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Mar. 19th, 2009 07:04 pmIt was just announced today that Santigold is playing at our college on April 4th. This is all fine and good, and I would love to see her becuase I've listened to some of her songs and liked them a lot -- until I realized it's the same time as the Dinosaur Jr. concert I paid good money for a while back; I might have mentioned it before. It seems my life is filled with these things: whenever there's something I really, really want to go to, there's always something else that I really, really want to go to at the exact same time. In this situation, though, I know I'm going to see Dinosaur Jr. I don't think Santigold can compare to those guys.
Anyway, posting this today because a.) I'm fucking done with this week, and b.) I'll be headed back home for a week tomorrow afternoon, so I won't be able to post it then.
These guys are a nu-jazz band from Tokyo comprising entirely of pianos and drums, while managing to be very cool and energetic. When I was reading more about what nu-jazz actually was, I came across this quote: "Nu Jazz is to (traditional) Jazz what punk or grunge was to Rock. [...] The songs are the focus, not the individual prowess of the musicians." If this is true, and if what's up there is typical of this genre, then this is the jazz I could get into. I usually can't stand it because not only does 99% of it sound the same to me, it focuses too much on improvisation, which means it goes all over the place and I can't find a way to really enter the song and immerse myself in it. I like experimentation and "going all over the place" in music, but with jazz a lot of times the same song sounds entirely different with each performance; it's almost as if it's designed to keep all but a certain group of people to "understand" it or something. It's one of those things you have to listen to so that you can prove to others you have "taste" or "class" or "style" or whatever. Anyway, I really like this a lot.
Anyway, posting this today because a.) I'm fucking done with this week, and b.) I'll be headed back home for a week tomorrow afternoon, so I won't be able to post it then.
These guys are a nu-jazz band from Tokyo comprising entirely of pianos and drums, while managing to be very cool and energetic. When I was reading more about what nu-jazz actually was, I came across this quote: "Nu Jazz is to (traditional) Jazz what punk or grunge was to Rock. [...] The songs are the focus, not the individual prowess of the musicians." If this is true, and if what's up there is typical of this genre, then this is the jazz I could get into. I usually can't stand it because not only does 99% of it sound the same to me, it focuses too much on improvisation, which means it goes all over the place and I can't find a way to really enter the song and immerse myself in it. I like experimentation and "going all over the place" in music, but with jazz a lot of times the same song sounds entirely different with each performance; it's almost as if it's designed to keep all but a certain group of people to "understand" it or something. It's one of those things you have to listen to so that you can prove to others you have "taste" or "class" or "style" or whatever. Anyway, I really like this a lot.
