Calling in from AZ where the 100 degree plus temperatures are right around the corner.... as in Friday...
Here's the sounds currently keeping me cool as I wannabe
Miles Davis. Panthalassa (reconstruction by Bill Laswell); I've had it for well over 2 years, and I'm just now starting to plumb the depths. How can you write music that sounds hot and new 25 - 30 years into the future? Just be Miles Davis, that's all. These are badass originals, reloved nicely.
Track 1 is the mellow, deep, awesome In A Silent Way highlights reel.
Track 2, Black Satin, the nastiness from On The Corner, rugged and raw.
Track 3. Rated X rawness, all the funk you love, the psycho-sound collage textures you need. Morphs into sweetdrippingwithfunk at Billy Preston, about (6:10 minutes in). Begging for still more MORE remixes, here....
Track 4. He Loved Him Madly... Miles' Duke Ellington tribute, this is the downtempo flute psychobizness here.
Buy it, get it, study it, live it, love it, be it.... (cf. the article about the making of Bitches' Brew in this month's Jazz Times magazine.)
What else we've got in the cooker...
Rae & Christian. Northern Sulpheric Soul, Sleepwalking.
Airto. The Best Of, The Other Side Of This.
Herbie Hancock. Thrust (can't / won't stop playing this one)
Stuff that didn't grab me too much...
Hefner, Residue (UK version), smooth downtempo shuffly biz..
MJ Cole, Sincere (UK version), hey, I like the DJ's ting, too.!
Soullive. Doin' Somethin. Funky organ trio, (hot left hand, no doubt) with Fred Wesley cropping up here and there... "Shack-Man" is a bit naughtier/funkier, ihmo.
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