We should all spend more of our lives focused on the dancefloor with politically incisive commentary.
What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness?
Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Monday, July 18, 2005
you know it's good when..
I've been listening to a fair bit of Fela Kuti lately, after stumbling across his album Up Side Down/Music of Many Colours a month ago. I had forgotten that I saw his son, Femi Kuti, open up for the String Cheese Incident back in 2001, who rocked. Fela rocked as well, pioneering the "afrobeat" sound of the 1970s with an ethnic James Brown groove that still sounds fresh today. I just ran across this delightfully odd review: "This is a fierce collection of afrobeat jams, highlighted by the almost 15 minute long title track, focused on the dancefloor with politically incisive commentary."