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Talking Buildings

Black Stax

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A MUST HAVE FOR YOUNG INTELLECTUALS

WE LIVE IN AN ERA WHERE EVERYONE IS ABOUT IMAGE AND TALK. BLACK STAX IS ABOUT ACTION! THE COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP OF SILAS BLACK GOES BACK TO THE DAYS OF THE ROTARY/SEATTLE BOYS AND GIRL CLUB (HOME OF SOME OF THE BEST AAU HOOP IN THE WORLD)! SILAS ONCE PROVIDED GUIDANCE TO TROUBLED TEENS THERE! JACE PIONEERED THE SEATTLE HIP-HOP SCENE BACK IN THE 1980's AND CURRENTLY TUTORS AND CONDUCTS COMMUNITY ADVOCACY! FELICIA LOUD IS AN AMAZING VOCALIST, ACTRESS, AND ROLE MODEL FOR YOUNG BLACK GIRLS. AS A YOUNG PROFESSIONAL AND GRADUATE STUDENT, I CAN ALWAYS COUNT ON THE "TALKING BUILDINGS" ALBUM TO GET ME FIRED UP TO GIVE 110% TOWARDS RESEARCH AND OFFICE WORK! THIS IS A SET OF INTELLECTUALLY GIFTED MUSICIANS FROM THE LAND OF COFFE SHOPS AND THIRFT-STORES (SEATTLE, WA). THIS ALBUM IS FOR THE PEOPLE!

Talking Buildings

The freshest tracks to come out of the 206 in a minute, which is saying a lot. These three individuals have a lot of history between them. Through them you hear the formation of Northwest hip hop: You have The Fourth Party, you have Blind Council, you have Jasiri. You have Silent Lambs. You hear beats by Vitamin D, you hear beats by King Otto. These are some of the supreme rulers of 206 hip hop, the originators of the style. And like the masters they are, they know how to mould raw materials into something new and unseen.
The Black Stax manage to push the boundaries of hip hop into unknown regions. This has been labeled "avant guard", and for lack of a better term, it works. For although the formula of mixed-gender, jazzy hip hop has been played time and time again with similar results, the Stax turn it inside out and upside down, making it unrecognizable, and ultimately much more pure than past experiments. Listen to the projects of some of the jazz greats - Ayler, Sanders, Coltrane - you listen to their albums and you don't hear songs. You don't get anything that structured. You get impressions. You get feelings, you get swept away by pure emotion. With the Black Stax's music, you are left in similar care. This album isn't a collection of songs. This is more a tapestry of sound and emotion, a Burroughsian cut-up experiment on the sonic level, taking what we knew, deconstructing it, distilling it, and ultimately bringing it back into sharper focus. There is none of the linear progression we've been trained to expect to hear. You are required to unfocus your ears and allow the music to rewire your mind. This is hip hop reaching its maturity.
Buy the record and let it wash over you. Put it on loop. Let it be your soundtrack. Listen to what they have to say and how they say it. With each listen let it blow your mind a little more.
Peace

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  • $9.99
  • Genres: Hip Hop/Rap, Music
  • Released: Jan 11, 2011
  • ℗ 2011 BlueShoes Media LLC

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