Threeversity #5

Audiversity’s weekly column on random music in a predetermined number of words between 1 & 150. This week's randomly generated number: 96.

(Ed. - Originally this was called Threeversity, but in the spirit of simplicity we've decided to retroactively relabel all of these posts. The content remains unchanged.)

MA:
(#96 of a random playlist generated from my ever-changing database of 12,500+ songs)



Jorge Dalto - I've Got You on My Mind - Chevere (United Artists 1976)

While I had no intentions of spinning this into an ad for WLUW’s Record Fair next weekend, this song just sets it up so perfectly. I copped this LP at a record fair put on by my previous station’s (WUSC) purge of their library, and it was definitely the diamond in the rough sack of records I left with. A tasty bite of Latin jazz-fusion, Argentine-born keyboardist Jorge Dalto joins Bernard Purdie and Ronnie Foster for some swirling synthesizer soundscapes. Funky like a Sonic theme song, it’s a testament to what wonderful surprises crate-digging can unearth.

PM:

Jon Brion, a guy probably best known these days for his work with Fiona Apple Kanye West, once helped make a movie score I consider one of the finest in the last decade: 1999’s “Magnolia” was a beautiful, bizarre and oft-maligned film that never gets old. Part of the reason is Brion’s score, always bubbling beneath the surface of sounds to add that extra bit of tension without distracting the viewer. “So Now Then” is featured toward the finale, but its job is the opposite: Explain, comfort, resolve. Few instrumental pieces have touched me as immediately.

JR:

So like all us Audiversitarians, Jordan is a workaholic. We all work multiple jobs to pay the bills and write in the meantime, so on occasion the music slips our mind like it did today for Jordan’s entry. It’s 33 degrees here in Chicago and my ass is obviously planted on the couch, so I’ll just toss another random mp3 at you in his place. This time around we get The Chosen Few’s way too edited-down cover of the Shaft theme song found on the cramped Blunted in the Bomb Shelter compilation culled by Madlib. Enjoy.