EL MAHBOOB

Category: R&B

  • Best of 2014

    John Adams, The Gospel According to the Other Mary – Los Angeles Philharmonic, LA Master Chorale, Gustavo Dudamel

    John Luther Adams, Become Ocean – Seattle Symphony, Ludovic Morlot

    D’Angelo and The Vanguard, Black Messiah

    Morton Feldman, String Quartet No. 1 – FLUX Quartet

    Flying Lotus, You’re Dead!

    Philip Glass, The Complete Piano Etudes – Maki Namekawa

    Meredith Monk, Piano Songs – Ursula Oppens, Bruce Brubaker

    Laura Mvula, With Metropole Orkest Conducted by Jules Buckley at Abbey Road Studios

    Steve Reich, Radio Rewrite – Jonny Greenwood, Vicky Chow, Alarm Will Sound, Alan Pierson

    Ann Southam, Glass Houses Vol. 2 – Christina Petrowska Quilico

    tuku, moonday sessions:the black

    reissues

    Herbie Hancock, The Complete Columbia Album Collection 1972-1988 (rel. late 2013)

    Odyssey, Happy Together (Expanded Edition)

    Sly Stone & various artists, I’m Just Like You: Sly’s Stone Flower 1969-1970

  • All These Things

    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.

    I B R Λ H I M ΞL M Λ H B O O B
    July 2014

  • Spring Affair

    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)

    Dedicated to Nehal El-Hadi (aka Nina), writer, poet,
    researcher, editor, producer, mother

    Thank you also to Nehal for the title graphic on the cover photo

    I B R Λ H I M ΞL M Λ H B O O B
    April 2014

  • Best of 2013

    Eve Egoyan – 5

    Philip Glass – Visitors

    Kuniko Kato – Cantus

    R. Andrew Lee – November

    Laura Mvula – Sing to the Moon

    Omar – The Man

    Quadron – Avalanche

    Thundercat – Apocalypse

    Hans Zimmer – Man of Steel

    Best archive/reissue:

    Sly and the Family Stone – Higher!

  • Golden Beats

    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)

    RIP George Duke

  • Best of 2011/2012

    The past 24 months have been full of wonderful blessings and have witnessed the happiest period of my life so far. Alhamdulillah, for all that has been given.

    It thus seems fitting to me, in doing a best of list, to look at the last two years as a whole. Here’s what has brought (re)new(ed)ness to the personal soundtrack, in no particular order (other than stream of consciousness)…

    Returnings: Music of Ann Southam – Eve Egoyan, piano (Centrediscs, 2011)

    Glass Houses Revisited – music of Ann Southam; Christina Petrowska Quilico, piano (Centrediscs, 2011)

    Soundings for a New Piano – music of Ann Southam; R. Andrew Lee, piano (Irritable Hedgehog, 2011)

    Jürg Frey: Piano Music – R. Andrew Lee, piano (Irritable Hedgehog, 2012)

    The Northern Shore – music of Barbara Monk Feldman; Sabat/Clarke and Aki Takahashi (Mode, 2012)

    Undercurrents: CONTACT Performs the Music of Jordan Nobles – CONTACT Contemporary Music (Redshift, 2011)

    Until the Quiet Comes – Flying Lotus (Warp, 2012)

    Seeds – Georgia Anne Muldrow (Someothaship CONNECT, 2012)

    Radio Music Society – Esperanza Spalding (Heads Up International, 2012)

    Black Radio – Robert Glasper Experiment (Blue Note, 2012)

    Brand New Wayo: Funk, Fast Times & Nigerian Boogie Madness 1979-1983 – Various Artists (Comb & Razor, 2011)

    Music of Vladimir Martynov – Kronos Quartet (Nonesuch, 2012)

    WTC 9/11, Mallet Quartet, Dance Patterns – music of Steve Reich; Kronos Quartet, Sō Percussion, Steve Reich & Musicians (Nonesuch, 2011)

    Symphony No. 9 – music of Philip Glass; Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies, conductor (Orange Mountain, 2012)

    Seeing is Believing – music of Nico Muhly, William Byrd and Orlando Gibbons; Thomas Gould, violin; Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon, conductor (Decca, 2011)

    Adam’s Lament – music of Arvo Pärt; Latvian Radio Choir, Vox Clamantis, Sinfonietta Riga, Tõnu Kaljuste, conductor (ECM, 2012)

    Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima / Popcorn Superhet Receiver / Polymorphia / 48 Responses to Polymorphia – music of Krzysztof Penderecki and Jonny Greenwood; AUKSO Orchestra, Krzysztof Penderecki and Marek Moś, conductors (Nonesuch, 2012)

    Son of Chamber Symphony / String Quartet – music of John Adams; International Contemporary Ensemble, John Adams, conductor and St. Lawrence String Quartet (Nonesuch, 2011)

    January edits:

    Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons – Daniel Hope, violin; Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin, André de Ridder, conductor (Deutsche Grammophon, 2012)

    Pour une âme souveraine – a Dedication to Nina Simone – Meshell Ndegeocello (naïve, 2012)

    Pink – Four Tet (Text, 2012)

    Happy New Year to all the readers and followers of El Mahboob, and all my best to you for 2013.

  • Re Mi Do

    Summer encounters.

    Syreeta  |  I Love Every Little Thing About You
    Mulatu Astatke  |  Mulatu
    Omar  |  Music (What I Live For)
    Lewis Taylor  |  Lucky
    The RH Factor  |  Poetry ft. Q-Tip, Erykah Badu
    DJ Mitsu The Beats  |  Right Here ft. Dwele
    Chaka Khan  |  Love Has Fallen on Me
    Georgia Anne Muldrow  |  Blackman
    Aloe Blacc  |  Find Your Way
    Sly & The Family Stone  |  Sylvester
    Marvin Gaye  |  What’s Going On (Rhythm & Strings Mix)
    John Williams  |  Theme from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”
    Maze feat. Frankie Beverly  |  Feel That You’re Feelin’ (Live in New Orleans)
    Dorothy Ashby  |  Wax and Wane
    Esperanza Spalding  |  Sunlight
    Koop  |  Whenever There Is You
    Don Blackman  |  Holding You, Loving You
    Four Tet  |  Angel Echoes
    Jazzanova  |  Little Bird ft. Jose James
    Kool & The Gang  |  Summer Madness (Live at the Rainbow Theatre)

    Mixed by Ibrahim El Mahboob, June 2012
    Dedicated to Queen Peace and Nina

    Re Mi Do
    ‧ an affirmation to my first born
    ‧ the first three notes of the musical signal from the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind
    ‧ three key signature areas (re for D/D-flat, mi for E major/minor, and do for C) where songs in the mix are grouped together. I’ve used the technique of harmonic mixing/selecting to unite or contrast songs.

    The copyrights for these recordings are the intellectual property of the artists, though the corporations take the credit and the money. I own nothing. Support music.

    (This mix was originally posted to Podomatic.)