{"id":5767,"date":"2015-06-10T23:47:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T01:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.culturedallroundman.com\/?p=5767"},"modified":"2015-08-27T10:57:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T13:57:49","slug":"culturedarms-songs-of-the-month-may-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/culturedarms-songs-of-the-month-may-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Culturedarm&#8217;s Songs of the Month (May 2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Herndon-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6440\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Herndon-1.jpg?resize=696%2C465&ssl=1\" alt=\"Herndon 1\" width=\"696\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Herndon-1.jpg?w=1200&ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Herndon-1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Herndon-1.jpg?resize=768%2C513&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Herndon-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C684&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Herndon-1.jpg?resize=370%2C247&ssl=1 370w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Herndon-1.jpg?resize=570%2C380&ssl=1 570w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Herndon-1.jpg?resize=770%2C514&ssl=1 770w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Herndon-1.jpg?resize=1170%2C781&ssl=1 1170w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Herndon-1.jpg?resize=869%2C580&ssl=1 869w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Herndon-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&ssl=1 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And so after a late April comes a late May. But so good.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>HANA \u2013 \u2018Clay\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Clay\u2019 is the debut song by HANA, a delicate and spacious ballad produced by her\u00a0and Blood Diamonds, and released on 12 May. Written by HANA, it features her lucid voice atop the shimmering warmth of the HANA\/Blood Diamonds co-production. HANA has been touring with Grimes, opening for Lana Del Rey across the United States and Canada as part of the \u2018Endless Summer\u2019 tour which continues tomorrow in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F202902883&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=true&show_comments=true&color=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Yosi Horikawa \u2013 \u2018Stars\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yosi Horikawa is a Japanese musician born in Osaka. He spent time in 2011 as part of the Red Bull Music Academy in Madrid. His carefully constructed experimental\u00a0music makes extensive use of field recordings, found and homemade sounds. \u2018Stars\u2019 served as the single from Horikawa\u2019s debut album <em>Vapor<\/em>, released in 2013 on First World Records. The opening is briefly reminiscent of Brian Eno\u2019s <em>Ambient 1: Music for Airports<\/em>, before deepening out into a lush, jazz-infused landscape. The song\u2019s video was directed by\u00a0Areg Barsegian for GAREN.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"7oh4tPsfa40\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yosi Horikawa - Stars (Official Video) directed by GAREN\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7oh4tPsfa40?start=326&feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p>The next two songs were among those given praise by Bj\u00f6rk on the programme Geschmackssache in 1997. The video of this was recently linked\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bjork?lang=en\">Bj\u00f6rk\u2019s Twitter<\/a>. Geschmackssache aired on the German music channel\u00a0Viva Zwei, set up in 1995 and directed\u00a0by the former MTV presenter Steve Blame. Each week, artists chose a selection of music videos which they found especially inspiring. Alongside the two songs below, also on\u00a0Bj\u00f6rk\u2019s list were Aphex Twin, Einst\u00fcrzende Neubauten, Kraftwerk, Public Enemy, and Kate Bush.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"CDALaNA4MZo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bjo\u0308rk Geschmacksache 1997\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CDALaNA4MZo?