Mbira and kalimba: classic or dud? Search + destroy!

Jim Infantino's song "Gangway" has a kalimba solo in the middle.

And if I could find it on YouTube, I'd post the link, but I can't, so I won't.

Jazz drummer Chad Taylor incorporates mbira into a lot of his stuff, particularly with the Chicago Underground Duo, Trio, etc.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, July 29, 2022 9:56 AM

thank you for this mention. i am aware of him because of his past collaborations with people from the sea and cake. looked into and this is the most recent such thing. gave it a quick preview and sounds good. will definitely revisit. also wow, had no clue he was involved in so many different things.

also back to pop songs that incorporate it-

mount kimbie, duh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjSKEyR2vDo

"marilyn" featuring micachu (2017)

i am really enjoying this reissue of a private press cassette by two early 80s beardos from cleveland (by same rvng spin-off label that reissued ursula leguin and todd barton's "music and poetry of the kesh")

it's all in this sort of "spiritual jazz meets geinoh yamashirogumi" mode, though the rest is more synth-y. probably a good one for fans of roland p young and midori takada's mkwaju albums?

anyway hard for me to tell because there's not really any credits on the album but i think there is a metallophone of some sort on this track?

universal liberation orchestra - consciousness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7BY8Z0ydW0

^^ this album very good. would say it’s also slept-on but all 555 LP copies have been snatched up and no copies left on internet. in fact just saw one go for three times the retail price i paid two weeks ago, so maybe not. you can still enjoy it on bandcamp and apple music and i recommend you do so.

Fantastic mix: https://www.nts.live/shows/open-hand-real-flames/episodes/open-hand-real-flames-22nd-november-2023

Liking it some , but a little too nts repetitive at times for me.