Artist.......: Santogold
Album........: I Believe In Santogold
Label........: Lyzard King Records
Genre........: New Wave
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: CDDA
Rip.date.....: Jan-19-2008
Str.date.....: 000-00-0000
Quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: http://www.lizardkingrecords.co.uk/
track title time
01. creator (vs. switch and freq nasty) 03:32
02. l.e.s. artistes 03:43
Runtime 07:15 min
Size 10,5 MB
Release Notes:
This is better than good; this is goldù SANTOGOLD!
Santogold is a survivor of a half-century worth of living
along musical evolutionÆs most cutting edges. The only
live act that can boast of having out-aged Barbara Bush,
having outlived Mr. Miyagi and out-styled Liberace,
Santogold is here with future flavor. Already receiving
weighty club rotation and airplay in urban Afghanistan and
downtown Beirut, Santogold is the first act of the century
to boast a post-war following on the International Space
Station Mir. Following a live performance broadcast from
three thousand miles off the Cape of Good Hope last June,
inmates at Leavenworth Penitentiary received Santogold
with a celebratory confetti parade. Just another first for
the modern super group that knows no bound. Composed of
absolutely no members, Santogold is also the first musical
outfit capable of claiming the planetÆs broiling
collective consciousness as their front woman. Longtime
collaborator, singer and songwriter Santi White says of
her work with Santogold, ôWe began trying to write pop
songs to sell, which made us depressed, so we started
writing songs for ourselves instead.ö The results of that
self-centered conceit is the songwriting work heard for
the first time on the full length Santogold album, as yet
untitled, to be released in 2007 on the Lizard King label.
As unmastered tracks leaked over the internet this past
November, the request lines of radio stations from Miami
to Hanoi began freezing with a flood of calls from
listeners eager to hear the new Santogold sound over their
frequencies. From his radio show in the United Arab
Emirates capital city of Abu Dhabi, Michael Jackson (the
King of Pop) played what Santogold snippets he had been
able to pirate from a bootleg MySpace page dedicated to
the group. Days later, BBC Radio One reported that the
unreleased Santogold debut was heard blasting from the
iPod shuffle of Libyan ruler Moammar Qaddafi as he entered
an international summit in the Nigerian capital of Abuja.
Recognizing the urgent need to address the uproarious
buzz, Santogold released the following statement through
their label reps at Lizard King: ôThe response to our
unmastered songs has been both premature and phenomenal!
We were happy to hear that the children of Darfur have
found hope in our melodic interpretation of life on the
battlefield of love! WeÆre hoping that each and every 20-
something from downtown San Francisco to central Mumbai
will also learn something from our work! And to the people
dropping no-knock fire on old ladies in Atlanta: shame on
you! Santogold ainÆt with that shit!ö The trajectory of
such early successes leading to newfound political clout
is nothing new for Santogold, whose debut album, though
half a century in the making, is sure to rock glass pipes
from the Lincoln Memorial to Buckingham palace. The flavor
of the gold is guaranteed: Santogold!