Kamasi Washington - Truth (Director's Cut)
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- Опубліковано 11 кві 2017
- 'Truth' is out now! kamasiwashington.ffm.to/truth
Taken from the Harmony of Difference EP, out now on Young Turks: kamasiwashington.ffm.to/harmo...
Directed by AG Rojas.
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ITS FINALLY BACK
I’ve been waiting!!
What happened?
@@heyjoejp the music video was taken down I believe. Not sure why
I know how you feel. It's nice that it's back.
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He played this along with his father, a full orchestra and a backing choir at the Albert Hall Proms in London earlier this year - left everyone in total awe, some in tears and a well deserved standing ovation. Gets me every time. Astounding.
Ive managed to fuck my own ass
Powerful live performers. The meaning of life
i just saw him play with his father at the Montreal Jazz fest and indeed it literally brought me to tears 3 different times during the show. Truly powerful stuff, its an odd feeling to realize you are witnessing a modern legend in real time, in the flesh. im getting goose bumps just thinking about it.
I'm a videographer and the shot of the woman dancing in black and white is one of the most beautiful shots i've ever seen.
I'm looking to do a visual for a composition of mine and open to collaboration. Is there anywhere I can see some of your work?
That’s interesting, because that entire section was not in the original video, and replaces what was in fact MY favorite part of the whole video… camera inching ever so slowly through a grey room toward a man seated with his back to the camera, only revealing his face at the end. That was the most minimalist and exquisite segment of a music video I think I’ve seen. Some other sections of this version were also re-cut or edited. I don’t know. The original was edgier and grittier and for me more breathtaking. I’ll have to watch this version a few more times to appreciate what you’re seeing here. I think that on first viewing, I’m just missing what is no longer here.
@@bolder2009that is a weird way to go about collaboration. Just straight weird
I missed this video so much. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BRINGING IT BACK.
It's truly the best music video ever made.
It's one of THE most perfect, sensible pieces of art.
This is like touching heaven.
Right. Was wondering why this got taken down. Kinda help me come to terms with why I’m no longer in love with Rap, tbh🤷🏽♂️
It's the best video... Never seen or experienced anything like it!
@@the2ndcoming135 Seems like they changed some parts. There may have been some legal/creative issues with it, hence they took it down until they could replace it.
@@Alphilles3922 maybe. It doesn’t belong to me. So, all I can do is speculate. Sometimes artists do this because it’s theirs and they can.
I discovered Kamasi Washington by chance from Jazz with Eric in The Evening (God rest his soul) on WGBH Radio in Boston. While at one of the lowest points of my life in 2018, I was just out driving to forget my problems for a while, Eric played this song and I just sobbed. It was a brisk late summer evening and for that 15ish minutes my life changed, I was empowered. The music really helped me, and propelled me through all my successes, i'm thriving and the happiest i've been in a long time. I owe so much of it to this music
This song is a meditation on truth, peace and harmony. And this video does it justice. That was 14 minutes of my life that I spent joyfully.
Yes. Same here.
Disrespectful to put ads in the middle of this masterpiece
Totally agree
I cannot stress enough, how many times we may have all cried to this but especially me. This song itself IS truth. I can’t stop crying rn thank you for everything Kamasi
Painfully humane and indescribably beautiful.
In absolute awe ever single time.
I am writing this because I do not know a single person who I can share these feelings with, the feelings that this song really make me feel.
To give you some context, this song was played at the end of a very good show called Homeland, as a symbol of the love that the protagonist had for her people. And ultimately, this song is an expression of the absolute love I feel, during brief moments of my life. Love that is exploding and over-reaching. Pulsating, throbbing, and seemingly bursting away with freedom.
I wish I could share the feelings this song makes me feel about the people I love that I could never express myself. When I can, I love them so deeply, so absolutely. All of them is in the light, all their blemishes and imperfections brought to the notice of the eye, and still, they are so strikingly beautiful, and how I wish I could tell them, in nothing more simpler, that I love them.
That's all this song makes me feel. It's a lot. And that's why it will always be a special song. I hope my comment makes sense, for the readers on the comment section of this song are the only ones who I would hope could understand this.
Many are always grasping the abstract and trying to give it justice without missing details of emotional abundance. You've tied the very thing quite well, thank you
I feel you! Thank you for sharing! One Love!
