Tuesday, January 28, 2014

LOOSE JOINTS - IS IT ALL OVER MY FACE (ORIGINAL MALE VERSION)





Happy Tuesday from Loose Joints and their mission to create the disco White Album. Comprised of Arthur Russell, NYC DJ Steve D’Aquisto, Columbia undergrad Steven Hall, three singers picked up at David Mancuso’s by-invite-only parties at The Loft, and the Ingram Brothers' rhythm section (who later backed Patti LaBelle), Loose Joints only released 3 songs out of hours of recordings. I’ll post all three, starting with “Is It All Over My Face” (1980) because that’s something to be thinking about first thing in the morning.







Tuesday, January 21, 2014

CHIEF BOIMA - AFRICAN IN NEW YORK EP

My favorite work on this album is with Sorie Kondi; the rest I'm sort of over but the African In New York intro is great.





SORIE KONDI - SORIE THOGOLOBEA





"Sorie Thogolobea" from the full-length Thogolobea, released by Dutty Artz in March 2013.





Monday, January 20, 2014

SORIE KONDI - WITHOUT MONEY, NO FAMILY





First things first: he's singing in English, so lissenup. He took part of his name from the instrument he's playing, a kondi; it's crafted from found objects - hardwood resonators made from native African trees, industrial scraps. Sorie Kondi was trapped in Freetown during the 1990s civil war in Sierra Leone and has been blind since birth. He commissions the wood bodies of his instruments from a carpenter, and puts the rest together himself. He is self-trained and has a highly functional understanding of the materials he uses in his instruments.


The first time I heard Sorie Kondi was in 2009, in a Ghetto Palms mix from the Fader. Kondi gained notoriety after he was featured in a documentary and in the Chief Boima remix that the Fader used. Chief Boima is a NYC DJ but a Sierra Leone native; the collaboration between the two has also included Boima's work on Kondi's latest album Thogolobea, produced by Fadie Conteh. The original Chief Boima remix at The Fader; great footage of Sorie Kondi speaking and playing at The Stranger.