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.

Tracklist 01. Ear Drums For Beer Runs At AA 02. Start Your Road Trip Now 03. My Father Is Time, My Mother Is Nature 04. Six Black Roses Are Sent To Your House 05. Audio Bibles Are Written On Stone Tablet Tables 06. Finger Paint With Bloodlike War Paint 07. That One Song You Play When You're Faded 08. Mechanical Angel In Purgatory 09. Reflections For Scratching Your Face Off 10. Grey Skys In Pscho-Delic RGB 11. Idiot Savant Autistic Delivery 12. Bootleg Monster Movies 13. Montgomery Burns' Quest For Power 14. Bladder Sweat A.K.A. Colon Soup Rockin' The Mic 15. My Favorite Weapon Selection 16. High School Love Story Drop Out Song 17. Psychos Vs. Suckers Are The Branch Davidians 18. Buyin' Friends On Ebay 19. Slowly Means God Is My Witness 20. A Trainwreck In The Netherworlds 21. The Rules Of The Week 22. Turn Your Lights Off Conspiracy

Release Details Release Date: 03/18/2003   Running Time: 59:06   2XLP/Out Of Print CD/Out Of Print Territory: World

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Listening to Awol One and Daddy Kev's latest is like happening upon a pirate radio station operated by a bedridden psychotic. These twenty-two tracks are one hell of a murky mess, like a sixty minute alternate take of Miles Davis' Bitches Brew with your drunk neighbor's commentary. Languid jazz and fuzzed-funk sounds float in and out and lo and behold... sometimes a whole song appears. this is hip-hop experimentation for real, the way it should be. Daddy Kev presents a full plate of tripped-out, flanged beats and Awol makes perfect sense from time to time. On "Finger Paint With Bloodlike War Paint" he mixes a Public Enemy tribute with the 2001 Anthrax mail scare, even getting political: "Spoon-feed me with neglect / Take the devil out of Washington re-elect" he mumbles. And on "High School Love Story Drop Out Song" he shows his life philosophy: "I don't wanna spend too much time trying to figure out my life with a rhyme." Since when did music have to make sense to be dope. - Urb