Birds Of A Feather
Mocky
| Available Formats | No. of Tracks | Price | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Download Single (mp3) | 3 tracks | £2.37 | ||
| Download Single (flac) | 3 tracks | £2.37 | ||
| Download individual tracks | N/A | from £0.79 |
Mocky - Birds Of A Feather
"Mocky has a reputation for surprising people with his music", ran the first line of the biography for "Saskamodie", Mocky's sublime debut album for Crammed Discs ... and sure enough, the man is at it again: this time with one of the world's greatest living rappers - GZA, no less, from the mighty Wu-Tang Clan - in tow.
By way of making the heaven-sent jazz-pop melodies of 'Bird Of A Feather' even more infectious, Mocky calls upon Mr "Liquid Swords" to add a signature burst of gruff street philosophy which, while keeping to the song's ornithological theme - "They say the early bird gets the worm/ 'cos it never has to fight for the crumbs and then take flight and turn" - turns it into a loose, rolling rap jam that marks a slight return to Mocky's musical past, as well as placing GZA in a new and comparatively upbeat (dare we say 'chirpy'?) musical context ...
The digital single package comes with two further mixes of the same track: a slightly shorter radio edit, and the 'Rollerskating Jam', which finds Mocky in J. Dilla/Madlib mode, looping and chopping the original into a low-slung, tweaked-out groove for the head-nodding b-boy in us all.
Reviews
Press quotes on "Saskamodie"
"An exceptionally musical album - there's no other word for it - that could fail to seduce only the hardest of hearing, or the hardest of hearts"
(Pitchfork, 8.0 review)
"An amazing record...a big hit for me"
(Gilles Peterson)
"Saskamodie is languorous and breathily swoonsome. It's full of the kind of jazzy music that doesn’t indulge in pesky soloing. . If Saskamodie was a film, it would undoubtedly be The Science of Sleep by Michel Gondry. Please take that as a wholehearted endorsement"
(BBC)
"A revelatory gem of post-war sensibility...an evocative unit"
(Plan B)
Tracklisting
Download Single (CRAM 147.1)
- Mocky - Birds Of A Feather (Radio Edit)
- Mocky feat.GZA - Birds Of A Feather (Remix (feat. GZA))
- Mocky - Birds Of A Feather (Digital Rollerskating Jam)
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