#Joshua Idehen

[underachievers-please-try-harder]

Track of the day // Metronomy x Naima Bock x Joshua Idehen - With Balance

From the EP Posse Volume 2, out July 12th on Ninja Tune.

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Editor’s Picks: Top 50 songs of 2023 – Part One

In classic fashion, my personal favourite record from 2023 came out a year ago. Eagle-eyed Instagram followers might’ve noticed too that when it came to the big Spotify Wrapped reveals, my number one song (and quite a few within the top five) were from an album that came out seven years ago! As our reviews man Ben Forrester likes to say though – don’t get it twisted! We bleed new music through…

[tangerinesunbeam]

i know nobody ever presses play on songs on tumblr, but please for the love of god listen to this song it will change your life

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Joshua Idehen - The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen - 2nd March 2023

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My wife recently introduced me to Sons of Kemet, whose music is available on the local (Korean) music-streaming app she uses. Pretty amazing band. 

This is the track she played for me in the car, on the way home, after warning me to brace myself. (It’s one of the album’s more striking pieces, featuring a really harrowing—but profound—spoken word performance by Joshua Idehen). 

(Reminds me of when a friend of mine years ago asked me what I meant when I offhandedly remarked that jazz often had a profoundly political side.)

[carminamasoliver]

Carmina's Cantata #16

Carmina’s Cantata #16

[rastronomicals]

5:55 AM EST January 1, 2024:

The Comet Is Coming feat. Joshua Idehen -   "All That Matters Is The Moments" From the EP The Afterlife (December 6, 2019)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Freak-jazz

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Metronomy anuncia Posse EP Volume 2 y comparte el sencillo “With Balance feat. Naima Bock & Joshua Idehen”

http://dlvr.it/T67RjF

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Beatport Crate Diggers 2024: Bass / Club

- Artists: Beatport DATE CREATED: 2024-02-14 GENRES: Bass / Club Tracklist : 1. Headhunter - Prototype(Modeselektor's Broken Handbrake Remix) 2. Kush Jones - Drop the Bass(Original Mix) 3. Dismantle - Squash(Original Mix) 4. Bryte, Mina (UK) - Sentah(Original Mix) 5. Alex Coulton - Pointe noire(Original Mix) 6. Blackdown - Timeless(Original Mix) 7. TRG - Broken Heart(Original Mix) 8. Zed Bias, Chunky - Flamm (feat. Chunky)(Original Mix) 9. Peverelist, Kowton - Beneath Radar(Pev Mix) 10. LV, Joshua Idehen - Imminent(Original Mix) 11. Banda Westfalica - K Le Pasa(Motin Remix) 12. Nativ, Jook10 - Shifty(Jook10 Remix) 13. Stagga - Buff Gyal Riddim(Original Mix) 14. Carli, Marcus Price - Var E Naaaken(Bok Bok Remix) 15. Mosca - Square One(L-Vis 1990 Remix) 16. Pearson Sound - Indelible(Original Mix) 17. Joe - Punters Step Out(Original Mix) 18. Itoa - Peng(Original Mix) 19. Spurz - Growth Structure(Original Mix) 20. DJ Sliink, MikeQ - The Bitch (feat. Miss Jay)( Read the full article

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Beatport Crate Diggers 2024: Bass / Club

