, at 1' 08", I seem to listening to them do their "Somebody to lean on/Molly Malone/Frere Jacques"-medley. But I dunno why they're bothering because it's a bombastic bore. The beat's ok - funk but too crudely heavy to be interesting; this is just nodding music to me.
Oh!, it was "Rastaman Chant", music for stoners. Of course!
Jez Nelson says, "They'd be a good party band." It's good to be light-hearted but in my head it just lumbered, neither light nor hearty. Has the smug insincerity of intoxication that can just as quickly turn to fights/knives.
Matana Roberts - Found her tone uninteresting at the outset but the piece became compelling till the cod trad' portion. Didn't recover anything for me in the breakdown (nor from the segue to the next band).
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