brotherbeat's Soul Confusion was a monthly night I had in the East Village of NYC in the early 2000s in a living room sized bar that no longer exists. My sets were eclectic both in terms of genre and tempo; they created an aural stage for easy conversation, warm, each song distinctive without being intrusive, until you actually listened. The ebb and flow of the tempo mimicked that of conversation. It was mostly unplanned except for a core mix it mostly depended on what felt good

Soul Confusion is as close to an obvious brand as I can get. The genre thing bores me and it's easier to think of all music as soul music because that's where I feel it. brotherbeat's Soul Confusion became my long mix repository while I was in Barcelona and it will become the new home for my podcast.

brotherbeat's Soul Confusion isn't intended to be an active listening experience, it's a soundtrack for a life well lived.

To access the mix for each entry click "Episode XX" for the link.

Monday, September 13, 2010

The Major Arcana of Love





This is a series of mixes that exists mostly as concepts, love songs for all the faces of love.   The first is a rough draft of The Devil: Look What Love; the love done me wrong mix.  The rest TBD.





The DEVIL: Look What Love 






The mix that became Look What Love was initially conceived as being for Death.  But death is natural, even in love, it's part of the cycle that gives love meaning:  all things end.  But this is a mix about unnatural ends; betrayal and mistrust.  This mix is about unnecessary heartbreak, the love that wounds, scorched earth, salted ground love; obviously the work of the devil.  Still I can't fully give in to the devil and the mix ends with the hope of possibility.


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DEATH: I Grow Cold In Your Embrace










 
 In keeping with all that Death represents in the Major Arcana of Love this mix is about the love run its course love; that transformational from bad to good, good to bad love; the buried in the ground love, just to sprout again like a weed love, or lumber like a zombie love, or the dead fertilizer love that feeds the seed of a new love.  The end of love and its possibility of renewal.

FINAL MIX

JUST THE MUSIC



GetOverHerNow                                  how to mend a broken heart
IDA                                                       les etoiles secretes
ELVIS COSTELLO                             broken
DEPARTURE LOUNGE                     straight line to the kerb
TV ON THE RADIO                           love dog
RICH MEDINA                                   happiness
J RAWLS                                             what If
JILL SCOTT                                        exclusively
PLATINUM PIED PIPERS                 one minute more
AFFIRMATIVE GIRL                         the worst date ever
NINA SIMONE                                   end of the line
CURTIS MAYFIELD                          i loved and i lost
MENAHAN STREET BAND             tired of fighting
JEAN LUC PICARD                           it’s better to have loved and lost
RJD2                                                    making days longer
EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL        single
IDA                                                      downtown
JULIE DOIRON                                  will you still love me in december
DONNY HATHAWAY                        giving up
TAJ MAHAL                                       take a giant step
THE WINE KONE                              broken heart 1
EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL        mirror ball
THE WINE KONE                              broken heart 2
DAVID AXELROD                             the human abstract
IDA                                                       goodnight
  

HIGH PRIESTESS: Old Laws Sung in Her Words




Major Arcana of Love--The High Priestess: Old Laws Sung In Her Words is a mix about a mother's love; it's about the love that grounds and elevates; the love that is nurturing and comforting, earthly and heavenly, transcendent and mundane; the love that always knows what to do, what to say; the vulnerable love, the strong love that offers the hope and possibility of renewal.

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  1. UnknownMarch 13, 2011 at 9:33 PM

    Even though death is a ncessary part of life. The death of this series brings me great sorrow. Long Live Brother Beat.

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