237: “Tell Me a Tale” by Michael Kiwanuka
November 21, 2011 Leave a comment
Temptations + Afro beat + Pharoah Sanders = Michael Kiwanuka’s “Tell Me a Tale.” And that’s just an algorithm for the one tune.
Hang on… equations cannot normally describe music with any degree of accuracy. Equations don’t even have eyebrows.
But Michael Kiwanuka, a contemporary British musician, is such a stitch job of disparate influences that it’s hard not to try to break down his sound to its denominators. And then again, who isn’t a stitch job these days? In modern society, we can pick and choose who we are, more than ever before, as if the world is but an á la carte menu of identity.
Got a notion? You can find a thousand people who will sing the same song.
So be careful what songs you start to sing. This is the freedom fundamentalists are afraid of.
Sorry, I was just introducing some music, and got preachy.
Enjoy it. Amen.
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