Herbie Hancock - Rain Dance

[markusmala]

Fusion, Cosmic funk....meets jazz, with analog sound bubbles, to remember, maybe not for everyone. But check it anyway, this is Herbie's great seventies work!

[AkanMeister1]

hey guys, anyone up to recommend me some of this odd jazz-funk/ambient fusion? so far i got this record and Miles' "Get Up With It".

[UMAMIMAMU]

@AkanMeister1 Get Weather Report's first self titled album, and the album Mind Transplant from Alphonse Mouzon.

[saultie]

Best tune Herbie ever wrote, IMO.

[pipppin18]

ok

[Samplecat93]

im totally sampling this to make a banger

[ShudderProductions]

@Samplecat93 It's been sampled before, but I can't fucking remember where, it's that noise which is on every 8th

[freemotion]

@ShudderProductions It's Good to Be Here - Digable Planets

[ShudderProductions]

@freemotion Nope, it's not that but your comment sparked my memory, it's DJ Krush I was thinking of "Roll & Tumble"

[Mrthelonius11]

@Ampvega - the electronic funk followed. He was developing his funky style on the piano. Check out stuff like canteloupe island and watermelon man and the piano he played on wayne shorter albums. This is one of those tunes I will never get tired of.

[spoombung]

Wow. Brilliant

[METRORNORM]

Drivin' me high.

[doc2skate]

One of the few 70's jazz albums I didn't own (another being Miles Davis' "Bitches Brew"). I've got a lot of good music to catch up on. Fabulous post.

[osterotto]

@doc2skate wtf?

[Ampvega]

The great Pat Gleeson assisted on the synthesizers and assorted electronics. There is an electronic rhythm machine in there that was developed by an obscure inventor. Of course, at the helm is the immortal Herbie Mywandishi Hancock. This and the Crossings album were the zenith of his exploration into electronic music. The funk days proceeded....

[TheMikevirus]

alaaa vergaa esta bien viajadotee!!!

[pokalen]

Sampled by Foreign Beggars

[markerblogger]

This sounds almost like an extension of bitches brew / panagea. @wetyuppy - would be nice!

[mercutio5555]

one person can't do the rain dance

[eviatark21]

the elephant came to eat the alien in the basement!!!

[cathy1shani2]

@01keef the trumpet player on this set is the great Eddie Henderson,you should check out some his solo work back in the 70's & early 80's.Sunburst,comin' through..Great music

[DanFindling]

sounds like a bitches brew tune , very special

[wetyuppy]

Does anyone know if Frank Zappa and Herbie Hancock ever collaborated?

[DoctorEeam]

@wetyuppy No they did not, but that would have been interesting

[SuperCartiel]

@wetyuppy To the best of my knowledge, no. There might've been a gig where their bands may have played on the same ticket, but I don't think Zappa and Hancock had ever played together.

The only keyboardist I knew Zappa had worked together with was George Duke.

[superkulmedkniv25]

@raggielife æsjabæsj

[konspiracykid]

Ahhh so that's where the Jedi Knights ripped off there track from on 'New School Science!' Love this mad track though...this is really like a precursor to Kraftwerk and Juan Atkins and all that mad shit on Metroplex.

[JOSEPPPPHHHH]

This was so, so ahead of it's time. In fact, I still don't think we've caught up with it.

[solsojourner]

@JOSEPPPPHHHH Me thinks you are right. Until the masses extricate themselves from the visual overstimulation and disconnect from the repetitive sound bites of the current musical (?) menu laid before them . . . they will always run on minimal impulse power!!!!

[SwedxSimon02]

A decade before techno is usually said to have its beginnings. This man was a true sonic visionary.

[mephystovals]

The artwork and the level of experimentation reminded me of Davis's Bitches Brew

[shotteebwoi1O2]

Herbie Hancock is a STARIGHT GENIOUS for this! Imagine sounds like this coming from 1972!

[Electricguitar94]

j'aime pas trop le jazz mais c'est une chanson trés bien

[Rogueofmv]

This album was apparently mostly critically panned back when it was released.

Critics in 1973 must have had pretty bad taste in music.

[GrazFlow]

first time I heard this I was like ''wtf isn't this supposed to be jazz?'' :DD

[0nn3]

yaye posting comments on youtube because nobody in rl will listen to me

[TheOriginalMouth]

all the lsd u need.

[TheFatyBella]

I'm Inspired right NOW!

[kostasxrysogelos]

3:40: Tool were listening closely. What a bassline!!

