about contributors submissions book series advertising contests tour dates Mixed Media PopMatters Picks
|
|
Various ArtistsFunk Aid for Africa(DubSpot) US release date: 31 March 2009 UK release date: 31 March 2009 By Deanne SoleThis is a smart idea. Musicians have donated tracks to a charity album, but rather than leave each song to jumble along next to one another, DJ Obah has remixed everything so that each song transitions into the next, turning Funk Aid for Africa into one long piece of music with different-flavored movements. The proceedings eventually tire some by the end, but overall it works. The music is a mixture of Afrobeat, funk, Afro-Brazil and similar ideas, embracing groups with names like Amayo’s Funk-Arkist-Ra and tracks with titles like “Latin Freak” and “Electric Santeria”. A touch of idealistic polemic punctuates “Fist of Flowers”. Keyboard chills here and there. Bits of lush guitar get set off against teasing brass. Good times. Although none of the music included here is South African, proceeds are donated to a South African charity dedicated to children orphaned by AIDS. — 29 July 20097 Miles Per Hour Band—Latin Freak 
 |
Now on PopMatters
Features
:. The Story of a Soul Survivor: ‘Private Dancer’ at 25 :. Re-Meet the Beatles: PopMatters Salutes the Still Fab Four
Columns
Lowbrow Literati: Are We All Mythtaken About Star Wars? Jazz Today: Spinach and Broccoli Music: An Interview with Composer and Drummer John Hollenbeck
Blogs
Short Ends and Leader: Mad Dog Morgan (1976): The Tromasterpiece Collection 2-Disc Liimited Edition Consuming Consumables: Lost: The Complete Fifth Season Dharma Initiative Orientation Kit Channel Surfing: Teenage Circus: Teenagers on TV
Music
:. The Rolling Stones: Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out (40th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set) :. John Mayer: Battle Studies :. Duran Duran: Rio Special Limited Edition / Live at Hammersmith ‘82! :. Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard: One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Music From Kerouac’s Big Sur :. Raekwon: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2 :. Heavy Trash: Midnight Soul Serenade :. Otto: Certa Manhã Acordei de Sonhos Intranquilos
|
Comments