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[burlveneer-music]

Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids - Thank You God - new single, from forthcoming album Afro Futuristic Dreams (see below for longer album version)

Strut presents the new album from Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids and share first single ’Thank You God!'! The first major new studio album in over 3 years and mixed by Malcolm Catto at Quatermass Sound Lab, Afro Futuristic Dreams is a sprawling new work exploring the future, the past and the urgent reality of the present - adding full, intricate scores including string sections and choral elements to Pyramids’ trademark spiritual Afro-jazz sound. Available 22 September on vinyl, CD and digitally.

#idris ackamoor #the pyramids #jazz #spiritual jazz #2023 #afrofuturism #strut records #Youtube #Bandcamp

[mywifeleftme]

294: Nashenas // Life is a Heavy Burden

Life is a Heavy Burden Nashenas 2022, Strut (Bandcamp)

Nashenas is one of Afghanistan’s most beloved twentieth century singers. Born in Kandahar in 1935, he was raised in Karachi, British India (now Pakistan) before his family returned to Afghanistan during his adolescence. By his early 20s he had become a popular vocalist, with a weekly national radio slot singing traditional poetry, adaptations of popular Bollywood songs, and (with increasing frequency) his own compositions in Dari and Pashto.

Most of his work is in the ghazal tradition, a form of Arabo-Persian poetic ode (classically a simultaneous address to an absent lover and to God) that has remained popular in the East for nearly 1,500 years. The songs have a meditative consistency of rhythm, his vocals carrying the melody as he accompanies himself with drones on the harmonium while a tabla player supplies percussion, verses broken by instrumental refrains that answer the vocal melody. Nashenas has a panged yet resigned style suitable to the form, never leaning into cheap emotional theatrics. He spools out his words patiently, great feeling leavened by enlightened reservation. I picture him with his eyes closed, sitting cross-legged as he hums and croons the words that billow from the incense burning within him till the room has filled with it. Despite the focus on his voice though, this is quite dynamic music: the drumming on songs like “Life is a Heavy Burden” provides a raw, intense counterpoint to Nashenas’s steady vocal, while the blissful harmonium drone of “I Am Happy Alone” finds a common note with the primary colours of music made by children, outsider folkies, and the untrained.

Physical media wasn’t common in Afghanistan when Nashenas was establishing himself, and radio broadcasts were the primary outlet for performers. What recordings he did make were largely for radio archives, and many of these were apparently destroyed in the wars that have ravaged the region for decades. As a result, little of Nashenas’s prime is well-documented, and prior to this compilation virtually none of what does exist had been released in the West. Life is a Heavy Burden: The Songs and Poetry of Nashenas collects highlights from a brief run of Iranian 45 pressings of Radio Afghanistan recordings from the late ‘50s. The liners elaborate:

Although hard to fully confirm, it appeared these records were part of an arrangement between someone in Radio Afghanistan and Royal, one of the major labels in Iran. …Recordings were presumably supplied to the pressing plant in Tehran to be manufactured and then sold to the Afghan diaspora in the country, or exported back to Afghanistan. It was ultimately unsuccessful, with a few singles released by Nashenas, Zaland, his wife Sara, and others such as Ustad Mahwash, Ghulam Dastagir Shaida, and Ahmad Wali. Whoever arranged it apparently did not inform the artists themselves!

You’d never know how screamingly rare these pieces are, or that they were not sourced from masters, from the job Strut Records has done with Life is a Heavy Burden. The fidelity is brilliant, clearly of another epoch in terms of technology but unmarred by the dust and rough handling endured by near-70-year-old second-hand discs. I’d recommend this one to anyone with an interest in mid-century music from the Middle East and South Asia, or its influence on Western pop and experimental music from the ‘60s onward.

294/365

#nashenas #afghan music #afghanistan #middle eastern music #ghazal #ghazals #urdu music #dari music #pashto music #urdu #dari #pashto #'50s music #music review #vinyl record #strut records

[kosmik-signals]

(via Tony Allen & Jimi Tenor : Inspiration Information 4 : Aquarium Drunkard)

#Tony Allen #Jimi Tenor #Strut Records #Nigeria #Africa #Finland

[djhamaradio]

Strut records Zouk release by Feeling Kreyol

#strut records #Feeling Kreyol #zouk #duppy echoes

[dustedmagazine]

Flora Purim—If You Will (Strut)

Flora Purim celebrates her six decades in fusion jazz with a number of close friends and family. A native of Rio de Janeiro, she fled a repressive regime in the 1960s and landed in New York City just in time to take part in a flourishing Latin jazz movement and work with Stan Getz and Gil Evans. A clip from French television in 1969 shows a very young Purim, trading airily precise phrases with Stan Getz, in the nimble, lightly executed vocal style that became her signature style. She caught Chick Corea’s attention in the early 1970s and, along with her husband, the Brazilian percussionist Airto Moreira, became a member of Return to Forever in 1972. Both played on the genre-defining self-titled debut, as well as the subsequent Light as a Feather.

