The Monthly Playlist For November 2024
November 29, 2024
CHOICE/LOVED/ENJOYED MUSIC FROM THE LAST MONTH ON THE MONOLITH COCKTAIL: TEAM EFFORT
The Monthly Revue for November 2024: All the choice, loved and most enjoyed tracks from the last month, chosen by Dominic Valvona, Matt ‘Rap Control’ Oliver and Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea. As always our selection features a real shake up and mix of tracks that we’ve both covered in our review columns and articles over the last month, plus those tracks we didn’t have room to feature at the time.
Covering many bases, expect to hear and discover new sounds, new artists. Consider this playlist the blog’s very own ideal radio show: no chatter, no gaps, no cosy nepotism.
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Les Amazones d’Afrique ‘Wa Jo’
Mulatu Astatke & Hoodna Orchestra ‘Major’
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp ‘Speak by the E’
Marcelo D2 & SambaDrive ‘Samba de Primeira/Encontro com Nogueira’
Les Sons Du Cosmos ‘LAUNDRY’
Ric Branson Ft. Relense ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’
Juga-Naut Ft. Mr. Brown ‘Camel Coat’
Nowaah The Flood ‘On Location’
Blockhead ‘Orgy At The Port Authority’
Berke Can Ozcan & Jonah Parzen-Johnson ‘The Saint’
Elea Calvet ‘Landslide’
Roedelius ‘217 09’
Lolomis ‘Kristallen den Fina’
The South Hill Experiment ‘Silver Bullet’
Sparkz & Pitch 92 ‘Genius’
Jack Jetson & Illinformed ‘Pray’
Spectacular Diagnostics & Kipp Stone ‘BUCKET LIST’
Cavalier & Child Actor ‘Knight Of The East’
Walking The Dead ‘Fun Facts’
Humdrum ‘See Through You’
The Conspiracy ‘Tick Tok’
The Awkward Silences ‘Mother I’m on TV’
Trupa Trupa ‘Sister Ray’
Neon Kittens ‘Demons’
Bloom de Wilde ‘Dwindi’
Bell Monks ‘Before Dawn’
Spaces Unfolding & Pierre Alexandre Tremblay ‘In Praise of Shadows Pt. 2’
Gasper Ghostly ‘Floor Thirteen’
Son Of Sam & Masta Ace ‘Come A Long Way (Jehst Remix)’
Hegz & Dirty Hairy ‘Ruby Murray’
Glowry Boyz ‘FREE FALL’
Django Mankub ‘BEATSEVEN’
Sly & The Family Drone ‘Joyless Austere Post-war Biscuits’
Lolomis ‘Sieluni tanssimaan’
Cumsleg Borenail ‘Parade You ‘round Town’
Sam Gendel, Benny Bock & Hans P. Kjorstad ‘Charango’
Yazz Ahmed ‘A Paradise In The Hold’
Maalem Houssam Guinia ‘Matinba’
Baldruin ‘Hinein, hinaus, hinuber’
hackedepicciotto ‘Aichach – Live in Napoli’
Hornorkesteret ‘Krekling’
The Muldoons ‘Hours And Hours’
Juanita Stein ‘Motionless’
Sassyhiya ‘Take You Somewhere’
John Howard ‘If There’s a Star’
The Tulips ‘Haven’t Seen Her’
Jamison Field Murphy ‘Ermine Cloak’
Graham Reynolds ‘Long Island Sound’
Mauricio Moquillaza ‘___’
Kotra ‘Trials Of Discernment’
Kalporz X Monolith Cocktail: Scoutcloud: Les Sons Du Cosmos: the cosmic routes of Will Miller & Co.
November 15, 2024
ALBUM REVIEW FROM OUR FRIENDS AT Kalporz
AUTHORED BY MONICA MAZZOLI TRANSLATED BY DOMINIC VALVONA
Continuing our successful collaboration and synergy with the leading Italian music publication Kalporz , the Monolith Cocktail shares and translates reviews, interviews and other bits from our respective sites each month. This month, and with a new facelift overhaul of the site (which we love by the way) Monica Mazzoli introduces us to producer and multi-instrumentalist Will Miller’s latest project Les Sons Du Cosmos.
Les Sons Du Cosmos: “the sounds of the cosmos” in Italian. A challenging name for the new group from producer and multi-instrumentalist Will Miller, already the mind behind the soul-jazz project (and much more) Resavoir, a member of Whitney (from 2015 to today always balanced between folk/country/soft pop) and a musician at the service of such notable names as A$AP Rocky (listen to “Back Home” in “At. Long. Last. A$AP”), Mac Miller (his trumpet on “Two Matches” in “GO:OD AM”) and SZA (keyboards, production and co-author of “Blind” in “SOS”).
COOLIDGE and LAUNDRY, the only two tracks under the name Les Sons Du Cosmos released thus far, are the result of a session from September 2023 by Will Miller with Eddie Burns (who already appears on a number of tracks on the latest Resavoir album) and William Corduroy. Miller & Co.’s studio in Little Village – a neighbourhood of Chicago – is the birthplace of two productions that never run idle, and move the coordinates of the Windy City jazz scene – as happens more and more often – into broader sound territories: the first single, released in August 2024, is the perfect combination of groove and flow, and features Semiratruth’s rapping on a track full of soul-funk-jazz textures; the second piece, also featuring Semiratruth, this time on the stylophone, is a two-minute instrumental with an enveloping rhythmic interweaving of cinematic/library (music) flavours.
Author: Monica Mazzoli
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