SOUNDTRACK: TOM MISCH AND YUSSEF DAYES-Tiny Desk (Home) Concert #49 (July 13, 2020).
Tom Misch and Yussef Dayes play a light jazz with lots of interesting elements floating around the songs. The blurb says the music “evokes a dreamy utopia, blending live electronica, psychedelia and avant-garde jazz.”
I didn’t realize that Misch was British until the chorus–the way he sings “the dash.” Actually I first realized when he spoke after the song, but then it was obvious when he sang.
Producer/guitarist Tom Misch and drummer Yussef Dayes released a surprising and stunning collaborative album earlier this year called What Kinda Music,. This Tiny Desk (home) concert — recorded across six different musicians’ homes — features two songs from that album, “Nightrider” and “Tidal Wave.”
“Nightrider” has cool echoing slow guitars and fantastically complex drumming. But the focus of this song seems to be the wonderfully busy five string bass from Tom Driessler. Jordan Rakei provides backing vocals and
special guest John Mayer provides a closing solo, just as he did at last year’s Crossroads Guitar Festival.
It’s weird the way Mayer stares at the camera at the end though.
“Tidal Wave” has a different cast. It features Rocco Palladino on bass, which is not as complex. Although Yussef’s drumming is fantastic once again.
There’s a nice lead guitar line before the vocals kick in. I almost wish the song were an instrumental until Joel Culpepper adds his wonderful high backing vocals.
This is some good chill out music.
[READ: July 10, 2020] “Calling”
I know I’ve read Richard Ford stories before, but this stories was so fascinating to me–it felt very different from so many other stories that I read.
Set around Christmas in 1961, the narrator’s father has left him and his mother in New Orleans while he has moved to St. Louis to be with a male doctor.
His mother, meanwhile, had begun a singing career, which essentially meant that she was sleeping with her African American singing coach.
What’s fascinating about the story (aside from how trasnsgressive his parents seem in 1961) is that the narrator is telling the story from the present:
They are all dead now. My father. My mother. Dr. Carter. The black accompanist, Dubinion.
These interjections of the present allow for some reflections on this tumultuous period in his life. (more…)
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