Ghostface & BADBADNOTGOOD album Sour Soul out Feb. 24 (Album Discussion Thread)
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Big Mel
@bigboss
Cool but not what I was looking for
And I gotta download a bittorrent client
Keep it pushin then, schlitz.
Thatrogueassdiaz
We're on the blood path now
Is this out now or what? I thought it wasn't being released until 2/24? I'm going to cop it first day, but I don't have any expectations. I did not like 12 reasons or 36 seasons. I've listened to the snippets, and I like what I hear, but I can't judge just off snippets, esp not with 12 reasons and 36 had dope snippets but ended up being blah to me
east oakland usa
Rookie
In bay area voice#iam at this
east oakland usa
Rookie
Dam I fukkin love samples
That ray gun beat is my type of shyt
That ray gun beat is my type of shyt
Big Mel
@bigboss
Dam I fukkin love samples
That ray gun beat is my type of shyt
You realize this is live instrumentation right?
east oakland usa
Rookie
I thought samples
And shyt but yeah I dig
C.G.Jung777
Pro
Not feelin Ray Gun that much, at work and haven't listened to the sampled but I copped BBNG III and downloaded BBNG II off the strength of this video:
And I don't even fukk with Tyler the Creator but that shyt is amazing to me
And I don't even fukk with Tyler the Creator but that shyt is amazing to me
Bigger than Hip-hop: BadBadNotGood meet Ghostface Killah on Sour Soul
The eclectic Toronto trio on confronting genre and collaborating with The Wallabee Champ
FEATURE BY KATIE HAWTHORNE.
PUBLISHED 18 FEBRUARY 2015
Over a crackly Skype call to Toronto, it doesn’t take long in conversation with Canadian trio BADBADNOTGOOD to establish that their unreal genre-bending is supremely difficult to put into words. The band consists of three academically trained jazz musicians: Matt Tavares, Chester Hansen and Alex Sowinski on keys, bass and drums respectively – so far, so straightforward? You’d think so, but their line of trade is hip-hop. They’re probably the only band ever to play both the Edinburgh Jazz Festival and buzz-band showcase SXSW in the same year, and this contrast goes a small way to mark out the musical boundaries they take a swing at.
Matt explains, “It’s when you’re touring and you tell a random person, ‘Oh, I play music,’ and they ask what it sounds like. I feel that we never know what to say.” Chester agrees, “A lot of times you say, 'Oh, jazz-hip hop, or jazz-fusion,' but the thing is that the imagination could assume something totally different.”
“Exactly,” says Matt. “Because our ideas go through phases of what we're listening to, or what's inspiring us. Like, currently right now we're on some kind of more... jazzy... feelings, I don't know?” Chester finishes, “But we're hoping that people don't assume things or put stipulation on what our music sounds like. We’re just hoping that we can give good light to the ideas we're trying to create, you know?”
"GHOSTFACE IS A PRETTY EXTENSIVE CHARACTER" – ALEX SOWINSKI
The three met on the Humber College jazz programme, and – now, infamously – played a reinvention of tracks by controversial hip-hop collective Odd Future for their final assessment. It didn’t go down at all well with the academic examiners, perhaps unsurprisingly. However, in a kind of rags-to-riches, 0 to 100 style tale, Odd Future’s Tyler, the Creator found their session on YouTube and freaked out.
After the heavy endorsement from OF that followed, the trio garnered an impossible string of namechecks: a booking as Coachella’s 'house band' culminated in their stepping up to back Frank Ocean on the main stage, and last year’s SXSW saw them perform a live showcase with Tyler himself. Off stage, their production credits include tracks on Earl Sweatshirt’s Doris and Danny Brown’s Old, as well as some sickeningly brilliant remixes of artists as diverse as Soulja Boy and Future Islands. Subsequent studio albums saw the band reinvent classic tracks from the likes of Kanye, James Blake and Feist amongst a whole pick’n’mix of others, and last year’s III was their first full-length release containing all-original material.
But now, in the biggest coup of their career to date, they’ve pinned down Wu-Tang legend Ghostface Killah for a full-album collaboration. The astonishing result is their fourth LP, Sour Soul. It’s a mammoth project that’s taken three years to see fruition, one that sparked from a meeting with mythic producer Frank Dukes. “It just happened so early on in our evolution that it seems like… yeah, crazy. We’d barely played any shows when we first started working on it,” reflects Chester. After spending years reimagining seminal rap tracks, the adrenaline involved in writing for and with a figure like Ghost was monumental: “Surreal. I remember the first time we got the emails, with some rough ideas he'd brought back, and some first verses on some stuff. I was like, 'Holy shyt.' We've got Ghostface rapping. It's insane. The feeling was real, like… fuzzy,” says Alex, bashful.
Sour Soul is vast; brooding, cinematic, urgent, and arresting. BADBADNOTGOOD have crafted an impossibly detailed backdrop that’s one minute pin-point-precise and the other loose, vulgar and threatening. Ghost sparks off the vibe they establish, drawing material from his life (“he’s a pretty extensive character,” says Alex) to build a near-symbiotic relationship between music and lyric, jazz and rap. It’s dangerous to present these two genres as binary, though; the band talk about how, during the album’s conception, they weren’t sure if it would turn out as a “rap album” or something other. On reflection, it definitely falls into the latter camp: while their unique jazz-informed but hip-hop biased beats lay the foundations, they far from fade into the background.
http://www.theskinny.co.uk/music/interviews/badbadnotgood-unveil-ghostface-collaboration
The eclectic Toronto trio on confronting genre and collaborating with The Wallabee Champ
FEATURE BY KATIE HAWTHORNE.
