Video: Spoek Mathambo 'Let Them Talk'
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<p>"Let Them Talk" has been stuck in our heads since the song dropped on <strong>Spoek Mathambo</strong>'s 2nd full-length album, <em>Father Creeper</em> last week. The remake of the song from it's original release on <em>Mshini Wam</em> is a marker of Spoek's growth as a musician. In our interview with him last week (video below), Spoek talks about the Afro-futurist movement that he's largely associated with, saying that Afro-futurists often have to "rewrite the history, the future, and the present." In the video, released on <a href="http://www.huckmagazine.com/blog/spoek-mathambo-let-talk/" target="_blank">Complex Mag</a> today, Spoek redrafts a vintage big band-era party laced with psychedelic elements of an imagined "future."</p><p><div class="preroll-video"></div><ora-player></ora-player></p><p>[embed width="620"]<span style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="c319a4e1c7c547518b8d1f6194829911"><iframe type="lazy-iframe" data-runner-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ma9iP11nGvU?rel=0" width="100%" height="auto" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;"></iframe></span>[/embed]</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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