As promised, this week's shuffle
Makonde - Manzara
Charlie Parker - Chasing The Bird
Nas - America
James Brown - Down and Out in New York City
Kool Blues - I'm Gonna Keep On Loving You
Charles Mingus - Los Mariachis
Eric (Showboy) Akaeze and His Royal Ericos - Wetin De Watch Goat, Goat Dey Watcham
Black Flag - Police Story.
Spoon - All The Pretty Girls Go To The City
A Tribe Called Quest - Verses From The Abstract
So we get the chocolate city, the deindustrialized city, New York in the early 70s, on the one hand, and we get postcolonial Lagos, we get Q-tip's Queens of 1991 and Nas's "America" 17 years later, and we get Spoon channeling Edwyn Collins and singing about the city as destination, the neoliberal hipster amusement park city. My ipod is trying to tell me things.
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