#Afro-Caribbean jazz during his time there the polyrhythms are f*cking on point etc etc | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

theinfinitedivides · 7 months ago

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what do i have to do to get Joanna Newsom fans to listen to Shabaka and his recent solo debut album Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace. what do i have to sell who do i have to bribe pls brethren he is right there

#joanna newsom #ys #shabaka #shabaka hutchings #perceive its beauty acknowledge its grace #ok so. story time. first came across Shabaka while he was still in Sons of Kemet (aka before he retired from the sax for the #forseeable future) and absolutely f*cked with that sh*t. i mean F*CKED with it bc look. he's Bajan. he's cranking out some serious #Afro-Caribbean jazz during his time there the polyrhythms are f*cking on point etc etc #tucked that sh*t away in my Spotify library didn't think much of it. then i heard he was retiring from sax to focus on other instruments #and went '??????' bc yk. Shabaka. sax. kind of inseparable. he did it anyway for his mental health's sake and i'm proud of him #but then. THEN he dropped the first single off of this album on us back in February and i lost it. then he dropped the second #in March and the third in April with he and Moses Sumney i. good God just take me already nah #by the time it dropped on April 12 a day after the Sumney drop i was locked tf in. like it has been on rotation with some of my #other favorites since but anyway. only recently i realized while loading it up again that 'hey this sounds like something Joanna #would put out' and lo and behold. he says it right there that's exactly why it sounds like that brethren. pls. listen to the entire #thing for me pls. the last track called 'Song of the Motherland' features his father performing a spoken word piece and lives #inside my head rent free now. sorry. if this haunts me then it must haunt you too i don't make the rules

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