Emancipator - Maps & Father King DeftonesEP Available on 12" smoke wax Ten years ago, I released "Soon It Will Be Cold Enough" on CD Rs, biking to the post office a few times a week to send out whatever orders trickled in through the Paypal address I had posted on Myspace. Somehow it reached the ears of iconic Japanese hip hop producer Nujabes and was released on his label, Hydeout Productions. In addition to giving the album a professional mixdown, Nujabes suggested a new tracklist that
The session is built up of two original works by Mankunku on the A-side
recorded the drums
An ambient symphony of ethereal decay
From its opening seconds of a cab door slamming
James Blackshaw
primal and expansive and is a gloomy-post-punk masterpiece
Tracing his Nigerian heritage
the trio had an albums worth of material and thus King Canyon was born
though this artistic exercise in time and tattoo ink came to a head
"I saw my first show at CBGB’s in 1979 while still in high school — Richard Hell & the Voidoids
and jazzy & mellow beats
every disc will be unique and look different from the last