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MH-214 AWOL One & Daddy Kev - Slanguage  AWOL One & Daddy Kev are back together to follow up the underground hits, Souldoubt and Number 3 On The Phone with Slanguage: hip-hop's take on free jazz. Daddy Kev has crafted a fifty-minute soundscape using minor-keyed pianos, brushed drums, stand-up bass, and jazz guitars over methodically programmed beats and the virtuoso turntable manipulation of D-Styles. AWOL One's lyrics are genius in their simplicity, yet hide double meanings and depth, and his voice remains one of the most recognizable in the business. Movements interweave without constraint, tracks start, stop, then start again, and the line between full vocal track, instrumental, and interlude is blurred beyond recognition. |
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| A massive leap forward for everyone involved. Release of the Month. 5/5 - Muzik / A welcome 180-degree psychedelic spin into classical, jazz, and opera - Exclaim! / The beat heads will go bonkers - Synthesis |
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| Rather than fall in line behind rap's traditional beats-and-rhymes guidelines, this dynamic duo has stepped into an abstract realm of creation where music and lyrics are simply relative elements, have no real beginning or end and intertwine to create a pastiche of funky, arty hip-hop. Drawing from the deepest wells of jazz, classical and world music, Daddy Kev has constructed complexly layered and deeply dynamic tracks, masked with the manipulative vinyl skills of the ever-out there D-Styles. Awol One's delivery is wholly unique, and his bent is seriously skewed. Though he does seem to be in love these days, this Los Angeles underground emcee expresses mostly dissatisfaction and anger - with himself and the world around him - in a style combining rapping, speaking and singing. Though most straight-ahead rap fans won't feel this release (try Soul Doubt to get jiggy with Awol and Kev), the beat heads will go bonkers. - Synthesis |
2XLP/Out Of Print