I must admit I do like this song, but I thought is was strange when I first listened to it and I still do. Nice soulful 60s type vocal and guitar driven that doesn’t change much to support GZA’s verse. This is not a rap beat but GZA sounds at home here on this very short, sunny day tune.
So who is Mocky you ask? He’s a Somali-Canadian artist and producer whose new album Saskamodie is mostly instrumental. You may remember him from his work on Jamie Lidell’s 2005 album Multiply and Feist’s album The Reminder, which spawned her big hit “1234″.
How did he get together with Mocky you ask? According to Spinner.com:
“When I was making this record my dream was that it would get sampled and used in hip-hop tracks. So to have someone like GZA do a verse over a loop from that record, it’s like a dream come true…
At least three times I thought this just isn’t going to ever happen. Then I would hear ‘Oh, he loves the track, he’s about to do it this weekend.’ I would think to myself, ‘I wouldn’t be surprised if you asked GZA right now who Mocky he is, he’d say no.’ “I just could not imagine it. Then one day, there it was in my inbox, an a capella from GZA for ‘Birds of a Feather.’”
“I was a chess champion growing up in Canada and GZA raps about chess… A lot of my music is about animals — I did my first tour around the zoos of Europe, playing matinee concerts near the monkey cages. GZA also is very inspired by the natural world. I come from a much less legendary crew, but a crew nonetheless, who left Canada and came to Europe around 2000 — Peaches, Gonzales, myself, Feist.”
“I’m just so happy to hear GZA on a ‘National Geographic’ flow rapping about birds,” he says. “If there’s a way to have this be the tip of the iceberg, then that would be great by me.”
Anything that combines Wu Tang and National Geographics is alright by me.
More Mocky please you say? Click on mockyrecordings.com
FUN FACT: Birds flocking together take on a “V” formation. One reason is because they can break through the wind and air as a group more easily, allowing them to travel great distances. The lead bird of a flock faces the most resistance while birds in the back face less as a group.
This encourages them to stay together, as flying alone can be very difficult. As the lead bird of a flock gets tired another bird takes its place at the head of the “V” formation. Gotta love that teamwork.
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