Music III

Whether its pizza, burgers or anything else you can pick up during a late night binge, chances are that Elliot has a song to sing about it. A self-professed lover of all things fast and edible, the Stockholm-based frontman has already made a powerful name for himself throughout the year, largely thanks to his wonderfully wistful singles ‘Am I In Love Or Just Hungry’ and ‘Trade Burgers 4 Love’, and now returns to unveil his long-awaited new album ‘Fast Food Musik’, due out on the 7th December via Icons Creating Evil Art.

Inspired by the LA art-pop scene, channelling artists such as Ariel Pink and John Maus, the frontman looks to create a warped and wild journey on his latest full-length. Filled with psychedelic synths and an abstract sense of humour, the new release sits as a satire towards modern society. The fast food representing the culture of instant gratification, where we are filled physically but not spiritually.

His nods to the 60s era throughout this new album act as a fawning to return to a more enlightened time, looking instead to fill our minds with a higher understanding of the world around us, all while remaining so affectionately in love with greasy and instant delights.

Explaining himself and his ideas behind this release, the frontman added, “Maybe it is hard to discern anything other than detached irony from many of the tracks on the album. But in retrospect, the ’fast food’ subject matter was a guarded metaphor for toxic aspects of my personality, my vices and generally my self-loathing. It’s tough to deal with these subjects upfront when your head is swarming with self- harming thoughts and anxieties, so it was a necessary storytelling device for me.

“That being said, making songs about burger grease is a great way of distancing oneself from the rest of the local scene, where life-altering subjects like depression and love are ’brought to you by Adidas’.

“Nowadays, it’s not an open-ended question anymore. I’m well fed, just a tad overweight, and in love. I listen to this song with the person I wrote it to, who I am now back together with. She plays many roles on this album to which I’m the antagonist - and is likely the reason why I wrote it in the first place.”

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Elliot - Fast Food Musik

Trade Burgers 4 Love best shows what I’m trying to convey with the my new album 'Fast Food Music'. It’s not lazy songwriting
that the song is repetitive in writing, I’m intentionally trying to re-create the same circular bullshit you dwell on when you’re depressed. The verse and chorus are pitted against each other and not really getting any me any closer to feeling content or meaning. In this case, I’m using ’greasy burgers’ as a subject of an unhealthy way of perceiving yourself which then leads to a weird limbo of apathy. I don’t want to eat my own alt-masculine shit everyday. I wish I could take the courage to be vulnerable and try to love someone.

Lyrics:
Greasy burger, I would trade you
For the love of my life
In a twosome
Greasy burger, I would quit red meat
For feeling that intimacy
Greasy burger, let you down to the floor
I would leave you at a drop for her
Greasy burger, I wish I had
Someone else to
Fill the whole I’ve got

Wait a cotton-picking-minute

Burgers come in company
Let me plus size my intimacy
Burgers come in company
Let me plus size my intimacy

Greasy burger, I would trade you
For the love of my life
In a twosome
Greasy burger, I would quit red meat
For feeling that intimacy
Greasy burger, let you down to the floor
I would leave you at a drop for her
Greasy burger, I wish I had
Someone else to

Wait a cotton-picking-minute

Burgers come in company
Let me plus size my intimacy
Burgers come in company
Let me plus size my intimacy

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Trade Burgers 4 Love

Elliot - Trade Burgers 4 Love

In 2007 John Beadle, a Milwaukee-based musicologist and owner of the much loved Likembe blog, uploaded a cassette he had been handed twenty years earlier by a Somalian student. The post was titled ‘Mystery Somali Funk’ and it was, in Samy’s own words, “some of the deepest funk ever recorded.” The cassette seemed to credit these dense, sonorous tunes to the legendary Iftin Band. But initial contact with Iftin’s lead singer suggested that the ‘mystery funk’ may have actually been the work of their chief rival, Dur-Dur, a young band from the 80s. 

Back then, Mogadishu had been a very different place. 
On the bustling Via Roma, people from all corners of society would gather at the Bar Novecento and Cafe Cappucino Nero, watch movies at the famous Supercinema, and eat at the numerous pasta hang-outs. 
The same street was also home to Iftinphone and Shankarphone, two of the city’s best known music shop. Located opposite each other, they were the centre of Somalia’s burgeoning cassette distribution network. Both shops, run by members of the legendary Iftin Band, would become first-hand witnesses to the meteoric rise of Dur-Dur, a rise that climaxed in April of 1987 with the release of Volume 2, their second album. 

The first single ‘Diinleya’ had taken Somalian airwaves by storm in a way rarely seen before or since. The next single, ‘Dab,’ had an even greater impact, and the two hits had turned them into the hottest band in town. 
The secrets to Dur-Dur’s rapid success is inextricably linked to the vision of Isse Dahir, founder and keyboard player of the band. Isse´s plan was to locate some of the most forward-thinking musicians of Mogadishu´s buzzing scene and lure them into Dur-Dur. Ujeeri, the band’s mercurial bass player was recruited from Somali Jazz and drummer extraordinaire Handal previously played in Bakaka Band. These two formed the backbone of Dur-Dur and would become one of Somalia’s most extraordinary rhythm sections. 

