more like new age spiritualism mixed with some 70s reactionary nationalism that emerged after the public executions of malcolm, mlk, hampton, etc mixed with some classic american “i can ease the pain of ur middle class trauma” cultism mixed with aliens

Sounds like Disney music

once i get my degree out of NeoLib HQ™️ then the goal is to do some formal writing on this but at the same time idk i’m conflicted on how i wanna talk about this

i wanna do an adam curtis / arthur jafa type beat video thing on the history of hotep as a culture coming out of the 60s but at the same time after talking to a scholar on the panthers its somewhat disrespectful to consider the 70s and 80s as a monolith. i habe to do a lot more research on political movements coming out of the 60s (i’m most specifically interested in the east coast and nyc of course) to really give a nuanced picture on how hotep culture became so prevelant

hip hop plays a really big role but idek i’m just scared bc who is my audience gonna be? the intent is to help black kids like me heal from hurt parents who hurt them but realistically my audience will succumb to the gazees

Funny you mention Adam Curtis because, at least as it relates to different counter cultures I think he offers a pretty vague answer as to whether not he sees counter cultures as monoliths in the 70s and 80s (re: Hypernormalization). I'm aware of hotep culture from a very general sense but am not too versed on its history or any anecdotal accounts of being raised in a home where it was embraced.

The most I'll say is this: as someone who was embedded with orthodox values and incongruent beliefs from an early age, it is a personal point of intrigue for me to understand the many cultural reactions to economics that play themselves out in the household. What I appreciated about the video you posted in misc a month ago is your imperative to communicate the aspects of domestication in the black household. There's a heavy Hegelian duality in parsing apart the remnants of your upbringing that you do and don't continue to hold near, and I'm sure there's an extra duality in showcasing the alienation that arises for an adolescent who resonates with values antithetical to those espoused by the family. Not only a respite, but as an opportunity to carve a new identity for one's self.

You likely have a more lucid idea of how it could touch someone who, like you, comes into conflict with intercultural dynamics as much as they have to represent their racial identity amongst a broader society. But it definitely won't be comfort food for the more passive observer who may not be ready to engage with such intrinsic critical inquiry. I would lean into it uncompromisingly, while keeping the "gazee" in mind as someone who can potentially begin to form their values with such exposure in mind.

checked this out cus fantano gave it a 10 couldn’t get past the 2nd song her voice is too weird for me

jesus this album is great...

cause I live in the

This album is weird af I think I like it

It's like a disney princess songs with a weird twist

S***s so hard

Was worried for a bit last year when she seemed mixed on if she wanted to tour. Her sets look great

Seeing her in October

I actually saw her back in October. Obviously i knew from her vids like she did on KEXP and stuff that her vocals were great live but it was still shocking to hear how great they really were with her right in front of you

Happy she actually got to go to the studio this time

What is she cooking?

instagram.com/p/CqVoP9UL3Ml

Panacea?

idk if this is a compilation or what but something new
music.apple.com/nz/album/spellling-the-mystery-school/1687960933

i love the artwork.

screenshot? not available for me

reinterpretations with a new band maybe?

It's reinterpretations

Was confused as hell when i saw the song titles then i clicked Under the Sun and it's wayyy different

edit: just got the official album announcement in my email just 10 min after i posted this

SPELLLING & The Mystery School, an album featuring richly-envisioned new versions of beloved songs from throughout SPELLLING’s career, rendered in these new studio recordings by SPELLLING & the Mystery School, their critically acclaimed live band

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“With this album, I wanted to capture the ways that these songs have morphed,” Bay Area pop mastermind Chrystia Cabral, the mind behind the SPELLLING moniker, says of SPELLLING & the Mystery School. “They’re like my children all grown up in a different stage of their lives, and I wanted to celebrate that.” Recorded with her touring band (est. 2021), these reimagined studio tracks follow Cabral’s spellbinding career breathing new life into the extravagant orchestrations she’s written and produced entirely herself. Overall, the album encapsulates the transportative SPELLLING live experience through which Cabral, with her idiosyncratic stage presence, conjures up a spiritual sense of communion and vulnerability among her audience. “I want people to feel like there’s alchemy happening and to be aware of the magical parts of sound,” she explains. “Like, this really did come out of thin air.”

Yeah Under the Sun sounds exactly like a studio recording of the tour version. Compared it with footage i took last fall. I get exactly why she wants to do this

This is gonna be amazing then cus some of those iterations were ridiculous.