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Wednesday, Sep 14 2022, 5AM
It's early - but in this 1970 Grand Funk Railroad song from their third album 'Closer to Home' you may recognize something sampled in the future . . . 38 years later . . . in 2008 . . .
The Roots sampled Grand Funk Railroad's 1970 song "Nothing Is the Same" on "Rising Down" - released in 2008 - the year we celebrate this week as we look back on 50 years of music on KEXP!
2008 in Seattle! - with Rainier Valley's own - rapper and freelance photographer Nam Nice and his 2008 debut 'Exhale'.
namnice.bandcamp.com
In 2016, "Beats, Rhymes, and Rice" was featured in an article by Vietnam and Southeast Asian/American Studies scholar, Long T. Bui who wrote:
"Approaching refugees as creators and performers allows us to take stock of how the subjects of war make sense of their histories and determine the representation of their corporeal selves... What representational strategies and signifying practices do artists draw on to map their refugee identity?"
Read more of the article here! cpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.com
"The biggest lesson I've learned in this industry is that there is no such thing as a "once in a lifetime chance," especially when it comes to chances that could potentially compromise your integrity."
Watch the video for Invincible's "Sledgehammer!" here:
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In his 2008 debut 'White Van Music' Seattle producer Jake One captured the sound of 2008 - and Seattle - in 23 tracks.
Watch the video for "The Truth":
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Amadou and Mariam are Afrobeat superstars who first met at Mali's Institute for the Young Blind (both performers are blind) where they both performed at the Institute's Eclipse Orchestra, and quickly began playing Malian blues music together.
The now married duo was live in the KEXP studios back in August of 2017:
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www.amadou-mariam.com
Birthday shout out to Nas!
On their 2010 song "Patience", Nas & Damian Marley sampled Amadou & Mariam's "Sabali" from their 2008 album 'Welcome to Mali'.
Released in 2008, 'Everywhere at Once' is the second solo studio album by Bay Area rapper Lyrics Born - self-proclaimed “funkiest rapper alive”.
www.lyricsborn.com
Wayna is an R&B/soul singer and songwriter who was born in Ethiopia and raised in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. She worked as a writer for the Clinton White House before releasing three solo albums, garnering three Billboard-charting singles and a Grammy nomination for this song from her 2008 'Higher Ground' album.
www.wayna.net
In 2008, 21-year-old Solange released her second studio album 'Sol-Angel & The Hadley St. Dreams' - named after a plot of land in downtown Houston where her father once told her he had a dream of building a studio.
www.solangemusic.com
Released in 2008, Berlin-based artist Suff's first EP 'EFIL4FFUS' featured Miles Bonny, Kissey Asplund and Oddisee.
suffdaddy.bandcamp.com
2008 release from The Grouch - a founding member of the underground L.A. hip-hop collective Living Legends.
Watch the official music video, directed by Matt Hobbs of Vitalfilms:
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therealgrouch.com
2008's 'The Renaissance' - Q-Tip's 2nd solo release earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Album.
Check out the video for "Life is Better":
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"I wanted this album to be about love—like the old school music our parents listened to... I wanted it to be about love for friends, love from supporters; and most importantly about love for self, because without that you really can't love anyone else."
Seattle artist Toni Hill's 'Only Love' includes love and support from some of Seattle’s finest musicians from jazz, hip-hop, R&B, and world music that include Mark Oi, Anthony Davis, Vitamin D, Aaron Walker-Loud, Royce Shorter Jr., Ethan Lawton, Chris Littlefield, Evan Flores-Barnes and others.
