Comments on: WE WOULD ALL BE LIVING IN CAVES http://www.negrophonic.com/2007/we-would-all-be-living-in-caves/ dirt, sound, lit Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:19:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Tim http://www.negrophonic.com/2007/we-would-all-be-living-in-caves/#comment-3507 Tim Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:52:39 +0000 http://www.negrophonic.com/2007/we-would-all-be-living-in-caves/#comment-3507 Hi, yeah I'm a big fan of this book also. A real eye opener. I know this is now an ad (I'm no longer paid to research music!) but check this out your going to like it anyway. <a href="http://www.ethiopiques.info" rel="nofollow">www.ethiopiques.info</A> It's a fansite set up to celebrate the release of a 2CD pack of classic Ethiopian groove. Just thought you might be interested. Best wishes Hi, yeah I’m a big fan of this book also. A real eye opener.

I know this is now an ad (I’m no longer paid to research music!) but check this out your going to like it anyway.

http://www.ethiopiques.info

It’s a fansite set up to celebrate the release of a 2CD pack of classic Ethiopian groove.

Just thought you might be interested.

Best wishes

]]> By: jace http://www.negrophonic.com/2007/we-would-all-be-living-in-caves/#comment-2636 jace Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:05:15 +0000 http://www.negrophonic.com/2007/we-would-all-be-living-in-caves/#comment-2636 great comments/info Rob, thanks! what i would give to attend a J. Storm Roberts yard sale!!! im just finishing his book 'Black Music of Two Worlds', its a fascinating read which ill try to write about here in the coming weeks. great comments/info Rob, thanks! what i would give to attend a J. Storm Roberts yard sale!!!

im just finishing his book ‘Black Music of Two Worlds’, its a fascinating read which ill try to write about here in the coming weeks.

]]> By: Rob Weisberg http://www.negrophonic.com/2007/we-would-all-be-living-in-caves/#comment-2625 Rob Weisberg Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:46:51 +0000 http://www.negrophonic.com/2007/we-would-all-be-living-in-caves/#comment-2625 Whatever you thought of his music theory, Roberts is a great character. He began his post-colonial globetrotting as a journalist I believe and fell into the record thing. A role model Brit expat. His compliations were excellent and at the time unrivaled in their archival digging. And notable for good liner info but with an informal journalistic rather than academic approach, which was still a bit unusual at the time (exceptions that come to mind: GlobeStyle, perhaps World Circuit). Sublime Frequencies fans: Original Music may have also presaged the current "exotic" hipster comp boom in its reportedly, um, casual approach to licensing. But they did have better liners than the Sublime comps (pet peeve) which often don't even credit artists (boo). Artist credit at least grants a degree of respect. The exoticist approach of some of the Sublime stuff that young hipsters are eating up is troubling to me (but that's another story)... Roberts and his staff were guests on my WFMU radio show once, and sometime after that we went to a yard sale at his place in rural Tivoli, New York. I proudly possess a Ramblers Dance Band LP (among others) that probably was used as a master... (Also, I for one generally agree with his non-hysteric approach to traditional and indigenous culture and change - and how it isn't all being swamped by Euro-American culture after all - there is some amazing give-and-take going on. From "hip-life" to Bucovina club...) Rob Weisberg / WFMU Radio Jersey City, NJ / http://www.wfmu.org/tsp Whatever you thought of his music theory, Roberts is a great character. He began his post-colonial globetrotting as a journalist I believe and fell into the record thing. A role model Brit expat.

His compliations were excellent and at the time unrivaled in their archival digging. And notable for good liner info but with an informal journalistic rather than academic approach, which was still a bit unusual at the time (exceptions that come to mind: GlobeStyle, perhaps World Circuit).

Sublime Frequencies fans: Original Music may have also presaged the current “exotic” hipster comp boom in its reportedly, um, casual approach to licensing. But they did have better liners than the Sublime comps (pet peeve) which often don’t even credit artists (boo). Artist credit at least grants a degree of respect. The exoticist approach of some of the Sublime stuff that young hipsters are eating up is troubling to me (but that’s another story)…

Roberts and his staff were guests on my WFMU radio show once, and sometime after that we went to a yard sale at his place in rural Tivoli, New York. I proudly possess a Ramblers Dance Band LP (among others) that probably was used as a master…

(Also, I for one generally agree with his non-hysteric approach to traditional and indigenous culture and change - and how it isn’t all being swamped by Euro-American culture after all - there is some amazing give-and-take going on. From “hip-life” to Bucovina club…)

Rob Weisberg / WFMU Radio Jersey City, NJ / http://www.wfmu.org/tsp

]]> By: JW http://www.negrophonic.com/2007/we-would-all-be-living-in-caves/#comment-2175 JW Tue, 29 May 2007 15:50:50 +0000 http://www.negrophonic.com/2007/we-would-all-be-living-in-caves/#comment-2175 Thanks so much for this - John Storm Roberts is a giant, and really inspirational. Any of his CD collections (or LP collections) on his "Original Music" label are just superb - if one can find them, aaah! Thanks so much for this - John Storm Roberts is a giant, and really inspirational. Any of his CD collections (or LP collections) on his “Original Music” label are just superb - if one can find them, aaah!

]]> By: w&w http://www.negrophonic.com/2007/we-would-all-be-living-in-caves/#comment-2173 w&w Tue, 29 May 2007 14:52:38 +0000 http://www.negrophonic.com/2007/we-would-all-be-living-in-caves/#comment-2173 thanks for the lovely textual, musical, and ideological resonances. here's to more echoes along and across these lines -- my favorite part about that track via waxidermy: that ol' bluesy bassline (recontextualized yet again), as heard in countless 12-bar tunes, natch, but also in pop fare like (hip-hop fave) otis redding's "tramp," prince's "get off" (if i recall correctly), and in my favorite link of all, the guitar line in sly&robbie's "murder she wrote" riddim (which itself has animated countless reggae and reggaeton tunes). been meaning to get around to a mini-mega-mix of all these (and more), and this will make a fine addition! thanks for the lovely textual, musical, and ideological resonances. here’s to more echoes along and across these lines –

my favorite part about that track via waxidermy: that ol’ bluesy bassline (recontextualized yet again), as heard in countless 12-bar tunes, natch, but also in pop fare like (hip-hop fave) otis redding’s “tramp,” prince’s “get off” (if i recall correctly), and in my favorite link of all, the guitar line in sly&robbie’s “murder she wrote” riddim (which itself has animated countless reggae and reggaeton tunes). been meaning to get around to a mini-mega-mix of all these (and more), and this will make a fine addition!

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