Why does electronic music have a (coupla) step(s) up on classical? Many many, but here's a few: no need for a whole damn symphony (that's what comps are for!), it has drumbeat, and any 'ol body can do it! Classical, however, has that enduring devotion that people like Chopin, Rachmaninoff, or hell even that crazy bastard, Scriabin had. But, do I hope we're getting there. Anyway, I'm stoked on this:
....DJ Egadz everyone. Give him a couple more years and he'll no doubt rival my current favorite electronic artiste, Tony Simon
DJ Egadz - White Flag
By the by, that new favorite artist I've probably told everyone about? Yes, Nujabes. I found his source (and Mr. Simon's source as well!). The throughly fantastic (yet older) jazz musician, Yusef Lateef. One of my new favorites, still putting out music/teaching at 90. Plus he was part of the Black Muslim movement of the 60s(ish), which is one of those marginal little pockets in history that I love to know everything about. Now, find me three songs in this one:
Yusef Lateef--Love theme from 'The Robe'
Ahhh, yes, up and coming beauty Andreya Triana has recently put up her debut. You may recognize her from Bonobo's newest masterpiece, Black Sands. Here's the title track song:
Andreya Triana - Lost Where I Belong
And this song is just too damn cute:
The Hundred in the Hands - Gigantic Tom Tom
As regards other brilliant media, Julian Schnabel is my director of the week because he makes beautiful, meditative films about liminial individuals and he paints and shit. Most presently, his film Before Night Falls is one of the best bestowed upon mine eyes and soul in the last year. Additionally, Revanche is my individual film of the month.
Anyway, to add an animal kingdom atop my preexisting capitol of Alderaan, I've been caught up in between James Baldwin's Another Country and Douglas Hofstadter's newest essaie, I am a strange Loop and have found myself in a piecemeal niche--along with the Jazz and beats that is the new metronome for my biology--where I'm digging my teeth into a kind of uncannily beautiful mist of romance, dreaming again and walking on water upside down...and I feel like my mind built this when I wasn't looking...
Well, tomorrow I part for NY. Boy am I stoked to see some of the most beautiful people I've ever had the abounding luck to meet and befriend....who knows where I'll be after that?
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