What album are you listening to right now?

teodor_matz · 2008-12-08T12:03:40-05:00

I'm listening Construcao by Chico Buarque, really great actually....

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Honor Killed the Samurai by Ka

Oh lord.

Anticipating an elaboration. Days With Yen Lo is currently my favorite Ka release by far but I've heard nothing but high praise for this so far. Getting on it soon in any case

Two listens. As if it were possible, this is even more streamlined than Yen Lo. Over the past 8 years or so, Ka has just continually stripped back anything that he deems unnecessary, to the point where his beats are pretty much uniformly just single sample loops, often totally drumless, like a skeletal RZA. His rhymes are both more pointed and more oblique than ever - like a great hard boiled fiction writer, Ka just revels in setting a scene. He also, over the course of this record, sets out a unique and poetic moral code, a bit like Omar from The Wire meets Hanshirō from Harakiri. Everything is purposeful and deliberate, but also hushed; you have to lean in to hear. He's honestly like GZA in his ultimate form, GZA if GZA had decided to stick to the streets instead of aiming for the cosmos and ever more cringeworthy extended metaphors. But those two Wu-Tang comparisons do Ka a disservice - unlike (the excellent) FLYGOD by Westside Gunn, which was just content with recreating that Wu-Tang sound, Ka is a genuine experimentalist, taking his adherence to minimalism further than Roc Marciano has ever done, but also rapping in a way that is razor sharp, his internal rhymes come thick and fast, and the language he uses to describe street life is always more vague - in a good way - than even his best peers; he doesn't stoop so low as to include cheap specifics, brand names or street names. This is New York, but it's the New York of Paul Auster's Trilogy, viewed as a silhouette, a behemoth that towers over you at night, obviously New York, but with all the details all but erased - squint, and you just might catch a glimpse. Ka is an artist, in the truest sense. At this point, I'd say he's overtaken Roc Marci in terms of putting a new twist on an old form. I've often seen people describe Cuban Linx as being rap-as-haiku, but Raekwon never rapped with the clean lines of the best haikus; Ka does. Two listens is too early to call this his best album, but it's his best album. And possibly (probably) my album of the year.

Fabulous writeup. I am more than sold

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