Baked - Farnham - VINYL LP

Baked - Debt [VINYL LP] date 08/19/2014

Released to celebrate the 70th anniversary of these sessions and the 75th anniversary of Prestige Records, InchMiles '54Inch brings together 20 tracks recorded by the trumpet legend in 1954. Including cuts from albums released that year, it features Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus, Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk and more. Included are new liner notes by GRAMMY Award-winning music historian Ashley Kahn and session notes by Dan Morgenstern, with mastering by Paul Blakemore. 4 LP set on 180g black vinyl.

As the intro notes, InchQuarantaInch is Italian for Inchforty.Inch According to Brown, Quaranta is the spiritual sequel to XXX, his breakout album released on Fool's Gold in 2011, that infamously cataloged a life lived on the edge at thirty. The whirlwind of parties, tours, collaborations and achievements that followed that landmark seemed to fly by fast-ten years later, when COVID-19 brought the world to a halt, Brown found himself in downtown Detroit, living alone for the first time ever. After years of escapist escapades, he was forced to adjust to the stillness and silence, and the bars on Quaranta are diaristic in a distinctly Danny Brown way. First-person scenes from Brown's early childhood and family arrive vividly on InchYBPInch; he tears into rising rents for two-bedrooms and new gourmet shops that now litter downtown Detroit on InchJenn's Terrific VacationInch; and regret-filled reflections on a near fifteen-year rap career add depth throughout the project. There's no shortage of Brown's typical blitzing verses over angular, mesmerizing production from some of his oldest collaborators including Quelle Chris, Paul White & SKYWLKR, but the Alchemist produced InchTantorInch is just the kind of cold-steel contradistinction which he's been celebrated throughout his career.1. Quaranta2. Tantor3. Ain't My Concern4. Dark Sword Angel5. Y.B.P. feat. Bruiser Wolf6. Jenn's Terrific Vacation feat. Kassa Overall7. Down Wit It8. Celibate feat. MIKE9. Shakedown10. Hanami