Kamasi Washington - Truth (Director's Cut)

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  • 'Truth' is out now! kamasiwashington.ffm.to/truth
    Taken from the Harmony of Difference EP, out now on Young Turks: kamasiwashington.ffm.to/harmo...
    Directed by AG Rojas.
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  • @6DADADA
    @6DADADA 3 ปีที่แล้ว +564

    ITS FINALLY BACK

    • @rustydagon598
      @rustydagon598 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I’ve been waiting!!

    • @heyjoejp
      @heyjoejp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      What happened?

    • @rustydagon598
      @rustydagon598 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@heyjoejp the music video was taken down I believe. Not sure why

    • @eddiemckinney2529
      @eddiemckinney2529 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I know how you feel. It's nice that it's back.

    • @the2ndcoming135
      @the2ndcoming135 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😎

  • @saulocorona5913
    @saulocorona5913 3 ปีที่แล้ว +375

    I missed this video so much. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BRINGING IT BACK.
    It's truly the best music video ever made.
    It's one of THE most perfect, sensible pieces of art.
    This is like touching heaven.

    • @the2ndcoming135
      @the2ndcoming135 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Right. Was wondering why this got taken down. Kinda help me come to terms with why I’m no longer in love with Rap, tbh🤷🏽‍♂️

    • @vernita0216
      @vernita0216 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's the best video... Never seen or experienced anything like it!

    • @Alphilles3922
      @Alphilles3922 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@the2ndcoming135 Seems like they changed some parts. There may have been some legal/creative issues with it, hence they took it down until they could replace it.

    • @the2ndcoming135
      @the2ndcoming135 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Alphilles3922 maybe. It doesn’t belong to me. So, all I can do is speculate. Sometimes artists do this because it’s theirs and they can.

  • @leapyear5467
    @leapyear5467 7 ปีที่แล้ว +274

    He played this along with his father, a full orchestra and a backing choir at the Albert Hall Proms in London earlier this year - left everyone in total awe, some in tears and a well deserved standing ovation. Gets me every time. Astounding.

    • @elstupido2233
      @elstupido2233 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Ive managed to fuck my own ass

    • @kirkchan7726
      @kirkchan7726 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Powerful live performers. The meaning of life

    • @marshalldestro
      @marshalldestro 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      i just saw him play with his father at the Montreal Jazz fest and indeed it literally brought me to tears 3 different times during the show. Truly powerful stuff, its an odd feeling to realize you are witnessing a modern legend in real time, in the flesh. im getting goose bumps just thinking about it.

  • @ajc5869
    @ajc5869 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    I discovered Kamasi Washington by chance from Jazz with Eric in The Evening (God rest his soul) on WGBH Radio in Boston. While at one of the lowest points of my life in 2018, I was just out driving to forget my problems for a while, Eric played this song and I just sobbed. It was a brisk late summer evening and for that 15ish minutes my life changed, I was empowered. The music really helped me, and propelled me through all my successes, i'm thriving and the happiest i've been in a long time. I owe so much of it to this music

    • @ziroh8294
      @ziroh8294 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      its a good life....blessed...i heard this on the season finale of Homeland ...aint looked back since

  • @duryshamsi-basha2725
    @duryshamsi-basha2725 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    I'm a videographer and the shot of the woman dancing in black and white is one of the most beautiful shots i've ever seen.

    • @bolder2009
      @bolder2009 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm looking to do a visual for a composition of mine and open to collaboration. Is there anywhere I can see some of your work?

    • @keithgardner5818
      @keithgardner5818 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      That’s interesting, because that entire section was not in the original video, and replaces what was in fact MY favorite part of the whole video… camera inching ever so slowly through a grey room toward a man seated with his back to the camera, only revealing his face at the end. That was the most minimalist and exquisite segment of a music video I think I’ve seen. Some other sections of this version were also re-cut or edited. I don’t know. The original was edgier and grittier and for me more breathtaking. I’ll have to watch this version a few more times to appreciate what you’re seeing here. I think that on first viewing, I’m just missing what is no longer here.