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"Sometimes a single song on an album crystallizes the entire album’s themes and sonic ambitions, illuminating everything else around it. It becomes the pump irrigating all the other tracks with deeper meaning. And sometimes a single line within a song serves the same function on a smaller scale. “Soldier,” on Erykah Badu’s masterful 2008 album New Amerykah Part One (4th World War), is that song, and the line doing double duty is, “And if you think about turning back, I got the shotgun for your back.” That’s Erykah’s shout-out to Harriet Tubman and her tack for dealing with slaves she’d helped escape, but whose fears of what freedom might mean (and cost) gave them cold feet, making them consider voluntarily returning to bondage. Those words very much resonate in the here and now."
www.trunkworthy.com
Each track on Jamila Woods’ 2019 album, 'Legacy! Legacy!' is named after an artist of color — from visual artists Frida Kahlo and Jean-Michel Basquiat to musicians Muddy Waters and Miles Davis to writers James Baldwin and Octavia Butler. The album title comes from a line in a poem by Chicago artist and poet, Margaret Burroughs. Woods said:
“It's written to black young people and all about like, look at these people who have come before you. What will your legacy be now that you have all of these people who have come before? I'm not writing songs about people. I'm writing kind of the imprint that all of these people's legacies have had on me."
Watch a 2020 KEXP in-studio performance of songs from the album:
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From the forthcoming Helixx C. Armageddon release produced by Shanty Gallos - 'House of Helixx - Book 1' drops October 31. Helixx C. Armageddon is a storyteller intrigued with the human condition. She is a performance artist that weaves together poetry, music and fashion to shift her audiences from observers to participants.
creativejuicesmusic.bandcamp.com
www.houseofhelixx.com
This Bedford, England producer/vocalist’s debut album is an expansive blend of R&B, hip hop and various electronic styles, combining a variety of beats, moody keyboards, strings and other instrumentation with his delicate falsetto. The album’s impressive guest list includes Sampha, serpentwithfeet, Little Dragon, BADBADNOTGOOD, Charlotte Day Wilson, Skiifall, Ghetts and Elmiene.
"Pieces" is the new single by East London-based soul singer Yazmin Lacey, her first release in two years. "Pieces" was produced by Dave Okumu (Jessie Ware, Arlo Parks, Ibeyi) and written by Yazmin after a breakup and moving out of the house they both shared.
Trying to maintain some normality, she went ahead with a scheduled piano lesson the next day with her keys player Sarah Tandy. After Sarah messed around with some chords, Yazmin had an overwhelming feeling to write ‘Pieces’ as an outlet to say everything that she couldn’t say face to face, Yazmin explains “Pieces is an open goodbye letter”. The keys were joined by horns recorded by James Mollison, Ritche Seivwright and Sheila Maurice-Gray. Recording the track became a sense of healing, “It’s turning heartbreak into hope, a thank you to a love that was”, says Yazmin.
yazminlacey.bandcamp.com
Birthday shout out to Marcos Valle with this 1983 release from the Brazilian singer, songwriter, producer regarded as one of the greatest Brazilian artists of all time.
marcosvalle.bandcamp.com
New Music!! The second mixtape from Greentea Peng - the neo-soul and self-described 'psychedelic R'n'B' singer and songwriter from south east London.
Video for "Stuck in the Middle":
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www.greenteapeng.net
Livt is a Pacific Northwest Native who at her core, values creativity, living freely, and the service of others. Her music is a reflection on love, what it means to be black and outspoken and as well as what it takes to get out of your own way and be whoever you want. Be damned anyone else. Mimicking the northwest weather, she describes her music as, laidback, sometimes dark, but always soulful. livt.bandcamp.com
Video:
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New Music!! from L.A. violinist/vocalist Sudan Archives who writes, plays, and produces her own music. She is self-taught on the violin, inspired by Sudanese fiddlers, R&B, West African rhythms, and experimental electronic music.
Playing at Neumos October 1. More tour dates, music, and info:
sudanarchives.com
sudanarchives.bandcamp.com
In 2009, Stuart Berman of Pitchfork named "B.O.B" the best song of the 2000s, saying "B.O.B. is not just the song of the decade-- it is the decade." Pitchfork's review called the song a "fast-forwarded highlight-reel prophecy of what the next 10 years held in store."
Hey Wednesday, it's time for The Morning Show with Troy!
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This track features a sample of Alan Parsons Project’s “Eye in the Sky” and is inspired — like the album itself — by the story of astronomer Carl Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan capturing their romance on tape and sending it into space as part of the Voyager’s Golden Record. - bit.ly