http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2005/12/25/yusa-%e2%80%9cflash%e2%80%9d/ a conversation about black music Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:26:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5 http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2005/12/25/yusa-%e2%80%9cflash%e2%80%9d/#comment-400 Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:34:12 -0600 http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2005/12/25/yusa-%e2%80%9cflash%e2%80%9d/#comment-400 i was unfamiliar with this artist. her rhythm is unusual, particularly if your musical sensibility is defined by american popular music. her songs remind me of charles mingus's in that within one composition there are these different tempos and changes that could constitute entirely different songs, but somehow they fit. this is at least the second time that you guys presented what i will call "world" music, for lack of a better word, that contained rap, that i felt was ahead of the vast majority of the radio rap that is played in the states. i really like the third version of "Flash". the ballad "el fantasma del mar" is simply beautiful. thanks. i was unfamiliar with this artist. her rhythm is unusual, particularly if your musical sensibility is defined by american popular music. her songs remind me of charles mingus’s in that within one composition there are these different tempos and changes that could constitute entirely different songs, but somehow they fit. this is at least the second time that you guys presented what i will call “world” music, for lack of a better word, that contained rap, that i felt was ahead of the vast majority of the radio rap that is played in the states. i really like the third version of “Flash”. the ballad “el fantasma del mar” is simply beautiful. thanks.

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