Muhammed Ali once stressed the importance of positivity in achieving your goals in life by stating: “I am the greatest; I said that even before I knew I was.”
I admit the ability to stay positive is perhaps one of the most important skills a person can have. However, being continuously happy and satisfied is very difficult, if not impossible. In fact even staying content requires conscious effort, doesn’t it?..
I mentioned them last week presenting my favourite band. So now I feel of sharing with you, one of the roots of Mustafunk. The plow truck of rock and roll in Argentina, DIVIDIDOS.
This band is the baby from a historical band in Argentina called Sumo. When the lead singer of Sumo died, Ricardo Mollo and Diego Arnedo decided to try this formula. In only 10 years during the 90’s they became the plow truck they are today…
There is a point in this song when Black Thought says, “If lyricism is spiritual to you, then rewind this” and I couldn’t think of a better way to epitomize this track. As a worshipper of the school of The New Poetics (can I coin this term?), hearing this onslaught of aggressively intelligent bars for the first time felt like a religious ceremony…
Mehmet Güreli is a Turkish writer, painter, director and musician born in 1949 in Istanbul, Turkey. He graduated from Istanbul University, majoring in Philosophy. He started working in Hürriyet newspaper in 1976. He is one of the few Turkish artists producing in different art areas…
This week’s track is a little different in that it isn’t what you would typically call a sad song – but then not every track on the Music to Grieve To playlist is going to be morose or downbeat. Tracks make this list because they’re great at evoking emotion – the songs on Cathal Flaherty’s recent EP The Head & Heart are brilliant at this.
20 Year old Mac Ayres exploded quickly with his first EP “Drive Slow”. As a kid from Sea Cliff, NY. He moved to Boston to attend the Berkeley College of Music. Being around so many different artists allowed him to explore different styles until he found the grove for his EP.
This is a track that falls under the category of basically uncategorizable. Like the artists responsible for making it, the song is not tied to one genre, one aesthetic, even one message. All in the same musical vehicle the listener gets a taste of the southern pimp, the college marching band, and the soulful starlet…
This track is a bonafide classic. In a sense it is the quintessential Motown croon, combining soul and love to command the audience to feel something. In a different sense, it is a sound no one but Stevie Wonder could ever dream of bringing to life because it doesn’t just make you feel something, it makes you feel everything…
“Wooden Ships” by Crosby, Stills & Nash came out in 1969, which was at the crest of the Vietnam War and the cusp of a new decade. It would be one of their biggest hits. The melody is fluid and beautiful, but the words are powerful and scary as they address nuclear annihilation…
Stevens embodies all my feelings in a soft romantic whispered phrase.
I’m a huge fan of singer-songwriters. And to see Stevens nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song was amazing, to say the least. Call Me by Your Name is one of my top films of 2017.
You know that feeling you get when you’re watching the opening credits of a movie you already know is going to be great? That’s the type of feeling I get from listening to this song (in fact, this would totally be a great opening credits song)….
Confidence is a trait; staying true to yourself while staying confident is a challenge. Hip hop is all made of confidence and having the boldness to stand up for what you believe, but remaining genuine might be hard sometimes. Yet it is so important.