The Go! Team embrace the flute on their breezy new song “Cookie Scene,” featuring Detroit rapper IndigoYaj.
“Well, I’m feeling kinda funny ’cause life is like a game / Feeling like an enemy, but that’s Ok,” the song opens. “That’s just who I, that’s just who I am.”
Producer Ian Parton builds a funky, malleable groove filled with snare clicks, cabasa twists, booming bass, digital tom-toms, horn flourishes and spacey effects. But the arrangement is anchored by the lead flute hook of Sarah Hayes.
“The stripped back...
“Well, I’m feeling kinda funny ’cause life is like a game / Feeling like an enemy, but that’s Ok,” the song opens. “That’s just who I, that’s just who I am.”
Producer Ian Parton builds a funky, malleable groove filled with snare clicks, cabasa twists, booming bass, digital tom-toms, horn flourishes and spacey effects. But the arrangement is anchored by the lead flute hook of Sarah Hayes.
“The stripped back...
- 7/14/2020
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
You have to play the long game, if you want to survive as a writer. The publication of High Fidelity, in 1995, was just the first step in an ambitious 25-year plan: a successful American edition, even though I set the book in London (check); a much-loved Hollywood movie (check); and then a gender-flipped TV series starring a woman who was six years old when the book was published, but whose talent and star power were obvious even then (check). It is very satisfying when these things pay off.
All rubbish,...
All rubbish,...
- 2/12/2020
- by Nick Hornby
- Rollingstone.com
Solange, When I Get Home
Solange carries her history like a talisman. It’s there to remind her — and us — how to remain grounded while moving forward. With When I Get Home, she pays tribute to her roots in Houston by presenting a therapeutic and transfixing scrapbook that seamlessly brings together the past and the future of her home. With 19 songs the clock in at under 40 minutes total, Solange’s tribute takes an unusual form. She offers brief but potent statements; over half the tracks are under three minutes and...
Solange carries her history like a talisman. It’s there to remind her — and us — how to remain grounded while moving forward. With When I Get Home, she pays tribute to her roots in Houston by presenting a therapeutic and transfixing scrapbook that seamlessly brings together the past and the future of her home. With 19 songs the clock in at under 40 minutes total, Solange’s tribute takes an unusual form. She offers brief but potent statements; over half the tracks are under three minutes and...
- 4/4/2019
- by Jon Dolan, Brittany Spanos and Will Hermes
- Rollingstone.com
The first Nigeria 70 compilation was an ear-opener for fans of Fela Kuti and King Sunny Ade, cultural ambassadors whose Nigerian exports blew the minds of funky post-punks and disco connoisseurs in the U.S. and U.K. in the 1980s. Nigeria 70 version 1.0 laid out a banquet of tracks by those men and lesser-known peers: The Lijadu Sisters, Sir Victor Uwaifo, and the mysterious William Onyeabor, subject of a major revival project decades later.
The fourth volume of Nigeria 70 expands the franchise without diluting it. Nearly half the tracks date to the ‘80s,...
The fourth volume of Nigeria 70 expands the franchise without diluting it. Nearly half the tracks date to the ‘80s,...
- 3/26/2019
- by Will Hermes
- Rollingstone.com
As far as cultishly adored funk musicians from Africa go, William Onyeabor has been slightly undersold.
The barest biography is this: Onyeabor was born on March 26, 1946. He died at 70, following a short illness, on Jan. 16, 2017. During his life, he self-released nine albums of genre-blending funk music from his personal pressing plant in Nigeria, earning him a devoted cult following. In the later part of his life, he became a Born Again Christian and would renounce music, answering all questions about his previous life with a smile and the stock answer, “I only want to talk about God.”
The probably-apocryphal aspects...
The barest biography is this: Onyeabor was born on March 26, 1946. He died at 70, following a short illness, on Jan. 16, 2017. During his life, he self-released nine albums of genre-blending funk music from his personal pressing plant in Nigeria, earning him a devoted cult following. In the later part of his life, he became a Born Again Christian and would renounce music, answering all questions about his previous life with a smile and the stock answer, “I only want to talk about God.”
The probably-apocryphal aspects...
- 1/18/2017
- by alexheigl
- PEOPLE.com
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