Kendrick Lamar - Damn. - VINYL LP

Vinyl LP pressing. BELOVED is the highly anticipated second full-length studio album from seven-time GRAMMY®-nominee and multiplatinum-selling R&B singer-songwriter, GIVEON. With his smash single InchTWENTIES,Inch and InchRATHER BE,Inch the singer continues to show his growth, both as an introspective songwriter and an empathetic human being. From his captivating baritone voice to his pensive lyrics and colorful soundscape, GIVEON continues to defy not only musical standards, but expectations of how he should be as both an artist and a man.

Featuring what may be his only recordings on the Prophet keyboard, these once lost performances expand the omniverse of Ra across a stellar set of lengthy cuts! All recorded in a single day and finally making their terrestrial debut, pressed on red vinyl and packaged with a Prophet keyboard brochure plus notes from Ranthropologist Brother Cleve! What happens when a Prophet meets a Prophet? The answer lies within these grooves. Amongst the hundreds of recordings issued by Sun Ra and his Arkestra, under their various guises, the majority were recorded in concert or in makeshift studios such as their early 1960s set-up at NYC's Choreographer's Workshop. Beyond those, roughly 22 albums were recorded at Variety Recording Studio in New York's Times Square. However, on August 25, 1986, Sun Ra and cohorts entered Mission Control, a state-of-the-art 24-track studio north of Boston, which was teeming with electronic keyboards and otherworldly sound generators. Nestled within that arsenal was a brand-new digital ultra keyboard - the Prophet VS (InchVector SynthesizerInch). Of all the keyboards Ra played throughout his half-century career, the Prophet was one of the most sophisticated. There's no evidence that he had played either of the instrument's earlier incarnations, the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 and Prophet-10. Created using microprocessors, a then-new technological advance, under the auspices of engineer Dave Smith in 1978, the Prophet-5 revolutionized electronic music as the first polyphonic and, most importantly, programmable synthesizer. Ra was intrigued by the Prophet (surely by the instrument as well as by the name). Recorded during a single day, it's about time that these once lost performances have now been found. Album Tracks 1. The Prophet 2. Infinity Excursion 3. The Prophet at Play 4. The Prophet Returns