your greedbagpress release - Circle
A birdcatcher in a no-piece suit and a town crier in the round, 'Circle' is the massively acclaimed debut album from lyricist Doseone (also a member of cLOUDDEAD) and producer Boom Bip. With a body of releases on Mush Records and links to the Anticon collective, Doseone and Boom Bip’s first album together dismantles hip hop and reimagines it as a borderless zone where anything is possible.
Boom Bip: “I wanted to do a project with no boundaries, my fellow musicians and my sampler. So Dose and I discussed doing a record together with live instrumentation and vocals that no one has ever attempted before. Dose and I locked ourselves in a studio and made what we like to call our ‘audio film’ Circle. The rest is yet to come...”
Circle is a psycho-delic tapestry weaving an astonishing pantheon of words and live instrumentation into a mangled hybrid of the history of pop. Doseone speaks a language of sickness: tongue twisting spools of dizzying prose at light speed, mind melting acid-phrases delivered in slow speak... even bird calls.
Playful, contradictory, intuitive and fucked-up, the album sucks you into an insidious dream sequence vortex, where the paranoid and the paranormal collide with the ghosts of Captain Beefheart, The Last Poets and The Residents. Circle is a cohesive trip of word and sound that ends where it begins, in between taking on epic proportions and exhuming the spirit of your long lost inner child.
To date, the duo have only played one (now legendary) gig together; in full costume at a theatre in Ohio, lasting over three hours.
'Circle' was originally released on California’s exceptional Mush Records. This is the first time the album has been released outside of North America.
release:Circle
label: The Leaf Label