Dessa and Cecil Otter of Doomtree - "Little Mercy"

I've long been a fan of the Minneapolis collective Doomtree. So with the recent release of Cecil Otter's 'Dear Echo' EP it was time to finally post this gem from the Doomtree album 'No Kings' released in 2011. You could say this song "Little Mercy" is Cecil Otter with the help of his colleagues, but it's more than that. When Doomtree work together - they truly are a collective in every sense of the word. This live version of "Little Mercy", also featuring Dessa, is more than proof that hip-hop has come a long way.

Dessa - The Chaconne (Live on 89.3 The Current)

Okay I have to admit that I've already raved about this song on the Bitter FM myspace page but that is no reason not to rave about it here as well. The Chaconne by Dessa is a fantastic piece of music that I fell in love with... in fact, I couldn't get enough of it for quite a long time. It was a long running number 1 song on the Best Bitter Top 10 show as well. I didn't know what a Chaconne was before I had heard this song but for the record it was an 18th century dance from Spain but more so a musical form based on the continuous variation of a series of chords (which is the angle from which this song was written). Bach's Chaconne in D minor is possibly the most famous. Anyway, Dessa, who is hard to pigeon hole as an artist... usually listed as a hip hop artist but more of a singer songwriter that uses hip hop beats etc. explains in the video below, which is a live version, that she wrote it as a sort of biography of a violinist/composer from that era and the story she tells is as fascinating as the song is beautiful.




Bach's Chaconne for Solo Violin