Drum: THE SOUNDS OF MUSIC
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“Much of the music here
is incredibly moving.”
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chronicles Paul Rusesabagina’s
heroic actions during the
Rwandan genocide. Unsurprisingly then much of the music
here is incredibly moving. Afro
Celt’s opener M ama A rarira
raises goose-bumps with its
spine-tingling chants, while
the strikingly simple W hispered
Song is utterly arresting. Neither
straight up world music nor just
scene-setting instrumentals, this
album, available through Rykodisc
Records, paints a potent picture
for what promises to be a
powerful film.
Spoken-word specialist Saul
Williams recently wowed a
London crowd with his new
material. This is the second time
Saul, star of celebrated 1998
indie spoken-word film Slam,
has set his words to music. Lots
of screeching guitars and weird
techno-esqe blips can be found
but the biggest noise is made by
1. Mpho Skeef 2 . Lina 3. Saul Williams 4.
Durtty Goodz
William’s potent poetics, which
brilliantly deconstruct black identity,
politics, love and hip hop.
“Sometimes I’m 50 Cent. But I ain’t
got no bullets. And I ain’t bullet
proof. You can take your aim, but
you can’t kill the truth,” he muses
over PG. The self-titled album is out
now on Wichita Records
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Finally to UK soil and the anticipated
debut of the artist formerly known
as Doogz gathers apace with the
release of an unofficial mixtape CD.
Polydor’s signing, Durtty Goodz, as
he’s now called, spits furiously fast
over Fusion’s intoxicating Bum Bum
beat as well as a variety of other
hard-knock hip hop. Mixing
malleable metaphors and witty
wordplay with conscious chat,
search this one out and you won’t
be disappointed. An official album
is due later in the year.