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Today we have three songs, one for Tuesday, Wednesday and today.
The first song, “Avatar” by Jeremy Pelt is a moody, 8 minute jazz song. Spare, with just drums, piano and trumpet, Avatar seems like a simple enough song. The trumpet wanders around, looking for a melody, or at least a motif to hold on to. Beneath it the piano seems to think to itself, brooding over some reproach, and you have to wonder if it means anything, its slightly creepy chords that are not at all normal jazz piano. After about 3 minutes, a sax joins in, just different from the trumpet. The piano goes back to its normal jazzy self, and earns a solo, which is interesting, as solos go. Not the impressive blitzy solo, but it sounds cool. At around 7 minutes, the whole thing slows down, and all three instruments play in unison for the rest of the song. I’m quite confused as to why it’s called Avatar, but the song is nice. PS - unfortunately the upload didn’t work, so either download it today, or you’re out of luck.
A second song (I’m hesitant to say the second song, because I don’t remember downloading this yesterday or the day before, but I listened, and it came from emusic, so I’m reviewing it.) is “Dog Park” by The Saturday Knights. Starting with a panning electronica chord, and an even more electronic synth bit. Then a few whistles and you get ready to listen to your typical electric song. Nope. Instead you have a singer who sounds like he’s rapping, but he’s doing it melodically. You end up with the best of lots of worlds. A) the electric instrumentation that I fall for so easily, B) hip-hop lyricization, full of witty wordplay, C) Singing in tune, without a vocoder. Much more than Snoop Dogg can say. T-Pain doesn’t count, because his vocoder is his style, but I have yet to hear another rapper that can manage this. Best of all, it ends with these lyrics: “Get yo leash, get yo leash get yo leash… The park will be closing in five minutes.” The song as a whole, by the way, is about the singer, whose girlfriend has left him, and left her dog too. I’m not totally sure, but I think he falls in love with the dog.
Then we come to “Trouble In My Way” by ‘Various Artists’, or Como Mamas feat. Mary Moore, whichever you want to believe. “Trouble” is a soul/jazz song, completely accapella, with several distinctive singers all singing perfectly in tune. You even get a little scream-ish emphasis from the lead singer. Towards the end, the song gets quite repetetive, but they pull it off. I’m most impressed.
Finally, we end with Takka Takka’s “Everybody Say“. Muted-ish guitar, of which I have not heard outside of a punk song starts off this soul/folk song. The song as a whole is quite perplexing, though. Unfortunately, the song also falls into what I might call the “Say” trap. John Mayer’s “Say” is a pretty song, however, it’s chorus (one line “Say what you need to say” repeated practically endlessly) brings the whole song down. “Everybody Say” has a similar chorus: “You say, everybody say” repeated. Although, oddly, it only happens once, so they’re forgiven.
