1: “Riffin’ Ed” by Medeski, Martin & Wood
July 29, 2010 1 Comment
I hope to do this for a while… Select songs to share with people and post them here.
For the first post, a fairly current song from my favorite trio, MMW, a jazz(?) band out of NYC. The song, Riffin’ Ed, is a strong acoustic offering from the trio, a band that will be featured again here. John Medeski’s piano-work is sublime and soulful. Billy Martin’s percussion is garage-sale-funky and well-timed. Chris Wood’s rou-ound bass is the glue.
The song is from their Radiolarians recordings, created over the course of about a year. They performed this formula three times: 1) write a bunch of songs, 2) play them in front of their audiences on tour, 3) record an album of the material.
Here’s a great article about the band and the Radiolarians process. I’ll ignore the fact that they trash mp3’s as a medium in this article. I assume they know you don’t need vinyl, vacuum tubes and gold speaker wires to really HEAR a song. Anyone who’s fallen in love with something they heard over some crappy old car stereo speakers knows what I’m saying. So I’ve taken their comments in the article as a hyper-sensitivity to the quality of a recording rather than snobbiness about how people should consume their music. Yeah… I think they’d want you to buy their mp3’s. And so do I. Give this one a shot.
Enjoy.
Song: Riffin’ Ed
Artist: Medeski, Martin & Wood
Album: Radiolarians II
Label: Indirecto Records
Buy from: Amazon.com | iTunes
Listen: MOG | Spotify
Watch: YouTube
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