At 80, Purim says that If You Will may be her last album, and it serves as a summary of her varied career. The title track, sung by her daughter, Diana Purim, was written originally with the jazz funk fusion keyboardist George Duke, best known for his work with Zappa and Jean Luc Ponty. The song appeared on his Grammy-nominated album Cool, from 2000. “500 Miles High,” another highlight, comes from Return to Forever’s Light as a Feather. Listen to the two versions back-to-back, and you’ll be astonished at how untouched Purim’s voice remains, not a crack or crease or wrinkle in the moody, keyboard-lit intro. She rides serenely over the rapid syncopation of percussion, the bubbling tumult of the bass, clear in tone and marvelously in control of a rambunctious, adventurous band. 

Purim is known for her effortless, agile, often wordless runs of notes that dart and float and soar buoyantly above the fray. In “Zahuroo,” a new version of a song by Claudia Villela, both she and a male collaborator navigate elaborate flurries of “do”s and “ba”s with an ease that obscures the difficulty. Indeed, there’s a clean, smooth, weightless quality to these songs; no matter how heated the Latin percussion runs, they barely break a sweat. “Lucidez,” the closer, is particularly unruffled, a soft jangle of guitar notes punctuated by bass slides lofting Purim’s pensive verses upward. There’s more friction—and a hint of the African roots that underlie both jazz and Brazilian pop—in “This Is Me,” a tune Purim repurposed from her husband’s repertoire, and even a bit of growl in her opening salvo. It’s a welcome bit of heat in this poised and stylized collection of tunes. 

It’s remarkable, throughout, how well Purim has held up, as a singer, as a jazz composer and band leader and as an artist. You wouldn’t know, from listening, whether she was 80 or 60 or 20. The songs are vital, pulsing with bright energy, imbued with a lifetime’s skill but effervescent. Not many women got to play as pivotal a role in jazz as Purim did. This retrospective makes the case for her importance without getting bogged down in it. May we all live such full, productive lives and end up with joy like Purim’s at what we’ve done. 

Jennifer Kelly

#dusted magazine #album review #jennifer kelly #flora purim #if you will #strut records #jazz #fusion #afro-caribbean #return to forever

[thanksvideogames]

unlike other skills, every traveler has a unique animation for when they use the ‘bewildering grace’ dancer ability

#chase plays octopath #octopath traveler 2 #the effects make it difficult to see the full animation #castti does an arm roll before her last strut #osvald also does one before finishing in... whatever that pose is #hikari and partitio are also doing a lot being those music notes #unfortunately there is no way for me to make it clearer at this time #for the record my favorite is ochette's #octopath traveler ii

[violetgauze]

just watched the Feb 17th recording of one night in bangkok. HOW did it get MORE HOT OH MY GOD

#for context I've just been watching the other recording all this time and that alone made me INSANE #but THIS ONE?? #he's like half singing most of the spoken parts? the strutting?? #oh my god #genuinely. fucking #raúl esparza #raúl esparza chess

[thepermanentrainpress]

Gallery: The Struts @ Commodore Ballroom - Vancouver, BC Date: November 27, 2023 Photographed by: Josh Papalia

#PRmusic #PRphoto #Josh Papalia #Music #live music #Vancouver #yvr #Commodore Ballroom #Commodore #Live Nation #The Struts #Luke Spiller #Adam Slack #Jed Elliott #Gethin Davies #Strange Days #Pretty Vicious #Everybody Wants #Young & Dangerous #Big Machine Records #Remember The Name Tour #Could Have Been Me #Kiss This #Body Talks #Put Your Money On Me #concert #concert photography #concert photos #gig

[nailgunstigmata]

just took my dog on her morning walk and saw a rlly cute caterpillar and got really excited about it and started recording but the recording didnt save and now all i have are blurry pictures i took while the video was running that look like im paparazzi hunting down a celeb. and i kind of was if you think about it

#cw bugs #shes a diva shes the moment #she was strutting…..it was too powerful to be recorded honestly. i respect her wishes

[dollfat]

night vale live episode the librarian is a little bit not good

#which wouldn't be notable if it was one of the dozens of free episodes but i did pay for it so #the live recording of the investigators is starting off very good tho #dylan marron gets to strut his skills a bit #dove reads wtnv

