A Quiet Farwell, 2016-2018

by Slauson Malone

A Quiet Farwell, 2016-2018 cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 18 April 2019
  • Label: Self-Released
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 32:39
  • Community rating: 3.7/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Operating at the fringes of the New York sLUms rap movement, the avant-garde producer delivers a haunting, deeply fragmented audio collage. The project weaves obscure jazz, soul, and vocal samples into brief, surrealist hip-hop sketches that explore themes of racial trauma and the end of the world. It is a highly challenging, hypnagogic masterpiece that defies traditional beat-tape conventions.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, sampling, atmospheric, lo-fi, experimental, rap, diverse, deconstructed, conceptual

Tracklist

  1. Two Thousand Twelve, Outro (see page 202) (0:32)
  2. Ttrabul 2 (see page 42) (2:06)
  3. I can make you feel freedom, Katri… (see page 72, 42, and 127) (2:27)
  4. —Fred Hampton's Door, Farewell Sassy— …na (see page 37 and 87) (1:38)
  5. WON'T BLEED ME: The Sequel (see page 39) (0:56)
  6. King Sisyphus of the Atlantic (see page 44) (2:19)
  7. Smile #2 (1:17)
  8. Treachery of Memories (see page 22, 105, and 200) (0:30)
  9. Smile #1 (3:04)
  10. THE MESSAGE 1 (see page 39) (1:28)
  11. 180 Degree Pole Shift Hypothesis (see page 87) (0:30)
  12. The Flying Africans board mothership Zong! to colonize the new nubian planet called X "The World laughs as it turns another degree, hotter" (see page 44, 127, 102–136, 147) (1:16)
  13. My feet's hurt "I was a fugitive but then I realized there was nowhere I could run to" (see page 110 and 113) (1:21)
  14. Uchromia (see page 15) (0:23)
  15. Off Me! "The Wake" Pt. 1 & 2 (see page 153) (3:58)
  16. I can make you feel free (see page 127) (0:59)
  17. Smile #4 (1:59)
  18. "I can't see", Smile #3 (1:31)
  19. THE MESSAGE 2 (2:27)
  20. Two Thousand Eighteen, Bye (see page 199–203) (1:48)

Credits

  • Slauson Malone - primary artist
  • Bolade Banjo - artwork by
  • Medhane - featuring
  • Pearl De Luna - featuring
  • Taphari - featuring
  • Maxo - featuring
  • Caleb Giles - featuring
  • Pink Siifu - featuring

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