This Week's Playlist #135 - The Brother edition vol. 4
This Week's Playlist #135 - The Brother edition vol. 4
5 songs from my brother summer rotation
Hello everyone!
This Week's Playlist - Season 3, Episode 31.
It’s hot, I’m soon on holidays and the Olympic games are in full force.
My brother is back for another selection of 5 nerdy yet very catchy picks (as usual), as he’s done before.
I hope you enjoy it and see you next week.
There is a YouTube link for each of the songs on the cover, and here are the playlists for each streaming platform:
1. Kiki Gyan – Keep on Dancing
Sometimes considered the African Stevie Wonder, Kiki Gyan was a funk disco keyboard player in the 70s and 80s, notably playing with Osibisa. He unfortunately seems to have had a difficult end of life with poverty and severe drug addictions...
In 2012 Soundway Records published a post-mortem compilation of his best solo hits, which are genuinely all bangers!
2. Kai Richarz – Was werden denn die Andern denken
Cool chill music from Germany. I couldn’t find much info about the artist, and I believe this one popped up in my spotify recommendations a few years ago but I still enjoy listening to it!
3. Jantra – Jaborouna Jabor
The mesmerizing and otherworldly sound from Sudanese keyboard player. The rhythms initially feel a bit off but eventually take you to a different galaxy.
Just the name of the album would make music connoisseurs sweat: “Synthesized Sudan: Astro-Nubian Electronic Jaglara Dance Sounds from the Fashaga Underground”.
4. Wicked Dub Division feat North East Ska Jazz Orchestra – Mama
An Italian all star line-up for some powerful... Reggae? Ska? Dub? Not entirely sure how you describe this style! The rhythm, the big band, the slightly cheesy male singer lyrics, gets me boogieing every time!
5. Rachmaninoff – Prelude in G minor op. 23 no. 5
I visited a friend recently. His partner is a professional pianist and she was working on this piece which sounded awesome.
As always with classical music, there are as many versions as there are interpreters, so after a not so exhaustive youtube search I settle on this one from Yuja Wang (who seems to be a classical piano rockstar) live at Philharmonie Berlin in 2018.
5+1: La Fanfare en Pétard – Petit Martien
A friend of mine visited a few years ago and played this song every morning. Can’t tell you more about the band or anything else but the song puts me in a good mood every time!
5+2: dicht & ergreifend – Forever Youngg'seY
A funny take on the ultra famous song from Manu Chao. dicht & ergreifend is a duo formed in Berlin though they are both from southern Germany. This particular song is in southern dialect and makes use of the similarity between the original “me gustas tú” and “gwusst, dass du”, meaning “I didn’t know that you...”.
Until the next time, Godspeed!
Thomas
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