Descripción
For the third edition of District presents Good Frequencies in collaboration with On the Jungle Floor, we’re spending an evening with the music of Sade, a band whose sound has somehow remained unmistakable for more than four decades.Since the early 1980s, Sade have occupied a space entirely their own. Warm, restrained, elegant and deeply intimate, their music has gone on to influence everything from quiet storm and neo-soul to contemporary R&B, hip-hop and generations of producers who still sample and reference their records today.Across the session, we’ll move through key moments from the bands catalogue on vinyl, stopping every few songs to talk about what we’re hearing and some of the stories surrounding the music.We’ll look at how the band came together, Sade Adu’s unmistakable presence, and the musical landscape their early records arrived into. We’ll also get into what makes these records feel so special — the space in the arrangements, the understated production, those soft horns and grooves, and the fact that nothing ever feels like it’s doing more than it needs to.As the records play, we’ll spend time with individual songs too, looking at the songwriting, musicianship, studio choices and a few of the stories behind some of their most enduring tracks.More than anything, this is an evening to just sit with the music properly. To hear songs we may have known for years on vinyl, in a room together, and come away understanding a little more about why Sade still sounds like Sade, and why so much music that came after carries a little bit of them in it.