Slauson Malone - Vergangenheitsbewältigung (Crater Speak) [Grand Closing]

WHAT THE COVER LOOKS LIKE:

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WHAT WE SAY:

Taking hip hop on an avant-garde adventure, Slauson Malone blurs genres like ten beers. Urban folk, psychedelic soul, barrio ballads & unhinged hop all tussle for attention in this breath of fresh rap air.

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WHAT YOUR EARS SAY:

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WHAT THE RELEASE NOTES SAY:

My fear, my loneliness, my happiness. My blackness, my queerness, my objectness. I am haunted by likenesses. I’m haunted by my self. _____ like a _____. Smile, Simile. Message, Massage. Vergangenheitsbewältigung.
(Crater Speak) is the title of a catalog I published with Midway Contemporary. It is an unreliable guide of materials that influence my artistic and musical practice, loosely defined into associative chapters, outlining a perimeter. That perimeter being the rim of a ‘crater’. An absence present. Here by unimaginable heat, scale, speed, and violence. Collision to disintegration to (see The Thing 1982).
“The rings of Saturn consist of ice crystals and probably meteorite particles describing circular orbits around the planet’s equator. In all likelihood these are fragments of a former moon that was too close to the planet and was destroyed...” - W. G. Sebald, Rings of Saturn. To become a star is to become certain death. Of stone, of (s)tar, petrified. R U SCARED? Rocks will surely be here when we’re not as leopold’s ghost. Of muck, mud, oil, bones to Power. A New World by refined old old old Death.

Personnel
Flute: Francesca Ferrera
Bass Clarinet: Ben Chapoteau-Katz
Alto Saxophone: Leland Whitty
Tenor Saxophone: Ben Chapoteau-Katz
Trumpet: Brandon Woody
Trombone: Jonah Levine
Tuba: Osita Atikpoh
Cello: Nicky Wetherell
Drums: Alex Sowinski
DFAM: Olu Odubiro

Artwork by Bolade Banjo, Jelani Rice, Seth Kenji, and Abraham El Makawy
Mastered by Alex Epton

special thanks:
Christopher Baliwas
Parker, Ritchie, Groggs, and Nick Herbert
Taja & Ben
Nick Hakim
Taphari
Midway Contemporary Art