"can't resist your nature"
Whoa... the track All These Wires by UK based, by way of New York, Baba Ali (Voices of Black) is a time bending hybrid blend of electro avant garde pop and funk rock. The industrial synth jag sounds like a sort of sped up Warm Leatherette by The Normal (1978) but the bad ass snap feel part Michael Jackson and part Prince. Baba Ali infuses the track with a proto punk heart but soul ful croon and humor on the official video. It is a delicious cross generational mash up of sounds and a follow up to Baba Ali's early 2020 release "This House" EP which has an interesting back story.
Baba explains, "The songs were written and demos recorded in the living room of a flat I was renting in south London near the end of 2018. At this time I had also started collaborating with my guitarist Nik, who I had met while bartending in Whitechapel. A few months later the songs were taken to LA, where we worked with Jamie Hince and The Kills. We’ve long been fans of their music and Jamie brought a fresh angle and energy that gave the tracks a new life and immediate fullness. This track was perfect to start with to bring the walls down, so to speak. It's funky with a hardened edge. It’s urgent and it’s fed up. I remember writing the lyrics on a roll of receipt paper at the end of a long bar shift staring out at a crowd of drunkards."
Those songs found their way to acclaimed artist-producer Brian Burton, AKA Danger Mouse, and subsequently became Baba’s This House EP on 30th Century Records.
The EP, like All These Wires, swings in proto punk / art punk / art pop ways. Cirque De Bizarre feels like glam punk / baroque pop all glittered up. Shame Blues feels more soul pop but inside a avant garde side ways house. El Dorado moves like proto punk with blues garage rock avalanching down and House is steeped in a hot soul rock aesthetic.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Early in 2019 Baba Ali recorded a new set of music with Jamie Hince, those songs found their way to acclaimed artist-producer Brian Burton, AKA Danger Mouse, and they have subsequently become Baba’s latest release, the This House EP, set for release early 2020 on 30th Century Records.
Baba explains, "The songs were written and demos recorded in the living room of a flat I was renting in south London near the end of 2018. At this time I had also started collaborating with my guitarist Nik, who I had met while bartending in Whitechapel. A few months later the songs were taken to LA, where we worked with Jamie Hince and The Kills. We’ve long been fans of their music and Jamie brought a fresh angle and energy that gave the tracks a new life and immediate fullness. This track was perfect to start with to bring the walls down, so to speak. It's funky with a hardened edge. It’s urgent and it’s fed up. I remember writing the lyrics on a roll of receipt paper at the end of a long bar shift staring out at a crowd of drunkards."
Hailing from New York but a resident of the UK for the last few years as he completed a master's degree in fine art, Baba Ali has spent the last few years honing both his music and his visual art while attending Goldsmiths College.
Previously part of the future-soul duo Voices of Black who released an LP on electronic artist Gold Panda’s record label, NOTOWN, Baba released his debut solo EP in 2017, which saw him nominated by Pitchfork as an up-and-coming artist. The Nomad EP is now approaching 2 million plays on Spotify, with lead track "Cog In The Wheel" an ode to the daily grind being singled out for praise and popularity in particular.
Baba Ali has toured with the likes of Gold Panda, Jonny Greenwood’s Junun project, Shigeto and Kele Okereke, as well as writing and producing further, alongside his art. Earlier this year
Website: www.babaalimusic.com
Soundcloud: www.soundcloud.com/babaali
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/babaalimusic
Facebook: www.facebook.com/iambabaali
Instagram: www.instagram.com/_babaali_/
Baba explains, "The songs were written and demos recorded in the living room of a flat I was renting in south London near the end of 2018. At this time I had also started collaborating with my guitarist Nik, who I had met while bartending in Whitechapel. A few months later the songs were taken to LA, where we worked with Jamie Hince and The Kills. We’ve long been fans of their music and Jamie brought a fresh angle and energy that gave the tracks a new life and immediate fullness. This track was perfect to start with to bring the walls down, so to speak. It's funky with a hardened edge. It’s urgent and it’s fed up. I remember writing the lyrics on a roll of receipt paper at the end of a long bar shift staring out at a crowd of drunkards."
Hailing from New York but a resident of the UK for the last few years as he completed a master's degree in fine art, Baba Ali has spent the last few years honing both his music and his visual art while attending Goldsmiths College.
Previously part of the future-soul duo Voices of Black who released an LP on electronic artist Gold Panda’s record label, NOTOWN, Baba released his debut solo EP in 2017, which saw him nominated by Pitchfork as an up-and-coming artist. The Nomad EP is now approaching 2 million plays on Spotify, with lead track "Cog In The Wheel" an ode to the daily grind being singled out for praise and popularity in particular.
Baba Ali has toured with the likes of Gold Panda, Jonny Greenwood’s Junun project, Shigeto and Kele Okereke, as well as writing and producing further, alongside his art. Earlier this year
Website: www.babaalimusic.com
Soundcloud: www.soundcloud.com/babaali
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/babaalimusic
Facebook: www.facebook.com/iambabaali
Instagram: www.instagram.com/_babaali_/
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