Siguiendo con los Black Beats

El nuevo disco de The Roots, es conceptual, tiene una suite en cuatro partes (con arreglos de Sufjan Stevens) y se trata de lo siguente:

"Undun is the story of a man, Redford Stevens, dying in reverse, rewinding from the moment he became a statistic and hitting the points in his life where he's at his most self-aware. That he's a criminal who got caught up in the familiar street-hustle trappings that the modern media's documented countless times is a pivotal detail-- it's hit at an angle that seems to emphasize the futile inevitability of it all. His life could be any number of misdirected narratives that ends with a toe tag, and what details listeners learn about him are hazy, buried under archetypal turns of fate and decisive struggles. That this protagonist is a fictionalized composite of a handful of real people, filtered through a matter-of-fact narrative that splits character ambivalence with journalistic impartiality, only makes his lack of direction and the failure of any real closure stand out even more."

Ahora, Electric Wire Hustle desempeña algo que podriamos denominar como Soul 2.0. Influenciados por varios matices que van desde Marvin Gaye a J-Dilla logran crear un universo tan urbano como moderno. Una vez mas, Nueva Zelanda nos trae algo mas que interesante. Les dejo unos videos y en los comentarios el link.

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