Shape of Broad Minds - OPR8R - 12-INCH SINGLE [12 inch Vinyl Single]

Susan Riggs - The Twelve Powers [COMPACT DISCS] Professionally Duplicated CD date 12/06/2015

Official Mr Bongo Hip Hop ReissueMuch about 'Beat Bop' is shrouded in mystery. Who really produced it? Why was Jean-Michel Basquiat relegated from rapper on the track to drawing the cover and labels? What are they actually rapping about for most of the ten-minute length?These questions, however, are all part of the enigma and rich legend surrounding a song that is an undisputed piece of true hip-hop genius. The combination of graffiti artist Rammellzee and rapper K-Rob is a potent one, with each MC adopting a persona - hustler and B-Boy respectively - that they maintain against an unusual swirling backdrop that must be one of the best instrumentals ever committed to wax.The original Tartown Record pressing was limited to 500 copies, a mere test pressing in the eyes of the assembled artists, with scarcity further driven by Basquiat's rising rep in the art world. Those few hundred copies - and a subsequent re- on Profile Records (the same tag where K-Rob played out the rest of his brief career) - punched well above their weight in terms of lasting influence.Consider the early vocal tones of the Beastie Boys (who also sampled the track), or the huge part it played in the sound of Cypress Hill and B-Real. His voice is almost homage to Rammellzee's on 'Beat Bop', while they also lifted the chorus of 'Shoot 'Em Up' and even a sample of 'Cypress Hill' from the track too. It's unsurprising - this is a multi-layered, complex song that reveals a little more of itself each time you play it but remains damn funky.This reissue boasts the vocal and instrumental versions in full, as well as both the full cover and tag artwork from the original Tartown .

To mark it's 40th season, the celebrated San Francisco vocal new music ensemble Volti releases premiere recordings of works of dazzling range and diversity by five American composers- Robin Estrada, Tonia Ko, Ziboukle Martinaitye, Forrest Pierce and Mark Winges. Four of the works are among the twenty Volti has commissioned since 2013. Gary Snyder's poem InchA Prayer to the Great FamilyInch provides the test for the Forrest Pierce's rich and luminous Gratitude Sutra, in which Snyder's words of simple Gratitude become, according to Pierce, Incha discourse on the generous beauties that sustain us on this voyage around the sun.Inch The piece was commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University for Volti, the BBC Singers, and the Latvian Radio Choir. Next up is From Ivory Depths, Tonia Ko's evocative and inventive setting of fragments of text from a short story by Virginia Woolf. Ko, the recipient of many awards including a Gugenheim fellowship, wrote this work under Volti's 2016 Choral Arts Laboratory commission, a competition for American composers under age 35. Robin Estrada melds Western forms with Southeast Asian musical styles in Caeli Enarrant, written as a reflection on the current conflict-filled sociopolitical climate. Mark Winges, Volti's resident composer, contributes All Night, setting the poetry of Gustaf Sobin. The closing piece is The Blue of Distance, by Lithuanian-born composer Ziboukle Martinaityte. The textless, atmospheric work was inspired by Rebecca Solnit's book A Field Guide to Getting Lost, which also provided the title of this recording.