What I'm listening to today: "(Untitled1)", TAKAAT

Picked this up on Bandcamp Friday. "Is Noise". This band are somehow connected to Tinariwen, the group from 1979 called the grandfathers of Tuareg (Saharan) rock music. Here's an epic lo-fi rock album intro, "unedited jam… recorded live to tape in Washington D.C", made in the modern era but coming off plausibly like it could have opened the rawest rock album of 1982. Shredding

takaat.bandcamp.com/track/unti

What I'm listening to today: "You Don't Know My Name", Alicia Keys

Keys off her 2003 album doing an effortless, irony-free resurrection of soul-flavored musical styles at least 23 years older than that. Finessed to feel like the kind of thing hip hop samples moreso than hip hop.

I love this song, it's just so guilelessly sweet. This is the kind of aw-shucks just-a-girl romance song Taylor Swift keeps trying to record, but for T it always kinda falls flat. Keys nails it

youtube.com/watch?v=ZdMxVCXEH4c

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