: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : Artist......: Cassowary : Album.......: Cassowary : : Label.......: Fat Possum Records .. .:.. . Genre.......: R&B : Catnr.......: FP1719-2 . ' Source......: CD , ; Rip.date....: 2020-06-22 Str.date....: 2020-04-24 Quality.....: 257kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: http://cassowary.bandcamp.com ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 1. 114 (part 1) 3:23 2. She Funked Me 3:41 3. Starlight 4:13 4. Price Went Up 3:35 5. 114 (part 2) 2:21 6. Roach 3:18 7. Belt Notch! 3:37 8. Superhiro 3:37 9. Moth 3:35 10. Cyclical 3:18 11. 114 (part 3) 3:39 ______ \ / ________ Runtime 38:17 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 74.10 ______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: Cassowary is the sound of contemporary Los Angeles, a sun-baked :, : collision of the local flavors making the world cooler and : :' stranger. This melting pot of influences is evident on ôShe ': ,: Funked Meö, a twisted post-disco haze and the 24-year-old :, : multi-instrumentalistÆs Fat Possum debut. : :' ': ,: The artist, born Miles Shannon, is a formidable tenor sax player :, : and a graduate of the prestigious Los Angeles County High School : :' for the Arts. His recording debut was nothing short of playing ': ,: piano on Earl SweatshirtÆs landmark 2015 depression suite I :, : DonÆt Like Shit, I DonÆt Go Outside. : :' ': ,: Born in Inglewood and raised in the Southern L.A. neighborhood :, : of West Adams, Shannon inherited his late grandfatherÆs : :' collection of jazz records as a child, absorbing the hard bop ': ,: of Clifford Brown and Joe Henderson alongside his motherÆs :, : interest in pan-genre rap crew the Fugees. Interested in playing : :' the trumpet like his namesake, Miles Davis, the ': ,: elementary-school-aged Shannon had confused the instrument with :, : the saxophone. He nonetheless fell in love with the woodwind. : :' ': ,: Shannon was elementary school friend of famed Odd Future :, : rhymeslinger Earl Sweatshirt (the breakthrough 2010 video ôEarlö : :' was partially filmed in ShannonÆs home), and the two spent ': ,: hours bumping austere, lyrical rappers like Mobb Deep, MF Doom, :, : Talib Kweli and Juelz Santana. In his junior and senior year, : :' Shannon attended the L.A. County High School for the Arts, a ': ,: school whose notable alumni includes Josh Groban, Corbin Bleu :, : and Kehinde Wiley. : :' ': ,: Studying under tenor saxophonist Walter Smith III, Shannon was :, : given the opportunity to play alongside greats like Gary : :' Smulyan, Eric Reed, Gerald Clayton and Terrell Stafford. After ': ,: graduating in 2012, he opted not to attend any of the esteemed :, : music colleges that had accepted him, instead moving to New York : :' to hit the club circuit. Embedded in New YorkÆs local jazz ': ,: scene for a few months, he promptly grew frustrated by its :, : competitive one-upmanship and its focus on half-century-old : :' standards. Says Shannon, ôI just lost interest instantly.ö ': ,: :, : Instead, Shannon retreated back to the places he was crashing : :' and played guitar. Shannon had received a powerful jazz ': ,: education at LACHSA, but had also met classmates that had opened :, : his ears to the classic rock canon he had once shunned û bands : :' like the Beatles, the Who and Pink Floyd. He was getting into ': ,: the hypnotic rhythms of composers like Steve Reich and Philip :, : Glass. He returned to California with a new vision, an armload : :' of new compositions and a dream. ': ,: :, : Note: a pressing error has misidentified some tracks on the back : :' cover. We have fixed this for accuracy. ': : ' '.. ..' .. . :........... . . . . ............: . . ______________ ______________ \ / \ / \ / Shout out to all our homies from: \ / \ / \ / \ / iPC BOSS HiT2000 1way UKi i8 RNS \ / \ / RAGEMP3 MANDY DV8 pLAN9 BUTT \ / \ / \ / \/ ____ ____ \/ \ / F A N G \ / \/ 2 0 2 0 \/