![]() Jazz music developed alongside this atmosphere of song-making, oral histories, and place-based music at the turn of the century in New Orleans, Louisiana. The word doesn’t really matter (nor does this think piece you’re reading, if you even made it this far), but we’re getting somewhere. It also connotes a peaceful tradition of oral history through music.Įventually, after field songs and hymns, folks began writing their own music, and a modern era of Folk was ushered by the likes of Bob Dylan, Woody Gutherie, Elizabeth Cotten, (& others)- folk wrote their own songs in the spirit of this original, place-based genre. ![]() In music, Folk often references the place where a given music is created. It has something to do with culture, but not in a high-brow way, rather, its essence has something to do with people, in general-the things we do things we love the ancient in us all. The beauty of music is uncertain, moist, ageless, ungendered, untouchable.įolk is the we-us-which connects itself with music in strange ways.Ĭonnotations vary, but music usually springs forth at the mention of “Folk”. (Click the image for a playlist we’ve created to share the beautifully ragged and rewilded sounds of “Folk-Jazz”.) Swiss-born photographer Sabine Weiss’ photo, “Petite gitane et Manitas de Plata, Saintes-Maries-de-la-mer”, from 1960. Uncivilized - “BrokenTreasure STOMP” (UNCIV MUSIC, )įolky Jazz ≠ Folk-Jazz: Think Piece & Spotify Playlist (Also included is a 25-minute new opus from the ambient jazz drummer RJ Miller which leaves you wanting more.) I recently spoke with Imran Mizra for a podcast on Blue In Green Radio about what a “Stomp” is how the name Uncivilized came to be (it has nothing to do with the music), and where “The Bernie Sanders Jazz Band” epithet comes from. Local trumpeter and friend Jaime Branch guests on tracks 3, 4, & 5, but you’ll have to wait for those! Preorder the single here. It was all recorded live at a Pioneer Works Community Happy Hour event here in Brooklyn, NY, but - thanks to their staff, some great multi-tracking gear, and the mixing work of Stephe Cooper (Cloud Becomes Your Hand) - the album has been edited and cropped to sound like it was made in a studio… I think! At the very least, it offers a pretty crazy ride. The album is made of five long tracks, the first of which you may have heard back in March: “Reign STOMP”. “BrokenTreasure STOMP”, the first single from a new full-length Uncivilized album entitled “Garden”, is out everywhere this Friday, June 5th.
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