Robert Glasper Experiement & Bilal: "Reminisce" (live in Chicago)

The Robert Glasper Experiment & Bilal- "Reminisce"
March 10, 2012
Chicago, IL @ Double Door

Robert Glasper: keys
Casey Benjamin: saxophone, keytar, vocoder, keys
Derrick Hodge: bass
Mark Colenburg: drums
BIlal: vocals

#DillaDay: "Suite for Ma Dukes--Reminisce" feat. Bilal

Musicians #Occupy Wall Street

?uestlove, Moby, Kweli, Kanye West, Russell Simmons, Bilal, Angelique Kidjo, and Gbenga Akinnagbe (from The Wire) stand in solidarity with the #Occupy protests on Wall Street and across the country.

For more information on how you can help and get involved, check www.okayplayer.com/wallstreet.

20 Years in 27 Days: A Marriage in Music | Day #10: Bilal feat. Mos Def & Common—“Reminisce"

20 Years in 28 Days: A Marriage in Music

Day #10: Bilal feat Mos Def & Common—“Reminisce”

by Mark Anthony Neal

The late Benjamin James Moore (BJ) was a childhood friend and one of my favorite interlocutors on New York City baseball; he was a Yankee fan and I the lifelong Met fan.  Our friendship was forged over hundreds to walks to the Avenue (Tremont), usually to but cigarettes, milk or any assortment of incidentals for our parents.  Two years younger than me, BJ also attended Brooklyn Tech, so at least for my last two years of high school, I didn’t make that four hour trek by myself.  BJ also gets, perhaps, the most important hat-tip for what would be the next chapter in my relationship with my future wife.

Though I really wasn’t all that interested, it was who BJ kept me reasonably up-to-date with my future wife’s life.  More importantly it was through BJ’s and his job at the Tower Records on West 4^th Street (where I spent many, many hours), that he became aware that Peaches was an undergraduate at NYU.   At some point, I kind of expected to run into her in the store.

Back in NYC for the after four years upstate and still a little loopy after an unexpected break-up, the last person I was thinking about as I walked aimlessly down Broadway past 8^th Street headed south, was Peaches; She called out my name. Twice. She recalls not being sure I remembered her; I recall just simply being caught off guard and generally speechless standing in from of the Benetton that was there for years.  A few minutes of quick chatter latter, I made the requisite promise to call and perhaps take her our for a meal.   I literally never thought about that encounter again, thinking there was no way that she was single and available.

Where that Benetton used to be

That chance encounter has become part of the mythology of our relationship, perhaps best captured in Bilal’s track “Reminisce” (“Just when I think that I've forgot you/ I hear that dub that we used to rock to/Just When I think I'm gettin' on without you/Somebody Passed and asked me about you”).  Few have the opportunity to have a second chance at a first love and to my surprise that chance was set in motion for me.

New Video: Bilal--"Robots"

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The Sounds of VTech / Bilal "Robots"

On this Election Day 2010, Bilal teams up with French director Mikael Colombu to bring you “Robots”. Come along and join us on this multi-media journey as we see the world of politics through Bilal’s eyes. Mikael’s ability to translate Bilal’s words into imagery, gives us a chance to properly reflect on his ideology of modern times.

To Bilal, people are becoming more like robots through the use of manipulative propaganda by corporate media . This video is his way of opening everyone’s eyes to the truth. As you watch “Robots” you’ll soon find yourself paying very close attention to what is really going on.

Pass this along, and help the robots amongst us.

And don’t forget to make a change by voting today.

from music.vtechphones.com