If this is a hiphop album and thats a big if then its the finest one yet this year. Black up was the new sonic move in 2011 from shabazz palaces. Song an echo from the hosts that profess infinitum. Experimental hip hop, abstract hip hop, conscious hip hop. Shabazz palaces black up official album short film youtube. Ishmael provides the groups vision and vocals, while tendai. Although there are no singles from the album, music videos for are. It was released on june 28th 2011 via sub pop records.
Jun 28, 2011 black up is the new sonic move from shabazz palaces. Shabazz palaces samples, covers and remixes on whosampled. Ishmael butler, mastermind behind the brainbendingly outre seattle rap act shabazz palaces, talks to carrie battan about the cleanest water known to man, that. Jun 22, 2011 black up is a deceptively simple title to an album filled with sentencelong song names and tracks climbing over the fourminute mark. If bedouins herded beats instead of goats and settled in seattle instead of the atlas mountains, this would be their album. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at. This album is pretty much amazing, unlike anything you have ever heard before. Shabazz palaces black up, the groups sub pop debut, was recently hailed as one of the best albums of the decade by outlets like pitchfork, gorilla vs bear, and variety. Licensed to youtube by merlin sub pop records on behalf of sub pop. The album takes a good ten or so listens to fully comprehend sonically, not to mention the amount of time it will take to decipher the lyrical content. It seems my ongoing frustrations over the state of u. Shabazz palaces shirt shabazz palaces the don of diamond dreams black tshirt sub pop preorder. Because our mp3s have no drm, you can play it on any device that supports mp3, even on your ipod. The group is lead by palaceer lazaro aka ishmael butterfly butler yep, the former digable planets mc.
In some respects, its difficult to consider the possibility that this might be the best shabazz palaces album yet. Here you can find shabazz palaces black shared files. Download black up by shabazz palaces in highresolution audio at available in mqa and 44. Cavanaugh open mike eagle x serengeti quarantine recordings zip file download album. After two selfreleased minialbums in 2009, the secretive force known as shabazz palaces finally drops a truly proper full length on sub pop records. Albums include black up, flamagra, and lese majesty. Jun 27, 2011 black up is the debut studio album by american hip hop duo shabazz palaces. Shabazz palaces samples, covers and remixes whosampled.
Black up is a deceptively simple title to an album filled with sentencelong song names and tracks climbing over the fourminute mark. Shabazz palaces black up official album short film. If bedouins herded beats instead of goats and settled in seattle instead of the atlas mountains, this. The second verse is dedicated to his two daughters and the pride which they engender. Black up explicit by shabazz palaces on amazon music. The pair anonymously selfreleased two eps, eagles soar, oil flows and the seven new referred to as shabazz palaces and of light, respectively in 2009 before becoming one of the few hiphop acts to be signed to the sub pop label and releasing its debut fulllength album, black up to wide critical acclaim in 2011. Great things are predicted for shabazz palaces, the first hiphop outfit signed to indiegrunge label sub pop. Reddit gives you the best of the internet in one place. Upon first listen, shabazz palaces can be generally offputting if you dont know what to expect. Right from the opening track free press and curl this album grabs you, a heavily effect riddled beat opens gradually and goes in 3 different directions and grows as the song goes on, the first transition drops around 2 minutes and adds a melodic female vocal looping to the beat along with heavier electronic rendering. Listen free to shabazz palaces black up free press and curl, an echo from the hosts that profess infinitum and more.
Jun 29, 2011 shabazz palaces first lp black up is a revolution in the name of heron a gauntlet thrown to challenge our perceptions of hip hop, of music, of ourselves, our lives, the world, the universe. Find shabazz palaces discography, albums and singles on allmusic. But if shabazz palaces first phase was about building a mystique, their sub pop debut is the product of opening up. Full album stream of shabazz palaces 062811 release, black up buy black up itunes black up bonustrackversionid4387210. The album was produced by knife knights at gunbeat serenade studio in outplace palacelands. Black up is the debut album of experimental hip hop duo shabazz palaces.
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Jun 30, 2018 black up is the new sonic move from shabazz palaces. Shabazz palaces first lp black up is a revolution in the name of heron a gauntlet thrown to challenge our perceptions of hip hop, of music, of ourselves, our lives, the world, the universe. Black up is at first mindbending and perhaps confusing in its production and aesthetic, making it easy to lump in with fringe rap artists clouddead. Black light uses electromagnetic radiation to eradicate microorganisms, but shab. The album also comes with a digital download link including flac format. So its worth noting that jensen is the former general manager of sub pop, crucible of grunge, and that the debut album by shabazz palaces, black. We use cookies for various purposes including analytics. Shabazz palaces are ishmael butler, formerly of digable planets and cherrywine, and percussionist tendai maraire. The pair anonymously selfreleased two eps, eagles soar, oil flows and the seven new referred to as shabazz palaces and of light, respectively in 2009 before becoming one of the few hiphop acts to be signed to the sub pop label and releasing its debut fulllength. Shabazz palaces is masterminded by the mediashy palaceer lazaro, more commonly known as ishmael butterfly butler of 90. Includes unlimited streaming of black up via the free bandcamp app, plus highquality download in mp3, flac and more.
Black up lets some sunlight in, breathes fresh air, and finds butler returning. Black up is the debut studio album by american hip hop duo shabazz palaces. It was released on june 28, 2011 in the united states on sub pop. But to do so ignores the visceral qualities of the album, both in butlers lyrics and in the production. Jun 27, 2011 but if shabazz palaces first phase was about building a mystique, their sub pop debut is the product of opening up. Black up by shabazz palaces album, experimental hip hop. Forward thinkers but nostalgic for a sparer time when ancient astronomers only recognized five planets. Of course, this is a shabazz palaces song so the beat sounds like a riff on panda bear distilled through a bent futuristic boombap prism. Shabazz palaces an echo from the hosts that profess. Compared to former albums by digable planets, cherrywine, camp lo butler guested on some of their tracks, or even on the prior shabazz palaces eps which were pretty dark to begin with, black up is a much harderedged album. Black up is the debut studio album by shabazz palaces, the duo consisting of palaceer lazaro formerly butterfly of digable planets and multiinstrumentalist tendai baba maraire. With its abstract morphing compositions, alien bubbling sounds, and abrupt time signature changes, shabazz palaces aka rapper palaceer lazaro aka ishmael butler has made the type of hiphop album which sounds like its been transmitted from some extraterrestrial planet. Black up is the new sonic move from shabazz palaces.