Isse also added Ahmed Dahir Qassin as a permanent sound engineer, a first in Somalia and one of the reasons that Dur-Dur became known as the best-sounding band in the country.

On their first two albums, Volume 1 and Volume 2, three different singers traded lead-vocal duties back and forth. Shimaali, formerly of Bakaka Band, handled the Daantho songs, a Somalian rhythm from the northern part of the country that bears a striking resemblance to reggae; Sahra Dawo, a young female singer, had been recruited from Somalia’s national orchestra, the Waaberi Band. Their third singer, the legendary Baastow, whose nickname came from the italian word ‘pasta’ due to the spaghetti-like shape of his body, had also been a vocalist with the Waaberi Band, and had been brought into Dur-Dur due to his deep knowledge of traditional Somali music
Yet from the very beginning, Dur-Dur’s doctrine was the fusion of traditional Somali music with whatever rhythms would make people dance: Funk, Reggae, Soul, Disco and New Wave were mixed effortlessly with Banaadiri beats, Daantho and spiritual Saar music. The concoction was explosive and when they stormed the Mogadishu music scene in 1986 with their very first hit single, ‘Yabaal,’ featuring vocals from Sahra Dawo, it was clear that a new meteorite had crash-landed in Somalia. As Abdulahi Ahmed, author of Somali Folk Dances explains: “Yabaal is a traditional song, but the way it was played and recorded was like nothing else we had heard before, it was new to us.” ‘Yabaal’ was one of the songs that resurfaced on the Likembe blog, and it became the symbolic starting point of this project.

Get some Somali Funk

Jaceyl  Mirahiis - Dur-Dur Band (Leave a comment for Dur-Dur´s Musicians, I´ll forward)

Teen Body - Validation

Outtakes

Setting Sun

Again I was inspired by a song by Cecilia. I love her beautiful lyrics for a better world and it's always a pleasure to find a suitable soundtrack. I hope I succeeded once again.

Open collab by @specialececilia 
Open collab site: @specialceciliacappellas 
Original Version: https://soundcloud.com/specialceciliacappellas/magic-carpetdream-awaekewant-2-b-free-vocals-for-collabs

Lyrics & Vocals: Special Cecilia  
Music & Arrangement: OMCB
 
Cover Picture: https://pixabay.com

Lyrics:

Feel Like on a Magic Carpet Flight, 
Traveling Through Space & Time 
with this Mystic Charming Music Oriental ...

Make us Dream Awake
Make us Dream Awake
Let Our Spirits Wave
Make us Dream Awake
Make us Dream Awake
Let our Mind and Body Shake.

Let All Our Hearts Beating in a mix of riddims
Good Feelings flow from Soul to Soul
Flow from Soul to Soul

LIFE COULD BE SO SIMPLE
BUT SOME MAKE IT SO TERRIBLE

JUST WANT TO BE ME, JUST WANT TO BE ME, JUST WANT TO BE FREE
JUST WANT TO BE ME, JUST WANT TO BE ME, JUST WANT TO BE FREE
FREE FROM DICTATORIAL ECONOMY 
FREE FROM TRICKED MENTALITIES
DON'T WANT TO BE 
A VICTIM OF THE SYSTEM
WANT TO GET AWAY FROM ALL ISMES & SCHISMES
GET AWAY ...

On a Magic Carpet Flying, 
Traveling Through Space & Time 
with this Mystic Charming Music Oriental ...

Make us Dream Awake
Make us Dream Awake
Make Our Spirits flow
Make us Dream Awake
Make us Dream Awake
While our Mind & Body Shake.

JUST WANT TO BE ME, JUST WANT TO BE ME, JUST WANT TO BE FREE
JUST WANT TO BE ME, JUST WANT TO BE ME, JUST WANT TO BE FREE

WITH MUSIC DON'T FEEL NO PAIN
WITH MUSIC FEEL SO ALIVE
WITH MUSIC THERE IS NO STRAIN
WITH MUSIC WE CAN EXPRESS LIFE
BE CONNECTED & FLY AWAY

Make us Dream Awake
Make us Dream Awake
Let Our Spirits flow

OMCB & Friends

Magic Carpet / Time Awake - Special Cecilia & OMCB

Best Eastern Motel

Elliot - Best Eastern Motel

Fast Food Music

Mukbang Gurl Intermission

Elliot - Mukbang Gurl Intermission

David Eats Fast Food Daily

Elliot - David Eats Fast Food Daily

Opening Hour

Elliot - Opening Hour

Make Fast Food Great Again

Elliot - Make Fast Food Great Again

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