Mail call
Today my physical copy of Cadence Weapon's fine Breaking Kayfabe arrived thanks to the good graces of Derek Miller, as well as my Amazon/Caiman-ordered copy of Congotronics I. Like pretty much everyone I know of who has heard/liked/wrote about it, I'm a little conflicted due to all the issues about various important political/sociological things that arise from its context (especially the tokenism stuff, hoo boy); but I'm going to ignore all that and just luxuriate in the sound of those homemade amplifiers and the three likembes (especially on "Paradiso", aka "the one where they have a standard drum set brought in"); I really like the sounds present on this CD, and everything else is (interesting, vital, but secondary) analysis.