Wow I am crying tears of joy. Cool. Aloha beautiful human
I keep replaying this track over and over.. Like you, I heard it on Homeland and fell totally in love with the music.. I feel what you are feeling, there are many like us who feel the exact same way... Stay Blessed, Love and Light to you and yours...
I was listening to this song and reading your comment around 7pm yesterday. I did not understand what you were saying. But I also understood it at the same time.
After a few seconds, I decided to go take a shower only to be called to a family meeting in the dinning room by my mom. She told us that my father showed her rat poison and threatened to use it. Could be for himself or my sisters and mom and me.
This is obviously serious and we had to go to the police . I am writing this at 2am . We just got back. When questioned he denied everything.
The name of the song is truth. And I learned something today: I learned to love and respect the truth. But I also learned that there are some people who hate and disrespect the truth. And it's the latter that seems to always win.
You spoke of love and how you wanted to express this astronomical feeling in simple words to those you felt love for. While I laid down soaking my pillow questioning myself how I person I loved could want to betray me like this.
If this is not duality then I don't know what is😂
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God dammit, tears every time... I can't look away and have to watch the entire thing. Such a powerful piece, and having grown up in LA county, the visuals just really hit home for me. It's pretty abstract, but I can't help but take away from it the importance of family, how sometimes we don't always agree, but in the end, we love each other and are a community with so much life and diversity. So glad they brought back this video.
Me too. I don't know why but tears every time. Masterpiece.
So much heart in the drummer!
I was very very lucky to see this performed live. This was the best show I’ve ever been to. I also loved that there were old, young, and middle aged people all around me. From couples with canes to teenagers dancing to the music. It was beautiful to see people from all walks of life enjoying the show together. If you ever get the chance to see Kamasi Washington live i recommend it 10000%!
The new middle segment is beautiful and all, but I really loved the old one, though I can't explain why. There was something about that slowly zoom in of the camera in a still scene contrasting but also resonating with the increasing intensity of the music that really touched me, like a sort of contemplative / meditating state.
I totally agree, I was surprised to see the change. There was something very special about it thats difficult to articulate, regardless I'm glad this videos back.
I know!!!!! I do miss the old version, that scene is the scene I tell people when I explain to them to watch the music video, so sad it got cut but the new scene is still good but does not do this song justice
Im glad im not the only one. The slow zoom on the solitary man haunts me still. Does anyone have that other cut?
I know everyone else Is as happy as I am for the return of this masterpiece
You got that right Broth!
The most important sax piece/track of this generation. Beautiful.
How I feel when I listen to this music
An old man, recalling a life full of twists and turns. When he tried to share all his current feelings with others, no one could understand, and no one could listen to the end. Some people even fell asleep after hearing it, and the old man also knew that no one could understand it. Really understand him, despite this he still enjoys sharing his life story because he is also savoring his life while recounting it
This music video is my safe zone , I come here everytime i feel down and melancholy covers me and it makes me alive everytime
Young bul like omg I gotta wash my eyes of all this trauma I’ve seen😱
Finally Kamasi, this song has my heart
I thank the universe every day that this was made and shared with the world to see, hear & feel.
This is the best piece of music ever
inshallah, brothers and sisters in the know
Homeland S08E12 brought me here. Lovely.
El mejor video de Jazz que he visto.
Fue de las primeras canciones que escuche de Kamasi y quede impactado, cuando encontré el video simplemente impresionante y cuando pude ver a Kamasi en vivo en Guadalajara fue uno de los mejores conciertos que he ido.
Meses después se desato la pandemia, mi ultimo concierto hasta el momento y el mejor sin duda.
Thank you. Thank you. This is beauty. This is truth. This is life. 🙏🙏🙏 We need this.
Saw Kamasi Washington at The Beacon Theatre with my son who introduced his music to me one week ago. I love Kamasi Washington music and his band. The music is healing and is definitely needed.
It doesn’t matter how much I watch this I always feel something- like something calling for me in heart
this song inspires me to be the best person I can; for those before me and for the ones after. I believe Love is the Truth, Love transcends spacetime, encompassing the human condition and without Love, there is be no meaning to Life and Reality.
Tears every time. Thanks for bringing it back.
So happy to be able to see and share this again. A true blessing ♾🕉💜
Chills and tears every time. This is a masterpiece.
Homeland season final brought me here.
Best TV show ever
Oh God, I was telling my wife how sad I was feeling not to have seen this video for a such a long time, then I realized it is here, finally back... thank you thank you :-) This song and this video are literally healing my soul, connecting me with the the Universe, and giving me faith mankind again. A masterpiece.
