Thursday 3 May 2012

kaah - så hög

i think i was going to eventually write about this track but, since the news that swedish rapper petter had persuaded kaah to come out of his musical hibernation it felt fitting. kaah has been long awaited and his musical legacy has grown ever since albin gromer hit the scene with his brand of digital soul that felt like a continuation of kaah's sound.

"så hög" is a song that i really love and it comes off his third album titled "beats, melodier & baby kaah". it's the closing track on a really awesome album that had a soundscape of stripped down beats with a hefty dose of swing in it. somewhat jerky synthetic drums, quaint sparse basslines, cutting synthlines and really bright vocals. or prince meets dilla meets d'angelo c:a voodoo except not.

what really seperates this track from the album is that it doesn't have a underlining danceable funk rhythm, it's very slow and grindable which means it's really lovely. the mood is set really right and there is so much detail within the synthsounds. kaah is also really on point with his vocals and he jams this one out to a 7minute epic.

the track goes into a new level of awesome once that really rugged synthbass comes in near the end and it just sends me all right right vibes. to be fair, i could have written about any song of the album and it would have given me those feelings as well. kaah delivered massively on this one.

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