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Fred Moten & Harmony Holiday on the Sounds of Friendship
In the latest episode of
frieze’s Autumn Sessions, the two play and discuss records that embody their friendship
It’s getting colder in much of the world, with winter weather and COVID-19 lockdowns making it harder to get out and see friends. For the third and final episode of
frieze’s Autumn Sessions, poet, scholar and cultural theorist Fred Moten and poet, performer and jazz archivist Harmony Holiday discussed the textures of friendship in their favourite music, from Charlie Parker’s
Just Friends (1949) to Erykah Badu’s
Love of My Life (An Ode to Hi-Hop) (2002). The two friends considered what the bonds between musicians might tell us about inspiration and creative exchange. Many of the recordings they played were love songs, an important reminder of what constitutes the core of lasting friendships. We could all use more of that now.
Diary Of A Fugue Year
Can a lifetime of close listening prepare a person for a year like 2020?
I. Short Circuiting
On the first day of December in the year of our collective dread 2020, my editor called me to have the annual conversation. How, Jacob wanted to know, do you plan to write about this year in music? Our back-and-forth fluctuated between the general NPR Music was about to publish its lists of 2020 s best songs and albums and the personal. He talked about listening to sad disco while taking long summer runs in upstate New York. I confessed that while I d marveled at the women rappers, Black country singers and pop-star androgynes who d made social media fun, all I d wanted to do most nights in Nashville was put on headphones and listen to a folkie whisper in my ear. Our talk of bests, our generalizations and volleyed opinions, felt heartwarmingly familiar. But then he asked me a question that jarred me out of that comfort zone.
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The director’s “Small Axe” anthology intimately portrays Black spaces.
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Shaniqua Okwok and Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn in “Lovers Rock.”
Mangrove, the
first film in Steve McQueen’s five-part anthology series, “Small Axe,” begins
with Frank Crichlow (Shaun Parkes), the proprietor of a local West Indian
restaurant, walking through the Notting Hill section of London while “Try Me”
by Bob Marley and the Wailers plays in the background. He crosses a
construction site where Black children are happily running around a makeshift
playground comprised of overturned trash bins, construction beams, an old
mattress, and a baby carriage. In the background, there is graffiti that reads