While my brilliant hermano didn't succeed in making me love 80's music (he’s brilliant, not a miracle worker), he did succeed, WILDLY, in making me love his take on 80's music: the most fun 23 minutes you'll have with an album this week.
Update/20231018 :: new video!
The 131st MacroParentheticals dispatch, in which my good friend Uziel Colón subjects himself to being my first guest on THE GROUND LOOP, my newsletter-exclusive Proust-meets-Lipton-meets-me five-question grilling of friends, inspirations, and other assorted humans, will be arriving in subscribers' inboxes in +/- 45 minutes. Also: THE SUPER MARIO BROS MOVIE is a delight.
My great friend - and first SOCIALIZED RECLUSE guest - Uziel Colón and percussionist Adam Snow performed this stunning version of Mongo Santamaria’s “Afro Blue” as part of a faculty show at Cal State LA (if the video starts at the beginning of the concert, skip to 2:13:20); to make it even more so, note that Uzi is playing most of the show with his left hand - thanks to having fought a losing battle against a piece of fragmented bakeware - to the tune of seven stitches in his right hand the day before. Fortunately, Uzi had the last laugh and did the show one-handed. May all bakeware tremble before his grit.