a few months ago jason diakité dropped this track as a teaser for his forthcoming album. an album whom he trouble with since his massive writers block which eventually was broken and he started pouring his emotions out into his songs. like this one, and this one was weird as it was nothing you really associated with the timbuktu sound. even with his folksy branchings and his likeability from everyone.
i remember when national radio played it and i thought that this is some heavy stuff and i seriously wondered if he was going to drop something like this as his first track. but it turned out he didn't as it wasn't an official single and the official first single "dödsdansen" was a banging indian sampling uptempo joint. his second single (for radio as there is one that is for the streets as well) is a track about his former friends and how he wishes them nothing good and just misery and doing that in the most sing-a-long way possible.
however having listened to his album a lot recently and listened to this track ever since he gave it out in late february. it really struck a chord with me and it fits really well at the end of the album and i deeply recommend the album. this track has a history to it that timbuk told in an interview with swedish magazine nöjesguiden.
he heard this classical piece at the end of a documentary and was moved by it and he wanted to use it in his music. he played it to his brother in arms and producer måns asplund of breakmechanix and asplund's response was "dude i'm not going to fuck that beautiful peace of music up by putting a beat under it, there is no way possible".
jason later got to play a show with a jazz pianist by the name of jan lundgren and he played him the piece and lundgren said "ah schubert" and him along with swedish string duo pannacotta made an arrangement and timbuktu laid his rhymes over that. the schubert piece that is used is "Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat, D. 929, Op. 100: Andante con moto". apparently a very famous piece of music. i was also gobsmacked by it's beauty and it should be deserved to be listened to on it's own.
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jason's track entitled "dansa" and he pours his heart and soul out and lets people hear what he feels about love and the constant game for love will do to you. when i showed this track to mate jan henrik (who has the oddish emissions blog), his reaction was "this is some next shit. not a hook in sight. tremendous lyrics, but it's all so heavy. dunno if I'd be too inclined to listen to this very often". i can understand him but if you need some a powerful injection of thought then this one is for you. that is if you understand swedish, if you don't just listen to that schubert piece. it will give you the same emotional boost.
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