#tune-yards

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Listen/purchase: Better Dreaming by Tune-Yards

This just dropped, and it’s another great release from Tune-Yards, including a song, “Limelight,” that co-bandleaders Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner wrote inspired by dancing to George Clinton with their kid (who, reportedly, insisted on the first take as the best).

Beyond the great vocals, hooks, and production, there are the lyrics, ranging from affirming couplets like:

“Turn away from those who hate you Turn to meet the ones that keep you warm“

to the search for meaning: “Dreaming of life without the noise Dreaming the strangest strains of voice Dreaming that I might have a choice And that I'd choose much better”

What’s going on in the country has not been lost on Tune-Yards, and this album is a response to it in a variety of ways.

https://youtu.be/oU4wLkBnwIM?si=fz19WNv2NHiCoLM3

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just how much further your heart has to go

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Tune-Yards - How Big Is The Rainbow

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Tune-Yards - Heartbreak - from Better Dreaming

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AMAZING..... Ava Mendoza

Broad Statements 2023

South Oxford Space

March 12, 2023 Ava Mendoza

Ava Mendoza is an American guitarist, vocalist, and composer.

An avant-garde artist whose work is described as traversing a number of genres, Mendoza has performed with a wide range of musicians, including Nels Cline, Matana Roberts, Nick Zinner,Jon Irabagon, William Hooker,William Parker,Fred Frith,The Violent Femmes,Weasel Walter,tUnE-yArDs, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Rova Saxophone Quartet,Moppa Elliott, Negativland, and Malcolm Mooney.

Mendoza also leads the avant-rock band Unnatural Ways, a trio with Tim Dahl and Sam Ospovat

Ava Mendoza: electric guitar, compositions

Devin Hoff: electric bass, compositions

James Brandon Lewis: tenor saxophone

Ches Smith: drums

'Echolocation' is the astonishing debut album from Mendoza Hoff Revels, a formidable new unit led by Ava Mendoza & Devin Hoff and featuring James Brandon Lewis & Ches Smith.

While Mendoza and Hoff have floated around each other's musical orbits for decades, and have been friends for some time, this is their first work together on record. It is an electric & holy harmonic fusion of highly estimable musical forces; wholly rendered. The original impetus of this group was Mendoza’s, based on the love she and Hoff shared for aggressive and polyglot electric avant-garde ensembles – artists like mid-80's Black Flag (w/ Roessler & Stevenson) and Ornette Coleman's Prime Time bands revolutionized the way they heard music. As stated in their liner notes, "we shared the writing of these pieces, though without the sizable stamps of both James and Ches, they would sound nothing like they do here.”

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I’m a Virgo Teaser

Thirteen foot tall Cootie lives hidden away in him home until he decides to escape and experience real life.

Prime Video’s I’m a Virgo stars Jharrel Jerome, Brett Gray, Kara Young, Allius Barnes, Olivia Washington, Mike Epps, Carmen Ejogo, and Walton Goggins. The series is created, written, and produced by Boots Riley. Riley and Tze Chun serve as co-showrunners. Original music for the series is by Tune-Yards.