By DJ Fusion
What’s good Planet Ill crew!
It’s time again for your regular Indiesent Exposure installment – the weekly writeup that provides FREE quality music downloads & info about Independent Music artists of different genres who deserve serious credit for keeping things lively &original in the world of music.
Post by post, Indiesent Exposure is set to give your ears some temporary respite from some of the daily audio wackness, boredom and/or iCoonery that bombards the masses through the mainstream radio and TV airwaves’ definitions of Hip-Hop, Rock, Soul, Funk, Jazz, Rock, Reggae, House, World Music and more.
If you like what you hear & download up in this section, PLEASE support (monetarily and otherwise) these artists as much as you can in the future – hit up their websites, purchase some product, go to their shows, etc.
This week’s Indiesent Exposure audio selection features the a new sonic boom from the URB ALT music scene.
Whenever you have the chance, please let all of the talented Indiesent Exposure artists and the Planet Ill crew know what you think of the music in our comments section!
Here we go:
The musical collective Muthawit has been rocking for over 10 years throughout the U.S. bringing a tight mix of eclectic music sounds to listeners worldwide.
Lead by singer/songwriter/filmmaker/producer + URB ALT Festival founder Boston Fielder, the crew (which flucuates between 3 and a maximum of 24 members at times with the Muthawit Orchestra) has recently dropped their latest full length release online,
The album puts on display a lot of diverse audio influences that mesh together well throughout it’s 10 tracks, including Free Jazz, Blues, Funk, Soul and a mixture of Atmospheric, Psychedelic, Punk Rock. It’s music that grooves hard, whether the songs are acoustic or electronic based, slow or high tempo, yet it almost feels dreamy. It kind of reminds me of Jimi Hendrix at his most hallucinatory haze mode.
The inspiration and creative process for the album is as almost as bugged out and awesome as their audio imprint…here it is straight from Boston Fielder’s mouth:
men & women (la Revenge de Uncle Baldy) is a charged headphone homage to Tupelo, MS jazz/blues legend George Smith a.k.a. (Boston’s) Uncle Baldy who is a largely forgotten but primary influence on Elvis Presley’s early musical career. The infinite dance of past vs future and acoustic vs electronic is at the core of the album.
“’men & women’ was produced in exotic locales such as under my loft bed in Harlem; inside a broiling attic in Stone Mountain, GA.; in a pissy Brooklyn urinal; and on a front porch in the cottonfields of the Mississippi Delta. We kept it raw and live when possible. Our only sound proofing was piles of dirty socks. So, the album definitely smells great…if you like cornchips.”
men & women (la Revenge de Uncle Baldy) is not someone’s “look at how artsy I am” project, but a genuine expression that organically connects the some of the different worlds of Black Music.
Give this great album a listen (and if you like it, support by buying the project) and in the meantime get one of the singles as a free download below. Help Uncle Baldy get his revenge on boring music .Check out more of the latest musical and creative happenings with Muthawit and the URB ALT movement over at their official website, http://URBALT.ning.com.
Muthawit – men & women (la Revenge de Uncle Baldy) (Download/Purchase Album)
Preview:
Tracklisting:
1. Doodle Gato [can preview above]
2. Waiting For My… * [can preview above]
3. Wasted (Fill My House With Salt) * [FREE SINGLE Download] [can preview above]
4. men & women * [can preview above]
5. When It’s Time To Go, George Smith [can preview above]
6. Wind (Fo’ The Folks) *
7. Martha The Squatter *
8. Now That It’s Over (Are You Satisfied)
9. Who Needs Time *
10. Tree of Life (Writ For Closure)
* Personal Favorite Tracks
Music Video #1: MuthaWit feat. Waberi Jordan – Strange Fruit (at the 2008 URB ALT Festival)
[pro-player width=’450′ height=’350′ type=’video’]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiSLOvXASR0&feature=player_embedded[/pro-player]
Music Video #2: MuthaWit with Stoni Taylor – Wasted (at the URB ALT Fest 2009
[pro-player width=’450′ height=’350′ type=’video’]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwdm1JmdY00&feature=player_embedded[/pro-player]
Music Video #3: MuthaWit with Shanti Om – Loose Ends (at the URB ALT Fest 2008
[pro-player width=’450′ height=’350′ type=’video’]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReQuMdGr6zM&feature=player_embedded[/pro-player]
Music Video #4: MuthaWit – It’ll Make You Feel Better (Live @ The Shrine, April 2007
[pro-player width=’450′ height=’350′ type=’video’]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGIdgj6c7G4&feature=player_embedded[/pro-player]
Music Video #5: Muthawit – Give It To Me
[pro-player width=’450′ height=’350′ type=’video’]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IiTcVQIunU&feature=player_embedded[/pro-player]
DJ Fusion’s E-Mail: djfusion@planetill.com (Back Up: blackradioisback@gmail.com) w/ the Subject Line “Planet Ill Indiesent Exposure”
DJ Fusion is the creator and co-host/mix DJ of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast (hit up http://FuseBoxRadio.podomatic.com for the radio show archives + podcast and our overall official site at http://www.FuseBoxRadioOnline.com) and the blog BlackRadioIsBack.com, two areas trying to fight audio B.S. one day at a time…check folks out around either way when you can. 🙂
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