On January 22, 2021, Humancloud Abandonment, a record that I recorded almost 20 years ago, is getting reissued by Uncommon Records, the same label that put it out back in ’08. The digital release will be available on all streaming platforms. My long time collaborator, Sam Grant did the photography and redesigned the cover art below. January 22 is the release date, but there’s more to come. Look out for further details. …
Tag: Avant Garde
Note: If you’re not familiar with rapper and producer M.Sayyid, please read the previous post I wrote about him, here. At the beginning of the new century, Y2K was suppose to turn our computers against us. They would be unable to count to the year 2000 and thus go into flicking fits that’d crash planes and fail to alarm 9-to-5ers to start their day. The panic mode of this time was like a script that New York City rap quartet …
Tinashe – Aquarius stream Tinashe – Aquarius music videos Tinashe Interview at The Breakfast Club Power 105.1 (10/07/2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9AnV2rV5ls Tinashe Discusses Debut Album “Aquarius” and Early Success on Sway in the Morning Tinashe Performs “2 On” feat. Schoolboy Q on Jimmy Kimmel Live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caA0Ilrok1Q – Aquarius is the debut of R&B singer/songwriter Tinashe. If you’re judging her by the catchy “2 On” single, you’ll find a more diverse sound on this album. Aquarius contains deep, sensual, introspective lyrics, Tinashe’s enticing and breathy …
If you’re still fiending for another documentary on Brazilian music check out Tropicália (2012), an in depth and intimate look at the Tropicália (aka Tropicalismo) movement of music, arts, poetry, theatre and film culture from the late 1960s. The Tropicália movement practice “cultural cannibalism,” a post-modern, remix approach to music, arts, poetry, theatre and film, taking from indigenous Afro-Brazilian music and culture, and mixing them with western styles, and the avant-garde. Tropicália artists played around with being on the fringe, but were not averse to being …
Last Saturday April 12, 2014 in Brooklyn NYC, Fred Ho, Saxophonist, composer, bandleader, playwright, writer, matriarchalist, ecosocialist, revolutionary, and activist passed away from his fight with cancer. A pioneer in Asian American Jazz and Avant Garde Jazz, Fred Ho was known for his Afro Asian aesthetics, a fusion of Asian and African American cultural aesthetics (Fred Ho was against the use of the word “Jazz” which he saw as a demeaning term used by dominant white culture to denigrate African American music). Some examples of Fred Ho’s …
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