Weekend music
Posted: September 13th, 2008 | Author: kamau | Filed under: globalization, hip hop, music | Comments Off
Vampire Weekend: Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
A group of preppy, polo shirt wearing, Ivy League-educated kids playing West African guitar-type driven indie-pop. That is Vampire Weekend. They sound like Paul Simon and Peter Gabriel back when world music was new and different, but the “world” in the music is part of its DNA, not just something grafted onto it. Reason # 211 about what is so great about this disorienting post-everything world we now live in.
Esau Mwamwaya: Tengazako (audio only)
Malawian expat Esau Mwamwaya, (he from the cover of Fader’s Africa issue) lives in the same London ‘hood as those folks from Radioclit who are collaborators with M.I.A. and ‘em. Last year after a chance encounter, Mwamwaya laid some vocals over the dancehall/hip hop/punk of M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes“.
Roots Manuva: Let the Spirit
Rodney “Roots Manuva” Smith has been a purveyor Jamaican patois laced, soundsystem-inspired UK hip hop since the late 90’s. He is back with a new album “Slime and Reason” to be released late September Stato-side.
WARNING: Profanity alert in the Intro and Outro.
See also: Roots Manuva: Movements from “Brand New Second Hand” (1999).