    • @superemesean5907
      @superemesean5907 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@bolder2009that is a weird way to go about collaboration. Just straight weird

  • @PreparingForSHTF
    @PreparingForSHTF ปีที่แล้ว +43

    This song is a meditation on truth, peace and harmony. And this video does it justice. That was 14 minutes of my life that I spent joyfully.

  • @docmcbungas3303
    @docmcbungas3303 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Disrespectful to put ads in the middle of this masterpiece

  • @BeyondAbsolute3
    @BeyondAbsolute3 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    I cannot stress enough, how many times we may have all cried to this but especially me. This song itself IS truth. I can’t stop crying rn thank you for everything Kamasi

    • @jonathanneumann95
      @jonathanneumann95 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Painfully humane and indescribably beautiful.
      In absolute awe ever single time.

  • @daminhan8079
    @daminhan8079 2 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    I am writing this because I do not know a single person who I can share these feelings with, the feelings that this song really make me feel.
    To give you some context, this song was played at the end of a very good show called Homeland, as a symbol of the love that the protagonist had for her people. And ultimately, this song is an expression of the absolute love I feel, during brief moments of my life. Love that is exploding and over-reaching. Pulsating, throbbing, and seemingly bursting away with freedom.
    I wish I could share the feelings this song makes me feel about the people I love that I could never express myself. When I can, I love them so deeply, so absolutely. All of them is in the light, all their blemishes and imperfections brought to the notice of the eye, and still, they are so strikingly beautiful, and how I wish I could tell them, in nothing more simpler, that I love them.
    That's all this song makes me feel. It's a lot. And that's why it will always be a special song. I hope my comment makes sense, for the readers on the comment section of this song are the only ones who I would hope could understand this.

    • @juanchosnout4712
      @juanchosnout4712 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Many are always grasping the abstract and trying to give it justice without missing details of emotional abundance. You've tied the very thing quite well, thank you

    • @akhuausar1608
      @akhuausar1608 ปีที่แล้ว

      I feel you! Thank you for sharing! One Love!

    • @prattman69
      @prattman69 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wow I am crying tears of joy. Cool. Aloha beautiful human

    • @relaxingmusictounwind
      @relaxingmusictounwind ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I keep replaying this track over and over.. Like you, I heard it on Homeland and fell totally in love with the music.. I feel what you are feeling, there are many like us who feel the exact same way... Stay Blessed, Love and Light to you and yours...

    • @kooki2618
      @kooki2618 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was listening to this song and reading your comment around 7pm yesterday. I did not understand what you were saying. But I also understood it at the same time.
      After a few seconds, I decided to go take a shower only to be called to a family meeting in the dinning room by my mom. She told us that my father showed her rat poison and threatened to use it. Could be for himself or my sisters and mom and me.
      This is obviously serious and we had to go to the police . I am writing this at 2am . We just got back. When questioned he denied everything.
      The name of the song is truth. And I learned something today: I learned to love and respect the truth. But I also learned that there are some people who hate and disrespect the truth. And it's the latter that seems to always win.
      You spoke of love and how you wanted to express this astronomical feeling in simple words to those you felt love for. While I laid down soaking my pillow questioning myself how I person I loved could want to betray me like this.
      If this is not duality then I don't know what is😂

  • @bboybarafuco
    @bboybarafuco ปีที่แล้ว +5

    When art comes to life

  • @emusounds3801
    @emusounds3801 3 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    God dammit, tears every time... I can't look away and have to watch the entire thing. Such a powerful piece, and having grown up in LA county, the visuals just really hit home for me. It's pretty abstract, but I can't help but take away from it the importance of family, how sometimes we don't always agree, but in the end, we love each other and are a community with so much life and diversity. So glad they brought back this video.

    • @user-gy9db1in9i
      @user-gy9db1in9i 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Me too. I don't know why but tears every time. Masterpiece.

  • @Tightrope291
    @Tightrope291 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    So much heart in the drummer!

