Whatever publicity Kutiman’s video song album receives – and I’m guessing quite a lot – is well deserved. The video sequencing is clever and lighthearted, the music tastefully composed and the overall conceit exudes love for humanity.
Much of music is a conversation across space and time, a retracing of other people’s gestures, a palimpsest. Today’s sampling technologies expose those overlays like so much colorful sedimentation.