basilika

The wonderfully prolific Marc Mac has a new album out ‘It’s right to be civil’, which I heard today (via the brownswood forum) and it is amazing. Very much in the same style of last year’s ‘How about a Game of Chess?’, Marc Mac has put together a collection of two/three minute sketches referencing heavily the music and the politics of the 50’s/60’s civil rights movement. Taken individually, much like Jay Dee’s Donuts, they can seem little more than early ideas rather than being fully developed tracks, but in the context of an album or in the case as collection of tracks the overall effect is really powerful. It is almost reminds me of why I loved early DJ Shadow, in the sense that this is sample based music that uses breaks as a way of creating depth and ultimately meaning. The message is amplified by the musical and political references working to a higher theme.

Whereas How about a Game of Chess (which you need by the way) was rightly acclaimed for it’s reverential homage to the glorious Chess/Cadet records, this is a whole ‘nother level of seriousness, both musically and politically. I honestly can’t remember the last time I heard a more important collection of music.

Hunt it down!!!

(p.s the link to brownswood above is a good place to start)

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