#2

A lot of great new music came out in the last couple of months. Some of the artists with new music featured in this week's playlist include Georgia Anne Muldrow, Kurt Vile, Yoko Ono, Ambrose Akinmusire, Aaron Parks, and Braxton Cook. Now, if you don't mind, I will expound on a couple of chosen tracks.


Rollin With The Flow - Kurt Vile

This cover song is not indicative of the album as a whole, which is otherwise comprised of Vile's chill, riffy, originals, but I have a specific memory connected to it. This summer I was helping a local fix-it guy do some work on my mother-in-law's house. We would listen to music via an Echo, which was a new gadget for this old-timer. He would say, "Alexa, play OLD country music". This would yield a playlist of about 30 songs, which we would listen to on repeat all day while he would sing along to almost every song no matter how many times it came on. The Charlie Rich version of "Rollin' With The Flow" was one of these songs. So, hearing this song is a good way to remember a great summer. Vile's version stays pretty true to Rich's, plus the drums really roll...with the flow.


Woman Power - Yoko Ono

Ono's new album consists of new versions of older tunes from her career. I had never actively listened to her music before this album, but I was drawn to it by the personnel, which includes Melvin Gibbs, Marc Ribot, and Kassa Overall. I have heard criticisms of her abrasive, dissonant vocal stylings, but I like the vocal improvisation parts of these tunes. On "Woman Power", Ono will sometimes draw the end of a spoken word out into a tone in a way that puts an extra emphasis on the phrase and creates tension.


https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0rPXhg3oyIw9MeREJmRlme

https://tidal.com/playlist/d2732af2-8af4-43cf-b55e-387fffa8856c

playlist:

1. Blam - Georgia Anne Muldrow

2. Love And It's Glory - Minnie Riperton

3. When It Comes Down To It - Minnie Riperton

4. Get You It Together - L.T.D.

5. We Major - Braxton Cook

6. Just A Thing - Black Milk & Nat Turner

7. Digital Society - Aaron Parks

8. Americana / the garden waits for you to match her wilderness - Ambrose Akinmusire

9. The Lung - Hiatus Kaiyote

10. La Luna (Ending) - Sun Araw

11. Rollin With The Flow - Kurt Vile

12. Woman Power - Yoko Ono

13. Children Power - Yoko Ono

14. Runabout - Little Dragon

15. O Superman - Laurie Anderson