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)
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)
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)