Piff Perkins
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Ahh just checked, you're right. First class, got the email confirmation 15hrs ago.
NEW KA - 1200 B.C. EP PRODUCED BY PRESERVATION (RECSTATIC PRODUCER) *TRACKLIST IN OP*
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Ahh just checked, you're right. First class, got the email confirmation 15hrs ago.
Pinyapplesuckas
He's A Good Man
i need to get on this right here
DrHackenbush
Happy wars/sad love songs
sheeeeiiit i needs this
TrifeGod
Chasing The Dragon
This nikka is the Super Saiyan God version of Masta Killa 
has anyone got it yet?
I knew nothing of Ka until one half of Blue Sky Black Death, Young God, posted about Ka and his music. I checked it out based on that recommendation and was highly impressed with what I heard. In a relatively short amount of time, I was indoctrinated into Ka's world and would be a faithful listener. Grief Pedigree and The Night's Gambit feature a sparse production style that has become synonymous with Ka. Other producers have dabbled in the style but I've always felt that Ka has perfected it.
Ka isn't one for social media. Preferring to keep his private life private, he hardly updates them. Especially the one that I'm on which is Twitter. Facebook sees more steady updates, I'll need to check there more often. Ka's first tweet in almost 3 months simply says, "The appetizer before the meal..." with a link to his website to purchase his latest EP, 1200 B.C. produced entirely by Preservation. Preservation is Yasiin Bey's (FKA Mos Def) tour DJ and produced an excellent remix album of Bey's 2009 release, "The Ecstatic", called "The REcstatic". The tweet before that, which was posted on March 14th, concisely stated "Quietly tinkering...". Indeed he was.
What makes this album unique is that Ka is providing the words and Preservation, the music as simply stated on the back of the humble CD packaging. I do vaguely remember Ka commending Preservation on his "SePtember 1200" instrumental album inspired by Barry White although that memory may be a figment of my imagination. In spite of that, I never thought a collaboration like this would happen. If I wasn't made aware of Preservation's contributions, I'd say that Ka had found a brand new bag. He is at home on this production and Preservation supplied him with soul moving rhythms.
After researching the title, I found out that the decade beginning with 1200 B.C. contained the collapse of the Bronze Age and consequently, the beginning of the Iron Age. Iron is a reoccurring theme in Ka's music ("I'm so honest, yo promise when I'm rhymin'/ I mighta been but my first vitaman was iron...") and his personal ideology. Look no farther than his first solo LP titled "Iron Works" and the songs "Iron Work", of the aforementioned album, and "Iron Age" featuring Roc Marciano on Grief Pedigree. Speaking of Roc, he is on the song, "Fall Of The Iron Age" and he delivers and verse that is simply superb. I enjoy it much more than his offering on "Soap Box". I started to really enjoy Ka's verse but the track ends before he really begins to hit his groove.
The first thing that I noticed about "Still Heir" is that the instrumental is hypnotic. Despite it's commanding presence, Ka's layered and coded lyrics shine through. "Raised in ruins, rage is the influence/ The soul sins, still heir, no winds". It's a very descriptive account of the place that he grew up and the way in which he did. "Years" is a song that details Ka's perseverance to make it to where he has as a musician and as a man. The seeds he planted over 20 years ago have been bearing fruit and the harvest is plentiful. There's even a bit of lighthearted jest about something very serious contained in the lines "Had a rough road/ my goal calm the carsick/ Now juicing/ getting loose in the Farmer's Market".
The star of this EP (if there has to be one) is the track that bookends it, "To Hull & Back". "Hull" refers to the city Kingston upon Hull, which was founded in the 1200th century going back to the EP's namesake. It is a haunting track that reinforces the fact that the world is not as black and white as we might like it to be. On the chorus he states "You named them hustlers, killers, fiends, ex-cons/ I called them Cousins, Aunts, Pops, Moms/ To you, hoodlum, crack head, gun men/ to me, just neighbors, classmates, young friends". Those lyrics hit home in a very particular way that is indicative of Ka's brand of lyricism.
Preservation's production is a beautiful house to which Ka's lyrics make a beautifully complete home. The music borne of Ka and Preservation's partnership is nothing less than the utmost of quality. My complaints are within the context of me wanting more. Of the five tracks on this 12 minute 47 second Extended Play, one song is an introduction and one is a snippet abruptly finishing at 1:47. That leaves three full songs which bring my anticipation for the upcoming LP to a fever pitch. Three songs also contain vocal pieces that run along with Ka's personal journey through music. "The Maestro" (which has one hell of a beat) features a gentlemen noting that although he did not know the specifics of the process, after creating a song and hearing it, he knew that the studio was where he wanted to be for the rest of his life. To quote Ka himself, "If this ain't made for me, nothing is". Simply put, I agree.