PUBLISHED 18 FEBRUARY 2015
Over a crackly Skype call to Toronto, it doesn’t take long in conversation with Canadian trio BADBADNOTGOOD to establish that their unreal genre-bending is supremely difficult to put into words. The band consists of three academically trained jazz musicians: Matt Tavares, Chester Hansen and Alex Sowinski on keys, bass and drums respectively – so far, so straightforward? You’d think so, but their line of trade is hip-hop. They’re probably the only band ever to play both the Edinburgh Jazz Festival and buzz-band showcase SXSW in the same year, and this contrast goes a small way to mark out the musical boundaries they take a swing at.
Matt explains, “It’s when you’re touring and you tell a random person, ‘Oh, I play music,’ and they ask what it sounds like. I feel that we never know what to say.” Chester agrees, “A lot of times you say, 'Oh, jazz-hip hop, or jazz-fusion,' but the thing is that the imagination could assume something totally different.”
“Exactly,” says Matt. “Because our ideas go through phases of what we're listening to, or what's inspiring us. Like, currently right now we're on some kind of more... jazzy... feelings, I don't know?” Chester finishes, “But we're hoping that people don't assume things or put stipulation on what our music sounds like. We’re just hoping that we can give good light to the ideas we're trying to create, you know?”
"GHOSTFACE IS A PRETTY EXTENSIVE CHARACTER" – ALEX SOWINSKI
The three met on the Humber College jazz programme, and – now, infamously – played a reinvention of tracks by controversial hip-hop collective Odd Future for their final assessment. It didn’t go down at all well with the academic examiners, perhaps unsurprisingly. However, in a kind of rags-to-riches, 0 to 100 style tale, Odd Future’s Tyler, the Creator found their session on YouTube and freaked out.
After the heavy endorsement from OF that followed, the trio garnered an impossible string of namechecks: a booking as Coachella’s 'house band' culminated in their stepping up to back Frank Ocean on the main stage, and last year’s SXSW saw them perform a live showcase with Tyler himself. Off stage, their production credits include tracks on Earl Sweatshirt’s Doris and Danny Brown’s Old, as well as some sickeningly brilliant remixes of artists as diverse as Soulja Boy and Future Islands. Subsequent studio albums saw the band reinvent classic tracks from the likes of Kanye, James Blake and Feist amongst a whole pick’n’mix of others, and last year’s III was their first full-length release containing all-original material.
But now, in the biggest coup of their career to date, they’ve pinned down Wu-Tang legend Ghostface Killah for a full-album collaboration. The astonishing result is their fourth LP, Sour Soul. It’s a mammoth project that’s taken three years to see fruition, one that sparked from a meeting with mythic producer Frank Dukes. “It just happened so early on in our evolution that it seems like… yeah, crazy. We’d barely played any shows when we first started working on it,” reflects Chester. After spending years reimagining seminal rap tracks, the adrenaline involved in writing for and with a figure like Ghost was monumental: “Surreal. I remember the first time we got the emails, with some rough ideas he'd brought back, and some first verses on some stuff. I was like, 'Holy shyt.' We've got Ghostface rapping. It's insane. The feeling was real, like… fuzzy,” says Alex, bashful.
Sour Soul is vast; brooding, cinematic, urgent, and arresting. BADBADNOTGOOD have crafted an impossibly detailed backdrop that’s one minute pin-point-precise and the other loose, vulgar and threatening. Ghost sparks off the vibe they establish, drawing material from his life (“he’s a pretty extensive character,” says Alex) to build a near-symbiotic relationship between music and lyric, jazz and rap. It’s dangerous to present these two genres as binary, though; the band talk about how, during the album’s conception, they weren’t sure if it would turn out as a “rap album” or something other. On reflection, it definitely falls into the latter camp: while their unique jazz-informed but hip-hop biased beats lay the foundations, they far from fade into the background.
http://www.theskinny.co.uk/music/interviews/badbadnotgood-unveil-ghostface-collaboration
I'm hearing it leaked. Here's a stream of it:
http://musicleakedblog.tumblr.com/post/111464850305/badbadnotgood-ghostface-killah-sour-soul-sour
As always...if you like it, and you're a fan of Ghost, COP it.
http://musicleakedblog.tumblr.com/post/111464850305/badbadnotgood-ghostface-killah-sour-soul-sour
As always...if you like it, and you're a fan of Ghost, COP it.
The name Cacfork should NEVER be mentioned regards to Hip Hip
The name Cacfork should NEVER be mentioned regards to Hip Hip
Lmao. Yea. Them dudes just gave Drake a 8.3/10 and this album a 6.2/10. That Drake album has no business being that high and I listened to this Ghost album and it's much better than a 8.3/10. Also every other review, other than Anthony Fantano's (fvck him too) has giving this album glowing reviews.
That's a great idea.