The Mime (fka Silver Echo Gallery) $5 Show
1840 Glendale blvd , Los Angeles, CA (United States) http://www.soleone.org Ages: All Ages Price: $5 Other Artist: ceschi ramos (accoustic cover set) at 6:00 PM Other Artist: k the i (instrumental set) at 6:00 PM Other Artist: evangelist jb best (the pedestrian) at 6:00 PM
Spring Offensive Vol. 1 is a remix album, and an experiment in user submitted web 3.0 technology. It is also a phrase lifted from pedestrian's gmail status, which marks a new post modern high for the guerrilla rap artist sole. Many people were confused when sole dropped Nuclear Winter Vol. 1 last year, and heard him making anarchy/worker anthems out of pop rap hits. A few people wanted to remix tracks, so a remix contest was opened up. The content rings as true today as it did a year ago when people exclaimed, "its too soon in Obama's presidency to criticize him." Today the American Empire crumbles all around us. The democrats show they are toothless and paralyzed, while bigots and nationalists have taken over the airwaves. HOPE is dead and the age old idiom rings true, "it doesn't matter who you vote for - the government always gets in." The world is burning, thankfully sole brought us all seitan recipes for The Last Great American Barbecue.
People donated money the first time, now sole is rich. This time you can pay for your download by sharing the remix with friends via a slick widget created by our comrades at Circle Into Square. If you enjoy this record, please send it to as many friends as possible, share it on your Facebook, tweet it up, email the link to your co-workers, its the best advertisement we have. This is a code that you can paste around to share the widget:
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Preorder #1 Is the book/CD. Click here to select the first.
Preorder #2 Is a T-shirt & book/CD package. Click here to select the second preorder deal.
The Pyre:
"The Pyre" is a collaboration between tim holland& ravi zupa. It is a seventy-two page illustrated epic poem with an accompanying full length "audiobook/album." Holland & Zupa evoke the confusion, violence, hope, and voice of twelve thousand years spent digging in the mud.
Ravi Zupa is Denver's rare resident poet-painter, sculptor, film artist, activist & intellectual. Through his refusal to commit to one discipline Ravi has built himself a broad tool box to draw from. Though his main focus and skill resides in drawing and painting, he is best known for his complex and stylistically varied music video work for several international bands including Sole, Why?, Themselves and Genghis Tron.
Indie hip-hop pioneer Tim Holland, founder and ex member of anticon, is the embodiment of DIY anti-establishment experimental hip-hop. Over the course of fifteen years he has released 15+ albums under the monickers of sole, sole & the skyrider band, & mansbestfriend. His radical approach to hip-hop songwriting has earned him countless accolades and a worldwide cult following.
The visual inspirations for "The Pyre" come from the persuasive art of propaganda as it appears throughout history and in all geographical areas. It is a series of original drawings by Zupa that give added dimension to the text using familiar styles from the German Renaissance, Japanese Block art, Religious Iconography from Europe, Asia and pre-Columbian South America, & 20th century revolutionary propaganda.
Holland's far reaching story of civilization is told in the language of ancient myth. Drawing on influences as diverse as Keats, Villon, Debord, Byron & The Epic of Gilgamesh. The poem touches on everything from work, time, human interaction, invention, "progress," & ethics. The result is a melting pot of past/present/future motifs, expressing the timeless theme; "the only craft we have perfected is the ungentle one."
The album is a cross between an audiobook, a herzog soundtrack, & an instrumental album. Featuring 20-plus songs recorded using analog 8-track & Computer. Continuing in the vein of the critically acclaimed mansbestfriend series, the would-be instrumental sections merge with the narrative and draw the listener into the beautiful and chaotic world that is "the pyre."
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* Due to shipping cost issues, if you wish to purchase other items with this preorder it is recommended doing so as a separate transaction, otherwise anything ordered will be held until the preorder ships.
