Monday, January 25, 2010
Anchovy Time!
They're an acquired taste, to be sure, but one well worth acquiring. Towering over a pantheon of amazing indie musicians working out of Williamsburg are Dirty Projectors, the experimental rock quartet led by Dave Longstreth that last year served up 'Bitte Orca,' a stunning, endlessly creative foray into prog-rock and even 90s r&b...
Case in point, today's Song of the Week, "Stillness Is The Move," is an off-kilter but infectious slice of spare r&b female vocal and funk...Imagine, if you will, Mariah Carey sentenced to do community service by providing vocals for Nigerian juju music legend King Sunny Adé....
...and yet it really works as late 90s r&b... Mariah could indeed have taken its left-field rhythm and plaintive wail to the music charts' upper stratosphere.. (though la Carey's had no trouble doing that on her own of late...) It's ultimately very infectious, one of 2009's most memorable musical moments...
here's the very arty, cinematic clip for 'Stillness Is the Move'....
Here's a second helping, the soft yet exotic 'No Intention'...
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