Medeski Martin & Wood - Shine It and Miami Gato

This week I have a band I know some of you are familiar with -- but my guess is a lot of people are not 100% familiar with these songs... and if you like funk and newer jazz and HAVEN'T ever explored Medeski Martin & Wood... then you've been missing out.

The first song is titled 'Shine It'

Main reason I like it: it's a great iPod song...




I was on the bus ride home the other day looking out the window, at basically nothing...
just looking at the same stuff I look at everyday on the bus ride home. When this song came on though, I noticed everything became a lot more interesting.

In my world that's why mp3 players are special. Not because you can listen to music and sort of zone out... that's not it at all. Your iPod or whatever mp3 player you have can actually enhance the world around you. Just think of it in terms of a movie... how much worse would most movies be if they didn't have any music? Obviously most movies would not be nearly as good. BUT, it has to be the right music... a great deal of thought goes into making/picking movie music... they don't just throw on a random track and expect the scene to be better. Same deal with the iPod and the movie that is your life.
I will say though that when I see people at places like, giant eagle, with iPods on -- I kind of think it's absurd. This one time I was in the middle of asking one of the Giant Eagle clerks where something was, and some huge geek comes storming over with his iPod on and just like screams in our faces, 'Hey where can I find the cottage cheese!!' all loud n so forth cause he had his iPod on, not even realizing I was in the middle of talking to the guy. I was just like wow, turn your iPod off you idiot. I didn't actually say that I just thought it -- but people like that piss me off.

Alright song number two: It's titled Miami Gato.

It's just solid, very chill... and I'd say it's more 'interesting' than the first song, as it goes through a lot of different moods..

Alright, enjoy:

Category:

Music

Tags:

• jazz
• runcos
• weekly
• music
• runco
• medeski
• martin
• wood
• shine
• it
• miami
• gato

[jahfester]

the song is called "mami" gato, not "miami" gato

[SkateYourOwnStyle]

SMOOOOOOOOOOTH man!!!!!!!

[NoLimitWhatElse]

It's just amazing! Man, that's fucking incredible?!

[pianomatteo]

oh man this is one of my favorite tunes. sooooo groovy. and i must say i really enjoyed your description. it's something that we all do without really realizing, but it's so true! the ability to set music to our life and experiences can vastly change how we appreciate or perceive things so I think it's really cool that you thought of that on the bus. =D

[collina24]

Thanks!

[fantasticname]

just the contrast in dynamics on miami gato blows my fucking mind.

[princedrew1331]

i love these songs and the whole album in fact

End of World Party (just in case)

great album

[Diiits]

Sonzera!!!

=]

[ericscigliano]

your description fits perfect with me

; )

[omegaotis]

holy shit!