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Alec Empire \u2013 \u2018Low on Ice\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Alec Empire is a Berlin musician, best known as a founding member of the digital hardcore group Atari Teenage Riot \u2013 which toured in support of a host of big names, including the Wu-Tang Clan, Rage Against the Machine, and Beck, from the middle of the 1990s until the end of the decade, before reforming in 2010. Empire has also been prolific as a solo artist and producer; and while his sample-based sound is most associated with punk, noise, and some of the more abrasive extremities of hip hop, he has drawn equally upon classical music, funk, and jazz. Indeed, after <em>Low on Ice<\/em>, the fourth of five albums he released on the Frankfurt electronica label\u00a0Mille Plateaux was 1996\u2019s\u00a0<em>Hypermodern Jazz<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The shifting percussion on\u00a0\u2018Low on Ice\u2019 has something of the quality of electric-era Miles Davis, with the piece sharing too the atmospherics of the trip hop which was then flourishing in England. There are ambivalent shards of white noise and foreboding\u00a0synths.\u00a0\u2018Low on Ice\u2019 appeared as part of the album of the same name, released at the end of 1995. On the album, the composition is under the title \u201922:24\u2032. <em>Low on Ice<\/em> was recorded on Empire\u2019s laptop over the course of three days in Iceland that August, as he toured with Atari Teenage Riot on the back of their debut\u00a0<em>Delete Yourself!<\/em>. The video was shot over Iceland at the same time, directed by Philipp Virus.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"0je9TFtC_UE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alec Empire&quot; Low On Ice&quot;\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0je9TFtC_UE?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Devo \u2013 \u2018Whip It\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Apparently the lead guitar riff on Devo\u2019s \u2018Whip It\u2019 was based upon the riff from Roy Orbison\u2019s \u2018Oh, Pretty Woman\u2019, with the beat moved to the back; while the lyrics to the song were inspired by President Jimmy Carter and parodies in <em>Gravity\u2019s Rainbow<\/em> by Thomas Pynchon. The song, from the band\u2019s third album <em>Freedom of Choice<\/em>, became Devo\u2019s biggest hit, reaching number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 after its release in August 1980. Ranchers become excited as Mark Mothersbaugh\u2019s whip removes a lady\u2019s clothing piece by piece.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=25MQM8XaYwU<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Keith Jarrett \u2013 \u2018I Loves You Porgy\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the great interpretations, alongside those by Bill Evans and Nina Simone, of one of the greatest American songs. The video is from\u00a0<em>Solo Tribute: Keith Jarrett \u2013 The 100th Performance in Japan<\/em>, recorded live at Suntory Hall in Tokyo on 14 April 1987.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"o3D8Ri84hmw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Keith Jarrett - I Loves You Porgy\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o3D8Ri84hmw?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Young Thug \u2013 \u2018Never Had It\u2019 (feat. Young Dolph)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Young Thug\u2019s <em>Barter 6<\/em> is my most listened to album of the past month. I put its opener, \u2018Constantly Hating\u2019, on <a href=\"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/2015\/05\/15\/culturedallroundmans-songs-of-the-month-april-2015\/\">April\u2019s song list<\/a>. With Thug\u2019s vocal stylings as free as ever, they\u2019re collected here in the most cohesive package of his career so far: aided by London on da Track and Wheezy, who alternate on production on all but one cut. Thug switches from mellow and flighty to grounded and hard-hitting so readily not only across tracks, but across the expanse he makes of single lines. <em>Barter 6<\/em>\u00a0balances deftly upon these contrasts, and Thug is complemented by a group of featuring artists: from the plainspoken rapping of Birdman; to the bratty spatter of Boosie BadAzz; and later the fluctuating croak of Yak Gotti. I\u2019ve gone here for \u2018Never Had It\u2019, featuring a brusque vocal by Young Dolph, and a fantastic hook which references Randy Savage and Christian Louboutin.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eiRyLrc_QYM<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A$AP Rocky \u2013 \u2018Fine Whine\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A$AP Rocky\u2019s second studio album <em>At.Long.Last.A$AP<\/em> \u2013 but really his third album proper after the exceptional debut mixtape <em>Live.Love.A$AP<\/em>, still one of my favourite rap releases of recent years \u2013\u00a0came out\u00a0a couple of weeks ago. Hazy and darkly psychological, especially on the early tracks, the album echoes Rocky\u2019s increasingly complex relationship with fame and the street zeitgeist he helped create; his experiments with drugs; and some of\u00a0the tumult of his personal life, with his close friend and A$AP Mob figurehead A$AP Yams dying suddenly in January (although by then the record was reportedly\u00a0all but complete), and his engagement with Chanel Iman called off last October.