Kassa has been so far ahead of his time for so many years, I have a feeling that reinterpreting decades-old rap tunes will be just the thing for audiences to catch up to him haha.
“Freedom Jazz Dance” so long time, so many great takes. This is so good, so fresh, another great round of a great song. Big nod to you for sharing this. A quick shout out to my old friend Bill Laswell, struggling with health issues, Go Fund Me, Save The Orange Studio, any help, no matter how small. Many thanx. Peace ☯️
"Jazz has always repurposed the present into something malleable; rap has always turned memory into future." This is exactly Kassa's point. I think you nailed it. I feel any discussion of this album has to include the source material of the samples used in the canonical tracks chosen, which, being family with Digable Planets and a student of hip hop, we are sure Kassa is familiar with and evoking as well. He reimagines that source material as it's own thing and throws in even more references like merging 'Passion Dance' with 'Check the Rhime' or using the beat for 'Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See' as the bed for 'Freedom Jazz Dance'. My favorite I think is the spacy Sun Ra interpretation of 'Nuthin But a G Thang'/'I Wanna Do Something Freaky to You'.
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Kassa has been so far ahead of his time for so many years, I have a feeling that reinterpreting decades-old rap tunes will be just the thing for audiences to catch up to him haha.
Yep! He can make this a whole lane if he wanted to. And no one would be able to do it like him.
“Freedom Jazz Dance” so long time, so many great takes. This is so good, so fresh, another great round of a great song. Big nod to you for sharing this. A quick shout out to my old friend Bill Laswell, struggling with health issues, Go Fund Me, Save The Orange Studio, any help, no matter how small. Many thanx. Peace ☯️
Looking forward to listening today to get me thru the Friday workday.
"Jazz has always repurposed the present into something malleable; rap has always turned memory into future." This is exactly Kassa's point. I think you nailed it. I feel any discussion of this album has to include the source material of the samples used in the canonical tracks chosen, which, being family with Digable Planets and a student of hip hop, we are sure Kassa is familiar with and evoking as well. He reimagines that source material as it's own thing and throws in even more references like merging 'Passion Dance' with 'Check the Rhime' or using the beat for 'Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See' as the bed for 'Freedom Jazz Dance'. My favorite I think is the spacy Sun Ra interpretation of 'Nuthin But a G Thang'/'I Wanna Do Something Freaky to You'.
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