"Gregory Porter, whose 2010 Motema Music debut, 'Water', was nominated in the 2011 53rd Annual Grammy Awards as Best Jazz Vocal Album, drops a powerful cinematic treatment of one of the CD’s most popular tracks, '1960 What?.' '1960 What?' is somewhat divergent from the rest of the album. This 12-minute track is Water’s most political song. It’s inspired in part by Kamau Kenyatta’s stories of life in Detroit and by the 1963 assassination of Martin Luther King, as well as Porters’s own experiences growing up in Los Angeles.
Swedish production wizard Opolopo’s soulful House remix, a “kick and bass rerub,” is already burning up dance floors from Chicago to the UK, where it’s currently getting airplay on Jazz FM. The founder of Amsterdam’s Wicked Jazz Sounds music collective, Phil Horneman, has contributed a Wicked Jazz Sounds radio edit, which clocks in at about half as long as the anthemic twelve-and-a-half minute long original version. The official videos for “Illusion” and “1960 What?” will be aired on VH1." - giant step
Thursday, November 10, 2011
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this is ridiculously dope, Kenny...thank YOU for sharing my friend.
felix was the one that initially told me about the opolopo remix, but the single promos were sent out this week.
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