  • @miles4122
    @miles4122 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    How I feel when I listen to this music
    An old man, recalling a life full of twists and turns. When he tried to share all his current feelings with others, no one could understand, and no one could listen to the end. Some people even fell asleep after hearing it, and the old man also knew that no one could understand it. Really understand him, despite this he still enjoys sharing his life story because he is also savoring his life while recounting it

  • @ziroh8294
    @ziroh8294 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Kamasi Washington CARRIE WASHINGTON ...any relation....HOMELAND GOT ME HERE....its a good life people.....such sounds bring out the essence of life😊😊😊😊

  • @cperki003
    @cperki003 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I know everyone else Is as happy as I am for the return of this masterpiece

  • @ziademad4707
    @ziademad4707 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    This music video is my safe zone , I come here everytime i feel down and melancholy covers me and it makes me alive everytime

    • @the2ndcoming135
      @the2ndcoming135 ปีที่แล้ว

      Young bul like omg I gotta wash my eyes of all this trauma I’ve seen😱

  • @alchemography
    @alchemography 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I was very very lucky to see this performed live. This was the best show I’ve ever been to. I also loved that there were old, young, and middle aged people all around me. From couples with canes to teenagers dancing to the music. It was beautiful to see people from all walks of life enjoying the show together. If you ever get the chance to see Kamasi Washington live i recommend it 10000%!

  • @jumanbar
    @jumanbar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    The new middle segment is beautiful and all, but I really loved the old one, though I can't explain why. There was something about that slowly zoom in of the camera in a still scene contrasting but also resonating with the increasing intensity of the music that really touched me, like a sort of contemplative / meditating state.

    • @teeranto5468
      @teeranto5468 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I totally agree, I was surprised to see the change. There was something very special about it thats difficult to articulate, regardless I'm glad this videos back.

    • @govys85
      @govys85 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I know!!!!! I do miss the old version, that scene is the scene I tell people when I explain to them to watch the music video, so sad it got cut but the new scene is still good but does not do this song justice

    • @hankville62
      @hankville62 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Im glad im not the only one. The slow zoom on the solitary man haunts me still. Does anyone have that other cut?

  • @jordanrivera7346
    @jordanrivera7346 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The most important sax piece/track of this generation. Beautiful.

  • @sagathekawaiikilla
    @sagathekawaiikilla 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    It doesn’t matter how much I watch this I always feel something- like something calling for me in heart

  • @ishaansendhil4382
    @ishaansendhil4382 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Finally Kamasi, this song has my heart

  • @MenchieExtrakt
    @MenchieExtrakt 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    inshallah, brothers and sisters in the know

  • @mr3pac
    @mr3pac 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    So happy to be able to see and share this again. A true blessing ♾🕉💜

  • @heyjoejp
    @heyjoejp 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I thank the universe every day that this was made and shared with the world to see, hear & feel.

  • @alejandropulidomares4817
    @alejandropulidomares4817 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    El mejor video de Jazz que he visto.
    Fue de las primeras canciones que escuche de Kamasi y quede impactado, cuando encontré el video simplemente impresionante y cuando pude ver a Kamasi en vivo en Guadalajara fue uno de los mejores conciertos que he ido.
    Meses después se desato la pandemia, mi ultimo concierto hasta el momento y el mejor sin duda.

  • @clydeworldwide123456
    @clydeworldwide123456 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Tears every time. Thanks for bringing it back.

  • @lifesummit73
    @lifesummit73 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Thank you. Thank you. This is beauty. This is truth. This is life. 🙏🙏🙏 We need this.

  • @maestro_sarastro
    @maestro_sarastro 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    this song inspires me to be the best person I can; for those before me and for the ones after. I believe Love is the Truth, Love transcends spacetime, encompassing the human condition and without Love, there is be no meaning to Life and Reality.

  • @cadenferguson467
    @cadenferguson467 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This is the best piece of music ever

  • @KJ-je9pm
    @KJ-je9pm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Chills and tears every time. This is a masterpiece.

