184 entries under "sound"

Hamza el Din: Ud

From Eclipse (1978). Sounds like a voice with similar inflections.

Mother Nature and BoatHouse: HANDZOFF

From SZNZ (2021). The self-professed ‘most dynamic hip-hop duo of all time’. I feel like the verses fill so much space that the breathing is dramatic. Massive sound, blast.

Fredy V & The Foundation: Your Own Way

From One Step (2021). Intro bassline that’s so dark! A perfect groove to accompany the body paint and photography.

BNegão & Os Seletores de Frequência’s: (Funk) Até O Caroço

From Enxugando Gelo (2004). Hip-hop and funk headbanger with a bad-ass guitar riff.

BaianaSystem: O Futuro não Demora (2019)

Various pop/dance rhythms from Brazil.

Shaolin Afronauts: Flight Of The Ancient (2011)

Afrojazz, wild honky saxophone solos, dorian modes, to which you can dance for 45 minutes straight.

Ilessi: Dama de Espadas (2020)

Complex, vital, emotional, and very not-weak-sauce: Dama de Espadas is a bold, rough and sassy blues in Portuguese; Oração pro Gil has onomatopoeic cantations over an African groove; the sort of hard rock vibe in Vivo ou Morto took me by surprise.

Josué Costa In Concert

Imagine walking into a park and seeing a professional Brazilian guitarist sitting alone in a gazebo practicing his own complex jazz and classical compositions, in a pandemic, in a city where people don’t normally sit alone in parks and practice guitar. I'm grateful this musician shared his music (and let me listen with social distancing).

Jacob Collier: Moon River (a cappella, 2019)

Sublime celestial splendor sung by the chorus of a thousand stars. Not sure how I missed it but I think one cannot die before hearing this. I am still working my way through his in-depth hour-and-a-half music nerdery around the creation of this masterpiece.

Dopplebanger: Pussylicker

Mashes up three different songs with electronic grooves and well-placed cowbell.

Lil Nas X: MONTERO (2021)

Outside my milieu, genre-wise, but it’s a bodyshaker that deserves to be blasted on good speakers. The artist explores their sexuality with visual metaphors and vibrant colours.

Amy Winehouse: Cupid

From The Ska EP (2008) might be the song that gets me into ska—I would describe it as ‘uplifting’.

Don Cherry: Lito

From Live At The Bracknell Jazz Festival (1986). Featuring flinging tongues, African grooves, and drummer Ed Blackwell.

Ron Everett: Glitter of the City (1977)

Traditional jazz and swing sounds with weird stuff, and I dug several tracks: Royal Walk_ with warbly instrumentals, loops, screeching, spoken word; Tipsy Lady’s blues/hip-hop and old school drums; Pretty Little Girl’s singing off-key Latin vibe; the 8-bit bossa nova of Untitled No. 4.

Joana Queiroz: Memórias (2019)

Live performance where she builds sound structures with loop pedals and various clarinets, accompanied at times by graceful dancing. Sublime colouring in the photography and clothing.

Joana Queiroz: Performance sonora

Live improvised “sound performance” from 2021. There’s something pure and unfiltered about a human being making music with an acoustic instrument while walking through nature. Accompanying is the sound of birds, dogs, air, footsteps, singing, a self-playing accordion, a fireplace, frogs…

Joana Querioz: Diários de Vento (2016)

Seamlessly integrates nature and song and humanity: it’s the sound of someone enjoying instrument timbres and ambience. Around clarinet melodies there’s a duet with a fly, a child warbling their tongue, clanging pots and pans, squeaking of a rocking chair, lots of tasty sounds. Ai qué delicia!

Joyce: Astronauta (Canções de Elis))

Jazz tributes to Brazilian singer Elis Regina. Solos by Joe Lovano, Mulgrew Miller, and Renne Rosnes.

Wilson Pickett: Steal Away

From Right On (1970). Gospel vibes. Makes you snap your fingers, with both hands, on two and four.

fran: coração tambor

From raiz (2020). Documents the artist’s search for his ancestry in Angola, featuring some indigenous music and percussion.