De Massive Attack (em Blue Lines, 1991)
J.P.V.
P.S.
Outra figura gigante do movimento trip-hop: Tricky
Trip what?! Hop! That's
right: trip-hop, a genre that
Massive Attack created. It’s origins
are in England (Bristol
if we want to be more precise) and this music style can be described
as soft electronic (downtempo),
with soul, reggae and jazz influences (and many others, like some of
hip-hop’s formulas too). Precursors
of this fertile musical
lineage, Robert «3D»
Del Naja and
Grant «Daddy G» Marshall,
the two founding members of the band, tend call other artist to collaborate with them.
They do so since de beginning. Horace Andy, big name in the
scene reggae, was one of them. The singer Shara Nelson was chosen
to give voice to Unfinished Sympathy,
the 6th track and the 2nd single to be
taken from the debut album. This song is
considered to be the genesis of trip-hop. Thi brilliant song found it’s perfect match in
the video made for it. One continuous shot - yes, without any cuts -
filmed on the streets of Los Angeles in which
the camera follows Nelson as she
walks for several minutes - 5:21 to watch without blinking. The game was on.
J.P.V.
P.S.
One other big name of the
trip-hop movement: Tricky
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