  • @teacher1460
    @teacher1460 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Saw Kamasi Washington at The Beacon Theatre with my son who introduced his music to me one week ago. I love Kamasi Washington music and his band. The music is healing and is definitely needed.

  • @lucasmonaco5103
    @lucasmonaco5103 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Eu ouço esse álbum quando não consigo ver direção e ouvir qualquer sinal do futuro. Essa música me abraça por me contar que o caminho só está escuro, mas existe. Que muitos já preparam estes terrenos para que eu atravesse. Eu agradeço a arte por me iluminar nos dias de solidão.
    O encontro de todas as melodias criando uma paisagem melódica é como um mestre me dizendo que cada passo que é dado me trazem à coincidência do presente, que os passos que ainda darei abençoam as minhas batalhas do passado. Um ontem que parece ainda acontecer.
    Isso tudo pra escrever que este álbum e este clipe sempre me fazem derramar lágrimas quando a tristeza se amarra na minha garganta. E que as gotas sempre retornam para o meu coração como um rio enxugando as nuvens cinzas em direção ao mar.

  • @thetraveller5745
    @thetraveller5745 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Homeland S08E12 brought me here. Lovely.

  • @funkyboodah
    @funkyboodah 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    in the original, the middle video was the approaching the jazz guy from behind. why does this not have it?

  • @papimatlou1035
    @papimatlou1035 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I keep coming back to this whenever I don't feel like my usual self, this song and video reminds me who I am, makes me feel like everything will be alright. I greatly appreciate this wonderfully constructed piece of art.

  • @titoquito1642
    @titoquito1642 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Homeland season final brought me here.
    Best TV show ever

  • @megazillion2946
    @megazillion2946 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    One of the most beautiful pieces of music I’ve ever heard.

  • @chafikbenammar2031
    @chafikbenammar2031 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Oh God, I was telling my wife how sad I was feeling not to have seen this video for a such a long time, then I realized it is here, finally back... thank you thank you :-) This song and this video are literally healing my soul, connecting me with the the Universe, and giving me faith mankind again. A masterpiece.

  • @aguscamus
    @aguscamus วันที่ผ่านมา

    I can't explain this, and thats my truth. Thanks for the feeling

  • @joachimkaci
    @joachimkaci 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Merci de l'avoir à nouveau publié! Toujours les larmes aux yeux. Un chef-d'œuvre.

  • @Martvandelay
    @Martvandelay ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It’s sad that Prince and Kamasi never worked together.

  • @billyalarie929
    @billyalarie929 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    that main riff is one of the most pure things i've ever heard.

  • @nilwnah
    @nilwnah 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The drums speak of the pure and deep joys of life!

  • @DLO702
    @DLO702 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You have no idea how many times I listen to this one everyday my first time seeing this video !!
    -I would feel all kinds of emotions while listening I’ll feel sad , grieve, lust, happy everything in one song I give you much respect this song has helped me get through my ptsd ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🌹 nothing but ✊🏽 respect !

  • @juyo385
    @juyo385 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Yo me lo topé el Facebook y lo guardé hace como un año y no pude compartirlo por problemas de copyright, es increíble que haya regresado.

  • @dialate
    @dialate 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I feel like I’ve ran into an old friend , got a lot of catching up to do . Feeling is amazing thank you for everything.

  • @LornaKleidman1
    @LornaKleidman1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is one of the most exquisite pieces I've seen. Viewed it first a few years back at the Whitney Museum in NYC, standing there, I was riveted. Watched 3 times through & couldn't get enough! Thank you for the updated video, touches my soul deeply every time!

  • @wizerd2089
    @wizerd2089 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I've never been so upset by an advert interruption.

  • @ruimorais3555
    @ruimorais3555 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Finally back!... Obrigado!

  • @miguelrey7683
    @miguelrey7683 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've been waiting for years for the release! Here comes the tears 😭

  • @LomoTorres
    @LomoTorres 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Muchas gracias por volverlo a subir esta fenomenal

  • @pnojazz
    @pnojazz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Let's hear it for HOMELAND for originally broadcasting this on their series!

