Falling out the Sky
Modern Love, Mdou Moctar, Filhos de Ghandy, Lithophones, Armand Hammer & Earl Sweatshirt, Carista, Genesis, Dorival Caymmi, Kae Tempest.
Welcome to a new Mondo Times edition. This has been in the drafts for a bit too long, so, apologies if some news aren’t news to you anymore!
New BBE Music Bowie covers compo is in heavy rotation, featuring Khruangbin, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Kit Sebastian, Jeff Parker et al. One of my Bowie faves, Panic in Detroit has been treated well by Brasilian singer Sessa, another favourite is Bullion’s cover “Where are we Now”. [[Bandcamp]]
New Armand Hammer vid features Earl Sweatshirt, and watching it made me the last person to realize that billy woods has never really shown us his face. Fader is obviously quicker in realizing the virtue of hiding, and bandcamp mentions he is rapping from the shadows. // Extra: Read this interview on Flood Magazine to get to know the best in the game these days. [[In Conversation: Armand Hammer Discuss the Magic Behind “Haram”.]]
More Touareg desert blues from Mdou Moctar, in the style of Ali Farka Toure with an Agadez touch. Heartfelt footage on the video shot by director Cem Misirlioglu.
MENTALLY SOMEWHERE ELSE
Mndsgn has just debuted his new album with a live show from Masterclass gardener Ron Finley’s garden. This is such a big deal, as the garden is heavenly, and I am a big fan of what the guerrilla gardener preaches.
Do you wanna see Phil Collins with hair, I bet even he does! The opener piece The Musical Box is phenomenal here and this 4K remasters are more real than real?.
The intensity of this would hit me like a ton of bricks! Kae Tempest has made me hold back my tears many times while listening to her on the headphones in public. I don’t think I’d have been able to hold my composure here, or here.
PALEOFOOTAGE
I’ve always wanted to do some song archaeology to follow songs in time, which would of course take an immense amount of my already nonexistent time, if I were to do it properly. However I couldn’t miss this classic samba tune, “Você já foi a Bahia?” sung by its composer Dorival Caymmi, and then go through to the Joao Gilberto version and end up at the Astrud Gilberto version? Which I guess is how most people are exposed to this tune - or worse through 90’s Cafe del Mar nujazz/bossa revival CDs.
Staying true to the headline of this section, This Dust-to-Digital video of Dr. Jean-Loup Ringot playing a lithophone, resulted in a few lost hours to Lithophone playing on youtube. Like this man playing stalactites in a cave, and this version of the theme song to Flintstones on a lithophone, so meta!
Heavy rotation of mostly new stuff on the latest Undomondo Discover Weekly on Spotify. Ambient electronics from Steve Moore, Natureboy Flako’s soundtrack to an indie game called Stonefly , jazz post-rock fusion by Mildlife, L’eclair & Tape Waves, Bullion from the David Bowie covers album I mentioned before, beautiful Scandi folk-prog from Jordsjø, Flying Lotus’ from Yasuke soundtrack his big deal anime on Netflix, Calling England Home by master poet Anthony Joseph. More jazz & world music fusion from UK: Jaubi feat. Tenderlonius, Str4ta, Isobella Burnham, ethnic bass from Califato, Jupiter & Okwess, Ayuune Sule and finally some new stuff from Undomondo regular Joseph Shabason… Enjoy and share with friends maybe?!
AROUND THE NET
♩A song called Filhos de Ghandy, that got stuck in rotation last week, led me to this article which explains the unlikely connection between Mahatma Gandhi and the Brazilian Carnival.
♩One copy of the new black midi album, which is amazing to say the least, has a golden ticket inside, which wins you, black midi playing on the event of your choice; one day in the studio for a creative collaboration; guestlist spots for two people for all future worldwide black midi headline live shows for 10 years! Is this a new frontier in music marketing?
♩State of affairs music event economy post-pandemic.
The cash-deprived live sector, which historically has operated on thin-margins (typically requiring 70%+ paying capacity and then access to bar sales or other incremental revenues for event breakeven), cannot effectively operate with restrictive timeslots or socially-distanced reduced capacities that for example restaurants, galleries, museums, or theme parks have incorporated. [Return of Breads and Circuses]
♩How the Internet has changed music.
MIXXED
Tune in to Sebze, a podcast and event series in London focusing on music, food and art of the Middle East has just released its 5th mixtape with Berlin based Turkish artist Mehmet Aslan.
Tune in to Dekmantel (and ours) fave DJ Carista’s mix on the Future Intel, or her residency on BBC. She will be playing at the 1st weekend of Primavera 2022, to which we got our tickets thankfully!
PARTING THOUGHTS
How would it be to listen to music again for the first time?
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Cya again!