Tag: Tour

from budapest to here!

The saying “from here to budapest”, really struck me while standing in a venue on a boat on the mighty danube, it’s a common saying in rap music..and i’m really not sure where it came from. My wild, uneducated guess is that b-pest always seemed like such a far off exotic place that one would never get to see…surely not by merely putting together words in the form of a poem over beats! A city founded by the celts and conquered by the roman, ottoman, and mongol empires. It came under austrian and soviet rule and survived many pivotal battles in world history..

it was also my first stop on the 5 date hip hop collision tour with the jarring effects crew, featuring me, Oddateee and Ben Sharpa w/DJ Raiko, and odd mix, which always makes for fun and excitement..5 dudes+1 lady/chef/boss..2 french, 2 south african, and 2 americanese in a stinky van traveling through eastern europe…they played czech and poland without me because i was in italy with my family…but together we smashed budapest,vienna,innsbruck, linz, and ljubljana! with plenty of noise, BASS, rap, and nonsense!!! i blew my voice not during the shows but carrying on in the van and hotels where we left a trail of laughter, confusion, and odor…

No matter how far i travel, this music is always a common thread…and it’s always cool to meet like minded people making interesting music, especially when they know how to have fun!
so please check out my new friends…

ODDATEE of the deadverse/dalek crew from new jersey
and
Ben Sharpa from South Africa

ben+raiko are also doing a video blog for an SA website called vuzu
some of it is quite funny and you might even catch a glimpse of your boy!
HERE

i’m writing you from rennes where tonight once again i will perform on the cd release party of my good friends x-makeena, almost two years ago in this very club we created this new song only two days prior to their last release party…confusing huh? keep up! the new album is called Derriere l’oeil which means “behind the eye” and they have a brand new powerful stage show with an insane custom built lighting rig !!! check me out on masse critique…

with glove….

keeping you abreast

That tour was so yesterday! you guys remember that tour i did where everything was awesome and funny? with astronautalis… except Ogden, Utah…that was just awesome.

So i just got back from California!!! the delightful gentleman at Grimm Image records brought me and thesis out to write and record and finally finish the LES SWASHBUCKLING NAPOLEANS album..ten days… 10 songs and a possee cut produced by the mighty edison, click his name and learn about how awesome he is…. how and when this project is coming out is still in the works…but be for damn sure it’s gonna be BIG+HOT+Fantastic..and we gonna rant +roar+tour.

speaking of “in the works”

a little over a year ago i recorded a new album with the very charming corrado nuccini from Giardini di miro, after appearing on his “matters of love and death” album alongside the shadowanimals, corrado and i decided we liked working together, he produced “a very beautiful dangerous joke” on my rip record and when he came to me with his instrumental album and asked me to see what i could come up with, i had just moved to berlin, it was winter, and i was in a dark place….let’s say he pushed me into a more intimate direction with the writing and general attitude on this record, we performed twice together last year in milan and berlin , this album almost fell through the cracks but it’s finally being released on 2nd Rec in germany, digitally , with a limited run of 200 handmade cd’s.

also, in June the prinzenallee “don’t let nerds take over your life” album will be released in Japan through our good friends at Granma!

so there is tons o’ music coming at you i’ll post the specifics as i get them…

also also also in late september/early october i’ll be playing some shows in france (solo) and germany (as prinzenallee w/jayrope) dates will be coming as i confirm them…

for now it’s florida, margaritas, tacos, waves, sun, bicycle, morrell, scooter, kurlasky, ep with andy?, patti smith+young jeezy, mowing my lawn in jean shorts with a 6 of modelo cans’, scott da ros +shibbit ep?, still moving into my new house…on my desk there’s a small porcelain boy holding a purple flower and salt comes out of his eyes! i’ve got raps to write, shows to book, and projects to organize…there’s a bag of sour patch cherry’s making me drool and i want to go play kickball, i’m wearing a sleeveless cutoff t-shirt with a cobra on it and i haven’t seen terminator yet…

it’s amazing that people i don’t even know call me to tell me they just bought cats! i want everyone in the world to go be nice to cat, even if she’s wild and takes your hand off…just say “thanks lil nicey” and move slowly away…

as for street cred, i rode the x2 with 2mex at magic mountain WHAT!