I keep coming back to this whenever I don't feel like my usual self, this song and video reminds me who I am, makes me feel like everything will be alright. I greatly appreciate this wonderfully constructed piece of art.
One of the most beautiful pieces of music I’ve ever heard.
Eu ouço esse álbum quando não consigo ver direção e ouvir qualquer sinal do futuro. Essa música me abraça por me contar que o caminho só está escuro, mas existe. Que muitos já preparam estes terrenos para que eu atravesse. Eu agradeço a arte por me iluminar nos dias de solidão.
O encontro de todas as melodias criando uma paisagem melódica é como um mestre me dizendo que cada passo que é dado me trazem à coincidência do presente, que os passos que ainda darei abençoam as minhas batalhas do passado. Um ontem que parece ainda acontecer.
Isso tudo pra escrever que este álbum e este clipe sempre me fazem derramar lágrimas quando a tristeza se amarra na minha garganta. E que as gotas sempre retornam para o meu coração como um rio enxugando as nuvens cinzas em direção ao mar.
When art comes to life
Merci de l'avoir à nouveau publié! Toujours les larmes aux yeux. Un chef-d'œuvre.
This grabbed my soul by the nuts and made me cry. That and the beer. And weed...allergies...
simply stunning. we are not worthy.
Finally back!... Obrigado!
You have no idea how many times I listen to this one everyday my first time seeing this video !!
-I would feel all kinds of emotions while listening I’ll feel sad , grieve, lust, happy everything in one song I give you much respect this song has helped me get through my ptsd ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🌹 nothing but ✊🏽 respect !
Yo me lo topé el Facebook y lo guardé hace como un año y no pude compartirlo por problemas de copyright, es increíble que haya regresado.
I feel like I’ve ran into an old friend , got a lot of catching up to do . Feeling is amazing thank you for everything.
Great music video, one of the best I've seen.
This video has been gone for quite some time, but is now back. There is one big difference I can recall. During the solo section, the only shot before the video dissapeared was a camera slowly moving up to a man reading a newspaper (shot in black and white). Can't complain about the new version though, it's still very beautiful.
If it only were in stereo :(
That was the most iconic section of the the whole original video. I really miss that part, as well as some other details seemingly designed to “smooth it out” from the more angular and rough cut original. Still, I agree, it’s a really good and important and spiritual journey, in a music video.
This is one of the most exquisite pieces I've seen. Viewed it first a few years back at the Whitney Museum in NYC, standing there, I was riveted. Watched 3 times through & couldn't get enough! Thank you for the updated video, touches my soul deeply every time!
This master piece!! A work of Art! yet youtube police spoiled it as in right on the middle, PUBLICITY (heart broken)
Merci pour cette harmonie, merci pour nous avoir permis de vivre, et de ressentir l'ineffable par le biais de cette œuvre.
Merci....
finally bruh
The best of the best!
Muchas gracias por volverlo a subir esta fenomenal
Love this piece. Very spiritual and celestial. Reminds me of Donald Byrd's Cristo Redenter.
Welcome back... ❤
It’s sad that Prince and Kamasi never worked together.
This cleanse my soul. This cleanse my heart. This give me strenght. Love from France. Melody Cosmos
in the original, the middle video was the approaching the jazz guy from behind. why does this not have it?
On the floor, rolling about in tears...AND PROUD TO SAY IT!
I've been listening to this for so long. I now use his music as a litmus test for men I date lmao
Am downloading this masterpiece in case they remove it again
that main riff is one of the most pure things i've ever heard.
Why the second act is different? 5:12
This song was the absolute BEST when they played here in Chile a week ago. Thnx for the good memories Kamasi.
this is what separates men from boys
I've been waiting for years for the release! Here comes the tears 😭
I am young, a teenager. This song, this musical masterpiece, I believe it to be Beautiful. I have only been in this world of ours for the years I have lived. But, this piece of art has truly touched me in a way I have never experienced before. This song, and all of Kamasi Washington's Music I have heard, I believe it to have a true meaning un-like any other I piece of music I have heard before. A Truth, if you will. But it's meaning can be interpreted in any possible way in our world, and I would like to share how I interpret it myself.
