10 entries for Sunday, May 23, 2021

Documentary on Will Ruddick and Kenyan Community Currencies

[Allowing popular retailers to become banks creates a profit motive for debt, which reduces trading because people are not able to pay expensive loans. Introducing a secondary currency enables people to trade which deteriorates debt as a profit strategy.]

[Joining the network gives you 400, half of which is kept in a community pot for helping children, community lunches, waste collection…]

[The community knows what's best for them. They can back their own money.]

Cal Tjader: Complete Concert By The Sea

Lovely Latin jazz with congas and cowbells.

Meara O’Reilly: Hockets for Two Voices (2019)

If you liked the pygmy hockets from last week, check this out. In these exquisite duets with herself, she manages to create a diversity of moods using only the sound of her own voice.

Athletic Progression: OSAKA

High-energy vortex non-stop fire drumming.

Yellow Spoon: Octopus

Minute-long drum amen break escapade.

Jaubi: Raga Gurji Todi (2021)

Mix of jazz, raga, and rock.

Doja Cat, SZA: Kiss Me More

I’ve never seen such fiery dance choreography by someone in a wheelchair.

MC Fioti: Bum Bum Tam Tam

This funk carioca body-shaker blasting at home signalled my friend’s long-awaited scheduling of a COVID vaccine. I dig the music, and it has gotten over a billion views, but the video hurts your eyes. Featuring samples of Bach’s Flute Partita in A minor.

Tariq Harb: Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 on Guitar

A challenge to translate this from organ keyboard to six strings. Classical music on guitar is one of the most sublime things.