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...basically a collection of shorts he’s made over the past decade and a half, where a bunch of random famous people sit around and chat. These people include the White Stripes, Roberto Benigni, Iggy Pop, Cate Blanchett, Steve Buscemi and, in a single conversation, RZA, GZA and Bill Murray. Will probably appeal to Waking Life fans or anyone whose wondering what the hell Wu Tang has to say to Carl Spackler...
...vision over them. Madvillainy wears its sources on its sleeve, sounding exactly like the two stitched it together from a roomful of records with a love nearing infatuation for their musical foundations. The “Frankenstein effect” hasn’t been done this well since RZA laced the Wu’s debut album, but whereas he had a penchant for the cinematic, Madlib and MF Doom just want beats that can flow with them...
Coming from Quentin Tarantino and RZA, the geniuses behind Pulp Fiction and the Wu-Tang Clan, one would expect the Kill Bill soundtrack to be unequaled in recent history. Indeed, the album is a great companion to the film, with songs that are vivid enough to nearly recreate the script...
...schlock. Without the movie’s visual hi-jinks, the collection of songs comes across obscure and often bizarre: take Zamfir’s four-minute flute rendition of “The Lonely Shepard”, or “Crane / White Lightning” by RZA and Charles Berenstein, which sounds like the street fighter version of an Ennio Morricone piece...
Barman’s lyrics are responsible for these opposing viewpoints. It doesn’t get much more cerebral than the shout-out in “Bleeding Brain Grow” on the recent album Paullelujah!, his first LP: “Eve, Mika, RZA, Evil JD, Nasir is Osiris, and J-live, AZ, Rakim, Cormega, Cage, Mr. OC: I’m anomie...