Shabazz Palaces
The Don Of Diamond Dreams

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Each release feels like an evolution, letting the music speak for itself, while slowly revealing more about its creator.Das aus Sänger und Produzent Ishmael Butler (Ex-Digable Planets) und Multiinstrumentalist Tendai „Baba“ Maraire bestehende Duo mit einem geschmeidigen, tollen Album-Griff nach den Sternen in Gestalt eines in aussergewöhnliche musikalische Visionen umgesetzten Album-Diamant-Traumes eines aus den Angeln enthobenen Hiphop, der mit verschiedenen Spielarten von Electronic und Einflüssen von Jazz spielt und auf dem fünften Album zu einer weirden, eigenwilligen Version eines so noch nicht gehörten Outer Space-Funk mutiert. Abseitige cineastische Atmosphäre durchzieht die von imaginären Rauchschwaden durchzogenen Tracks, die mit psychedelischen Spielereien auch bei den Gesangseffekten (Robovocals bis zu autotune-Experimenten) aufwarten und von retrofuturistsch klingenden Synthesizersounds, dubbigen Halleffekten und spröden Beatlandschaften durchzogen sind.

Shabazz Palaces’ Black Up, the group’s Sub Pop debut, was recently hailed as one of the best albums of the decade by outlets like Pitchfork, Gorilla Vs Bear, and Variety. Pitchfork summed it up thusly: “Black Up is drowned in murky instrumentals and bombastic, introspective rhymes. The sounds flirt with jazz but also root themselves in a firm understanding of silence, or the sparse magic of simplicity. The songs teem with unexpected climaxes…From great mystery exploded an album of impossible vision.”
That “impossible vision” has continued to confound and engage Shabazz Palaces fans over the course of four acclaimed albums and two EPs. Each release feels like an evolution, letting the music speak for itself, while slowly revealing more about its creator.

With The Don of Diamond Dreams, the group’s fifth album, that spirit remains, this time embracing modernism in hip-hop and rap. Featuring 10 tracks in 43 minutes, the album features the highlights “Fast Learner (ft. Purple Tape Nate),” “Chocolate Souffle,” “Bad Bitch Walking (ft. Stas THEE Boss), and “Thanking The Girls.” It also features contributions from singer/keyboardist Darrius Willrich, Seattle’s OCnotes (who collaborated with Shabazz leader Ishmael Butler on the KnifeKnights project), Los Angeles musician Carlos Overall, and bassist Evan Flory-Barnes.
The Don of Diamond Dreams was recorded throughout 2019 and produced by Shabazz Palaces at Protect and Exalt: A Black Space in Seattle, mixed and engineered by Erik Blood at Studio 4 Labs in Venice, California, and mastered by Scott Sedillo at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Los Angeles


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Hip Hop // SUB POP // 17. April 2020