"Devotion" is part of the latest rediscovery of down-tempo R&B, which is infused, this time around, with the mutable, hypnotic possibilities of electronic music; Ms. Ware emerged as a singer with the electronic producer Sbtrkt.
At Bora Bora (Chaussée d'Uvira; 257-29-551-811; boraborabujumbura.com), whinh opened in 2008 in a stylish beach shack on the city's outskirts, well-heeled locals, United Nations staff members and foreign aid workers mix over a soundtrack of down-tempo house and reggae.
Arguably the first airing of trip-hop, this new-fangled brand of down-tempo electronic dance music that grew out of England's hip hop, house and reggae scenes, was a 1989 cover version of Rose Royce's Wishing On a Star by Fresh 4. Produced by a Bristol duo called Smith & Mighty, it set the sad, somnolent tone of the next few years.
Two years in the making and featuring an impressive array of guests (including Garth Hudson of the Band and long-time pals Kelly Hogan, the Sadies, Calexico and Howe Gelb), it's a slow-burner, starting with lots of down-tempo songs that twinkle or brood.
Whale's long-awaited debut solo record, Inland Sea, is out on Good Manners June 10 and is set to be an eerie, beautiful and political collection of down-tempo and industrial work.
It's a mix of baritone voices, flighty flutes, down tempo rumblings, dark electro bass warblings, warped techno, and violins perfect fodder for a mid-morning/afternoon's ear snack.
Down home, down tempo, down right serious testifying.
The songs don't just blare away; they're full of ups and downs, tempo shifts and second-guessing.
Mangiami La Compilation, released three years after the restaurant closed, is a tribute to the heyday of New York's noughties underground dance scene, and a collection of often down-tempo disco melodies and house beats that encapsulate a time when dancing was a privilege and not a right.
Trip-hop, genre of atmospheric down-tempo music, influenced by movie sound tracks, 1970s funk, and cool jazz and usually created using samples.
