Shabazz Palaces - They Come in Gold

LESE MAJESTY is out July 29 on Sub Pop.

Chimurenga Renaissance - Pungwe

So it turns out that Tendai Maraire of Shabazz Palaces quietly released a solo album called Pungwe last October, under the name Chimurenga Renaissance. I’m not sure if the name change and the vaguely clandestine nature of this release were meant to purposefully eschew attention from the white indie media that heartily embraced Black Up; it seems possible considering what I’ve heard from the album so far carries a very strong Afrocentric theme. Regardless of intentions and politics, Pungwe is sounding very good and merits a separate post in its entirety.

Track 1 features Palaceer Lazaro = new Shabazz Palaces track.  

Hale-Bopp was the Bedouins (Shabazz Palaces Remix)

Shabazz Palaces warps the Heems assisted Lushlife track off Plateau Vision. 

THEESatisfaction - Enchantruss ft. Palaceer Lazaro

Seattle's THEESatisfaction is set to drop their debut album, awE naturalE, on March 27.  We get our second taste of the forthcoming album with the track "Enchantruss," a collaboration with Palaceer Lazaro of Shabazz Palaces. This isn't the first collaboration between these artists, as the duo appeared on Shabazz Palaces' "Swerve the Reeping of All that is Worthwhile" off of 2011's Black Up.  In case you missed it, you can listen to the first single off awE naturalE below.

Battles - White Electric (Shabazz Palaces Remix)

This track comes off the second installment of Battle's Dross Glop, a four part series of remixes from their latest album Gloss Drop.  In addition to this Shabazz remix, Dross Glop Part 2 will also feature remixes by Kode9 and the Alchemist.  Drops February 20th.

Shabazz Palaces - Kahlil Joseph Film

This is the video introduction to Black Up which if you haven't copped, please do.

Shabazz Palaces - Black Up (OFFICIAL ALBUM SHORT FILM/VIDEO) from Sub Pop Records on Vimeo.

SBTRKT - Wildfire (Drumma Boy remix feat. Shabazz Palaces and Little Dragon)

  SBTRKT - Wildfire (Drumma Boy remix feat. Shabazz Palaces) by download405
On some coo...

Black Up - Shabazz Palaces (Full Album)

In case you're trippin and haven't heard it... here's Black Up by Shabazz Palaces...

you can download the whole shit HERE
Read about the hot new album out of Seattle... Black Up

Mystical

Shabazz Palaces. Seattle, WA. "This video contains footage from the upcoming documentary by Village Beat titled Tough Bond -- a film about kids sniffing glue to survive street life in Kenya's disappearing villages and exploding urban slums."  

Raw...

shabazzpalaces.com/

They got a nice smattering of videos on youtube, and there are 4 or 5 mp3's floating out there if you want to get some listening in before their album Black Up drops on Tuesday. 

Producer of Digable Planets creates SHABAZZ PALACES

Shabazz Palaces – An Echo From The Hosts That Profess Infinitum

Shabazz Palaces – Are you… Can you… Were you? (Felt)

"The avant-garde rap group Shabazz Palaces, headed by the hip hop pioneer Palaceer Lazaro, has taken center stage on the Seattle hype circuit. Glorified for their tendency to keep the media probing for basic details, as well as the unmistakable sense that they’re bound to be game-changers in the industry, means that this enigmatic project will be a definite source of mania this summer. Palaceer Lazaro, known as Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler when he produced alt-hip hop in the 90s as Digable Planets and in the early 2000s under the signature of Cherrywine, is demonstrably adroit at re-formulating his identity to suit his changing musical ambitions.

The group’s debut album Black Up, set to drop on June 28th through Sub Pop, is being credited as 35 minutes of well-executed soundscapes that cover several persuasions of African American music such as hip hop, jazz, soul, rock, and techno. Though musical acknowledgments are omitted, a part of Lazaro’s noncommerical take on the biz, guests on Black Up include the multi-instrumentalist Tendai Maraire and Thaddeus Turner, as well as the female rap duo THEESatisfaction. Lazaro also enlisted Erik Blood to help him produce the album with sounds that even the most refined earbuds will struggle to make out. Blood says he tried to think beyond the realm of existing music, preferring to move towards imaginary spaces and alternate realities for inspiration. “Are You…Can You…Were You? (Felt)” lingers on layered percussions that vacillate between sonic progression and a desire to snap back against Lazaro’s repetitive chorus. “An Echo From The Hosts That Profess Infinitum” unfolds against the haunting disfigured vocals of a spirit while light instrumentals materialize almost by chance to assuage the track’s menacing nature.The structure of these snippets from Shabazz’s debut are incomparable to conventional hip hop. Such irregularities prove the arbitrariness of applying formulas when trying to unpack the blueprint behind their creations."

Photography by Trinh Huynh

THANKS TO CHARLIE MOFFETT and http://www.wearerebels.com/ for the plug