OOIOO – “Polacca”

This first song caught me off completely; it is like nothing I have every heard. I didn’t know that I liked it at first, however, as I continued to listen I immersed myself in the excitement of all the different “things” going on in the song. As a drum beat played, an electronic sound resounded, not quite fitting in with the song, yet complementing what was underneath it. Regarding “participatory discrepancy,” to my ear, there are 3 different “songs” playing, yet they seem to loosely mesh together to create one song. It seems that listening/dancing to this song would require a certain mood in a person; a happy and carefree mood in order to jump around to the craziness of everything that is occurring in the song. SHMRG: The sound does not remain consistent, there are many different things happening. The harmony continually changes throughout the song. I honestly don’t know what the melody is doing. The rhythm is consistent and then changes and lastly, the song grows/morphs into a different type of song.

 

Sly & The Family Stone- “Spaced Cowboy”

SHMRG: the sound contains different instruments; one that sticks out to me is the electric guitar, and introduces a yodelling sounding voice, the melody becomes more intense as the  there is a consistent rhythm/beat that occurs in the song, the rhythm is consistent. Similar to the last song, I hear 3 different songs within one song. The singer is in his own world yodelling/singing to his hearts content, the electric guitar is riffing to a fun beat, and the drums are pulling it all together.

 

Patato and Totico – “Agua Que Va A Caer”

SHMRG:

What immediately struck me as I first listened to this song was how raw it was with the beat of the drums and the single voice. The song grows adding more voices which echo the first voice and layer on top of the drums. I also noticed another instrument (guitar?) which is featured alongside the drums, playing its own melody. The drum beat is consistent, however the voices are not as they seem to be making melody on the singers emotion.