A schematic experiment with organizing life forms of music; frame a particular sonic structure not by genre or geographic location or even general features of the sound, but by a conceptual orientation. What results is an unfamiliar stretching at the seams of our comfort zones with the music at hand. A bending of our familiar understanding, allowing us to venture into the borderlands of the unknown. What falls into the conceptual categorization may be playful and evocative and ultimately challenging to our conventional expectations of what sorts of music should engage in collective dialogue.
In the spirit of such sonic experiments Sanguine Sunday presents to our listeners a special episode on Electric Soul! We gather inspiration from Little Dragon’s unique brand of cobalt musings in sun drenched, synthesized space folk. Whoo, adjectives! Hemmingway must be rolling in his grave. Fuck it. At halftime, Shelmatic catches up with lead crooner of the outfit, Yukimi Nagano, for a back on forth on Little Dragon’s idiosyncratic influences and nuanced tightness as a prismatic bending band.
Honey Knucks jumps it off with a seamless meandering through the electric soul of D’Angelo to Pretty Lights’ highly original florescent funk and back to the fundamental earth tones with Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition”. Summoned in response, I (Z Note “The Asteroid Surfer”) push the smoked out burgundy wavelength–flipping the bold new rhythms of Sa-Ra into the slick swagger of Fatima and Prince’s b-side brilliance.
This episode is guaranteed to warm the heart and relax the anxious mind. Imbibe in the therapeutic shining, and tell us what you think fits into this Electric Soul liquid pump.
Tracklist:
(talk over)
Jneiro Jarel/Here Comes the Sun/Three Piece Puzzle
Jneiro Jarel/Breathin Feat. Rocque Wun/Three Piece Puzzle
Jneiro Jarel/Intro/Three Piece Puzzle
Jneiro Jarel/Crashing Comets/Three Piece Puzzle
Honey Knuckles
D’Angelo/Devil’s Pie/Voodoo
Thievery Corporation/The Time We Lost Our Way feat. Lou Lou/The Cosmic Game
Stolen Identity/Hey (Omganic Mix)/OM: Chilled Vol. 2
Erykah Badu/Honey (Captain Planet Remix)
The Knife/Heartbeats/Deep Cuts
Pretty Lights/Hot Like Sauce/Filling up the City Skies
RJD2/Ghostwriter Remix/The Horror
Pretty Lights/My Other Love/Filling up the City Skies
Pretty Lights/Finally Moving/Filling up the City Skies
Marvin Gaye/T Plays it Cool/Trouble Man
Stevie Wonder/Superstition/Talking Book
Shuggie Otis/Strawberry Letter 23/12″
Jill Scott/Golden/Golden
(talk over)
Jneiro Jarel/Sun Walkers Feat. Mel Owens/Three Piece Puzzle
Jneiro Jarel/Won’t Let You Go (No, No, No)/Three Piece Puzzle
Jneiro Jarel/Soul Starr/Three Piece Puzzle
Little Dragon Interview
Little Dragon/After the Rain/Little Dragon
Little Dragon/Twice/Little Dragon
Little Dragon/Recommendation/Little Dragon
Little Dragon/Constant Surprises/Little Dragon
Z Note
Sa-Ra(ft. Erykah Badu & Georgia Anne Muldrow)/Fly Away/The Hollywood Recordings
Fatima (ft. Cuthead, Cohen, & Dorian Concept)/Do I Know You/Various Assets 2
Georgia Anne Muldrow/Olesi:Fragments of an Earth/Wrong Way
Dr. Who Dat?/Nights Over Nantes – Brakes /Beyond 2morrow
Flying Lotus (ft. Andreya Triana)/Tea Leaf Dancers/Reset EP
Harmonic 313 (ft. Steve Spacek)/Falling Away/When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence
Pete Rock/A Little Soul/Petestrumentals
A Tribe Called Quest/Electric Relaxation/Electric Relaxation 12″
Dudley Perkins/Ya’ Soul/A Lil’ Light
Amp Fiddler/I Believe In You (Jaylib remix)/I Believe In You 12″
Dolphin/Light St./Mono vs. Stereo Collection
J*Davey/Slooow/The Beauty In Distortion/The Land Of The Lost
Prince/17 Days/The Hits 3
(talk over)
Jneiro Jarel/Black Cinderella Feat. Dr. Wh/Three Piece Puzzle
Jneiro Jarel/Eeee Love/Three Piece Puzzle
Jneiro Jarel/Stranger They Come Feat. Rocq/Three Piece Puzzle
