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18 tracks | 71 minutes
Released May 2005
on Furor Poeticus (Totem Maples)
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- sample "DOWNLOAD" 01:16 Premoniton/Hoichi-the-earful BUY MP3 01:16 Premoniton/Hoichi-the-earful "GIFT MP3" 01:16 Premoniton/Hoichi-the-earful
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 06:42 To Look Into Your Eyes BUY MP3 06:42 To Look Into Your Eyes "GIFT MP3" 06:42 To Look Into Your Eyes
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:43 Diary of a Night, the Moon is My Woman BUY MP3 02:43 Diary of a Night, the Moon is My Woman "GIFT MP3" 02:43 Diary of a Night, the Moon is My Woman
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 04:43 City Jazz and Fire (Fire) BUY MP3 04:43 City Jazz and Fire (Fire) "GIFT MP3" 04:43 City Jazz and Fire (Fire)
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 06:45 Nus Episodes BUY MP3 06:45 Nus Episodes "GIFT MP3" 06:45 Nus Episodes
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:12 Tabloid BUY MP3 03:12 Tabloid "GIFT MP3" 03:12 Tabloid
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 04:55 The Experimental Flavor BUY MP3 04:55 The Experimental Flavor "GIFT MP3" 04:55 The Experimental Flavor
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 07:36 The Parting Glass/Last Call BUY MP3 07:36 The Parting Glass/Last Call "GIFT MP3" 07:36 The Parting Glass/Last Call
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 06:18 Pygmalion's Ocean (Yin) and Modern Prometheus (Yang) BUY MP3 06:18 Pygmalion's Ocean (Yin) and Modern Prometheus (Yang) "GIFT MP3" 06:18 Pygmalion's Ocean (Yin) and Modern Prometheus (Yang)
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:39 Crip Tonite BUY MP3 03:39 Crip Tonite "GIFT MP3" 03:39 Crip Tonite
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 06:06 Rain [Notes from Rain/Storm/and After] BUY MP3 06:06 Rain [Notes from Rain/Storm/and After] "GIFT MP3" 06:06 Rain [Notes from Rain/Storm/and After]
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:44 April BUY MP3 02:44 April "GIFT MP3" 02:44 April
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 00:58 Capital/Ciudad BUY MP3 00:58 Capital/Ciudad "GIFT MP3" 00:58 Capital/Ciudad
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 01:08 L.A. Shi$t/The Road to De-Mask Us BUY MP3 01:08 L.A. Shi$t/The Road to De-Mask Us "GIFT MP3" 01:08 L.A. Shi$t/The Road to De-Mask Us
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 04:48 City Jazz and Fire (Jazz) BUY MP3 04:48 City Jazz and Fire (Jazz) "GIFT MP3" 04:48 City Jazz and Fire (Jazz)
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:19 Say it Loud BUY MP3 02:19 Say it Loud "GIFT MP3" 02:19 Say it Loud
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 04:34 Los/A City Rose and Blue/Los FREE 04:34 Los/A City Rose and Blue/Los "GIFT MP3" 04:34 Los/A City Rose and Blue/Los
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 00:56 Yep. (eramthgin lufituaeb eht) BUY MP3 00:56 Yep. (eramthgin lufituaeb eht) "GIFT MP3" 00:56 Yep. (eramthgin lufituaeb eht)
Totem Maples are doing some amazing things with spoken word and music. Not since The Doors' classic American Prayer album has there been such detailed artistry within the spoken word genre regarding poetry AND MUSIC.
Bio / Background
So why a revised TRIP TO THE SUN (Nus eht ot pirt)????
Just listen and compare!
Totem Maples have released a second edition of their soon to be out of print classic. Same songs, new instruments, new solos, new members that were absent from the first edition. Plus 8 additional new tracks! Everything on TRIP TO THE SUN is totally rerecorded.
Along with art work by Angela Zhu and studio wizardry by Ben Egghorn of Pushstart Wagon, TM have created an album for the spoken word genre what THE CHRONIC was for rap and what BITCHES BREW was for Fusion Jazz.
Trip to the Sun is the album to buy!
Just listen and compare!
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HIP-HOP
DEAR EDITOR:
I loved Jeff Chang's article on Saul Williams ["Om Nia Merican", May 11-17]. I am glad that trendy Los Angeles is finally recognizing the spoken-word scene.
↓ more ↓For so long, poetry has been ignored because it has been viewed as too boring or over-the-head-something only for colleges or cafes. But thanks to bands like Totem Maples (of which I am a member) and Saul Williams, the art is once again being pushed into the light.
What intrigued me most in the article was the author's hanging question: "Is it hip-hop"? I've always responded to that question with this answer: "No, We're not hip-hip...we're PRE-hop." Hip-hop [the rap element of hip-hip] began as poetry. Langston Hughes recited poetry to jazz long before Kerouac, and long before Blondie did "Rapture", and long before "Rapper's Delight." The hip-hop world needs to re-examine its roots. There is so much more you can say through poetry that you can't say when you're too busy freestyling out ghetto nursery rhymes.
-Larry Handy
Monrovia
(Taken from a published letter in LA Weekly, May 2001.)
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