If You Say the Word 🗣
If You Say the Word 🗣
Shuffle Sundays #41 • Amaro Freitas, Radiohead, Don Broco, Tame Impala, Bonobo, Maria Svarbova, & more!
Hello and welcome to Shuffle Sundays, a weekly newsletter with music recommendations to help you find your next obsession.
This week we’re listening to a Brazilian jazz pianist, watching a surrealistic new video, listening to an orchestral version of one of my favorite songs of the year, feeling inspired a photographer whose main body of work was shot in beautiful swimming pools, checking out some new music released this past week and more. Enjoy the read!
🎧 Soundtrack: Bonobo - Migration
💽 » Amaro Freitas - Sankofa
jazz, brazilian • 8 songs • 45 minutes
Sankofa is the third studio album of Brazilian pianist Amaro Freitas, and a beautiful evolution of what he had started with his previous two records Sangue Negro (2016) and Rasif (2018). Freitas, known for a very percussive style of playing, expands his techniques even more, this time bringing the sounds of Sankofa a little closer of modern jazz, with lots of experimentations, but without walking away from the Brazilian rhythms that inspired him since the beginning. I love albums that are “easy” to listen to, at the same time that rewards you for paying closer attention to what’s being presented. Sankofa is all of that and much more, while also having one of the most beautiful artworks of the year.
Listen on Spotify | Apple Music | YouTube
📺 » Radiohead - If You Say the Word
If You Say The Word is the first taste of Radiohead’s upcoming compilation album Kid Amnesiae (out Nov 5th), and the track arrives with a strange (to say the least) video where we see executives being captured in the “wild”, to be brought back to the corporate world. If this had an expanded version, it could have easily been a short film directed by the late surrealism master Luis Buñuel.
Watch the video on YouTube
📺 » Don Broco - One True Prince (Orchestral Version Live From Abbey Road)
One of my favorite songs of 2021 (already recommended on SS #33) just got even better, with a live (in studio) version accompanied by an orchestra. I’ve always loved when “heavy” bands brings orchestral arrangements to their music, and here the result could not have been better. Also, as a drummer myself, I’m always impressed when I see a drummer that also sings. I’m counting the days for the album release in a couple of weeks!
Watch the video on YouTube
🔀 » Shuffle News
• Tame Impala is releasing a deluxe edition of The Slow Rush, which will include b-sides and remixes from their 2020 album. Due on February 18 of 2022, the physical edition will feature 2xLPs with new artwork, a 40-page booklet, and a 2050 calendar.
• Electronic producer Simon Green has announced his 7th album under hist artistic name Bonobo. Fragments will be out January 14, following 2017’s Migrations, one of my favorite albums of that year.
⚡️ » Visual Inspiration
Maria Svarbova is a Slovak fine-art photographer whose most recognized collection is ‘In the Swimming Pool’. Check out her website or Instagram for more. Here are some favorites:
🎶 » New Music
This week’s new albums I'm particularly interested in checking out:
James Blake - Friends That Break Your Heart (Spotify | Apple)
The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die - Illusory Walls (Spotify | Apple)
Also, new singles from Castello Branco & Duda Beat, Bonobo, Kylie Minogue, Arca & Sia, Terno Rei, Starset, Big Thief, and many more. If you’re curious to hear some of these songs and more, make sure to follow my 2021 playlist on Spotify, updated weekly with new releases:
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