#13 Curated focus weekly | 70's taste breakers
A musical exploratory experiment to discover music to focus ◄(^_^)►
THIS WEEK: · Electro synth-pop · Jazz Funk Soul ·Nyah-Rock · Ambient ·
This week we have been traveling back in time to the 70’s. We’ve been curious to learn what taste breakers existed back then, and what we might have been listening to during this decade.
If one thing we have once more confirmed is, the 70’s were years where art, culture and music blossomed, fusions started to happen, and musicians around the world started to create new ways of expression.
We got a small selection for you today,
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Album: Autobahn by Kraftwerk
German band
Listen on: Spotify
Genre: Electro
Kraftwerk is widely considered one of the pioneers of electronic music. The name of the band translates in english: Power Station. . The group began as part of West Germany's experimental krautrock scene in the early 1970s before fully embracing electronic instrumentation, including synthesizers, drum machines, and vocoders.
This album was inspired on the german motorway system, and is the first they released experimenting with repetitive sounds.
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Album: Super-vilains by Cotonete
French R&B Soul band
Listen on: Spotify / Apple Music / Bandcamp
Genre: Jazz Funk Soul
Cotonete is a 70’s band which was born in the 21st century. They are a 8 people band, with heavy influences of JB’s, Deodato, Banda Black Rio ou or Herbie Hancock adding flavours from groove ,soul or barroco psychy, is it southern country style or north african electro folk, samba or shiny disco. This album we got today Super-Vilains has not a single note of waste, our favourite is the complex yet wonderful “Le manoir des super vilains”.
LP: Cymande by Cymande 72’
British funk band
Listen on: Deezer / YouTube / Spotify
Genre: Nyah-Rock (funk, soul, reggae and African rhythms)
Pair with: Have the feeling of singing without singing
The name Cymande is derived from a calypso word for dove, symbolising peace and love. Cymande was a band formed in the early 70’s in Great Britain. It had musicians from Guyana, Jamaica, and Saint Vincent. They play a style of music that they call Nyah-Rock: a mixture of funk, soul, reggae and African rhythms. Today we got for you their first album, aired in 1972.
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Ambient 1: Music For Airports by Brian Eno 78’
Listen on: Youtube / Spotify / Deezer
Genre: Ambient
Pair with: thinking
Brian Eno is a sound designer and conceptualist. He is the one who coined the name: “ambient” for this genre. Eno’s concept of ambience is music that can be either actively listened to or used as background, depending on whether the listener chooses to pay attention or not. He is one of the pioneers of ambient music, and this album has been featured in many online reviews as part of the best Ambient albums ever. Eno described it as: “designed to induce calm and space to think”.
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