🎵 R.I.P. Mory Kanté, the great griot voice of African music. Different versions of Yeke Yeke followed me throughout my life. From the original smash hit in 1984, to the Hardfloor Remix during an endless rave night on Glastonbury 1995, to the traditional Super Yeke(!) from 2017.
🎵 My week in music (week #20 2020)
Favourite handpicked playlist I listened to this week: “Early Alternative (1960 - 1980)”
🎵 My week in music (week #19 2020)
Didn’t listen to much, but was struck by the death of two 20th century giants… RIP Little Richard and Florian Schneider. Without them, we wouldn’t have…. well, almost all of contemporary pop and alternative music..?
🎵My week in music (week #18 2020).
Played a lot of random music from my library this week. I love letting the shuffle button take me on unexpected musical journeys.
Also heard of the death of Tony Allen after listening to his great ‘new’ album with the late Hugh Masekela.
I was going through my sound archive and found a bunch of MiniDiscs. No way I will ever play them back anymore, but they’re simply too beautiful to trash them...
🎵My week in music (week #17 2020)
Didn’t listen to a lot of music due to a crazy busy online work week, but enjoyed the new albums by Fiona Apple, Tamikrest and Chatham County Line.
🎵My week in music (week #16 2020)
Listened to a random and eclectic mix this week. Highlights: Teiji Ito, Bernard Hermann, The Delines and Tamikrest.
🎵My week in music (week #15 2020).
I particularly enjoyed Alva Noto’s just released cover version of The Cure’s A Forest, already 40 (?!) years old this year. I also listened to some 90s gems like Soul Coughing and Tracy Bonham.
🎵My week in music (week #14 2020)
🎵R.I.P. Bill Withers… As a young kid, playing Lean on Me on the piano made me believe that I could play like a pro, and it helped me to keep on practicing. Such a sweet, simple but genius song.
🎵R.I.P. Krzysztof Penderecki… Listening to A Polish Requiem: XII. Agnus Dei
🎵 My week in music (week #13 2020)
🎵My week in music (week #12 2020)
🎵 I very much love this idea for a collective drone concert in quarantaine. Hope it works out as planned!
”Let’s all gather (in our shelters) and produce a drone (in C) from our balconies and windows that can be heard across the city – unifying us all in isolation and reverberating love and compassion“
🎵 My week in music (week #11 2020)
🎵♥️ Sixteen Oceans - Four Tet (2020)
🎵 My week in music (week #10 2020)
🎵 McCoy Tyner, Jazz Piano Powerhouse, Is Dead at 81 - The New York Times
”When you are thinking of Coltrane playing “My Favorite Things” or “A Love Supreme,” you may be thinking of the sound of Mr. Tyner almost as much as that of Coltrane’s saxophone.”
So true.
🎵♥️ Suddenly - Caribou ♥️
🎵 My week in music (week #9 2020)
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