Janelle Monae ft. Big Boi {Tightrope}
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I am completely partial when it comes to Janell Monáe’s music. Monáe’s heavily anticipated debut album. “The ArchAndroid” will arrive in stores on May 18th.
“The album will be heralded by the first single, “Tightrope (Feat. Big Boi).” The track will premiered today on Pitchfork.com, with a companion song from “The ArchAndroid,” entitled “Cold War,” debuting the following day right here on janellemonae.com. Both songs will be available for purchase exclusively at the site beginning February 12th, and then at all DSPs on February 23rd. In addition, a music video for “Tightrope” is currently in pre-production.” (via jmonae.com)
The Red Sneaker Diaries →{treehouse talk.} @hernameisEL
#152 ↔ Mister, What Have You To Say?
After hearing the music this band produces it was hard for me to understand why they are still college students when it’s clear they should be somewhere opening on the European leg of a Radiohead tour. They are just too big to be unknown. Period. The music is soulful and fulfilling, thoughtful and organic, planned and improvised. Alex Smith, Bryan Carey, Kyle Dobbs, and Grant Wallace, (the latter two band mates are also members of BABY BABY) have discovered the method to tame the madness, gave it harmony and became Treehouse Talk, the musical movement.
The inaugural 5 track EP Nightmare Balloon was released in November of 2009, written and arranged by Treehouse Talk and produced by Nick Spezia of Ocean Way Studios (Nasheville, TN). As far as I am concerned Nightmare Balloon could have been realeased as a debut album. Tracks like “Bloom” and “O Child” offer an unforeseen depth while “White Flag Out The Window (smile)” rounds out the album with an upbeat joy about letting go of the drama and perhaps even the past.
Happenstance or divine design? I am not sure why I came across Treehouse Talk, all I know is one day I logged in to the glorious book of faces and saw on my homepage that my new friend Grant Wallace posted something to a fan page that goes by the name of Treehouse Talk. Needless to say I clicked. Four clicks and a bottle of Parrot Bay later I was stretched out on the floor of my apartment listening to Treehouse Talk’s myspace page and pondering the meaning of the universe. (Sidenote: The drunken stupor never actually happened… to me…)
“[Treehouse Talk is] Mind blowing, skin bumping goodness.”
-Grant Wallace, Treehouse Talk
Below the jump is your (re)introduction (interview, pics, media, EP download) to the melodies of Treehouse Talk, an unknown gem.
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Nightmare Balloon EP
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Look out for the next entry into the RED SNEAKER DIARIES…
