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Another week, another song that plays tricks on my expectations.
For the second week in a row, I was convinced that this song was new. I had never heard of Made in Heights, and the song 'Skylark Interabang?!' appeared on one of the blogs I sift through for music, as a hot track from last week. Those two coincidences usually lead to a song being new, but once I looked up Made in Heights on Spotify, I realized the song was just 'new.'
From what I gather, the song was released 6 years ago in 2010 on their EP Winter Pigeons (Songs to Raise Your Dead Spirits). If you're familiar with the band or song, my apologies; hopefully, this won't all be old news. I like doing a little digging on artists—especially those I know nothing about. Sometimes the information that I gather is uninteresting, but I enjoy playing detective and unraveling the characters anyway. As it turns out, Made in Heights has some depth that I was unaware of.
Made in Heights is a duo based out of Seattle, Washington. Winter Pigeons was their first release, and they have since put out two studio albums—the wøøds (2013)and Without My Enemy What Would I Do (2015). But what's perhaps more interesting is who makes up one half of the duo.
Outside of Made in Heights, Alexei Saba Mohajerjasbi—better known as Sabzi—is one of the founding members of Blue Scholars and Common Market, two acclaimed Seattle hip-hop groups. Needless to say, he is, for me, a well-known producer—not on the level of, say, Kanye, but it still caught me by surprise that he had been a founding member of a duo I knew nothing about!
I didn't know anything about the other member of the duo, Kelsey Bahiyyih Bulkin, before this week. From what I gather, she's mostly known for her work in Made in Heights. I couldn't dig up much else, but both Made in Heights albums have been well received—so she's obviously doing something right.
Okay, enough about the group; let's talk about the song itself. /game-pigeon-eight-ball.html.
- Winter Pigeons (Songs To Raise Your Dead Spirits), by::M∆DE::IN::HEIGHTS:: Athletes. Arianna Fontana.
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- Following Made in Heights is all about surprises. Listening is all about pleasure. Right at the end of last year, Made in Heights released their debut EP, Winter Pigeons (Songs To Raise Your Dead Spirits), featuring “All the Places,” a choppy (still downloadable!) cut that was all too worthy of being belated tune’d.
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The first thing I noticed about this track was the opening melody. Did you recognize it? I hope you did, because as it turns out, it actually fooled me too (kind of a recurring theme this week). The melody reminded me immediately of Jaymes Young's 2014 track 'Habits Of My Heart,' which is true. But I assumed that Made In Heights sampled Young's song—this is where I was wrong. Turns out both Young and Made in Heights sampled the 2005 Sufjan Stevens song 'Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois.'
Pablo Picasso is credited with the phrase 'good artists copy, great artists steal.', which seems like an apt quote for this week's song. Typically, I don't like remixes or sample-based songs that rely too heavily on their source material, but I'm willing to make an exception when the track still manages to exude its own character. All three uses of the melody—Stevens's original, Young's sample, and the Made in Heights track—are relatively similar, so where does 'Skylark Interabang?!' start to break out?
As the song continues, the beat builds piece by piece, with Sabzi adding strings, more percussion, and some electronic elements. These subtle additions ultimately lead to the differentiating moment. Just before the halfway point of the song, Sabzi introduces heavy electronic sounds, which roughly mimic the original sample but use heavy distortion to obscure the resemblance. At this point, Bulkin's voice is used as an accompanying instrument that plays with the beat rather than singing audible words. This builds, then gives way to the familiar vocals, but just before the four-minute mark, Sabzi completes the expansion—using heavy percussion, distorted voices, and echoes of Bulkin's voice to reinvent the original sample.
Made in Heights isn't copying Sufjan; they don't leave you with a wispy, forlorn, piano ballad. They transform the original sample into a house/hip-hop/pop nightmare backing beat that someone could probably rap over. They steal the sample and make it their own; they give it a new voice and expression. Pieces of the original remain, but the final product is unmistakably its own entity.
Thanks for tuning in for another week of 'new' music! Check out this week's song as well as the Jaymes Young and Sufjan Stevens tracks. Compare the three, see which one you prefer and how each artist used the same sample differently. https://heavenlyelements.weebly.com/blog/how-to-download-os-x-lion-for-free. One of the major lessons I've learned from writing these posts has been that it's often worth taking the time to sit down and try to really evaluate some of the music you listen to. If you take the time to do that, I think you'll have a richer listening experience and gain more appreciation for the artists and their craft.
-Ian Wood
Download: New Made in Heights album, ‘Aporia: In These §treets’
Following Made in Heights is all about surprises. Listening is all about pleasure.
Right at the end of last year, Made in Heights released their debut EP, Winter Pigeons (Songs To Raise Your Dead Spirits), featuring “All the Places,” a choppy (still downloadable!) cut that was all too worthy of being belated tune’d.
Winter Pigeons Songs To Raise Your Dead Spirits Download Mp3
Two days ago, the duo–featuring producer Sabzi from Seattle-based rap group Blue Scholars and vocalist Kelsey Bulkin–dropped yet another gem out of the blue, Aporia: In These §treets. It contains six tracks with vocals and five instrumentals thereof, and is currently available for name-your-own-price (i.e. free) download at their bandcamp.
Their self description as “mythical filth pop” is spot on: dirty, dirty beats back Bulkin’s ethereal vocals, which are akin to a more bubblegum version of those of Lykke Li. What follows on Aporia is a stunningly natural blend, a listen so thoroughly fun that it is almost guilt-invoking. Highlights include “Wildflowers (Exhale Efreet)” and the mesospheric “Marguerite.”