Lukas Ligeti - African Machinery: holy mother of god this is...this is...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s74SpX8ydIw

Just listen to it. I don't know whether to grin, dance, cry, shoot myself, cheer or faint. It's THAT crazy. Also completely fucking awesome.

(This is what happens when an avant-garde electronic composer goes to Africa, jams with locals, and recombines the results into his work - seemingly all at once)

visit europe more (acoleuthic), Monday, 9 August 2010 22:56 (fifteen years ago)

His band, Burkina Electric just put out an album and it's great

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2010/01/download_burkin.php

shake that ˁxᴥxˀ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 9 August 2010 22:59 (fifteen years ago)

That is sweet. Album's on Spotify too, gonna check it out now.

seandalai, Monday, 9 August 2010 23:04 (fifteen years ago)

^____________________________________________________^ @ this, Whiney

visit europe more (acoleuthic), Monday, 9 August 2010 23:07 (fifteen years ago)

yep, this is a hell of a record

69, Monday, 9 August 2010 23:10 (fifteen years ago)

it is great

want to hear the Burkina Electric record. the first Beta Foly record worth hunting down too, especially for the first third.

Milton Parker, Monday, 9 August 2010 23:16 (fifteen years ago)

is he another one of those second generation guys like Sam Adams and Gyan Riley?

sarahel, Monday, 9 August 2010 23:21 (fifteen years ago)

ah man, I now really want to get that and Ligeti's two Tzadik records (African Machinery, which I've only heard the above youtube of, and Mystery Systems) - they all look super-fabulous

visit europe more (acoleuthic), Monday, 9 August 2010 23:22 (fifteen years ago)

Mystery Systems was good but Afrikan Machinery is the one where things really seemed to click

& yeah he's György's son

Milton Parker, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 01:02 (fifteen years ago)

thanks, ken!

sarahel, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 01:04 (fifteen years ago)

Neat!

Nate Carson, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 10:11 (fifteen years ago)

Paspanga is fucking AMAZING

visit europe more (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 13:57 (fifteen years ago)

three months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE528AccDtI

just in case you'd forgotten how rad this was

pro EVOO sucker (acoleuthic), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:49 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

sooooo badass.

Fetchboy, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 10:42 (fifteen years ago)

on my AOTY shortlist fyi

suzypwn (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 17:23 (fifteen years ago)

2008 release, btw.

Yours sincerely, Bad Poetry (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 17:41 (fifteen years ago)

I was thinking of the LL release. I'll have to check out the BE, too.

Yours sincerely, Bad Poetry (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 17:46 (fifteen years ago)

Yes, you will.

Fetchboy, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 21:33 (fifteen years ago)


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