Father Creeper [Vinyl]

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Father Creeper [VINYL]Opis:Review For many, Soweto-born Spoek Mathambo first introduced himself with Control, his stark, minimally wired version of Joy Division's She's Lost Control, accompanied by a black-and-white riot of a video, involving paint guns, possession and a non-Salfordian urban desolation. He's credited for conceiving ‘township tech’ but Father Creeper, his first album for Sub Pop, is a maximal affair, a frantic hybrid of traditional South African styles, contemporary rock, dancehall, hip hop and soulful, falsetto pop. Spoek Mathambo is a veritable one-man African Dub Foundation. Quite often, the prospect of this sort of eclecticism, appetising in all its multiple ingredients on paper, can make for dismaying fare on record, a regurgitated dog's breakfast, a spoiled broth. And certainly, Mathambo leaps about on a hotplate of styles, rarely dwelling on a groove for long.

Move with him, though, because it's worth the breakneck effort. Sub Pop might seem an odd label for Mathambo to throw in his lot with but Let Them Talk effortlessly and naturally mutates into a dandruff cloud-generating squall of grunge, a new facet to Mathambo's live sound. However, the skinnier, digital Venison Fingers is zippy and searing, an indictment of creeping, local and global greed. Put Some Red on It, about the diamond trade and already the subject of remixes by the likes of Machinedrum and Telepathe, features synths drilling into the temples, nagging the conscience. Skorokoro (Walking Away) changes tack again, with its snaking, dubsteppy Moog, firefly keys and hypnotic central chant. The title-track draws on Mathambo's private hauntology, a jingle that has been embedded in his memory since childhood.

Closer Grave slows the pace right down, a sobering, plaintively pensive note on which to conclude. If Mathambo's brand of eclecticism works, it's maybe to do with his township upbringing. This is no postmodern cornucopia of past and present sounds, a celebration of the easy-access, have-it-all age. Instead, it’s produced out of an understanding of what it means to have very little, and with a true respect for the value of material sources. --David StubbsFind more music at the BBC This link will take you off in a new window Product Description Vinyl LP pressing. Father Creeper, the second album by Johannesburg's Spoek Mathambo (real name: Nthato Mokgata), makes the Afro-futurists look old school. Live drumming and rock guitars intertwine with cyborg drum machine beats, video game bleeps, soulful singing and rap choruses. Lyrically, Father Creeper embraces a deep sensitivity for a traumatized society where the turmoil is real, the optimism stubborn and the booty ripe. Father Creeper shows US a musician hitting his stride with the confidence and vision to craft songs as robust and challenging and attractive as life in our electrified, apocalyptic 2012.

Autor:Spoek MathamboNośnik:VinylPłyt:Język: Data wydania: 2012Waga: 1.01 gramWysokość: 0.9 cmSzerokość: 12.07 cmDługość: 15.02 cmShips in Certified Frustration-Free PackagingUWAGA: Kupując produkt na tej aukcji zgadzasz się na wydłużony termin realizacji wysyłki (10-14 dni roboczych). Podany towar pochodzi z zagranicznego magazynu, stąd wydłużony czas realizacji który podany jest obok.