- Artists: Beatport DATE CREATED: 2024-02-14 GENRES: Bass / Club Tracklist : 1. Headhunter - Prototype(Modeselektor's Broken Handbrake Remix) 2. Kush Jones - Drop the Bass(Original Mix) 3. Dismantle - Squash(Original Mix) 4. Bryte, Mina (UK) - Sentah(Original Mix) 5. Alex Coulton - Pointe noire(Original Mix) 6. Blackdown - Timeless(Original Mix) 7. TRG - Broken Heart(Original Mix) 8. Zed Bias, Chunky - Flamm (feat. Chunky)(Original Mix) 9. Peverelist, Kowton - Beneath Radar(Pev Mix) 10. LV, Joshua Idehen - Imminent(Original Mix) 11. Banda Westfalica - K Le Pasa(Motin Remix) 12. Nativ, Jook10 - Shifty(Jook10 Remix) 13. Stagga - Buff Gyal Riddim(Original Mix) 14. Carli, Marcus Price - Var E Naaaken(Bok Bok Remix) 15. Mosca - Square One(L-Vis 1990 Remix) 16. Pearson Sound - Indelible(Original Mix) 17. Joe - Punters Step Out(Original Mix) 18. Itoa - Peng(Original Mix) 19. Spurz - Growth Structure(Original Mix) 20. DJ Sliink, MikeQ - The Bitch (feat. Miss Jay)( Read the full article

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2024

key

bold = highlight of 2024

+ = not new in 2024

# = book club

books

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story, Nathan Thrall (2023)#

Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky (trans. David McDuff) (1866)

Restless, William Boyd (2007)#

Ablutions, Patrick deWitt (2012)

The Hummingbird, Sandro Veronesi (trans. Elena Pala) (2021)

Faith, Hope and Carnage, Nick Cave and Sean O'Hagan (2023)#

The Life & Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee (1983)

The Twilight Word, Werner Herzog (trans. Michael Hofmann) (2023)

Darryl, Jackie Ess (2021)

Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain (2000)

Caledonian Road, Andrew O'Hagan (2024)

Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City, Richard Sennett (2018)

audiobooks

[X]

films

Sound of Metal (2019)

Saltburn (2023)

The Two Popes (2019)

All of Us Strangers (2023)

Hell or High Water (2016)

Boyz n the Hood (1991)

Past Lives (2023)

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)+

If Only I Could Hibernate (2023)

Searching for Sugarman (2012)

All the President's Men (1976)

The Informant (2009)

Force Majeure (2014)

Paterson (2016)

albums

'Stretch for the Stars' (EP), Joshua Idehen (2023)

'Shiver' (EP), The Libertines (2024)

'the record', boygenius (2023)

'Wall of Eyes', The Smile (2024)

'Promises', Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra (2021)

'Where's My Utopia?', Yard Act (2023)

'Cold Fact', Rodriquez (1970)

'Coming from Reality', Rodriquez (1971)

'What Now', Brittany Howard (2024)

'Mountainhead', Everything Everything (2024)

exhibitions

'Time is Out of Joint', National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (Rome)

'Philip Guston', Tate Modern

'Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990', Tate Britain

'Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize', National Portrait Gallery

'The Cult of Beauty', Wellcome Collection

live music

Ben L'Oncle Soul, Alcazar Live

Yard Act, Rough Trade East

Romy, Roundhouse

theatre

The Cherry Orchard, Donmar Warehouse

restaurants

Perilla, Stoke Newington

Felice a Testaccio, Rome

Salumeria Con Cucina Roscioli, Rome

Zahter, Carnaby Street

Beckford Inn, Tewksbury

Chez Bruce (*), Wandsworth+

Ottolenghi, Spitalfields+

Dalla Terra, Covent Garden

Faros, Soho

Little House, Balham

Ye Olde Hobnails Inn, Tewkesbury

Pot Luck Club, Cape Town

Scala Pasta / Bar, Cape Town

La Colombe, Constantia

El Burro, Cape Town

Franks Corner, Franschhoek

The Girl's On The Square, Wilderness

Pumba Game Reserve, Eastern Cape

Nest, Knysna

Maillard Baking Co, Knysna

Sirocco, Knysna

Coral, Mauritius

Kot Nou, Mauritius

Lemongrass, Mauritius

Le Benetier, Mauritius

Le Chamarel, Mauritius

Muang Thai, Camden

thirty7, Covent Garden

Morito, Hackney+

Nobu, Shoreditch+

Botanica Hall, Clapham Junction

podcasts

Kermode & Mayo's Take+

The Russell Brand Podcast (Radio 2 / Audioboom / XFM)+

The News Agents+

The News Meeting+

Today in Focus+

The Adam Buxton Podcast+

Joel Golby's Book Club

Desert Island Discs+

Off Menu

Young Again+

The Louis Theroux Podcast

tv

Mr Bates v The Post Office (limited series)

