Il Blues Continuum … Fast Forward / Rewind

Alessandro Buffa5/4/2018

Sha-Rock , Echo chambereffectSha-Rock, la prima MC (Mike Chanter) donna. E’ stata anche la prima a fare un tipo di rap chiamato “echo chambereffect” utilizzando solo un semplice microfono

Funky Four Plus One, “Rappin and Rockin the House”, Live at The Kitchen, NYC (1980)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw10bdA-HTQ

Bessie Smith, “BackwaterBlues” (1927)

When it rains five days and the skies turn dark as nightWhen it rains five days and the skies turn dark as nightThen trouble's takin' place In the lowlands at night

I woke up this mornin', can't even get out of my doorI woke up this mornin', can't even get out of my doorThere's been enough trouble To make a poor girl wonder where she wants to go

Then they rowed a little boat about five miles 'cross the pond Then they rowed a little boat about five miles 'cross the pondI packed all my clothes Throwed them in and they rowed me along

When it thunders and lightnin' and when the wind begins to blowWhen it thunders and lightnin' and the wind begins to blowThere's thousands of peopleAin't got no place to go

Then I went and stood upon some high old lonesome hillThen I went and stood upon some high old lonesome hillThen looked down on the house Where I used to live

Backwater blues done call me to pack my things and goBackwater blues done call me to pack my things and go'Cause my house fell down And I can't live there no more

I can't move no moreI can't move no moreThere ain't no placeFor a poor old girl to go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gXShOJVwaM

“La rumba me esta llamando bombo dile que ya voy...”I may have been an only child from the Bronx but Celia takes me back lifetimesBefore I mastered English in New York City schools,or Spanish in tobacco fieldseven before that middle passage where so many cousins, uncles, and aunts perishedall the way back to motherland Africa’s family shoreswith Spanish gypsy guitars empowered by Arabic love songs

Sandra Maria Esteves “Ode to Celia” (2004)

Celia Cruz, “Quimbara” (1974)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXN-_asIaYs

Epistrophies

Jazz-jazzy jass juice,Just so smooth…Flyin across Miles ‘n Sonny, across john, Rhasaan ‘n Monk’s 81,Across Dizzy blue conga jerry hom

Sandra María Esteves, “Black Notes and ‘You do Something to me,’” in Bluestown Mockingbird Mambo(Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1990), 75.

Thelonious Monkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJYeCYO-hA

Rahsaan Roland Kirk, “Serenade To A Cuckoo” (1972)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsaxODHI3fA

Vedi anche il documentario "Sound" (1966-67), Pt. 1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUYtlMuN_V4

Bass Culture and Musical Resonance

It is the beat of the heart / This pulsing of blood / That is a bublin' bass / A bad bad beat Pushin' against the wall / Whey bar black blood (Linton KwesiJohnson, “Bass Culture”, 1980)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWaovED4tcs

African Retentions in the Blues

Fatou Seidi Ghali / Les Filles de Illighadad, guitar session fromIllighadad( 2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgxCIs-SFpk

Maroons

River Queen, from Queen Nanny of the Maroons 2004 Renée Cox

Source: Afro Modern: Journeys Through the Black Atlantichttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/7052578/Afro-Modern-Journeys-Through-the-Black-Atlantic.html?image=4

Interstellar Fugitives “Nannytown UR-045”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sj04TSHjk8

Nuyoricans from the Hip-Hop Zone

Charlie Chase, “We're Gonna Need A Little Scratch” (1986)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMFFnBH6kIU

James SeneseSono nato nero e sono nato a Miano, suono il sax tenore e soprano, lo suono a metà strada tra Napoli e il Bronx, studio Coltrane, dalla mattina alla sera, sono innamorato di Miles Davis, dei WeatherReport e in più ho sempre creato istintivamente, cercando di trovare un mio personale linguaggio, non copiando mai nessuno. Il mio sax porta le cicatrici della gioia e del dolore della vita

James Senese, “Love Supreme” (1988)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-TZcs2k1n0

Pino Daniele con James Senese, “Chi teneo mare” (1981) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzuYFK6mdzk

Pino Daniele, Terra miaPino Daniele intervista (1979)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcnY4dElFS4

Unequal Relations of Power

Almamegretta, “Sanghe e Anema” (1992)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lm4Ax1aRKY

Sanghe e anema sanghe e anema e nuje tenimmo sanghe e anemasanghe cavero sanghe putente arrevuotete ind'e viscere d'a gente'a gente mia che ha sufferto sempetroppo ca pe' 1000 anne è stata sempeasotto anema d'o munno anemamigrante scuotoliala scetala sta gente'a gente mia che ha sufferto sempetroppo ca pe' 1000 anne è stata sempeasotto