Ka isn't one for social media. Preferring to keep his private life private, he hardly updates them. Especially the one that I'm on which is Twitter. Facebook sees more steady updates, I'll need to check there more often. Ka's first tweet in almost 3 months simply says, "The appetizer before the meal..." with a link to his website to purchase his latest EP, 1200 B.C. produced entirely by Preservation. Preservation is Yasiin Bey's (FKA Mos Def) tour DJ and produced an excellent remix album of Bey's 2009 release, "The Ecstatic", called "The REcstatic". The tweet before that, which was posted on March 14th, concisely stated "Quietly tinkering...". Indeed he was.
What makes this album unique is that Ka is providing the words and Preservation, the music as simply stated on the back of the humble CD packaging. I do vaguely remember Ka commending Preservation on his "SePtember 1200" instrumental album inspired by Barry White although that memory may be a figment of my imagination. In spite of that, I never thought a collaboration like this would happen. If I wasn't made aware of Preservation's contributions, I'd say that Ka had found a brand new bag. He is at home on this production and Preservation supplied him with soul moving rhythms.
After researching the title, I found out that the decade beginning with 1200 B.C. contained the collapse of the Bronze Age and consequently, the beginning of the Iron Age. Iron is a reoccurring theme in Ka's music ("I'm so honest, yo promise when I'm rhymin'/ I mighta been but my first vitaman was iron...") and his personal ideology. Look no farther than his first solo LP titled "Iron Works" and the songs "Iron Work", of the aforementioned album, and "Iron Age" featuring Roc Marciano on Grief Pedigree. Speaking of Roc, he is on the song, "Fall Of The Iron Age" and he delivers and verse that is simply superb. I enjoy it much more than his offering on "Soap Box". I started to really enjoy Ka's verse but the track ends before he really begins to hit his groove.
The first thing that I noticed about "Still Heir" is that the instrumental is hypnotic. Despite it's commanding presence, Ka's layered and coded lyrics shine through. "Raised in ruins, rage is the influence/ The soul sins, still heir, no winds". It's a very descriptive account of the place that he grew up and the way in which he did. "Years" is a song that details Ka's perseverance to make it to where he has as a musician and as a man. The seeds he planted over 20 years ago have been bearing fruit and the harvest is plentiful. There's even a bit of lighthearted jest about something very serious contained in the lines "Had a rough road/ my goal calm the carsick/ Now juicing/ getting loose in the Farmer's Market".
The star of this EP (if there has to be one) is the track that bookends it, "To Hull & Back". "Hull" refers to the city Kingston upon Hull, which was founded in the 1200th century going back to the EP's namesake. It is a haunting track that reinforces the fact that the world is not as black and white as we might like it to be. On the chorus he states "You named them hustlers, killers, fiends, ex-cons/ I called them Cousins, Aunts, Pops, Moms/ To you, hoodlum, crack head, gun men/ to me, just neighbors, classmates, young friends". Those lyrics hit home in a very particular way that is indicative of Ka's brand of lyricism.
Preservation's production is a beautiful house to which Ka's lyrics make a beautifully complete home. The music borne of Ka and Preservation's partnership is nothing less than the utmost of quality. My complaints are within the context of me wanting more. Of the five tracks on this 12 minute 47 second Extended Play, one song is an introduction and one is a snippet abruptly finishing at 1:47. That leaves three full songs which bring my anticipation for the upcoming LP to a fever pitch. Three songs also contain vocal pieces that run along with Ka's personal journey through music. "The Maestro" (which has one hell of a beat) features a gentlemen noting that although he did not know the specifics of the process, after creating a song and hearing it, he knew that the studio was where he wanted to be for the rest of his life. To quote Ka himself, "If this ain't made for me, nothing is". Simply put, I agree.
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did u get the physical copy or digital?
Piff Perkins
Veteran
pretty sure there is no digital. my CD should arrive tomorrow or Tuesday
@Piff Perkins I have to correct myself. You were right about the song Iron Age. I like that song (a lot) and actually meant to call out Roc's verse on Soap Box from The Night's Gambit. That's the song where I felt Roc was BSing. I had the right album but the wrong song name in my original post.
Piff Perkins
Veteran
Ah, yea I can kinda agree with that. I love the Malcolm X intro and the funky beat. Ka's verse is so dope, then Roc's verse starts so...off. But he recovers imo after the first few weird bars.
My allure, a hoe's brochure
Rather cocksure
I dig the cops with the cocked 4
Keep the block up in the top drawer
Then rob a store
Sniff a line call it Scott Storch
Big Mel
@bigboss
dusted off Nights Gambit to prep for the cd i will have delivered this week. Ka is damn near religious for me. like, he is the stand alone reason why NYC will forever remain the stat quo for rap to me. and that's not just me being a homer. that's what it is period. this guy man. i may seek him out to build. pause.
Pinyapplesuckas
He's A Good Man
i need this
Big Mel
@bigboss
The "gentlemen" speaking on the maestro and throughout the entire EP is Barry White aka The Maestro.
this is ridiculous..ive just ordered m,y copy..