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Post by darknessfish on Jan 3, 2020 16:27:29 GMT
So, Moor Mother. Has two 'proper' albums out, both angry, lyrical twisted things that switch between punching you in the face and muttering strangely in the background. Her debut, Fetish Bones seemed remarkable, this angry, odd, eloquent African American bringing politically charged lyrics back to the fore in hip-hop.
Her latest, Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes is a less immediate album, the lovely "After Images" aside, but it seems to be concentrating more on texture, and it's really grown on me over the last few days:
Any fans then? To me, it feels like she's a proper blast of fresh air, doing something really distinctive, individual and intelligent with real passion, on the edges of a genre that has been stale for so long. The albums are kinda fleeting and short, but perfectly formed. But this might be because she sees the live arena, or collaborations to take her message further as where she should focus. There's certainly some interesting work out there:
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Post by Dayodead on Jan 3, 2020 17:00:04 GMT
Prefer the third album (ever so slightly) because of the added texture..
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Post by alejandro on Jan 4, 2020 15:00:18 GMT
I love both albums, but I wouldn't know which to pick as a "best" if you forced me. I put her a bit in a group with Chino Amobi in that I feel both approach the production and the hip hop scene/sound very much as a collage or as a soundscape upon which to represent sociopolitical anxieties and divisions and so on, it's all combative and simultaneously "intellectual" in ways even few industrial and experimental hip-hop artists are today. To me they feel like they're at the vanguard of the counter-culture today.
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Post by darknessfish on Jan 4, 2020 21:39:31 GMT
I must checkout some Chino Amobi, I skimmed through some stuff on youtube a while back, but I completely forgot to follow up. The whole NON Worldwide record label thing has largely passed me by, too.
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Post by driftin on Jan 5, 2020 0:54:49 GMT
I love all three of her albums so far but the first is still my favourite because I'll always choose being pummelled in the ear drums with beats over most things. The textures, sound collages, and bass on the new album are still rather immense though. Combine the two together and you'd have the perfect album - which is why I think Zonal might be my favourite projects of hers. She's a very good producer but Kevin Martin just has that edge, that history of sound system culture and electronic tinkering which makes even his most subdued efforts chug along with intensity. Speaking of that I saw Moor Mother and The Bug perform together in the summer. It was remarkable.
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Post by driftin on Jan 5, 2020 1:20:53 GMT
I must checkout some Chino Amobi, I skimmed through some stuff on youtube a while back, but I completely forgot to follow up. The whole NON Worldwide record label thing has largely passed me by, too. Chino Amobi's Paradiso is awesome. An overwhelming landscape of industrial noise, synth pulses, and street poetry. Ghostpoet meets Nurse With Wound. In fact I swear "The Failed Sons and Daughters of Fantasia" uses samples from NWW's Thunder Perfect Mind. I'm also rather fond of Airport Music for Black Folk which is much less oppressive and a bit dancier. "Warszawa" was used in a recent Aphex Twin set. As for other NON members: I don't really like what little I've heard of Angel-Ho, too similar to modern R&B and pop for my liking. Nkisi's 7 Directions is great, a dark IDM, technoey thing with loads of frenetic beats and moody synths. Rabit varies from okay to quite good, The Great Game, his collaboration with Chino Amobi is almost as good as Paradiso. Elysia Crampton's self-titled album and Demon City are cool oddities, part tribal ambient, part freak folk. They remind me a bit of Kemialliset Ystavat if they used electronics instead of acoustic instruments.
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Post by Dayodead on Jan 5, 2020 10:04:07 GMT
One of you (most likely) mentioned Chino Amobi before and like DF, I meant to check him out, but didn't..These threads act as good reminder messages..
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