FUCK, I never pay enough attention to the Strathmore calendar.
― Chris L, Monday, 26 February 2024 14:29 (three months ago) link
Quick tip for anybody: his "Highly Rare" and "Where We Come From" LPs are half-priced ($12) on Bandcamp through this weekend.― daily growing, Saturday, February 24, 2024 1:54 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― daily growing, Saturday, February 24, 2024 1:54 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Wow thanks for the heads up! I have not heard either. What are they like?
― Indexed, Monday, 26 February 2024 17:23 (three months ago) link
Highly Rare is a chopped-up beat tape made from a four-track live recording of McCraven with Nick Mazzarella on alto sax, Ben Lamar Gay on cornet and diddley-bow, and Junius Paul on electric bass. It's good, and/but very raw — deliberately so.
Where We Come From is also live, and a little less primitively recorded; it's from London and features Soweto Kinch and Nubya Garcia on saxes, Theon Cross on tuba, Joe Armon-Jones on Fender Rhodes and Kamaal Williams on keyboards. Then some other people overdubbed additional instruments later. It's really good, one of my favorite of his albums in fact.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 26 February 2024 17:42 (three months ago) link
Thank you!
― Indexed, Monday, 26 February 2024 18:04 (three months ago) link
Those two might be my favorite Makaya records. Highly recommend both.
― three of the doctor's valuable bats are now dead (broom air), Monday, 26 February 2024 22:23 (three months ago) link
In These Times vinyl sale:
https://www.turntablelab.com/products/makaya-mccraven-in-these-times-indie-exclusive-colored-vinyl-vinyl-lp
― Indexed, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 18:15 (one week ago) link
Been listening to the B side of that a bunch recently
― Heez, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 18:21 (one week ago) link
Great record. I listened to that so much when it came out. Thanks for the reminder to pull it out.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 19:07 (one week ago) link