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: Artist......: Cassowary
: Album.......: Cassowary :
: Label.......: Fat Possum Records .. .:.. .
Genre.......: R&B :
Catnr.......: FP1719-2 .
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; Rip.date....: 2020-06-22
Str.date....: 2020-04-24
Quality.....: 257kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :..
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1. 114 (part 1) 3:23
2. She Funked Me 3:41
3. Starlight 4:13
4. Price Went Up 3:35
5. 114 (part 2) 2:21
6. Roach 3:18
7. Belt Notch! 3:37
8. Superhiro 3:37
9. Moth 3:35
10. Cyclical 3:18
11. 114 (part 3) 3:39
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,: Cassowary is the sound of contemporary Los Angeles, a sun-baked :,
: collision of the local flavors making the world cooler and :
:' stranger. This melting pot of influences is evident on ôShe ':
,: Funked Meö, a twisted post-disco haze and the 24-year-old :,
: multi-instrumentalistÆs Fat Possum debut. :
:' ':
,: The artist, born Miles Shannon, is a formidable tenor sax player :,
: and a graduate of the prestigious Los Angeles County High School :
:' for the Arts. His recording debut was nothing short of playing ':
,: piano on Earl SweatshirtÆs landmark 2015 depression suite I :,
: DonÆt Like Shit, I DonÆt Go Outside. :
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,: Born in Inglewood and raised in the Southern L.A. neighborhood :,
: of West Adams, Shannon inherited his late grandfatherÆs :
:' collection of jazz records as a child, absorbing the hard bop ':
,: of Clifford Brown and Joe Henderson alongside his motherÆs :,
: interest in pan-genre rap crew the Fugees. Interested in playing :
:' the trumpet like his namesake, Miles Davis, the ':
,: elementary-school-aged Shannon had confused the instrument with :,
: the saxophone. He nonetheless fell in love with the woodwind. :
:' ':
,: Shannon was elementary school friend of famed Odd Future :,
: rhymeslinger Earl Sweatshirt (the breakthrough 2010 video ôEarlö :
:' was partially filmed in ShannonÆs home), and the two spent ':
,: hours bumping austere, lyrical rappers like Mobb Deep, MF Doom, :,
: Talib Kweli and Juelz Santana. In his junior and senior year, :
:' Shannon attended the L.A. County High School for the Arts, a ':
,: school whose notable alumni includes Josh Groban, Corbin Bleu :,
: and Kehinde Wiley. :
:' ':
,: Studying under tenor saxophonist Walter Smith III, Shannon was :,
: given the opportunity to play alongside greats like Gary :
:' Smulyan, Eric Reed, Gerald Clayton and Terrell Stafford. After ':
,: graduating in 2012, he opted not to attend any of the esteemed :,
: music colleges that had accepted him, instead moving to New York :
:' to hit the club circuit. Embedded in New YorkÆs local jazz ':
,: scene for a few months, he promptly grew frustrated by its :,
: competitive one-upmanship and its focus on half-century-old :
:' standards. Says Shannon, ôI just lost interest instantly.ö ':
,: :,
: Instead, Shannon retreated back to the places he was crashing :
:' and played guitar. Shannon had received a powerful jazz ':
,: education at LACHSA, but had also met classmates that had opened :,
: his ears to the classic rock canon he had once shunned û bands :
:' like the Beatles, the Who and Pink Floyd. He was getting into ':
,: the hypnotic rhythms of composers like Steve Reich and Philip :,
: Glass. He returned to California with a new vision, an armload :
:' of new compositions and a dream. ':
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: Note: a pressing error has misidentified some tracks on the back :
:' cover. We have fixed this for accuracy. ':
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