You've been tangoed
2006-09-20 by Tommy SqueakerGive Me Your Love – Tangoterje edit
Although this Todd Terje edit of a Curtis Mayfield track is absolutely GORGEOUS, I post it more as a plea for you to go out and buy the 12inch to hear the mind-blowing version of Paul Simon’s “diamonds on the soles of her shoes” on the flip. Anyone who experienced their teens in the early to mid eighties will have Graceland etched into their synapses – it spent something crazy like 90+ weeks in the Billboard charts. I can remember the scandal at the time over his choice to tour South Africa thereby breaking the UN embargo; I struggled with the ethical issues at stake with the promotion of African music in a country that oppressed its African population. What’s apparent though is both his ear for a great tune and our Todd’s ability to spot its potential and turn it into something truly beautiful.
Let’s not forget Curtis though; the voice of an angel with the philosophy of a revolutionary. For a measure of the man, check this quote from a 1997 interview;
“With all respect, I’m sure that we have enough preachers in the world. Through my way of writing I was capable of being able to say these things and yet not make a person feel as though they’re being preached at.”
This tune sounds pretty heavenly, mind.
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Tod's remix of the Paul Simon track, is ridiculously cool and worth buying for that alone. Ofcourse i had part of my teens in the 80's and the original has etched itself deep in some nearly forgotten past. I'm also South African and grew up in those very troubled times.Being a young thinking white boy, wasn't too easy and the song kind of made some of us realise that we had friends elsewhere, even if it was of a cultural kind. The original really captured an attitude that was prevelant at the time amongst 'lefties', and something of our dusty screwed up country. I love love this remake! and strangely now that we are a free country, such thinking has long been swapped for the importance of shopping.