Firstly, if you don’t know what Songbird is, it is a brand new, very shiny with that new car smell, desktop mp3 player. Songbird’s recent 1.0 release has set them up to take on iTunes with a new take on music. Integrating the web into the robust player, Songbird aims to enhance and broaden the music listening experience. It’s an Open Source effort, built on the Mozilla engine. Give Songbird a try… I like it!
Kalemba feat. Pongo Love – Buraka Som Sistema
Buraka Som Sistema is considered to be Progressive Kuduro from Portugal. Kuduro music originated in Angola, but quickly moved to Portugal, which explains the bit in the lyrics about raising the Angolan flag. I ran the lyrics through an online translator. The gist of the song is basically, “We are awesome”, but I couldn’t get much else from the translation. There’s still a lot work to do in the automated translator industry.
The song is super fun to listen too, it’s quite difficult to not move to this song. The style of Kuduro is somewhere between African and Latin beats. The vocals are fun too, even for those of us who don’t understand Portuguese, there something inticing about the vocals, specially the Wegue Wegue part!
Brooklyn – Jay Z & Santogold
Jay-Z, Santogold and Kayne West came together to create this multi-purpose track. It’s to appear on Jay-z’s next album, The Blueprint 3, due to be released next month. It also has a place on the Nortorious Soundtrack. The track was originally released as a bonus track for the subscribers to online magazine (RED)Wire, with partial proceeds going to Bono’s Product Red.
The track has an epic feel to it, with Santogold chanting “Brooklyn we go hard, we go hard” through the song, and Jay-Z rapping about his home town, Brooklyn. Santogold comes in mid-song with her rap about Brooklyn. These two are clearly proud of their roots, as well they should be!