<\/p>\n<p>Rocky\u2019s deliberately overblown and grandiose bragging, his close association with the world of fashion, and even his apparently effortless flow, sometimes collude to mask an exquisite and justly confident artistic sensibility. One aspect of this means that he\u2019s not afraid to subsume his own voice for the sake of a more comprehensive atmosphere. \u2018Fine Whine\u2019, the third track on\u00a0<em>At.Long.Last.A$AP<\/em>, is one of the album\u2019s standouts. Beginning with an introduction which intones\u00a0\u2018This love, this love, this love won\u2019t last forever \/ This love, this love, this love can own our eyes\u2019, the song features Joe Fox \u2013 the British songwriter and guitarist who Rocky discovered on the streets of London, and who appears on five of the album\u2019s seventeen cuts \u2013 M.I.A. and Future. Rocky opens with the understanding \u2018I think my cup is getting muddy\u2019; M.I.A.\u00a0emphasises the stark sense of futility expressed by the song as she repeats \u2018Tell your\u00a0new bitch she can suck a dick\u2019; and as the drums rumble Future propels the theme.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F208904868&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=true&show_comments=true&color=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Holly Herndon \u2013 \u2018Chorus\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Elaborating the collaborative nature of artistic practise \u2013 drawing upon the ideas, among others, of the philosopher and design strategist Benedict Singleton, whose concept of the platform as a dynamic, usable structure for communication, unbeholden to the ideology of future plans, inspired the album\u2019s title; of the contemporary art theorist Suhail Malik; and of the online autonomous sensory meridian response\u00a0community \u2013 Holly Herndon released her latest album <em>Platform<\/em> towards the end of May.<\/p>\n<p>The album is full of spliced vocals and jagged sound patches, often taken from the material and technological facts of Herndon\u2019s everyday life: from her continuous laptop and mobile phone use to the water of a dripping tap. The resultant music is at once surgical, but with danceable beats and rhythms; and elemental, with choral voices coming together and lifting each piece. My favourite tracks so far are \u2018Chorus\u2019 and \u2018Locker Leak\u2019; and while \u2018Morning Sun\u2019 is perhaps the album\u2019s most accessible composition, and saw its video released only last week, still here is the video for \u2018Chorus\u2019 directed by Akihiko Taniguchi and put out last year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"nHujh3yA3BE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Holly Herndon - Chorus [Official Video]\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nHujh3yA3BE?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Animal Collective \u2013 \u2018Summertime Clothes\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s a bit basic, given the title \u2013 perhaps I should be more perverse and opt instead for something like \u2018Winters Love\u2019 \u2013 but this is one of my few definitive summertime songs; incidentally along with Pavement\u2019s \u2018Summer Babe\u2019, albeit there in the \u2018Winter Version\u2019 from <em>Slanted and Enchanted<\/em>. This is Animal Collective at their visceral best.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"GxhaRgJUMl8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes (Official Video)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GxhaRgJUMl8?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p>And back to\u00a0Bj\u00f6rk, who played an hour-long DJ set in Manhattan to celebrate the fifth birthday of Tri Angle Records, featuring music from the Pakistani Sufi singer Abida Parveen, Portuguese fadista Am\u00e1lia Rodrigues, Tri Angle\u2019s Rabit, and popular\u00a0artists including Death Grips and Brandy. Fact took a bunch of photos and videos of the night, including\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.factmag.com\/2015\/05\/16\/bjork-played-a-secret-dj-set-at-tri-angles-new-york-show-and-danced-like-a-lunatic\/\">Bj\u00f6rk dancing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F206037005&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=true&show_comments=true&color=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And so after a late April comes a late May. But so good. HANA \u2013 \u2018Clay\u2019 \u2018Clay\u2019 is the debut song by HANA, a delicate and spacious ballad produced by her\u00a0and Blood Diamonds, and released on 12 May. Written by HANA, it features her lucid voice atop the shimmering warmth of the HANA\/Blood Diamonds co-production. 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