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The Music Show

Polyrhythms and pop music with Tune-Yards; Omar Musa turns poetry into music

Dec 29, 2024
54:04

Harnessing looping pedals, percussion and vocal manipulation, Tune-Yards make a very big sound for a core membership of two people. It's been ten years since the experimental pop project released their third album Nikki Nack and creepy hit Water Fountain. Songwriter and singer Merrill Garbus is on The Music Show to talk about the duo's complex rhythms, vocal athleticism, and how to play with words.

Omar Musa is an author, artist, poet, and woodcutter making music and art from Borneo to Brooklyn. His third album. The Fullness, touches on the environment, culture, religious identity, and mortality. He creates poetry from a spoken-word background, melding hip-hop, jazz, and electronic sounds with earnest lyricism. 

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