[burlveneer-music]

Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids - Afro Futuristic Dreams

Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids are back with their first major new studio album in over 3 years, an epic, sprawling new work exploring the future, the past and the urgent reality of the present, ‘Afro Futuristic Dreams’. Recorded between San Francisco and London and brought together by the genius of Malcolm Catto at his analogue Quatermass Studio, the new recording represents another bold step in Ackamoor’s ever-evolving journey in jazz, adding full, intricate scores including string sections and choral elements to the Pyramids’ trademark spiritual Afro-jazz sound. Driven by the core Pyramids members Ackamoor (sax, keytar, organ), Margaux Simmons (flute), Sandra Poindexter (violin) and Bobby Cobb (guitar), tracks range from hard-hitting commentaries about police brutality (‘Police Dem’) to celebrations of the ancestors and departed loved ones (‘Requiem For The Ancestors’, ‘Re-Memory’) and hazy cosmic journeys, including the album’s title track and the sparkling, experimental closer, ‘Nice It Up’. The recording is the Pyramids’ first new release since the acclaimed ‘Shaman!’ in 2020 and rides a wave of interest in the band around their 50th Anniversary this year. Alongside a box set reissue on Strut bringing together their rare early ‘70s albums for the first time, the band have headlined Le Guess Who festival in Utrecht with an accompanying exhibition of their history and have played major concerts at Presidio Theatre in L.A. and Zebulon in San Francisco. They will be playing a full European tour in Autumn 2023. “This album has been many years in the making,” explains Ackamoor. “Back in late 2020, I set out to compose the first in a series of scores to take The Pyramids sound into brave new territory. All of the tracks involve issues that the core band is passionate about and the recording was a complex process involving many musicians and vocalists across two different time zones.” 

#idris ackamoor #the pyramids #jazz #world music #strut records #2023 #spiritual jazz #Bandcamp

[kittenmatchcatsmeow]

"Stray Cat Strut" is the third single by American rockabilly band Stray Cats, released April 17, 1981 by Arista Records in the UK. Meow ...

#Stray Cats #Eighties #1981 #Stray Cat Strut #cat style #cat class #UK #Arista Records #cat music

[h-t-m-l-o-v-e]

PLANET BOOTY CONCERT AAAAAAAAA

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#cant make them now i had work today and have work tomorrow #btw today and tomorrow is friday and saturday #this was in sac #BUT OH MY GOD I GOT SOOOOO MUCH ATTENTION THIS TIME #IT WAS MINDBLOWING #my friend got 2.5 of the 3.5 things that happened to me OH GOD #one. he got down on his knees in front of me. all sexylike. #ok TWO he fucking twerked on me oh GOD!!!! it was amazing #THREE HE FUCKING. ok this one you just need to see to believe. but i will definitely be giffing it dear lord #FOUR. HE TWIRLED ME (my friend 57bees got twirled at the last show we went to) AAANNNNNDD THENNNN HE KIIIIIISSSSSED MY HAAAAAAAAND AAAAAAAAA #that last one was the one that didn't get recorded. sad face. #OH GOD I JUST REMEMBERED THERES MORE TOO. THAT DIDN'T GET RECORDED #I TOOK MY TOP OFF DURING NAKED (its okay i was wearing pasties) #and i could see him react even though he was strutting and then later in the song he went up to me and said ''I SAW THAT'' #AND my friend took his top off too #and after the concert we went to say hi and he was like ''you guys were takin it all off tonight!'' #GOD he's the best i love him

[sonofshermy]

#COMET GAIN #comet gain #wiija records #dedicated instensity #outsiders feel sneer n fear #effeminate mods #going against comfort #so strut n belong to all-nite dancin' dressin' up n' changing #alien soul stylist #some hearts paid to lie #1993

[voxiiferous]

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."

-Macbeth, by William Shakespeare

#*portfolio (musings) #so the last syllable of recorded time line #while one of my favourites #isn't Vox's #He leans more the way of the a poor player that struts and frets #Vox has read Shakespeare #I don't think he has much patience for it #but also he likes to quote things and prove he is educated #and Shakespeare is good for that #but also yeah this is a mood #both for him and how he sees other people

[rockposerdotcom]

The Struts Announce New Album 'Pretty Vicious' (Out Nov 3rd)

Charismatic, quintessentially British and yet platinum-selling stars in America, The Struts have today announced their fourth studio album, which is also their first full-length release with Big Machine/John Varvatos Records. Now available for pre-order, the 11-track record, ‘Pretty Vicious‘, is out everywhere on November…

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#Big Machine #John Varvatos Records #Pretty Vicious #The Struts #Too Good At Raising Hell