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Blunted 03:08 | | 02. Last Days // Ashtrays 02:57 | | 03. Combustion 03:24 | | 04. Top Notch 01:27 | | 05. Stray Thoughts 01:15 | | 06. Quantum Leap #4 03:26 | | 07. Stay Twistin 01:00 | | 08. Watch Me 02:46 | | 09. General Barca 02:24 | | 10. Samson 03:04 | | 11. Blunted (Instrumental) 03:45 | | 12. Last Days // Ashtrays (Instrumental) 02:55 | | 13. Combustion (Instrumental) 03:21 | | 14. Top Notch (Instrumental) 01:27 | | 15. Stray Thoughts (Instrumental) 02:31 | | 16. Quantum Leap #4 (Instrumental) 03:23 | | 17. Stay Twistin (Instrumental) 00:58 | | 18. Watch Me (Instrumental) 02:51 | | 19. General Barca (Instrumental) 02:21 | | 20. Samson (Instrumental) 02:59 | | | | | | R E L E A S E N O T E S >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> | | ------------------------- <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< | | | | | | YUNGMORPHEUS and Fumitake Tamura (aka Bun) present Mazal, their first | | collaborative album for Leaving Records. After meeting online through | | a mutual respect for each others' work (YUNGMORPHEUS' 44 Laws of | | Mentalizm and Fumitake's Mudai releases with Dakim for Leaving), the | | two linked up at a brief 2017 Low End Theory performance and then | | began trading files back and forth over the next two years. Mazal, | | its title taken from a Japanese word meaning "a mixture of things," | | is the result, a cohesive yet varied album documenting stressful | | trials, psychedelic endeavors, and copious inhalations of marijuana. | | Veering from violent fantasies of societal upheaval to blunted | | musings on religion and politics, YUNGMORPHEUS' lyrics uncannily | | inhabit the twisted, pitch black backdrops that Fumitake conjures. | | Hypnotic chants materialize as blunted hooks which weave through the | | abstract beats like sun rays in a thick fog of smoke. | | | | Fumitake's artfully experimental beats provide an exquisitely warped | | foundation for the project. Of his composition process, Fumitake | | writes "I wanted to make music that I haven't made before. For | | example, I would subtract some sounds to make the song unbalanced or | | unstable, and then I would look for new sounds to re-balance the | | track in a different way. Also, because the rapping is dynamic, I | | wanted to keep the beats minimal. I tried to make a new kind of | | feeling by balancing those two elements". | | | | YUNGMORPHEUS writes "There's a lot of different sonic textures in | | there that I usually don't find myself gravitating towards, but it | | felt fire to step outside of a lot of unnecessary comfort zones." | | With a nimble flow and a simmering mistrust, YUNGMORPHEUS adapts to | | each new lawless atmosphere with trenchant lyrics full of cutting | | observations on American life. The album's first half is steeped in a | | persistent, paranoiac dread in tracks like the spaced, densely packed | | "Blunted" and "Lastdays Ashtrays," while the back half tackles more | | earthly matters on funkier cuts like "General Barca" and the jazzy, | | tranquil interlude "Stay Twistin'". | | | | Mazal stays grounded by the struggles relayed by YUNGMORPHEUS. He | | writes, "I feel like most of these joints are snapshots of moments | | from that time period; some joints get recorded during days where you | | feel real flexed up and others when you're burdened by the nature of | | maneuvering a social situation that was inherently built to your | | detriment. My grandmother passed during the period of recording of | | this project and that shaped a lot of content unintentionally but | | naturally. Shit like identity politics ... most especially in | | relation to being a Black person in Amerikkka ... disillusionments, | | triumphs, you know, life 'tings". | | | | | | YUNGMORPHEUS: Shout out & respect to all the black people before me, | | Rawshit, and my grandmother Gail, who passed away during the process | | of this album coming to fruition. Thank you Fumitake for working with | | me to create the body of work. Big ups Leaving Records. | | SALUTE to those who listen! | | | | FUMITAKE: Special thanks to YUNGMORPHEUS, Matthewdavid, Ayako, Hashi, | | and my two dogs. | | | | Vocals were recorded in Brooklyn and Los Angeles between 2016-2018 | | using a Tascam DR-40. | | | | All tracks produced and mixed by Fumitake Tamura. | | All tracks mastered by Zeroh. | | Art direction by Fumitake Tamura. | | | | | | YOU KNOW YOU HAVE TO BUY THIS SHIT IF YOU LIKE IT RIGHT?! | | | | | | . . | | |\/\/| | | |____| | |------------------------------=---=-======-=---=-------------------------| |===/\===============================SOUNDz==========================/\===| '--/__\--------------------------=-2013-2019-=----------------------/__\--'