Three Tune Tuesday #157

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Hello my dear friends and music lovers! At first I planned to present you more hottiest music of the Fanfare Ciocărlia brass orchestra - the best matching thing to a summer days... but sh..t happened - I received a letter from the US State Department with a warning that my promotion of musical titles does not meet the recommended quota for lesbians and African Americans, which would not be tolerated. This was the first warning, and I don’t want to wait for the second one. Therefore, in today’s program you will hear (and see) Benjamin Clementine - he is a worthy child of the African continent. In the meantime, I'm off looking for suitable musicians for the next release - the true daughters of the rainbow. Have a good time!

Benjamin Clementine - Adios

(from «Glorious You» EP, 2014)

Benjamin Clementine is one of the most soulful creatures out there and his music makes the strings of my soul trembling in a second. His heart is bleeding because he feels the essence of life like no one else.

Born in North London, Clementine is completely self-taught and unique artist. At the age of 19 he moved spontaneously to Paris to live a homeless life - he busked for living until A&R agent discovered him. He produced several LPs after that, one each 4 years. 'Glorious You' is his second EP.

His music style has been classed as ‘expressionism’, but some jazz names surely come to your mind, and the name of my fave Nina Simone inevitably comes to mind as well. Not only his voice is beautiful, but his face too ... and his lyrics... and piano playing... just wow! unique artist.



Benjamin Clementine - Quiver A Little

(Live Deezer Session; 2016)

It's hard for me to pick best songs, that approach doesn't work with this artist for me. All his songs seem to be little similar to each other, they look like fragments of a holographic rose, each contains an imprint of the whole his creativity - the voice, the singing manner / style, the unevenness and whimsicality of the arrangements, frequent changes of rhythm and structure, ....ugh! writing about music is the lot of music critics, they are the ones who pay the money, not me :)

...but this certain track, 'Adios' - I remember playing it on playback for hours, simply being not able to change it for anything else!

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In one of his videos he played a role of torero using US flag, high in the mountains. Was it just a cryptic artistic gesture without any true reason behind? what could he be hinting at and what did he want to say - what do you think?..



Benjamin Clementine - Phantom Of Aleppoville

(from «I Tell A Fly» LP; 2017)


This was not a mainstream music, and you are not supposed to fall in love with it momentarily. But give it at least a chance. 😎 The post goes for Three Tune Tuesday challenge run by @ablaze. Previous issues: 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 118 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 131 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 151 | 152 | 154 | 156 | 157 | 158

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Something different, a pleasant sound. The videos looks very artsy, so maybe no meaning with the flag. Although it is a curious gesture and the flag and sun going down makes me think it could mean to represent the sun setting on the US empire?

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Yes, probably this may have as many meanings as many watchers - each one will imagine his own. "Artsy" and "expressionism" are the words that come to mind. Was this a new name for you?

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Benjamin has a very cool vibe
I love all those songs especially “Adios”
It’s really nice
!LADY

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Me too! 'Adios' is highly addictable and relistenable. Glad you enjoyed it; a Hive !PIZZA back.

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What a great voice! I hadn't heard of him before, which is something I like about your TTT's! You manage to find some new music I've not heard before. How did come across his music?

He has very creative videos though, kind of like you would see from independent film makers.

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In this certain case, not YT to blame, but one of my female acquaintances, who found herself obsessed with this artist after listening to the 1st LP - and shared this obsession to me!
But most of the times, during the last decade, it is YT who gets me acquainted with new (and old) names. !BEER and !LUV. Glad you enjoyed it.

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