I interpret this song, as well as the rest of Kamasi Washington's pieces, but primarily this, as words of it's creator, words that wish upon change of our Humanity. A Change, a Wish, to see us as people, put aside our prejudice, the things we see on our shells that we believe to divide us, to put aside those, and to form with each other, in Harmony. To see the true Equality of Each Other, to see that there is no lesser and that there is no greater. To See The Truth Of Our Existence.
That is how I interpret this song, this true Masterpiece.
Thank You Kamasi Washington, as corny as this sounds, The Music You Create Has Truly Changed My Life.
With the best, Utmost Wishes, - A Simple Highschooler That Loves Music.
What a spiritual piece. My God!
Let's hear it for HOMELAND for originally broadcasting this on their series!
well somebody finally came to there senses!!! THANK YOU whoever you are.
So happy this video is back! It is an absolutely fantastic film however I'm almost certain that this is a different cut to what it was before it got taken down...
Does anybody else remember it differently?
Yes, the other cut didn't have the dance scene during Kamasi's solo.
I heard this song during the show “Homeland” and really digged it! Cheers to good music 🎶 🎼 🎵 🎷🎷
This film is such a piece of art I'm so glad it's back online
Pharoah IS back young with him and others too ...so much love
I Can't Go A Day Without Listening To TRUTH!
One of Kamasi’s best pieces matched with beautiful visuals.
I heard this awesome Melody and Cameo Live Performance in the Series Finale of Homeland, what a fantastic send off to an incredible T.V Show! This is dope to My Ears!!!
Merveilleux ,sublime aude à la vie space love .Merci pour ce chef d'œuvre...
I am so glad I have discovered such beautiful piece of music. Especially now that I have overcome my depression, and that I am actively working on my future and I am seeing everything with a brighter light. I am in a happy mood, and this reinforces that mood so much more :)
I can somewhat relate I finished my sessions of therapy and I am the first male in my family to do it. And something about finding pieces about me i couldn't figure out started to make sense, I been proud and value who I am. Something I couldn't admit or say before.
I see you by the way, I don't know you. But you're growing and going places each day cheers to you!
Wow wtf my mind has been blown in the most beautiful Way wow
Thank you for this.
So, so amazingly good. This music affected me the first time I heard it....perhaps because it found me when I was going through some challenging times.....losing a close friend. Contemplating what "truth" means to me....
What a beautiful video and song! Brought tears to my eyes.
so much soul..thank you for this art
This is the answer of the universe.
Ahhhh like a cold glass of water to quench an immense thirst. I have longed to see this again.
This sounds like the soundtrack for life.
Suena como una despedida triste/alegre... hermosa canción
Tipo la del final de Homeland.
Rolling thru pretty much anywhere, this would more than suffice.
Because it is! The music video is Life packed into a digital visual
This is literally the song God chose to soundtrack life ....
Kamasi you just made a 57 year old man cry. Thank you for reinstilling my hope for music of this caliber returning. Coy Robertson
First time I head this song it was my 20th birthday and I was alone at my house. My mother was in a treatment center a few states away and my partner was in another city. I was mad suicidal and just wishing I could end my life. I heard about this song while browsing fb and saw the afropunk article. It gave me something to live for, at least for this 14 mins.
I'm glad you're still here.
Despite life's intolerable nature, the world is BETTER off with YOU, and all you could be, in it.
Not ashamed to say that I cried. SO beautiful.
Andrew Kavanagh As did I
Same. Lots.
So did I fam
I'm not ashamed, either.
So did I.
Leave it to Kamasi to make a 14 minute song in just 2 chords and never be boring or predictable- this touches my heart very deeply Thank you thank you
Dude is Em7 and Dmaj7 nothing more- what you hear are "voicings" and embellishments. I take it you are not a musician so theres a little lesson for you- If any musician was going to play this song the paper would say Em7 - Dmaj7 NOTHING MORE.
Well, not really. Essentially it is just Em7-Dmaj7, though admittedly the pianist and others do play "outside" sometimes.
I challenge anyone to an argument on a topic of their choice.
Who gives a fuck? The walking dead is just a sad, generic mongrelisation of Romero movies and Lost.
I've been practising for 25 years; if was going to get good it would have happened by now.
I would love to have this played at my funeral....it's so thought provoking and reminds me of my travels over my lifetime
They tried to trap me and I got out🚪
One of those songs/videos that makes you glad that you're alive
So good that makes me think i'm asleep, dreaming.
somewhere on Saturn, Sun Ra is smiling
Indeed! :)
Bruh
And Pharaoh now too, I feel like this song is a expansion of Love is Everywhere
This song is a sanctuary of asylum for my tempest tossed soul, yearning to breath free, washing away my pain on its teaming shores, delivering me enraptured to a blissful inner peace.
