{"id":784,"date":"2012-07-31T19:31:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T02:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/?p=784"},"modified":"2012-07-31T19:31:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T02:31:11","slug":"the-very-best-yoshua-alikuti-weekly-highlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/2012\/07\/31\/the-very-best-yoshua-alikuti-weekly-highlight\/","title":{"rendered":"The Very Best \u2013 Yoshua Alikuti (Weekly Highlight!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something different and fresh. I like the video too!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Very Best - Yoshua Alikuti (Official Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jfU5xktRBEw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From the album The Very Best \u2013 MTMTMK (2012)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/magiska.vlsweb.net.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/redeye-album-review-the-very-best-mtmtmk-20120-001-400x379.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"219\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some info:<\/p>\n<p>The Very Best, a London-based collaboration between Malawian singer Esau Mwamwaya and Swedish producer Johan Hugo, has a history of globalizing U.S. and European musical influences. Yet by including familiar reference points, the group also has tried tried to make global pop music, especially African pop music, more accessible to those same U.S. and European audiences. Its first mixtape featured interpolations of songs by artists as disparate as Michael Jackson, M.I.A. and Architecture in Helsinki; the video for the Very Best\u2019s latest single, \u201cYoshua Alikuti,\u201d pointedly references Lil\u2019 Wayne\u2019s \u201cA Milli\u201d video.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s sophomore full-length \u201cMTMTMK\u201d mostly does away with the cheeky, occasionally cheesy appropriation that helped the band rise to prominence, opting instead for broad-strokes pop that seems designed to hit as many pleasure centers at once for people of as many different cultures as possible. The album is simultaneously a retrenchment of the group\u2019s African bona fides and a nod to the contemporary currents of electronic music. Unlike Vampire Weekend\u2019s Ezra Koenig guesting on TVB\u2019s \u201cWarm Heart of Africa,\u201d there is no effort this time to bring American indie rock to Senegalese fans (Dutch electro house, maybe), but rather a guest list that seems aimed to expose artists like Senegalese rapper Xuman or Malian singers Amadou and Miriam to American listeners.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #13260d;font-family: arial\"><span style=\"color: #13260d;font-family: arial\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theverybest\">Facebook<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something different and fresh. I like the video too! From the album The Very Best \u2013 MTMTMK (2012) Some info: The Very Best, a London-based collaboration between Malawian singer Esau Mwamwaya and Swedish producer Johan Hugo, has a history of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/2012\/07\/31\/the-very-best-yoshua-alikuti-weekly-highlight\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15,20,29,30,35,37,42,55,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afro-beat","category-electro-pop","category-favorites","category-indie-pop","category-indie-rock","category-music-videos","category-new-music","category-poprock","category-synthpop","category-weekly-highlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}