what are you listening to right now?

[Rhen]

[yeniseri]

[aamc]

[Alexatron]

This is kind of catchy . . .

[Steve James]

If you don't watch, you might want to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGD2N5hJ2e0

[shawnsegler]

[Dajenarit]

Early morning on the way to Randall Island music. Race time baby!

[Dmitri]

https://youtu.be/4Ms6rJau8SI

[aamc]

[lazyboxer]

The mellowness



1970s Gambian psychefunk



http://www.deezer.com/track/10314576?utm

Genius '70s Ethiofusion of oldtime big brass marching band, free jazz, '60s rhythm 'n' soul and traditional folk song.



I've loved this extremely ancient court music, representing the Korean expression of Chinese 'Yayue' 雅樂, for over fifty years. Ornette Coleman would have felt right at home back in the Zhou dynasty.

[Steve James]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncvBBjb3iU4

[Dmitri]

Genius '70s Ethiofusion of oldtime big brass marching band, free jazz, '60s rhythm 'n' soul and traditional folk song.

That was genius indeed.

What a voice he has, too...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2GBqKgwk8Y



*edit*
OK just got this https://www.amazon.com/Ethiopiques-Vol- ... 8&qid=&sr=

Thank you!

[Dmitri]

Never heard sax played like this... what a fascinating style!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IPH4PrkHL8

[lazyboxer]

Never heard sax played like this... what a fascinating style!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IPH4PrkHL8

As early as the 1950s, Mr. Mekurya was using his tenor saxophone to emulate the Ethiopian chants known as shellela, traditionally shouted by warriors going into battle.

No wonder we love his music.

When “Negus of Ethiopian Sax” was originally released on Philips Ethiopia, it was a showcase for shellela, with Mr. Mekurya’s tenor ululating over electric bass, organ, piano and drums, in hypnotic triplet meter. The music’s brazen assurance still resonated decades later: One track, simply titled “Shellela,” provided the core sample for “I Come Prepared,” a 2009 single by the rapper K’Naan and the singer Damian Marley.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/arts/music/getatchew-mekurya-ethiopian-jazz-saxophonist-dies-at-81.html



Here's the man backing up Alemayehu Eshete, the James Brown of Ethiopia, back in the early 70s before the horrible Dergue came to ruin everything for everyone.



And finally: much-sampled ultimate groove by the great Mulatu Astatke, driven along by those inimitable Ethio rub-a-dub rhythmics like a stoned donkey hauling an old wooden cart over cobblestones. Play it double speed at maximum volume without changing pitch for the ultimate head trip. You have been warned!

[warriorprincess]