Re: sorry...
jay ivan
Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:09:32 -0800 (PST)
I'm agreeing with Denise on this one. One of the things which got me into
acid-jazz was the strong social message coming out of the music from such
groups as Galliano, UFO, Jamiroquai etc... If music would totally
separate itself from politics, than that would only give those who truly
need to be humbled more power. Much of a-j today has become more
stylized, smoother (and this development, this growth is necessary and
still moving), although I have to admit, I miss some of the lyrical
content of a-j from the earlier days.
The nineties have in many ways musically progressed like the seventies,
and my thoughts on this issue remind of the socially conscious earlier
work of funkster Herbie Hancock, Roy Ayers, Lonnie Liston Smith, whose
later seventies excursions tended to be more discofied and stylized like
today's once-political a-j groups.
Of course the priority is the music, and if the music doesn't speak to
you, it doesn't much matter what the words say.