To illustrate how raw Abby Lincoln could get, listen to this track off of We Insist! Freedom Now Suite. Triptych (Prayer-Protest-Peace)- Max Roach featuring Abbey Lincoln, Coleman Hawkins, & Olatunji According to Nat Hentoff's liner notes, Prayer is "the cry of an oppressed people, Protest is a final uncontrollable unleashing of rage," and Peace is the "relaxed exhaustion after you've done everything you can to asset yourself." This triptych was originally conceived as a ballet, and while the majority of [...]
HEALTH engages in simultaneous acts of deconstruction and creation, birthing a modern classic in the process. Get Color is both startlingly original and comfortably fucked up. What is most surprising is just how driving and focused the chaos of this album is. HEALTH takes aim at the horizon with "We Are Water" and fires off a lysergic warning shot with "In Violet." The overall effect of Health's second album is a heightened sonic awareness of environment—everything is suddenly seen with new eyes that change color and glow in the dark. This is modern music.
Yoruba musicians with talking drums I've been waiting a long time for the right theme, so I could share some world music with everyone. Now, the time has come. In western music, notes are layered with other notes to form harmony. Over time, we have developed counter melodies and other levels of complexity in our harmony techniques. In Western Africa, the native music features simple melodies and almost no harmony at all. But the rhythm is quite another matter. Where we layer notes and melodic lines, the musicians of western Africa layer rhythms. Many [...]
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