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Every process has a genesis and ends with a revelation
5 years ago
I stumbled on Luv(sic) while checking out tunes by the Japanese hip-hop artist Nujabes. I actually found Part 3 on its own and listened and liked it enough that it wasn't long before I sat down to listen to the entire Luv(sic) Hexology.
It wasn't until my second listening, treading the mill at the gym when things started to jump out at me. Mainly, the line "every process has a genesis and ends with a revelation". I binked and thought, "Oh no, that's not a coincidence." I was on guard... and started hearing other little things. Purgatory. Return to our souls and let the spirit flow. The God in me saw the devil in you. Like an olive branch brought back like a dove. There seemed to be a religious theme running through this!
Thinking he would be interested, I brought this to a religious friend of mine who knows the Bible like the back of his hand. And he pointed out to me that the six parts of Luv(sic) detail a growing relationship, from the infatuation at the start, hanging out, getting closer, the deepening love, through eventual loss and death at the end. And in that perspective, it becomes something truly beautiful.
The Luv(sic) Hexology was recorded over the course of nearly a decade, one part at a time. Sadly for the hip-hop world, Nujabes was killed in a traffic accident in 2010, before the sixth part of Luv(sic) could be finished and recorded. But it couldn't be left undone: it was completed and released posthumously to complete the set. Oddly poetic in some way that the final part of the Luv(sic) journey, about having the access code to the pearly gates and the angels drawing the drapes over the earthscape... would be the one finished with Nujabes gone.
If you think that you've heard Nujabes and Shing02 perform together before, you're probably right.
It wasn't until my second listening, treading the mill at the gym when things started to jump out at me. Mainly, the line "every process has a genesis and ends with a revelation". I binked and thought, "Oh no, that's not a coincidence." I was on guard... and started hearing other little things. Purgatory. Return to our souls and let the spirit flow. The God in me saw the devil in you. Like an olive branch brought back like a dove. There seemed to be a religious theme running through this!
Thinking he would be interested, I brought this to a religious friend of mine who knows the Bible like the back of his hand. And he pointed out to me that the six parts of Luv(sic) detail a growing relationship, from the infatuation at the start, hanging out, getting closer, the deepening love, through eventual loss and death at the end. And in that perspective, it becomes something truly beautiful.
The Luv(sic) Hexology was recorded over the course of nearly a decade, one part at a time. Sadly for the hip-hop world, Nujabes was killed in a traffic accident in 2010, before the sixth part of Luv(sic) could be finished and recorded. But it couldn't be left undone: it was completed and released posthumously to complete the set. Oddly poetic in some way that the final part of the Luv(sic) journey, about having the access code to the pearly gates and the angels drawing the drapes over the earthscape... would be the one finished with Nujabes gone.
Gotta finish what we started, so I cut the tape
As our records will stay on rotate...If you think that you've heard Nujabes and Shing02 perform together before, you're probably right.
That is very meta haha. Creating something on that level requires expert level crafting, and I guess it was pretty subtle too that it did not immediately jump out.
I'll have to check it out (eventually).