femi kuti - the world is changing
helado negro - dance ghost
Dur Dur Band - Is Yeelyel
Dur Dur Band was one of Somalia’s last great party bands…
Bibio - À tout à l’heure
amadou ballaké et les 5 consuls - renouveau
via Burkinabe Rapper Art Melody’s Playlist For Les Étalons (Afcon 2013 Playlist N°3)
ghostface killah and adrian younge - the rise of the ghostface killah
from the upcoming ghostface album that has been described as a mix of “classic 36 chambers-era rza with portishead, and the Italian film music of ennio morricone.”
the pharcyde - bullshit
j. dilla - waves/love u
j. dilla - love it here
j. dilla - in the streets
sixto rodriquez - like janis
mr. black - las doce
the xx - sunset (jamie xx edit)
Top Baker’s Dozen Albums of 2012…
these are the albums i liked the most in 2012… the year i started and completed two insane semesters of grad school while working full time, new york city got submerged by a hurricane, kim jong un tried to ruin christmas (again), i became a gastrodiplomat, syria fell further apart, i went to colombia for the third time in three years in the company of a lovely brazilian fruit tourist without getting dengue (this time), and the mayans may or may not be ending it all in a few days.
(in no particular order)
ondatropica - ondatropica
wild nothing - nocturne
mati zundel - amazonico gravitante
killer mike - r.a.p. music
tame impala - lonerism
flying lotus - until the quiet comes
diiv - oshin
mr. vegas - sweet jamaica
karriem riggins - alone together
tanlines - mixed emotions
various artists - cumbia cumbia
honourable mention…
alabama shakes - boys and girls
bomba estereo - elegancia tropical
oddisee - people hear what they see
grimes - visions
king coya - live at traffic in la paz, bolivia
"The physical agility and unexpected “fakes” lauded by Brazilian commentators were descended directly from manifestations within popular music and folklore, whether the sway of the hips originating in carnival, the sinuous steps samba brought into being, or the dodges and feints that came from capoeira. In this way, the legitimacy of soccer in Brazilian culture supported itself on an already established element of national identity: astuteness and improvisation. Music gave soccer what modernist intellectuals had detected in it in the 1920s: namely, the criteria and the sources of brasilidade. The link between music and sports, however, was not an isolated fact restricted to Brazil. Anthropologist Eduardo P. Archetti, in his recent book Masculinities: Football, Polo and the Tango in Argentina (1999), shows that an analogous process of nationalization of foreign sports by way of music occurred in other Latin American countries. In Cuba, baseball, imported from the United States, was incorporated into the discourse of nationality through its adaptation to the typical Cuban music style: salsa. In Argentina, national identity was linked to soccer through an association with the tango."
— Bernardo Borges Buarque de Hollanda, In Praise of Improvisation in Brazilian Soccer: Modernism, Popular Music, and a Brasilidade of Sports
