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Waiting In Vain by Graves and Kacey Johansing Graves just dropped this incredible two track Bob Marley cover album with Kacey Johansing. Graves is one of my all time favorite bands. Infinitely good feeling, mellow vibes soar over all 8 or so of this dudes records. Get em all. He somehow remains virtually unknown.
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Jaberi and Deutsch – Safe Space (Holy Page)
The signs are there—if you know how to read them. The simple 90s retro album art, featuring the duo posed in classic gangsta poses; the album title’s reference to security culture and sex-positivity; the hand scrawled Safe Space on the J-card; the sartorial choices of flannels and FILAs. Jaberi and Deutsch, coming straight out of the underground music scene centered around the western half of Oakland, made a record unlike anything you’ll hear coming out of the retro-pastiche bands being touted in the indie press. Their retro harkens back to a romantic and popular, but political, take on R&B and smooth hip-hop of the 80s and early 90s.
The intimacy is palpable on this record. Intimate in the bedroom sense and in the emotional sense. It’s a record that’s easy to relate to, connecting shitty day jobs, lost love and friendship, as well as those adolescent feelings of romance and sexuality that are hard to let go. David Jaberi’s verses hit the close to the heart with raps about lost parents, dead friends (“I Tried To Call You Up But You’re Dead” with a slamming guest verse by Quincy Mosby), ethnic identity (“half-brown, half-white/what am I supposed to look like” from “I Am The Shah”) and bullying (“No Bully”). Without sounding fey or weak the guys take down the macho assumptions and posturing one finds in hip hop and R&B but still capture the innocence and utopian dreams of a young radical in the big city.
Their music melds the politics of punk and DIY music with sensuality of R&B bouncing across rap-able beats and smooth synthesizers. This record is sexy, but sex-positive (“Let’s Make Love”), emphasizing consent, gender bending and safe spaces for emotional and sexual expression. Romance dominates the record, and the coy vocals draw you into the tunes that are flavored with the obvious sonic markers of throwback R&B: electronic handclaps, square wave synth lines, heavy swinging beats and atmospheric pads. Despite the retro-isms, sonically, the lyrics are distinctly of this new decade referencing Facebook, simultaneous fandom of the Backstreet Boys and Aretha Franklin, and the tough economic circumstances of post-recession college students and graduates.
While the record touches on some heavy subject matter, it’s not a downer. Like the sixth track’s title says, these guys “Wanna Lift You Up”. The record’s punk posi vibes are beautifully expressed by the anthemic closer “Fly Away”. A good dose of humor is thrown around the record, especially by Mark Deutsch (“time for some action/ come and hit me like a drum”); however, the track most emblematic of their humor, and politicization, is the all too short track “One %”. This ironic stab at the moneyed world of Wall Street and silver spoon bourgeois is one of the best Occupy-related political songs that doesn’t use the tired tropes, sonically and lyrically, of the 60s hippie and folk protest music. Despite the politics evident on the record, which could be easy to miss if one isn’t informed about the radical leftists leanings of many young folks in the Bay Area, they never get in the way of expressing the heartfelt emotions of many young folks sorting through sexual relationships, the extended adolescence and delayed adulthood of the so-called “millennial” generation.
Yer ears are being treated to some homemade music, expressing the sentiments of the new urban homelands of radical 20-somethings, and as such this record doesn’t sound highly produced like most radio-friendly hip hop. It’s retroisms and naked vocals may turn some off but they are upgraded from the demos Jaberi and Deutsch released on their tour last winter. These guys sound like your closest friends dropping some rhymes and talking about their real lives, not some rapper’s overindulgent fantasies and faux gangsterisms. No glorification of macho bullshit and college-party nihilism, but rather a sensual take on personal connections and the struggles of the unpopular and average kids who just want to make, create and love. This is a brilliant record imbued with respect, emotion, sex and positivity released through the smoothest R&B and non-commercial hip hop you’ll hear this year. Although sometimes clunky, their lyricism is beyond clever (“did you say you were bi-curious?/that word loses meaning when you hang with us”) and these boys definitely understand how to craft a catchy hook. The Holy Page record label out of Baltimore, who released the record on cassette, were lucky to release such a novel and DIY brand of smooth hip hop and R&B.