  • @idzanhasan308
    @idzanhasan308 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    finally bruh

  • @deod087
    @deod087 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Welcome back... ❤

  • @davidscott2821
    @davidscott2821 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    On the floor, rolling about in tears...AND PROUD TO SAY IT!

  • @operator4108
    @operator4108 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Crying with joy

  • @havardskotterud5674
    @havardskotterud5674 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great music video, one of the best I've seen.
    This video has been gone for quite some time, but is now back. There is one big difference I can recall. During the solo section, the only shot before the video dissapeared was a camera slowly moving up to a man reading a newspaper (shot in black and white). Can't complain about the new version though, it's still very beautiful.
    If it only were in stereo :(

    • @keithgardner5818
      @keithgardner5818 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That was the most iconic section of the the whole original video. I really miss that part, as well as some other details seemingly designed to “smooth it out” from the more angular and rough cut original. Still, I agree, it’s a really good and important and spiritual journey, in a music video.

  • @lddevo88
    @lddevo88 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This film is such a piece of art I'm so glad it's back online

  • @Jordarr8994
    @Jordarr8994 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    YES THANK YOU

  • @lucasvigliar
    @lucasvigliar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Am downloading this masterpiece in case they remove it again

  • @cover5988
    @cover5988 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just found this song 30 minutes ago! I love this dearly! Beautiful!!!

  • @deod087
    @deod087 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Why the second act is different? 5:12

  • @CotazMuianga
    @CotazMuianga 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    this is what separates men from boys

  • @maurobrito3935
    @maurobrito3935 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Tears for my eyes, guarantee. It’s a gem. Love you Kamasi.

  • @jennifertiller6937
    @jennifertiller6937 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Tears . Speechless . Honor . For this living legend of a song

  • @ghostrider1827
    @ghostrider1827 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    well somebody finally came to there senses!!! THANK YOU whoever you are.

  • @guitardaniel15
    @guitardaniel15 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Deeply profound, moving and inspirational. I think I've listened to this track near 50 times or so by now.

  • @mikeb3265
    @mikeb3265 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This grabbed my soul by the nuts and made me cry. That and the beer. And weed...allergies...

  • @johnsmithiii6472
    @johnsmithiii6472 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I can't stop watching this. The symbolism is unbelievable. Well done! Make me cry 😢 every time I watch!

  • @kojoJamal
    @kojoJamal ปีที่แล้ว +1

    so much soul..thank you for this art

  • @Sofysbb1
    @Sofysbb1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    every other Friday evening I feel like coming back to this link, this song, this video.
    it heals when I have a weird week.

  • @thenaxx5398
    @thenaxx5398 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This song was the absolute BEST when they played here in Chile a week ago. Thnx for the good memories Kamasi.

  • @kwabs1136
    @kwabs1136 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow is all I can say. I feel like my mind has been opened up once again.

  • @king1283
    @king1283 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    my god... i will never get tired of this, this is extraordinary.

  • @normaoliveira2969
    @normaoliveira2969 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh man, this song touch my soul... love it so much, how special!!! thank you so much!!!

  • @xavitreg
    @xavitreg 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This makes me cry every time that I heard. It makes me think about peace and love, and living all together without hate. Thank you so much Kamasi and all the musicians for this music and thank you to the director to make that beautiful video. Peace and love.

  • @alfieleavy88
    @alfieleavy88 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow wtf my mind has been blown in the most beautiful Way wow

  • @hunny___
    @hunny___ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One of Kamasi’s best pieces matched with beautiful visuals.

  • @natalieclarke-white4758
    @natalieclarke-white4758 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The flow in this... tears

  • @elisavieira737
    @elisavieira737 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is beautiful... 😢❤️ ❤️ ❤️

  • @qiolov3zyou
    @qiolov3zyou 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I've been listening to this for so long. I now use his music as a litmus test for men I date lmao

  • @jelanimolo
    @jelanimolo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This might be my favorite TH-cam video of all-time... Thank you so much for bringing it back. It was truly, truly, truly missed.

