Grey Cities, Prince Pluto, and other diverse deviant rhyme-fiends, rhythm-addicts, & ghost-sorcerers with "laptop" computrons.
Influences
The stories, novels, clerihews, wax cylinder recordings, and used doughnuts of Harvey "Heavy Jamal" al-Jamz, BK's finest librarian and psychotropic baker. (Awoke Ano Domini June 6th, 2166; exited this galaxy December 71st, 2299. R.I.P., brotha.)
Also: Ibn Arabi, Henry James, MF DOOM, Fela Kuti, OutKast, Rakim, NaS, Prefuse73, KRS-One, Lupe Fiasco, Ghostface Killah, Lydia Davis, Harry Mathews, Italo Calvino, Amano Yoshitaka, Renaissance printmakers, future pyschonauts, and progressive world leaders, Salman Rushdie, William Blake, Phil Dick, H. Fielding, and rap pioneers such as Black Einstein of the Emperaz.
Sounds Like
Have you ever visited the graves of the dead during a fool moon wearing nothing but an eclipse hat with some hotdog smell? My gosh, what is wrong with you?
We like to listen to Wu and get fucked up on peanut brittle before talking over the latest Heavy Jamal stories to be re-mastered "digitally" using our fantastic plastic oven-friendly DJ kit we got "online," which is how New Yorkin it type individuals say "in line," which always annoyed Heavy, even though he was (is???) from New York.
Also, sounds like DOOM or Kool Keith but only after a bad incident involving Oscar Wilde's "The Happy Prince," three pints of acid-Kool Aid, and some unfiltered cigarillos stolen from that happy Honduran who sold us this fantastic plastic oven-friendly DJ kit we got "online," you know.
Who pours from the eastern hill, like a stream of darkness?
Yo, it is Heavy Jamal, we who believe in love, progress, the future, the possibility of writing scandalously weird & yet repeat-listen-worthy stories in hip hop;
we who drink the wine of a common soul with all humans & transhumans;
we who scratch, play bass, violin, rockin-ass geetar, & laser piano;
we who fornicate, eat delicious couscous, read theosophical humanist manifestos & history like we drankin water;
we who listen to a fuck-ton of 8-bit, soul, afrobeat, & abstract hardcore in-your-mug rap music, &c.
Who rock-rockin it?
We rock-rockin it.
Now all y'all , put ya digital hands in the aiy-er:
CHECK OUT OUR FIRST VIDEO FOR "ALTAR OF THE DEAD," put together in two hours with gluesticks, syrah, Blip, and a Mac, by Geoff Otis of The Wreck/The New Criticism. More videos coming shortly:
Also here's a video with Devil of Heavy Jamal, from "Stranger in the Strangest Land," a track off the Two Blue Wolves soundtrack, with Sam Tyndall of The Kiss-Off, video courtesy Christopher Tilden, Sparrow Hall, Ryan Aynes, and Hydrogen Media:
Hey! Te invito a ver mis fotos expuestas en la edición 2009 del Festival Codigo Pais del 11 al 15 de Marzo en Tribuna Plaza/ Palermo!
Hey! I’m inviting you to come and see my photos at the 2009 edition of the Codigo Pais Festival, from March 11th till 15th at the Tribuna Plaza in Palermo!