Listen/purchase: Safe Space by Jaberi & Deutsch
I wanted to review this record but someone else already did such a good job.
An Interview with Katy Davidson
Katy D is the singer songwriter from Portland, OR behind such projects as Dear Nora, Key Losers, and Lloyd and Michael. Occasionally she is a touring member of Gossip and Yacht. I recently had the chance to speak with her over the Internet and asked her...
Cool Song World. Just rebloggin'.
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I love this band and these people so much. Listen to Jeff wile out on this song from their new album. They're also out on an american tour right now with Katie and the Lichen titled "Community Over Capitalism" tour.
Ed Askew is one of the great "lifers" of the cool song world. This video is unreal! So much beauty! So much passion!
James Rabbit have a billion record and they are constantly creating more and more. Some of James Rabbit's records turn out to be huge productions (see http://jamesrabbit.bandcamp.com/album/the-vision-of-fury-that-sings-in-my-head) but others Tyler Martin just works on alone in the studio. The new James Rabbit album is being released one song at a time. This song is particularly interesting to Cool Song World because it perpetuates the never ending cycle of musical discovery. The song was written in response to another album that was just released by East Coast electronic recluse, self proclaimed poet laureate of the internet, Good Bye The Band. I listened to that new album and it's totally worth vibe'n with. A whole world of different sounds and emotions. Get deep on it. http://goodbyetheband.bandcamp.com/album/the-shape-of-vinyl-to-come
See y'all later, I gotta go get a route canal (not joke).
Love,
Cool Song World
I got to see Chris Cohen play last night at a friends house. I painted portraits of show goers and had a super good time but I was also totally floored by Chris's songs and his band. Eli from Lake was sitting in on Guitar, Chris played drums and sang and the bassist and key players were full of passion. Perfect band. I've been a huge fan of Chris's music since the album "Calamity" by Curtains came out. This song in particular tore me up. I could see a lot of humble, emotional pain in Chris's eyes when he sang his songs which made it all so easy to connect with. I'm spinning the record for the first time right now and it's beautiful. I love music so much.
So you know what we're talking about.
Today in Cool Song World, a band that I know very little about. FAT TRANSFER. I have never met this person or seen them play. When Mega Bog went on tour last summer the band we were touring with had an un-labeled sparkly cassette tape in their car that had this totally weird, honest, heart-trip music on it. When we asked about the tape we were informed that it was just something that their friend had made who goes by Fat Transfer. The music really stuck with me and I hadn't heard it since until the other day when another friend, Josh Redman, posted a link to this album on facebook with the words "Listen to this over and over all day", so I did. I immediately remembered every song from the tape! The songs would fit in well with "Calling out of Context" era Arthur Russell, or like a drearier Laurie Anderson. I watched a video of this band playing live and it was just one person slowly stumbling around a stage while singing over a backing track, and for the whole set there was someone dressed as the grim reaper carrying a medieval lantern just a few steps behind them. This song I uploaded is just one of many from this awesome album called "Highly Sensitive Supremacist" (these lyrics and titles are so cool!). Full album here ((( http://fattransfer.bandcamp.com/album/highly-sensitive-supremacist )))
Do any of you know this person? Can we get them to come play a show in Seattle?
It seems like when someone uses the term “Experimental” to describe music lately, what they really mean is “There is a lot of delay and reverb”. Delay and Reverb are great effects but what happened to the Experimental Song form? Bubbly Mommy Gun from Athens Georgia remember. To make experimental music you have to experiment! Try strange things and write strange songs, because it’s fun. Bubbly Mommy Gun was one of my favorite bands I got to see live this summer. There set was insane! At points it felt like every member of the band was playing a different song and zipping around the room above the audience only occasionally crashing violently together with a toodaloo or wing-wam. They did it all with the chill tude of a mechanical dog band at a pizza shop. Like when you play a song on the Jukebox they pretend like they’re playing it, only this Jukebox is broken and keeps skipping around mid song and sometimes shuts off for just long enough to slow down and speed up the records. This is a song off there upcoming album Sand Roses.
Sorry about the broken Link. Listen here to more songs from the album here...http://soundcloud.com/bubblymommygun/sets/sand-roses-1/