  • @areliaimeetapia8481
    @areliaimeetapia8481 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I heard this song during the show “Homeland” and really digged it! Cheers to good music 🎶 🎼 🎵 🎷🎷

  • @benedictholmes2835
    @benedictholmes2835 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a spiritual piece. My God!

  • @matthewpothier9642
    @matthewpothier9642 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This video means so much to me. So happy it is back

  • @TheSkatehustla
    @TheSkatehustla 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    thank you so much its back! one of my favourite videos of all time

  • @jonylawson73
    @jonylawson73 ปีที่แล้ว

    There is art and there is art and then there is this ...
    Thankyou

  • @dalinelio333
    @dalinelio333 7 ปีที่แล้ว +276

    This sounds like the soundtrack for life.

    • @juanguzman915
      @juanguzman915 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Suena como una despedida triste/alegre... hermosa canción

    • @adfke8ncx
      @adfke8ncx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Tipo la del final de Homeland.

    • @matthewsmith5374
      @matthewsmith5374 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Rolling thru pretty much anywhere, this would more than suffice.

    • @ThePeacePlant
      @ThePeacePlant 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Because it is! The music video is Life packed into a digital visual

    • @jonylawson73
      @jonylawson73 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is literally the song God chose to soundtrack life ....

  • @whykatera81
    @whykatera81 7 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    Kamasi you just made a 57 year old man cry. Thank you for reinstilling my hope for music of this caliber returning. Coy Robertson

  • @zoraseboulisa9377
    @zoraseboulisa9377 6 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    First time I head this song it was my 20th birthday and I was alone at my house. My mother was in a treatment center a few states away and my partner was in another city. I was mad suicidal and just wishing I could end my life. I heard about this song while browsing fb and saw the afropunk article. It gave me something to live for, at least for this 14 mins.

    • @nothingleft4911
      @nothingleft4911 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I'm glad you're still here.

    • @kennethnewton7375
      @kennethnewton7375 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Despite life's intolerable nature, the world is BETTER off with YOU, and all you could be, in it.

  • @elpianolero
    @elpianolero 7 ปีที่แล้ว +629

    Leave it to Kamasi to make a 14 minute song in just 2 chords and never be boring or predictable- this touches my heart very deeply Thank you thank you

    • @elpianolero
      @elpianolero 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Dude is Em7 and Dmaj7 nothing more- what you hear are "voicings" and embellishments. I take it you are not a musician so theres a little lesson for you- If any musician was going to play this song the paper would say Em7 - Dmaj7 NOTHING MORE.

    • @pstrawser1
      @pstrawser1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Well, not really. Essentially it is just Em7-Dmaj7, though admittedly the pianist and others do play "outside" sometimes.

    • @Eltalstro
      @Eltalstro 7 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I challenge anyone to an argument on a topic of their choice.

    • @Eltalstro
      @Eltalstro 7 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Who gives a fuck? The walking dead is just a sad, generic mongrelisation of Romero movies and Lost.

    • @Eltalstro
      @Eltalstro 7 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      I've been practising for 25 years; if was going to get good it would have happened by now.

  • @ToxicCokeCola
    @ToxicCokeCola 7 ปีที่แล้ว +204

    It is a genre of music that is almost 100 years old yet this still sounds fresh and original

    • @RyanRenteria
      @RyanRenteria 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      not really. sounds just like anything made in the late 60s/70s

    • @Stian9Tutorials
      @Stian9Tutorials 7 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      No, not at all. This song is using modern harmonies. Look at Ascension where the goal is to basically not use a harmony at all, and also albums like Bitches Brew where everything is based of super exotic and weird scales. This isn't like the jazz from the 60s and 70s at all, since todays jazz has had influence from Soul, RnB and hiphop, those genres hadnt been around long enough for jazz to take influence during that time.

