{"id":14681,"date":"2018-06-10T05:30:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T09:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=14681"},"modified":"2018-06-15T08:36:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T12:36:24","slug":"matisyahu-on-jazz-reggae-and-lsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/10\/matisyahu-on-jazz-reggae-and-lsd\/","title":{"rendered":"Matisyahu on LSD (and Jazz and Reggae)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14682\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/matisyahu2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/matisyahu2.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/matisyahu2-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/matisyahu2-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Musician, rapper and beatboxer Matisyahu arrived at his singular style of music via an unusual route. Growing up a Jewish kid in New York City, he says that the first music he explored outside his parents&#8217; record collection was that of reggae superstar Bob Marley. \u201cI loved the music and everything that went along with it,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd the Old Testament references really piqued my interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also developed a strong interest in hip-hop, nourished by witnessing the Roots backing Common, along with \u201ca guy named Kenny Muhammad who had a beat box duo.\u201d Matisyahu also credits his first experience with LSD \u2013 at age 16 while attending a Phish concert \u2013 as another \u201cmajor influential musical experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All of those influences, filtered through Matishayu&#8217;s distinctive sensibility \u2013 combine to create his music, a mix of those styles and more. In fact, one of the primary values of jazz \u2013 improvisation \u2013 is key to Matisyahu&#8217;s music, especially live onstage. \u201cI feel a huge kinship with jazz,\u201d he says. \u201cEvery night is a new opportunity to create something new. That&#8217;s what creativity is; it&#8217;s all about entering into that unknown space and taking those risks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That musical risk-taking is something that Matisyahu requires from his musicians. \u201cThey&#8217;re just in love with their music, and that&#8217;s it,\u201d he says. \u201cI completely respect that attitude; it&#8217;s the approach that I take, too.\u201d He views making music as the relationship between risk and reward: \u201cthe more it starts to fall apart, the harder the impact is when it comes back together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musician, rapper and beatboxer Matisyahu arrived at his singular style of music via an unusual route. Growing up a Jewish kid in New York City, he says that the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,41,51],"tags":[3149],"class_list":["post-14681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hip-hop","category-interview","category-pop","tag-matisyahu","cat-36-id","cat-41-id","cat-51-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14681"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14749,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14681\/revisions\/14749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}