Thursday, September 29, 2011

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Insanely brilliant

tUnE-yArDs is the music project of Merrill Garbus. In their live performances she creates drum loops on the spot, and layers these with ukulele, voice, and electric bass. Their music is a mixture of afro-pop beats, erratic R&B, jazz-punk, rock etc. They have released two albums (bird-brains in 2009 and whokill in 2011.
Here you can listen to hatari from bird-brains (a homage to Eastern-African music!)

Tune Yards - Hatari by S - A

and the insane masterpiece gangsta from whokill



and here together with The roots!!



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