Arabic melodies, hyphy drum beats, bits of disco, dub, and Baltimore club
Alex was written up in SF Weekly this week. When he comes to town he puts all this shit on my computer. My friend's girlfriend was over and was like, "no shit you have 'watch out for the big girls and khaligi." And I'm like, ummm what?? Oh yeah, totally, of course.
They're pretty cool to see live. Alex shows up to almost any musical event he's performing in with about 50 musical instruments and/or random shit that looks like he found on the side of a freeway or pulled out of the garbage, then he plays them all live into a sampling machine until all the loops overlap into something that sounds like a seriously produced arrangment. The on-the-fly abilities of the human ear are amazing. I also like the idea that classically trained naturally-talented musicians who can play everything from the harpsicord to the flute, have graduated to tricky advanced instruments like the large crooked stick. I like their song Nasifon the best on myspace. Hopefully they'll become big in england soon so I can have an excuse to travel somewhere.
Posted on Friday, December 01, 2006, 02:45 PM