POWER DOUGLAS
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"Power Douglas is a mania-addled force of nature spewing up ghost poetry over an endless and freewheeling drum solo. They're punk rock bellowed against a wall of Rhodes organ, or Antipop Consortium on acid, slap-bloxing with Miles Davis's ghoul..." -- URB
"Think Kool Keith meets Public Enemy meets TV on the Radio, and then smash the f*ck out of what you think that might sound like." -- XLR8R
Channeled directly into their debut album Pentecostal Fangbread, Power Douglas is an axis where Sonic Youth, Public Enemy, Can, Joy Division, The Pixies, and Eugene McDaniels rotate as one octave. The band consists of four members: Furor Thin is the brooding eccentric lead vocalist, and Tim Harp and Jesse Crawford are the lead composers/multi-instrumentalists. All three met while contributing to the post modern hybrid punk scene in Brooklyn, New York.
Meshing a sound that could be described as "exotic hard bop," the intersecting personal and artistic friendships with members of TV on the Radio and Digable Planets gave them association and tutelage from a rich tradition of musical renegades. King Britt (producer, DJ extraordinaire and original Digable Planets DJ) decided that it wasn't enough for industry peers to be in a frenzy over Power Douglas: the masses needed to be exposed to them as well. Now signed to his FiveSixMedia label, the personal lives of the members of Power Douglas are mashed up, shrouded, and sacrificed on behalf of their full-length opus, Pentecostal Fangbread.
The Pentecostal Fangbread LP is a paranormal judicial conduit of man's condition. Both featuring Tunde Adebimpe of TV on the Radio, "RVRSR" is an amalgam of chanting, tribal drumming and ambient chiming, while "Guillotine Mogul Wound" is a psychedelic punk poetry masterpiece over hip hop breaks. Co-written with Aku of Dragons of Zynth and Tunde Adebimpe of TVOTR, "Pangea" combines heavy, rock distorted bass guitar lines, vocals with the urgency of a fire alarm and a whirling dervish of jet engine sonics. Please disregard any familiar notions one may attach to a new band and just dive into the Power Douglas sound.
FIVESIXMEDIA is the leader of the new revolution. Taking music as we know it and making it even more powerful and different. Each release will change your sense of comfort and will make you think and wonder, where we have been all these years. Prepare to never look back......
Five Senses plus some media. The sound alone is openingme up right now. You and the people you are collaborating with are taking it down Sunshine. Keep breathing light energy and blowing upon ya work. Love, Jessica (I think I might have met you years ago but I'm not sure, peace)
2 things sir = 1. i copped the deepak chopra book you recommended. 2. i would open with "angel" almost everytime i played at my ex's sushi restaurant in orlando:) LUV THE TRAC!
