A Quiet Farwell, 2016-2018

by Slauson Malone

A Quiet Farwell, 2016-2018 cover art

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

  • Sound Collage
  • Experimental Hip Hop

Tracklist

  1. Two Thousand Twelve, Outro (see page 202)
  2. Ttrabul 2 (see page 42)
  3. I can make you feel freedom, Katri… (see page 72, 42, and 127)
  4. —Fred Hampton's Door, Farewell Sassy— …na (see page 37 and 87)
  5. WON'T BLEED ME: The Sequel (see page 39)
  6. King Sisyphus of the Atlantic (see page 44)
  7. Smile #2
  8. Treachery of Memories (see page 22, 105, and 200)
  9. Smile #1
  10. THE MESSAGE 1 (see page 39)
  11. 180 Degree Pole Shift Hypothesis (see page 87)
  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)
  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)
  14. Uchromia (see page 15)
  15. Off Me! "The Wake" Pt. 1 & 2 (see page 153)
  16. I can make you feel free (see page 127)
  17. Smile #4
  18. "I can't see", Smile #3
  19. THE MESSAGE 2
  20. Two Thousand Eighteen, Bye (see page 199–203)