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Nia Archives, Tierra Whack, AceMo, Kali Malone, Manifestations & Conspiracies, AI generated music, Festivals cancelling..
Hey y’all, hope you are fine! Here are some musical stuff that has been keeping me busy.
💀 The most surreal lyricist in hip-hop biz, Tierra Whack has a new album out.
💀 Another new album that I’m listening to these days is by the avantgarde pipe organist Kali Malone. This should be the first time she's featured compositions for chorus and brass. However the piece I like the most (yet) is still an organ drone. Ethereal.
💀 I recently started reading singer/songwriter Laura Marling’s Patterns in Repeat on Substack, which has some words of wisdom on manifestation & songwriting. I’m sure you are aware that there’s a new age cult of manifesting/conspiracies/energies crowd going wild on social media.
The idea of manifestation is mucky to me, fraught with suspicion and self-importance. That’s not to say I dismiss it as unfathomable. In common parlance, the concept seems too reliant on the idea that the individual is narcissistically powerful, which, in nearly all circumstances, is a recipe for disaster. The unknowable currents of the universe are powerful; we as individuals are passing conduits, struck at random by its shuddering, awesome will. Our desires are powerful, but they are also hard to control - and most of them are mindless, uninspiring and implanted in us by the many and varied nefarious interlopers of late capitalism. The best outcome for desire is that it inspires you, which can feel like it catches its own wave. Love feels like this. That’s why so many great things come from love. The worst outcome is that it annihilates you, torments you and that you become addicted to the torments of your desire.
💀 People like this person below:
📖 Who is Shanin Blake, the E-girl alien conspiracist going viral? (Dazed)
Sung to the sort of neo-soul cadence reminiscent of artists like Erykah Badu and Noname, the words come by way of viral singer-influencer Shanin Blake. With over a million followers, the white-dreaded artist – also referred to as ‘Hippy Barbie’ within certain online circles – is refracting across TikTok feeds with cooked clips preaching high vibrations to her “little shroomies” (the name she gives to her fanbase) through cringeworthy soundbites like, “When life throws you lemons make mushroom tea”, which she films inside a caravan lined with dreamcatchers and moss.
💀 I guess it might be tied to the wellness/healing crowd going awry, that internet sociologist Brad Troemel’s recent report speaks of, or people have lost it completely in the era of post-truth. 🤷
♩Anyone that ain't yet hip to Nia Archives, please do so. This song has been on my mind 24/7 lately. Bonus: NIA’s remix of Jorja Smith’s Little Things.
I feel so lonely, especially in crowded rooms It's a facade, my persona is my costume No one to turn to, they don't understand my blues I feel so lonely, they never know
💀 Well it was about time record labels came after AI. You know that the suits at major labels are incredibly good at smelling money, and if there’s money to be made by feeding you AI generated trash through Spotify, they are obviously going to do it themselves and not let others!
Suno and fellow AI song generator startup Udio (of “BBL Drizzy” fame) were each sued yesterday by a group of copyright-holding giants, including Universal Music Group, Sony Music Group, and Warner Music Group. Record Labels come for music-making AI!
💀 There’s now quite a few posts coming about how there’s not enough demand for live music after pandemic. Summer shows by bands getting canceled, ticket prices are too high, festivals are canceling, Small Venues are having a hard time. The demand for smaller acts/DJs have evaporated since years now. It’s only the arena acts, headliners & the big stage festivals
♩Because this mail has been sitting in draft for some time, maybe you haven’t heard that the latest Undomondo Discover Weekly (which already is about a month old) is a 30 song playlist that covers the whole danceable electronic music territory. Starting deep & soulful, heading into house, picking some of todays hybrid urban, latino bass & ending with harder techno & dnb and more bass. none of the commercial crap and and some oldskool finds!
feat. Lefto Early Bird, WITCH, Champagne Dub, Mateo & Matos, Saoirse, IceMorph, Session Victim, Floating Points, AceMo, Perc, Boris Pupul, L.B. Dub Corp, Oceanvs Orientalis, Calibre, Actress and more...
♩New York producer AceMo has the most coherent electronic music listen this year with an album covering electronic music, techno and bass in a no-skip album called Moblu.
♩I’m proud to have crafted this lineup together with my colleagues, coming mid-July in Istanbul, with a dream booking of Mr. Floating Points!
♩A reddit what if scenario, post-Albini, about who could theoretically play in Shellac with Bob Weston and Todd Trainer (obviously not), led me to this video of St. Vincent covering Big Black 12 years ago. Also if you did miss, he died 6 days before the release of their final record, and it is indeed released now.
♩ Revbjelde has a new material with wonderfully surreal visuals by Ashley Reaks.
"Fans of early library electronics, 70s jazz-folk fusion, dub, pastoral synths, machine noise & primitive punk-funk should get involved."
❤️ How cool are you Marshall! A reality check for us as well. Where would we be if we were to live up to 99. And on that occasion he’s now 100.
See you soon!