Beats Artistry: From the Edge, a Bridge
Requiem 432 by Filastine and Nova, from the album Aphasia out this week (get the album here):
“A funeral party for the age of materialism.”
Tramp the dirt down.
Back in February, Anthony Joseph released Time, a collaboration with bassist and singer Meshell Ndegeocello, and for me, the spoken word album of the year so far, by far. Since then he’s been touring that collection of spoken word funk, jazz, roots, far and wide. And this month, three remixes take three tracks into new territories of sound.
Stop everything for a moment. Pause to listen. This is a very beautiful project, and a valuable project too.
Last week, Puerto Rican hip hop artist Ikol Santiago released this video for a track from his April ’13 album Iguacas.
Essential hip hop. Pataphysics is Pat Marks, Melbourne-based soulful guerilla hip hop artist. Musician and revolutionary poet with insightful rhymes, in both English and Sri Lankan. Latest video hits home, hard.
So many layers in Cyrus Shahrad’s music. So much restrained emotion in Shura’s voice. And this video (by Tom Jobbins), so simple, also very very complicated (much the same could be said about these musical collaborations).
A new track from Ghana’s Mutombo, first release from an album coming in 2013. This time – and foreshadowing many collaborations – Mutombo works with M3NSA.
Checkpoint 303 releases 13 new tracks in May, in collaboration with Palestinian singers Jawaher Shofani and Wardeh Sbeit and poet Jihad Sbeit.