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“Pitchfork: The first track I heard from the LP was “Mental Breakdown” from 2004. Can you tell me more about that song? JM: I’ve always struggled with sleep and motivation and crazy feelings and emotions that just seem overwhelming. So I tried to share a little bit of that cruel insanity with people. I wrote that in 2003, when I was living with Ariel; he was doing Worn Copy, and I was doing that in my room. Sometimes you’re listening and you’re just like, “What the fuck is going on?” I envy the shit out of people that believe [life is] a certain way. I don’t know what the fuck is going on. The best wager to me has always been the Socratic one. You ask people who seem to think it’s a certain way why they think that. And invariably you find that they come up against foundational leaps of faith– axioms that their whole certain way presupposes. I hate to talk about philosophy, but the shit I read in there makes a lot of sense– that we’re alienated from our true communal nature. I have no idea what the hell is going on in the world, in my life, in what anything means, or what I’m supposed to do. And that’s kind of what that’s about.”

— http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/8915-john-maus/ (via softlefloftle-blog)

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Sad news. One of my favorite musicians, Toumani Diabaté passed away suddenly due to a brief illness. I heard about it through another West African musician I follow on social media. He was only 58. Diabaté primarily played a traditional West African instrument called the Kora and to me it's one of the greatest instruments ever created by humans. If you really want to "get lost in a sound" an incredible kora player can make it so.

My musical taste also includes some African music trends and traditions. I learned about this region through my local independent radio station, and if you want to have cool music taste then you should support your local indie station! Specifically Transpacific Sound Paradise and the indie label Sahel Sounds.

Toumani Diabaté and Sona Jobarteh. Jobarteh is one of the most known, if not only, female kora musicians active today. She is a musical prodigy and Diabaté's cousin. Women of the Griot social class very rarely become Griot themselves.

He and his family are part of a bard/storyteller/courtier social class in Mali and other West African countries known as Griot. He could trace his lineage back almost 71 generations. He was the first artist to introduce the Kora to the wider music world in the late 80s. One of my favorite albums of all time is "New Ancient Strings" performed with another Kora player Ballaké Sissoko. It's a wonderful album to get lost into. The sound of the Kora is meditative yet mentally activating. There is so much improvisation involved in crafting its music and with two instruments it's a gorgeous conversation.

Another amazing album of his is a live performance he did in 2009 with renowned banjo player and folk artist Béla Fleck. Another absolutely incredible album and cultural exchange. The banjo owes its life to the kora. People from West Africa enslaved and brought to the Americas developed the banjo from the kora's stringed gourd design and other African stringed instruments. The music of the enslaved is the direct ancestor to our current rock and folk musical traditions. Without the culture of the enslaved Africans and Indigenous peoples, we would not have the popular music we love today.