It is a genre of music that is almost 100 years old yet this still sounds fresh and original
not really. sounds just like anything made in the late 60s/70s
No, not at all. This song is using modern harmonies. Look at Ascension where the goal is to basically not use a harmony at all, and also albums like Bitches Brew where everything is based of super exotic and weird scales. This isn't like the jazz from the 60s and 70s at all, since todays jazz has had influence from Soul, RnB and hiphop, those genres hadnt been around long enough for jazz to take influence during that time.
there isnt anything very modern about the harmony here. its a very common two chord, diatonic vamp the entire time. Weather report's "Black Market" uses the same two chords for its coda/jam section, as just one example. Late 60's and early 70's jazz took a huge influence from soul and RnB. have you listened to anything after 1965? also miles davis was influenced by hip hop in the late 80s. and herbie hancock made rokit in 1983....
the strings and choir aren't doing anything that wasnt already done 100+ years ago in the classical world.
yeah, I was wrong about the modern harmony thing, didn't think much about it. my point was that this doesnt sound like everything (or anything to qoute your own comment) made in the late 60s/70s, since you still have early fusion like bitches brew and the start of free jazz which isn't really that close to this. Even tho I am 100% certain that those genres has influenced this, this still doesn't "sound" like it. Pardon for my use of "RnB "as I think of it more as the type of Off The wall michael jackson type of RnB(Probably closer to thriller tbh) and even more modern RnB that is pretty much what a lot of people would just call hip-hop nowadays. and yes, I know that davis and herbie was influenced by hip-hop, but that is completely irrelevant as I am talking about the 60-70
Weather Report might have used similar chords but this doesn't 'sound' like Weather Report at all. The choir in the middle of the song and again toward the end is a nice touch that is unique to Kamasi. Ryan is correct when he says that strings and choirs were around 100 years ago. However, Kamasi assembled this in his own way, which doesn't feel forced. The sound texture for me is warmer than Weather Report. In short, this song feels like Kamasi Washington, not Weather Report or Miles or anything else from the sixties, other than the fact that he uses chords that others have used. I'd be surprised if Weather Report was the first to use those chords. They probably got it from something they heard themselves.
One of the most beautiful things I've seen/heard for a long time
It is just that!
Soul cleansing.........
When your favourite artist releases a new song... thank god I woke up today, and I cant thank life enough for not being deaf
Miguel cool...you just reminded me of a friend who is dead
I have 70 decibels in left ear my right ear is fine I can hear the mans music
Ancestry. Resiliency. Creativity. Community. Continuity.
Thank you for this contribution of pure joy. Love and power to you, Kamasi.
Amen!
Love your comment.
Heard this last night late driving home from San Francisco. I had to make a recording of the radio in the hopes that the DJ announced the artists name and album. She didn't disappoint. I listened to this song on UA-cam about 5 times finishing my drive. Grinning the whole time. Learning each melody, point and counterpoint. As a photographer I must say the imagery in this piece is miraculous. It brings cold trails of tears to my cheeks. Love and connection are the answer. Last night I kept asking myself...where the hell has this guy been hiding?!?!?!?! Come to find out I wasn't the one that was looking. This piece is the first thing I've heard in a long time that just make me smile. Thank you.
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I was letting spotify just play music while I played Call of Duty and suddenly this came on. As I'm playing, i didn't even realize, this song started causing my heart rate to increase. By time it made it to the choir\chanting part I snap back and it hit me like a truck: "What the hell is this song??" By time I hit the ps4 button I had just died and the match was over. This song literally took me to another realm. This is one of the most intense things ive ever heard in my life. Like, this playing during the end of the world would be so fitting. Its almost like this song calls to my soul- trying to resurrect what is already alive..
Shawn Myrelle
I am truly happy for you.
You just discovered the endless beauty of jazz music.
So 😎
Perfectly stated
Kamasi's sound has an incredibly evocative power. You can feel the warmth of home, wherever that is; relive the strength of your roots, no matter how far you are. Truth is a melody that brings you back to a special place you've never been to. Thank you Kamasi.
Federico Zonno beautifully said 💕
What a moving song. Almost a pure expression of freedom
this song is one of the best things to happen in the entire history of human existence