The Traitors (series 2)

Six Nations: Full Contact (limited series)

One Day (limited series)

Gossip Girl (series 1)

talks

'Judges, Politics, and the Public: A Judge’s View from Inside Westminster' by Sir Nicholas Green, Leicester Lit&Phil Society

foreign travel (no 'favourites of the year', all excellent)

Rome

South Africa (Cape Town, Franschhoek, Wilderness, Pumba Game Reserve, Knysna)

Mauritius

Seville

Amsterdam

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2023年

Olivia Dean - 『Messy』

田中宗一郎 - keep cool but care

ジェームズ・タレル - ブルー・プラネット・スカイ

Joshua Idehen - learn to swim

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Écouter / acheter: What's Killing Me ft. Joshua Idehen de Moscoman

[twistedsoulmusic]

The debut album from London-based musician Ben Marc is a sharply crafted set of downtempo jazz infused with hip-hop, broken beat, trip-hop, and electronica that features guest appearances from site faves Joshua Idehen and MidnightRoba.

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Sons of Kemet Album Review: Black to the Future

(Impulse!)

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Black to the Future is more wide-ranging than a concept. The fourth album from the British jazz band Sons of Kemet cements itself as exemplary of and in tribute to Black music the world over. If 2018′s excellent Your Queen Is A Reptile specifically tackled the racism of the British monarchy and bolstered Black women throughout history, Black to the Future does it all. Its song titles, read in order, combine to make a mission statement. It’s big, both in ideas and features, and deep, both thematically and literally, as Shabaka Hutchings added layers upon layers of woodwinds during lockdown to round out the band’s otherwise raw combination of sax-tuba-drums-drums. “I do not want your equality / It was never yours to give me,” declares spoken word artist Joshua Idehen on opener “Field Negus”, over fluttering horns and clattering drums, words he initially recited during a Black Lives Matter protest last summer. More urgent as the song goes on, it’s clear that Idehen and Sons of Kemet are going for greatness. “Born from the mud with the hustle inside me,” goes Kojey Radical’s refrain on “Hustle”, a similar anthem of Black achievement.

The core of Sons of Kemet--Hutchings (saxophone), Theon Cross (tuba), Edward Wakili-Hick (percussion), and Tom Skinner (percussion)--are still the ultimate purveyors of "how did they do that?”-type skill, and they form the foundation of Black to the Future. The fast-paced nerves of “Pick Up Your Burning Cross” contrast the slow, off-beat groove of “Think of Home”, both songs different and yet quintessentially Sons of Kemet. The piping, whistling woodwinds and solemn saxophone on “In Remembrance of Those Fallen”, in combination with atonal tuba and Latin rhythms, expertly conjures the multitudes of grief. Even many of the vocal features, from the Moor Mother-Angel Bat Dawid traded barbs of “Pick Up Your Burning Cross” and D Double E MCing on “For The Culture”, follow the melodies of the horn section, the words essentially inseparable from the music.

As much as Sons of Kemet display their preeminence on Black to the Future, they save the end for some venom spitting, chastising performative wokeness as ignorant of the Black struggle. Over dissonant percussion and horns, Idehen appears again, chanting, “This Black praise is dance! This Black struggle is dance! This Black pain is dance!” It’s a connection to the rest of the record, and Sons of Kemet as a whole, but the words seared into your memory are the last ones: “Just leave Black be / You already have the world / Just leave Black be / Leave us alone.” We should be so lucky to have Sons of Kemet; they’re alone at the top, indeed.