{"id":2005034,"date":"2025-09-08T01:01:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T01:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2005034"},"modified":"2025-09-08T01:01:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T01:01:22","slug":"10-new-songs-you-need-to-hear-khalid-jay-som-steve-lacy-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/10-new-songs-you-need-to-hear-khalid-jay-som-steve-lacy-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"10 New Songs You Need to Hear: Khalid, Jay Som, Steve Lacy and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Jay Som (Melina Duterte) sings about an eroding friendship, or perhaps a romance, in \u201cCards on the Table.\u201d The track places a wistful, breathy melody atop a nervous electronic pulse, while backup vocal harmonies \u2014 from Duterte and Mini Trees (Lexi Vega) \u2014 billow behind her like chemtrails. In a few verses, the singer moves from hunch \u2014 \u201cYou give just enough to keep me around\u201d \u2014 to certainty: \u201cSay it: You let me down,\u201d she realizes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In \u201cSurviving You,\u201d Hannah Frances sings that she\u2019s \u201cSmoldering as the rage lingers longer \/ There\u2019s nothing more to give toward forgiveness.\u201d A 5\/4 beat creates a heaving momentum that\u2019s compounded with layered, staggered vocals and a pileup of guitars, reed instruments and feedback. Even as she furiously breaks away, she admits to a contrary pull; the song\u2019s final lyric is a repeated word: \u201chomesick.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-1njxe4c eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-556da69\">Mulatu Astatke, \u2018<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mhgeGuglolA&amp;list=RDmhgeGuglolA&amp;start_radio=1\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Kulun<\/a>\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since the 1960s, the keyboardist, vibraphonist and percussionist Mulatu Astatke has been a prime mover in Ethio-jazz: unmistakably Ethiopian music that also draws on American jazz, Afro-Caribbean music and more. \u201cKulun\u201d \u2014 from \u201cMulatu plays Mulatu,\u201d an album that revisits songs from across his career \u2014 is based on a traditional Ethiopian wedding song. Its particular chromatic mode could only be Ethiopian, and its six-beat meter, drummed and clapped, is very North African. Astatke stays in the background while trumpet and flute take solos. But his guiding hand is clear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The bolero \u201cUn Amor de la Calle\u201d (\u201cA Love From the Street\u201d) was recorded in 1975 by the invincible salsa singer H\u00e9ctor Lavoe. It\u2019s a baleful reproach to someone who repaid unconditional love by playing with the narrator\u2019s heart. Lavoe recorded it with a brassy band arrangement, trumpeting his heartbreak. The Puerto Rican singer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/09\/arts\/music\/ile-latin-pop.html\" title=\"\">iLe<\/a> makes it a more private indictment, backed only by congas, bass and jazzy guitars. She reprises Lavoe\u2019s final, laughing taunt \u2014 that \u201clove like yours\u201d isn\u2019t just found in the street, but anywhere. The track is from a full album of boleros, \u201cComo Las Canto Yo\u201d (\u201cHow I Sing Them\u201d) that she\u2019ll release Oct. 24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Korean musician Okkyung Lee has lately chosen tranquillity, but only after a career making far noisier music. Much of her recorded catalog is raucous, tumultuous cello improvisations, on her own and with collaborators like John Zorn and Nels Cline. But on her album due Sept. 5, \u201cJust Like Any Other Day: Background Music for Your Mundane Activities,\u201d she\u2019s purposefully subdued. In this track, she plays keyboards and explores her Minimalist side. \u201cLet\u2019s Walk Down to the Swamp Together\u201d is a tinkling waltz with brief, circling, overlapping melodies that all happen to interlock; motifs come and go, recurring like lingering memories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nytimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Som (Melina Duterte) sings about an eroding friendship, or perhaps a romance, in \u201cCards on the Table.\u201d The track places a wistful, breathy melody atop a nervous electronic pulse, while backup vocal harmonies \u2014 from Duterte and Mini Trees (Lexi Vega) \u2014 billow behind her like chemtrails. In a few verses, the singer moves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2005035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[365494,365500,365071,305446,365495,365502,365073,24982,365497,305436,365072,365503,365504,365499,356576,365057,365498,365501,365496],"class_list":["post-2005034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-content-type-service","tag-dijon-singer-1992","tag-duterte","tag-folk-music","tag-guthrie","tag-hannah-frances","tag-ile-1989","tag-jazz","tag-lacy","tag-lee","tag-melina","tag-mini-trees","tag-mulatu-astatke","tag-okkyung","tag-pop-and-rock-music","tag-rhythm-and-blues-music","tag-steve-1998","tag-t-p-orchestre-poly-rythmo","tag-woody"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/10-New-Songs-You-Need-to-Hear-Khalid-Jay-Som.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2005035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}