Aside from HipHop... (new music related)
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Does anyone actually listen to a lot of "new" music? It seems like being into rare and obscure sounds from the past, there's almost no time or energy to really get into anything too deep on the current tip. Maybe I'm just soft, but I can't really juggle the two worlds properly. I'm just talking serious music burn-out after awhile.
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Yeah, thats the problem. I can only do so much wading. Those year end "best of" lists all the e-rags publish can help. But I often find those to often be just derivative carbon-copies of eachother. So yeah, whenever I get in the mood to listen to current music, I just fall back on the stuff I discovered like 5 years ago.
- spidey
That said my dose of the new stuff comes through listening to a lot of dancehall and reggaeton, if only because I've got good reggae shops and radio stations in my area. When I go out I hardly go to listen to a bloke playing his
When I'm at home its all Blue Note, Mulatu, Clive Chin and trying out those shitty ones I bought from the Oxfam for ??2 cos when I'm at home I wanna relax.
i'd say i listen to approx 1/2 new 1/2 old... and my definition of "old" doesnt only mean genius black music recorded between 1967 and 1975 either. By old i mean anything that didnt come out last year.
But this thread raises something I've had on my mind this week:
Is it me or has the real vanguard of innovation in African-American music shifted from hip-hop to contemporary gospel music? I realize it can be argued that innovation is present in mainstream hip-hop, but as far as carrying on the long-standing tradition of African-Americans being at the forefront, leading the way, of American music, creating new music which has the longevity to retain its importance for future generations, I hear so much obviously brilliant music coming out of contemporary gospel.
Now i don't mean to dismiss real contributions that some 'hip-hoppers' have made of late, but the new gospel music is like the complete package. Soul for dayz, integrity, innovation, virtuosity, widespread popular appeal.... And i'm not even Christian. Naturally this is a hip-hop + dusty music-based board, contemporary gospel doesn't get its props around here. But heads need to realize that this is perhaps the current musical movement that is artistically prospering,
just some thoughts... i'd be interested to hear the reactions of people more connected to the streets!
Interesting. I will say I listen to the Sunday morning gospel shows from time to time, but I don't know much...could you give some examples.
A few months ago I was in a two traffic light town, ******, NC, and there was a second floor gospel recording studio that had a band playing some of the most amazing, heavy music I'd ever heard. Imagine if Sabbath were brothers and singing about Jesus...anyways I went and got a chili dog and a sweet tea and listened to them for about an hour on a bench.
I also went with a coworker to her church to see Marvin someody (can't rememeber) and it was probably the best 'show' I'd seen all year.
Anyone hearing any good new jazz?
check out anything by babatunde lea. bay area percussionist who plays with pharoah sanders on occassion. definitely on the level.
see that's the thing, i don't know much either- as far as artists or CDs to recommend. All i know is i can go to any number of churches within like a 3 mile radius from where i live, and have it be like your story about the NC town. I was somewhere last weekend literally trying to contain tears in my eyes just at how beautiful the music was.
I understand that Curtis Martin, the famous running back and hometown boy here, makes