    • @RyanRenteria
      @RyanRenteria 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      there isnt anything very modern about the harmony here. its a very common two chord, diatonic vamp the entire time. Weather report's "Black Market" uses the same two chords for its coda/jam section, as just one example. Late 60's and early 70's jazz took a huge influence from soul and RnB. have you listened to anything after 1965? also miles davis was influenced by hip hop in the late 80s. and herbie hancock made rokit in 1983....
      the strings and choir aren't doing anything that wasnt already done 100+ years ago in the classical world.

    • @Stian9Tutorials
      @Stian9Tutorials 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      yeah, I was wrong about the modern harmony thing, didn't think much about it. my point was that this doesnt sound like everything (or anything to qoute your own comment) made in the late 60s/70s, since you still have early fusion like bitches brew and the start of free jazz which isn't really that close to this. Even tho I am 100% certain that those genres has influenced this, this still doesn't "sound" like it. Pardon for my use of "RnB "as I think of it more as the type of Off The wall michael jackson type of RnB(Probably closer to thriller tbh) and even more modern RnB that is pretty much what a lot of people would just call hip-hop nowadays. and yes, I know that davis and herbie was influenced by hip-hop, but that is completely irrelevant as I am talking about the 60-70

    • @alanrosenbach
      @alanrosenbach 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Weather Report might have used similar chords but this doesn't 'sound' like Weather Report at all. The choir in the middle of the song and again toward the end is a nice touch that is unique to Kamasi. Ryan is correct when he says that strings and choirs were around 100 years ago. However, Kamasi assembled this in his own way, which doesn't feel forced. The sound texture for me is warmer than Weather Report. In short, this song feels like Kamasi Washington, not Weather Report or Miles or anything else from the sixties, other than the fact that he uses chords that others have used. I'd be surprised if Weather Report was the first to use those chords. They probably got it from something they heard themselves.

  • @AndrewKavanagh72
    @AndrewKavanagh72 7 ปีที่แล้ว +171

    Not ashamed to say that I cried. SO beautiful.

  • @yergeoff
    @yergeoff 6 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    somewhere on Saturn, Sun Ra is smiling

    • @shojifilms1996
      @shojifilms1996 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Indeed! :)

    • @dickstryker
      @dickstryker 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bruh

    • @Audiostoke1
      @Audiostoke1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And Pharaoh now too, I feel like this song is a expansion of Love is Everywhere

  • @youwillovercome
    @youwillovercome 7 ปีที่แล้ว +249

    Ancestry. Resiliency. Creativity. Community. Continuity.
    Thank you for this contribution of pure joy. Love and power to you, Kamasi.

    • @MegaHouly
      @MegaHouly 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Amen!

    • @DubG9
      @DubG9 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Love your comment.

  • @ivanmattiussi8327
    @ivanmattiussi8327 7 ปีที่แล้ว +316

    One of the most beautiful things I've seen/heard for a long time

    • @AndrewKavanagh72
      @AndrewKavanagh72 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It is just that!

    • @bigmafi
      @bigmafi 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Soul cleansing.........

  • @rileywebb9
    @rileywebb9 7 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    One of those songs/videos that makes you glad that you're alive

    • @Gy0952
      @Gy0952 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      So good that makes me think i'm asleep, dreaming.

  • @trevorbaker1645
    @trevorbaker1645 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I would love to have this played at my funeral....it's so thought provoking and reminds me of my travels over my lifetime

    • @the2ndcoming135
      @the2ndcoming135 ปีที่แล้ว

      They tried to trap me and I got out🚪

  • @miguelcob
    @miguelcob 7 ปีที่แล้ว +155

    When your favourite artist releases a new song... thank god I woke up today, and I cant thank life enough for not being deaf

    • @rajaiyer79
      @rajaiyer79 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Miguel cool...you just reminded me of a friend who is dead

    • @carolinegray5297
      @carolinegray5297 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I have 70 decibels in left ear my right ear is fine I can hear the mans music

  • @mikeymadnez
    @mikeymadnez 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    This song is a sanctuary of asylum for my tempest tossed soul, yearning to breath free, washing away my pain on its teaming shores, delivering me enraptured to a blissful inner peace.