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Butler explained that their single "Reflektor" was inspired by the band's trip to Haiti two years ago, after The Suburbs came out. The band was preparing its setlist for a performance in rural Haiti, and found themselves considering what kind of music they should play for an audience "who had never heard the Beatles before," "stripped of context" with "no history of rock and roll to rely on." They realized people could connect to their music on a rhythmic level. According to Butler, they experienced something similar on a trip to Jamaica, where they recorded with producer Markus Dravs. Butler said the band has been playing with Haitian congo players at home in Montreal, which has contributed to the underlying "voodoo rhythms" of their new music. Two Haitian percussionists will be touring with the band. "It does something really magical to the rhythm section," Butler said, "[these] deep African voodoo rhythms are the language in Haiti, [they're] basically how people communicate." Butler ultimately described the sound as a "mash up of Studio 54 and Haitian voodoo." He commented on the increasing prevalence of genre-less taste today. "To me the joy of making music in 2013 is you're allowed to like Sex Pistols and ABBA and that's fine," he said. "It's such an explosion, anything that's good rises to the top, and we want music that respects that."
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this is probably like graceland without the self awareness
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i also occasionally read pitchfork op
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Stravinsky posted:i also occasionally read pitchfork op please don't try to discredit Skylar K.'s pitchfork-quoting skills.
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Temple of the Dog BaCK? "It's pretty great how" Eddie Vedder yelled at the dog house, "they really resopond to the jingling of keys," Vedder also says. We're "going for a ride." Hit the jump for tour info: @ with chris cornell
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Sep 12, 2013 02:26
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no one in haiti has ever heard the beatles
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Sep 12, 2013 03:57
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that they have heard, but they thought it was all hype
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Sep 12, 2013 04:12
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anyway good job on i was made for lovin' you 2.0 for the Win
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Skylark posted:Butler explained that their single "Reflektor" was inspired by the band's trip to Haiti two years ago, after The Suburbs came out. The band was preparing its setlist for a performance in rural Haiti, and found themselves considering what kind of music they should play for an audience "who had never heard the Beatles before," "stripped of context" with "no history of rock and roll to rely on." They realized people could connect to their music on a rhythmic level. According to Butler, they experienced something similar on a trip to Jamaica, where they recorded with producer Markus Dravs. ahahahah ohmygod i'm dying over here
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YO MAMA HEAD posted:please don't try to discredit Skylar K.'s pitchfork-quoting skills. 4real i cannot BELIEVE a bunch of people just rushed to embarass themselves and post some absolute bullshit when there is as glorious of an OP as that imagine that. imagine the loving ARCADE FIRE getting ready for a show in haiti. the dude who bangs on poo poo and the spooky lead singer probably probably said really racist and uneducated poo poo, the accordion player sick with anxiety. who asked them to come out to "rural haiti" if no one wanted them there?
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To me the joy of making music in 2013 is you're allowed to like Sex Pistols and ABBA and that's fine
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arcade fire rage against the suburbs but end up doing the white person thing. nice.
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can't wait to hear AF's ecclectic take on voodoo rhythms op
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i went to a haitian voodoo ceremony and i learned that ogun is some 'win', quipped win bulter winkingly '-)
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animal drums posted:To me the joy of making music in 2013 is you're allowed to like Sex Pistols and ABBA and that's fine
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yall do realize that the lady singer of arcade fire is haitian right
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Slackerish posted:yall do realize that the lady singer of arcade fire is haitian right you do realize that's his wife but dude said "voodoo drums" like 20 times and then "It does something really magical to the rhythm section [these] deep African voodoo rhythms are the language in Haiti, [they're] basically how people communicate" typical hippie racism
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win butler made his own version of oblique strategies where every card says "Do what a black guy would do". black people's connection to music, and to the natural world is very pure and meaningful. i feel like one failing of us white people is we get caught up in all these complicated ideas that weigh down the white mind, that sometimes we can't even just feel the beat and really make the rhythm that's natural
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Skylark posted:win butler made his own version of oblique strategies where every card says "Do what a black guy would do". black people's connection to music, and to the natural world is very pure and meaningful. i feel like one failing of us white people is we get caught up in all these complicated ideas that weigh down the white mind, that sometimes we can't even just feel the beat and really make the rhythm that's natural
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Skylark posted:win butler made his own version of oblique strategies where every card says "Do what a black guy would do". black people's connection to music, and to the natural world is very pure and meaningful. i feel like one failing of us white people is we get caught up in all these complicated ideas that weigh down the white mind, that sometimes we can't even just feel the beat and really make the rhythm that's natural
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in 2000, Soulfly promised to take us "Back to the Primitive" -- in 2013, Win Butler is taking the primitive and bringing it forward, to us.
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in the neon bible track "black mirror", arcade fire talked about a black mirror. in their new single, "reflektor", the reflektor acts as a kind of "black mirror", reflecting music in a black way.
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when you hear the arcade fire's "Reflektor" at brunch, the tribal voodoo motifs embedded in its jaunty rhythms may remind you as you tuck into your eggs benny that someone somewhere else is tucking into a disc of clay. looks like brecht may have found his spiritual heir at last
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you've listened to Ready to Die. you've watched The Wire. you've seen how the other half lives -- but have you FELT it? you may know the language of the streets, but these voodoo rhythms will teach you the language of the SOUL
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Skylark posted:win butler made his own version of oblique strategies where every card says "Do what a black guy would do". black people's connection to music, and to the natural world is very pure and meaningful. i feel like one failing of us white people is we get caught up in all these complicated ideas that weigh down the white mind, that sometimes we can't even just feel the beat and really make the rhythm that's natural
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cf posted:Savages
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Skylark posted:in the neon bible track "black mirror", arcade fire talked about a black mirror. in their new single, "reflektor", the reflektor acts as a kind of "black mirror", reflecting music in a black way. haha
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Skylark posted:
started frm the bottom now we here
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Gaspar Lewis posted:that they have heard, but they thought it was all hype Lol
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Skylark posted:in the neon bible track "black mirror", arcade fire talked about a black mirror. in their new single, "reflektor", the reflektor acts as a kind of "black mirror", reflecting music in a black way.
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these people never even heard the beatles. theyre more into tupac and, idk, ray charles
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xcvb posted:these people never even heard the beatles. theyre more into tupac and, idk, ray charles
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That's some Win.
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butler continues: "we're definitely going for more of a tribal feel - weird skeletons wearing clothes who do magic, a chorus of hooting children like the music in that x-files episode about haitian immigrants - that kind of thing. after all," he pauses to apply makeup based on the "witch doctor" character from scooby doo, "the original drum tracks were elephant footfalls."
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Slackerish posted:yall do realize that the lady singer of arcade fire is haitian right lol ps how white of a haitian? and also lol http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/09/12/arcade_fire_graffiti_marketing_vandalism_or_both_relektor_ads_are_a_nuisance.html fake graffiti promoting this record
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Slackerish posted:yall do realize that the lady singer of arcade fire is haitian right yeah,.. well... Im haitian him too right now
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win butler appears onstage in blackface dressed as baron samedi - "our next record will be a concept album about breast ironing"
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