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🗓️ 11 September 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Kemah Bob marvels at this self-titled album from the band Pixvae. The album combines traditional South Colombian music with Math Rock to create a brand new genre.
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:04.8 | If you like adult content and strong language, good news. |
0:08.5 | This podcast has plenty of it. |
0:15.7 | Hello, my name is James Acaster, and in 2017, I had a breakdown. |
0:20.4 | And to deal with that breakdown I bought as much |
0:22.5 | music from the previous year 2016 as I possibly could as a result I now own over 600 albums that came out in |
0:29.4 | 2016 I'm convinced it's the greatest year for music of all time but it's not enough for me to be |
0:34.3 | convinced I also want to convince each and every single one of you and a a guest every week. This week, my guest is Keema Bob, and the album I've chosen is Pix Faye by Picks Faye. |
0:45.1 | In my Tierra, in my Tierra, in my Tierra, |
0:52.1 | para up, with a path to up, with a path to up. Picks Bay are two bands combined. The music is by a math rock group called Kumar, and the lyrics and the percussion is by a group called Bambazu. |
1:10.5 | Or they were called it at the time. They changed their name since. |
1:12.6 | This is South Colombian music, traditional South Columbia music, South Pacific music, mixed with math rock. |
1:19.6 | So this is a completely new territory, really. |
1:35.0 | Traditional music on this album, even a lot of people from the region it's from aren't really familiar with it. |
1:36.7 | It's quite a lot of it has been forgotten. |
1:42.1 | So this is like a complete revival of a style of music that's been discarded, |
1:47.2 | mixed with quite a technical, loud genre of music in Maffrock, complete polar opposites to one another, and somehow it works and forms a completely |
1:51.9 | different genre that they call Colombian crunch music. Kimmer Bob, for those of you who don't know, is one of our brightest lights, a fantastic comic, so so funny. |
2:12.4 | Also, a phenomenal drag king. |
2:14.9 | She performs under the name Little Testes, and I recommend you check that out as well. |
2:19.8 | She also hosts the Femmes of Color comedy club, which go to once we're not in lockdown. |
2:25.3 | I don't even know when you're listening to this. It's recorded in lockdown, though, this episode, |
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