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The World of Nedzu

 

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Something I started working on earlier this year. Not on the animation, even though the one posted up top is my own poor attempt at it, but on a very special soundtrack. Special because it's for an illustrated novel. Yes, an ostentatious endeavor because I not only get to do pretty much whatever the hell I want, I also get to work with one of my favorite story tellers slash purveyor of fantasy, Rui Tenreiro

I'm not going to get into detail about what the story is and what I'm actually doing with the score. It's a strange love story set in the even stranger world of Nedzu. But you can hear some of what I've been working on.

Please take me to the bandcamp page so I can listen

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The Fake Fences of Abazon Remix (Phoenix Part 3)

 

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Here's the final installment of my Phoenix Trilogy (Other two below). And so, at least for a while, from this horse's mouth you won't hear anything else about them. Unless Pluviôse turns out to be what most expect! We take it from there.
I just finished reading Chinua Achebe's Anthills Of The Savannah… by the way, a truly great read (no surprises there), so I decided to call my little Fences remix endeavor The fake fences of Abazon. Not much else to say. Enjoy.

 

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Wolfgang Amadeus Remix (Phoenix Part 2)

 

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A few weeks ago I visited the "official" Phoenix Blog/Journal looking for some answers. But what I found was an abandoned virtual space, with plenty dated content from their enthusiastic Blogging days. Scavenging I started finding remixes here and there. Some of them so nice I decided to compile a Wolfgang Amadeus Remix album with some of my favorites. Hell, I even decided to make my own and added it to this compilation. See if you can spot it.
Genres range from clichéd Electro to Jamaican Roots Reggae, and it features contributions from Animal Collective, Devendra Banhart, Ivan Beck, The Soft Pack and many more. Enjoy it... this one is really free!

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Things Get Better (Phoenix Part 1)

 

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I've realized I hardly ever post stuff I actually work on. This hardly ever being more like never! I mostly post other people's music and it turns out I make my own music. A shocking surprise, so this year I'll put some real effort behind trying to post stuff I've worked on, or am currently working on.
I start with a little Phoenix meets 340ml mash-up. In fact I'm thinking of doing a Phoenix trilogy post. So this would be Part One. It's been a while since they've released anything and they were in studio last year working on the follow-up to that glorious Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix… but still we wait.
OK, you bunch of talented French bastards, rise from the ashes!

 

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La TĂȘte Savante

 

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A kind of official Video for the first track on Tumi and the Volume's Pick A Dream album. Myself and Khalid, from Tuba Films, decided to turn the wonderful Illustration work Hippolyte crafted for the album cover and booklet into an animation and bring it to life. Easier said than done! But as they say, the proof is in the pudding. Well, hoping the lyrics below help savor this pudding.

He woke up restless and distressed feeling wretched
The perspiration filled his vest full of sweat
Missed a step, quickly checks, “What the F?!?”, he is the headless
Light headed? no, actually headless
Checks under the mattress and on the headrest
Good heavens this mess here, Needs a detective
He lived on a hill with his house on the edge of it
Far from the world to pretend his a president
But when heads roll, his a peasant again
He’s not special, just a resident
With no head though, so the searches commence
To his friend’s door, but he seems worst than him

They vow to assist each other in this mission brother
Fellowship, to find the tower where they brain power is
Main culture lives, heritage,
The way name our kids,
Bury our kin, pray away our sins,
Until the day it ends… on they went
Through the desert, through venomous temperatures
Searching for references, relics and evidence, something incredible
And there in the distance, they find their heads again,
They rejoice, celebrate the gathering,
Spend their whole lives, happy in this marriage.


I’ve seen stars and rode them. Up these narrow podiums. The challenge of another journey could break me in half if I wasn’t as open.
I rewrite the modus. To guide me up the motions. Follow in a shadow shower of a power stronger and larger than all this.

 

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Maputo via Los Angeles

 

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Or maybe the other way round. Well, whatever it is it made one Mozambican lady very upset. Hahaha... Irate accusations were flying around. Last year in Marseille, we (340ml) played with these Californians with "Tel Avivian" roots. They're called Fool's Gold, and some of them are actual African Music students. Sounds like Marrabenta was included in this years curriculum. Pretty sweet song from their new album called Leave No Trace.

 

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Hurry Up, We're Dreaming

 

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And so a few posts ago I wondered what Mr. Gonzalez was up. Nope, none of those Gonzalez, the French Gonzalez... Anthony Gonzalez. Mr. M83... And from now on Mr. Synth God, Emperor of all heavenly Drum rolls. He's actually been pretty busy and he's about to release a seriously wonderful album called Hurry Up, We're Dreaming. Correction! A double album with 23 new songs. Midnight City is a bomb of a single and it's been out for awhile. So where have you been?

 

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Legendary Weapons

 

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Due for release towards the end of July, Legendary Weapons is the Wu's latest collection of tracks. It stars all the usual suspects plus a gang of features. In fact, great features, specially the verses by AZ and Termanology.
It's the RZA all over the production, with all the Wu gimmicks we've learn to love since the 36 Chambers. Well, truth be told, it's not Enter The Wu-Tang, but the world has long resigned to the fact that it's pretty impossible to go beyond those 36 Chambers.
I still think it's pretty awesome and it has many timeless and classic moments. But what do I know, I'm not a purist, in fact I'm a bit of an impostor. I do wish it featured a bit more of Raekwon, but that's why solo careers exist outside the clan. On the upstroke, the RZA and Ghostface are, as they say, all over this bitch.

 

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The Universal Sigh

 

Here's a copy for look/see and download of the Newspaper originally released with Radiohead's King Of Limbs. This is why the album was gloriously tagged as the world's first Newspaper album. And like all things Print coming out of the Radiohead factory it's Mr. Stanley Donwood all over it. I'm guessing in the 'pirate world' of today most of us got the songs but didn't even see the artwork. This Newspaper was, in many ways, conceived as a hopeful 'last breath' of Print media.

 

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And why the hell not? Also from the King Of Limbs kitchen but previously unreleased, here's Staircase. Recorded live for a From The Basement session.

 

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The POWA Mixtape

 

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This is the latest Tumi and the volume offering and, trying hard not to be biased, I gotta say, it's something else. It plays out like a dysfunctional musical, revolving around an episode as told by a girl named Akona. Her testimonial is nerve recking and that's what instigated Tumi to put together a bunch of folks to help him build this project. Easier said than done, but here it is.
It's important to add that this whole endeavor was made to support the POWA initiative.
I'm not even going to put a listening sample here and I'm not going to spend time describing it. Get it!
You can download it with all the tracks and testimonial mixed together into a 44 minute marathon or you can download the actual album featuring 21 individual tracks.

Download POWA Mixtape Uncut

Download POWA Mixtape Split into 21 tracks

There's also a Video that was made for the Mixtape. You can watch it on youTube

Let me know if any of the links stop working.

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