{"id":101303,"date":"2022-03-10T11:56:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T10:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=101303"},"modified":"2022-03-14T12:02:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T11:02:57","slug":"remas-alien-sample-lonnie-linston-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/remas-alien-sample-lonnie-linston-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Rema\u2019s \u201cAlien\u201d samples smooth jazz of Lonnie Linston Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><meta charset=\"utf-8\"><strong>The trap inspired track from Nigeria\u2019s most exciting superstar finds its roots in a 20th century American jazz innovator.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/rema\/\">Rema<\/a>\u2019s \u201cAlien\u201d released in June 2020 is a one of the artist\u2019s trappiest up-tempo ballads. Soaked in auto-tune, 808s, ad-libs and mumble rap refrains, the track is decidedly modern. Nonetheless the sweet melody that carries the tune throughout was released over 45 years earlier, in 1974 by American jazz musician Lonnie Linston Smith. The track in question is called \u201cA Garden of Peace\u201d, a slow meditative piano medley that\u2019s sweet and melancholy. It appears on the album <em>Dreams of Tomorrow,<\/em> released on the Doctor Jazz label<em>, <\/em>is an array of smooth jazz, funk, and r&amp;b, the album closer in question uncharacteristically ethereal and instrumental.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sample is taken from 1:06 \u201cA Garden of Peace\u201d when the main motif rises an octave and appears throughout \u201cAlien\u201d. The same sample also famously appears in Jay-Z\u2019s \u201cDead Presidents\u201d from his 1993 masterpiece <em>Reasonable Doubt<\/em>. Whether Divine Ikubor, aka Rema discovered the track from Lonnie or Jay-Z we\u2019ll have to ask. Meek Mill, Rick Ross, Mary J Blidge and others have also picked up on this keys from this track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"A Garden Of Peace\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gVHCYIdbLg4?feature=oembed&#038;autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption><meta charset=\"utf-8\">Lonnie Linston Smith &#8211; A Garden of Peace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Lonnie Linston Smith and his group The Cosmic Echoes, were foundational actors in America\u2019s fusion and acid jazz movements. Known for playing with legends like Miles Davis, Pharaoh Sanders and Marvyn Gaye, Lonnie\u2019s discography has much to offer, sampled or otherwise. Tracks like the 1975 smooth cut \u201cSummer Nights\u201d or the 1980 experimental fusion \u201cBridges Through Time\u201d are also widely sampled and classics in their own right.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAlien\u201d now boasting millions of streams and a part of the catalog of one Nigeria\u2019s most exciting new superstars, happily breathes life back into these old classics and gives a newfound appreciation for Lonnie\u2019s work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Rema - Alien (Official Lyric Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ozI4TkvceWw?feature=oembed&#038;autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Rema &#8211; Alien (Official Lyric Video)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trap inspired track from Nigeria\u2019s most exciting superstar finds its roots in a 20th century American jazz innovator.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":101304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7833],"tags":[20359,23842,23461],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[8995,8414,9024,8402,23576,8435,8508,8852,11481],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101303"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=101303"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=101303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}