[novaflo339]

anyone still have "hidden shadows" on their playlist?!?

sony yanked it! (:( )

[PikaWinnarz]

Listened to this song of shroomies.

Ever

Best

Song

[4BA88F]

The entire Sextant effort is nothing short of incredible. Music created nearly forty years later still isnt. this "futuristic." Oh - for sample heads - 2;12 - 2:19: Organized Konfusion - "The Extinction Agenda>>>"

[freekazoid8489]

@4BA88F I just finished saying that to a friend who wanted to hear "experimental jazz" ...so this song was my point of reference.

[ChrisUtzig]

My personal favorite of Mr. Hancock

[01keef]

sounds like the inside of a genius mind

[professortheremin]

@01keef I can attest to that. I often hear stuff like this in my head. Some doctor named Gleason did the sequenced loop at the beginning, and Herbie's keyboard work is matched only by the trumpet player. I don't think it is Miles Davis, but it suuuuuuuuuuuuuuure sounds like him.

[micheljch]

@professortheremin trumpet/flugelhorn by Eddie Henderson - this LP and the two that preceded it (Mwandishi & Crossings, both for Warners) are the best stuff HH has ever done, IMHO . . .

[aledobretociastko]

@01keef That's exactly how it is inside my mind, dear friend

[gottoeekanji]

すばらしい

特に７分あたりが

これが１９７１年作とはな〜

あっ 坂本龍一の千のナイフに似たような部分がありましたね

[chronwell]

Im poetical poltergeist!

[HarbourMaster11]

The Extinction Agenda!

[OtakuuV97]

Digable Planet It's Good to Be Here Song sampled this song at the intro.

[roscoegino]

magnificent track. herbie's a genius -- but let's face it. he picked up ALOT from miles.

[Leonisz]

this guy is so openminded amazing!

[DrGonzoOBoogie]

gotta love Herbie Hancock such a awesome dude

[creativelife5]

Shittttt is soooooooooooo goooooood!!!!!

[jgteck]

ACID!

[egyptianminor]

Ultra dimensional,speaking-in-tongue­s,transmuting,avant-groove, multiversal music. Herbie (like Miles and Coltrane) is a visionary.

[MrTerabyte007]

My favorite Herbie album!

[hapawes1]

Beginning of this is used in the beginning of Digable planet's "Cool like that" song.

[belalakaperal]

"Good to Be Here" actually. First cut of the same album.

[hapawes1]

You're right.  Good call

[rmsolympic1]

Et's having a cosmic discussion

[copacolegial]

who was with Herbie in this one?

[blackrocknutt]

@copacolegial --his band at the time had been with him on two gerat warner bros lps--mwandishi and criossings--both way ahead of electronica/improv curve by about two decades.

TRUMPET eddie henderson TROMBONE julian priester SAXOPHONE Bennie Maupin BASS Buster Williams DRUMS Billy Hart SYNTHESIZERRS Patrick Gleason.

If you dig this also check out Bennie Maupin;ls ECM album THE JEWEL IN THE LOTUS from same period. Another inner space-jazz masterpiece.

[copacolegial]

thanks blackrocknutt!! ill check bennie...

[nectarguru]

4:10

[hardland]

superb!

[4Dsign]

Wow, I found it! Great Herbie *****

[DragonBice]

They produce masterpieces like this and the guy gets recognition for "Watermelon Man" while this sits in the shadows... I mean really... I never understood what was so great with Watermelon Man. Usually great solos, sure, but the song itself is really not the great piece of music alot of people think it is.

I also recommend the song "Hornets" on the same album, by the way.

[TokenRah]

This album was too spacey and went over the general publics' heads. That's why he was forced to make an album that was a bit more audible and targeted certain audiences.

[DragonBice]

I know what you mean and I can understand that. The sad thing though, is that the artists need for "reaching people" is abused by record labels, producers, sponsors etc, so they can make a profit since they, naturally, are businesses. My point is that, in my opinion, the artists own need to create is often pushed aside by themselves since they feel content enough with their work when many people like it. ( I wouldn't say that Herbie Hancock would be the most typical example of that though ^^ )

[2nubbie]

My sentiments exactly!

[oRuTRa45]

@DragonBice Tunes like "Watermelon Man" are accessible, whereas this is more esoteric. For the think-way-outside-the-box crowd which is outnumbered by the gen pop. (By the way, to which version of "Watermelon Man" were you referring?) It takes a seasoned ear, a more open mind, and a certain type of sensibility to really dig this.

[Bix12]

sick....brilliant....extraterr­estrial....genius.....incredib­le.