The blackman's eyes are the midnight made conscious.
The midnight doesn't accept jokes from faceless people
MIDNIGHT MIDI
wake first to the light of reckoning
The one who sees through the midnight will wake first to the light
5 Tapes and 100 Basslines of Pure Analog Soul
Groove Collectors Series
Hear the tale of how we came to be
She did not trust him
She showed him the map
Not a map of geography
He heard what wasn't there
He listened. Obsessively. The way others pray.
He was looking for silence
the collector is the collected.
The Latin Express
Walking patterns mimicking ngoma drum speech
Repetitive ostinatos representing divine presence
Call-and-response with percussion ensembles
In the holds of ships, African musicians encountered each other for the first time
They had no common language but rhythm. They built new languages.
The Latin Express Genre Construction Kit is built from this historical reality: that Latin American music is African tradition, continuously remade
The groove was never in the record. The groove was in the movement.