New Music Friday: Jan. 29
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🗓️ 29 January 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Featured Albums:
1. Madlib & Four Tet — Sound Ancestors
Featured Song: "Hoprock"
2. Celeste — Not Your Muse
Featured Song: "Tonight Tonight"
3. Weezer — OK Human
Featured Song: "All My Favorite Songs"
4. Nahawa Doumbia — Kanawa
Featured Song: "Didadi"
5. Arlo Parks — Collapsed in Sunbeams
Featured Song: "Hope"
6. Ani DiFranco — Revolutionary Love
Featured Song: "Crocus"
7. Shai Maestro — Human
Featured Song: "Time"
8. Yasmin Williams — Urban Driftwood
Featured Song: "Juvenessence" and "Urban Driftwood"
Other notable releases for Jan. 29: Anna B Savage — A Common Turn; The Besnard Lakes — The Besnard Lakes Are The Last Of The Great Thunderstorm Warnings; The Body — I've Seen All I Need To See; Buke & Gase With So Percussion — A Record Of...; Goat Girl — On All Fours; The Notwist — Vertigo Days; PJ Harvey — Is This Desire - Demos; Steven Wilson — The Future Bites; Tribulation — Where The Gloom Becomes Sound.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, my name is Peter Segal and I am here to help you with the most pressing problem facing |
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| 0:16.0 | silliness. And doesn't that sound pretty great right now? Listen to the Weight Weight Don't Tell Me |
| 0:20.5 | Podcast from NPR. Happy Friday everyone from InKeyer Music and All Songs. Considered I'm Robin |
| 0:26.0 | Hilton, I am here with WXP and John Morrison. Hey John. Hey, what's going on, |
| 0:30.7 | rather? It is New Music Friday and we're doing a quick run through the best new albums out on |
| 0:35.8 | January 29th, starting with Mad Lib and Fortet. Their new collaboration is called Sound Ancestors. |
| 1:35.8 | Mad Lib is a producer, a rapper, DJ, he's done a lot of collaborations over the years including |
| 1:47.1 | some memorable ones with Jay Dilla and Freddie Gibbs. And John on this one he's teamed up with |
| 1:52.0 | the English Electronic Artist Fortet. Tell us what they're doing on this one. It's interesting to see |
| 1:57.6 | Mad Lib and Fortet. They operate in a similar musical world. They are really comfortable in a lot |
| 2:06.4 | of different musical realms, but also rooted in jazz and the more experimental side of jazz. |
| 2:14.0 | And Mad Lib produced all of these tunes, composed them, and then handed them off to Fortet. |
| 2:22.0 | And it really it reminds me of the relationship not to be like hyperbolic about it, |
| 2:26.9 | but it reminds me of the relationship between Miles Davis and T. L. Miserro where Miles would |
| 2:32.9 | compose the tunes in the Bitches Brew era and then T. L. would later edit and create a narrative |
| 2:41.4 | out of the sound. And it's really what's happening here as well with Mad Lib showing this incredible |
| 2:48.4 | range of music that he's able to compose and produce and Fortet putting the final touches on it. |
| 2:55.7 | Yeah, I mean there's hardly a sonic world that they don't touch on this. They even open the |
| 2:59.3 | record with a track called There Is No Time and then Prelude and Printhesies that sounds like |
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