British responses to Black diasporic music, and other sounds from formative walks in SSM and Toronto, via a recollection of refrains, harmonic worlds visited and the journeys between
Omar | You’ve Got to Move
Working Week | Inner City Blues
The Brand New Heavies | Dream On Dreamer
Colourbox | Philip Glass
Young Disciples | Get Yourself Together
Massive Attack | Daydreaming
Level 42 | Coup d’etat
Soul II Soul | Fairplay
Mica Paris | Contribution ft. Rakim
Ronny Jordan | See the New ft. IG Culture
Jamiroquai | Blow Your Mind
Matt Bianco | Half a Minute
Prefab Sprout | Enchanted
Sade | Hang on to Your Love
Incognito | Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing
Caron Wheeler | Kama Yo
Swing Out Sister | Twilight World
Loose Ends | Hangin’ on a String (Contemplating)
Some great new discoveries and otherwise the usual company in abundance.
John Adams Absolute Jest · Grand Pianola Music San Francisco Symphony · Michael Tilson Thomas · John Adams (SFS Media)
Bang on a Can All Stars Field Recordings (Cantaloupe)
eighth blackbird Filament (Cedille)
Mahan Esfahani Time Present and Time Past (Archiv)
Morton Feldman · Erik Satie · John Cage Rothko Chapel [Gnossiennes, In a Landscape, etc.] Kim Kashkashian · Sarah Rothenberg · Steven Schick · Houston Chamber Choir · Robert Simpson (ECM)
Floating Points Elaenia (Luaka Bop/Pluto)
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly (Top Dawg · Aftermath · Interscope)
Steve Martland Band Martland (NMC)
Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians Ensemble Signal · Third Coast Percussion · Brad Lubman (Harmonia Mundi)
Max Richter Sleep (Deutsche Grammophon)
Linda Catlin Smith Thought and Desire Eve Egoyan (Earwitness Editions)
Stephen Sondheim Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano Anthony de Mare (ECM)
Ann Southam Glass Houses for Marimba Taktus (Centrediscs)
Tennyson Like What EP (self-released)
Kamasi Washington The Epic (Brainfeeder)
John Williams Star Wars: The Force Awakens Gustavo Dudamel · William Ross · John Williams (Walt Disney)
reissues · remasters
Bernard Herrmann Obsession Special Archival Edition (Music Box)
The Spinners Spinners (BBR)
John Williams A.I. Artificial Intelligence Expanded Archival Collection (La-La Land)
John Williams Jaws and Jaws 2 (Intrada)
John Williams, Herman Stein, Hans J. Salter, Joseph Mullendore, Alexander Courage, Cyril J. Mockridge, Gerald Fried, Leith Stevens, Robert Drasnin, Fred Steiner and others Lost in Space 50th Anniversary Soundtrack Collection (La-La Land)
Taiguara ft. Hermeto Pascoal & Wagner Tiso “Samba das Cinco” F major, final chord: D-flat major
Bebel Gilberto “Samba da Benção” (backing track: Amon Tobin “Nova”) D-flat major
Esperanza Spalding “Ponte de Areia” D-flat major
Aline Morales “Como Pólen” F-sharp minor
Airto Moreira “The Happy People” F major, transition on G minor
Banda Black Rio “Mr. Funky Samba” G minor
Djavan “Nereci” ft. Marianzinha A minor, transition on E open fifth
Carlos Dafé “De Alegria Raiou O Dia” E minor
Antonio Adolfo & A Brazuca “Transamazônica” (excerpt) E minor, transition on G minor/C
Gilberto Gil “Maracatu Atomico” G minor
Robson Jorge & Lincoln Olivetti “Aleluia” G major in key of C, transition on F minor riff
Flora Purim “From the Lonely Afternoon” F minor
Tim Maia “O Caminho Do Bem” D minor
Paulinho da Costa “Déjà vu” ft. Philip Bailey D minor, D-sharp minor
Sergio Mendes & The New Brasil ’77 “The Real Thing” D-sharp minor
Burnier & Cartier “Mirandolina” F minor, A-flat major
Jazzanova “Gafiera” ft. Pedro Martins & Azymuth F minor
Elis Regina “Tereza Sabe Sambar” B minor
Arthur Verocai “Na Boca Do Sol” B minor
Toninho Horta w/Orquestra Fantasma “Aquelas Coisas Todas (Sanguessuga)” B minor, E major/minor
A L L T H E S E T H I N G S
At the invitation of São Paulo-based DJ Petri Glad on the occasion of World Cup 2014, here are a few well-loved songs composed and/or performed by Brazilians (and one Brazilian Canadian).
Also on request, I’ve provided simplified key information for each song to better illustrate where harmonic mixing (key matching or transitioning) has sometimes been employed.
Peter Brown | Without Love Deniece Williams | How’d I Know That Love Would Slip Away Táta Vega | Mr. Troublemaker Greg Phillinganes | Lazy Nina Ronnie Laws | All for You Patrice Rushen | Music of the Earth Michael Wycoff | Looking Up to You Herbie Hancock | Stars in Your Eyes (Special Disco Remix) Pleasure | I’m Mad Donald Byrd | Love Has Come Around Evelyn “Champagne” King | What Are You Waiting For Loleatta Holloway | Love Sensation Logg | Something Else Donna Summer | Spring Affair Gene Harris | Losalamitoslatinfunklovesong
Spring Affair
1974-1985
Analog keys, horns, vibes, strings, human drummers and sangin’
Classics with a tempo flow and a little harmonic mixing (no pitch shifting)
Bilal | Back to Love Quadron | LFT Toto ft. Cheryl Lynn | Georgy Porgy Gino Vannelli | Fly into this Night Manzel | Midnight Theme (Dopebrother 12 Inch Remix) The Emotions | There’ll Never Be Another Moment Earth, Wind & Fire | Beijo (Interlude) ‧ Brazilian Rhyme D.J. Rogers | Love Will Make It Better Pockets | Come Go with Me Donny Hathaway | Come Little Children Gregory Porter | 1960 What? (Opolopo Kick & Bass Rerub) Thundercat | Oh Sheit It’s X Wally Badarou | He Was a Rasta in London Town Rufus ft. Chaka Khan | At Midnight (My Love Will Lift You Up) George Duke | Psychosomatic Dung Sparkle | Let Yourself Go The Staples | Love Me, Love Me, Love Me Doug Carn ft. Jean Carne | Naima Laura Mvula | Diamonds
I B R Λ H I M ΞL M Λ H B O O B Southward Equinox 2013
Golden Beats
Special focus on Kalimba Productions (The Emotions, Earth, Wind & Fire, D.J. Rogers and Pockets)
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