Diamond Black-Hearted Boy - How The West Was Won, Wanted: Dead or Alive

Chino Amobi has released a new project through his Diamond Black Hearted Boy moniker. While working with different source material than his 2013 Father, Protect Me, Amobi cultivates a similar style in a frenetic tour-de-force of collage.  Non-diegetic material is interlarded with lyrics that at points echo Bob Dylan (as on Wanted: Dead or Alive) in what is perhaps the cultivation of the Wild West conceit. At other points the melodramatic erupts into violence unexpectedly: an ol' time jazz swing, pleasant at the beginning, is warped into a plaintive screech; the sounds of war erupt from a western ballad. The album is certainly satirical, at points; however, there also is a sincere effort to express oneself in a historical context (time's passing as expressed through the crackle of vinyl) that is multifarious, both outside and inside one's culture, and often violent.  Here is what seems to be an accompanying poem that is the only description of the project:

a lone wolf
bane of the west
mean as hell
someone to ride the river with
these tales, told by the man himself.
with a lick and a promise,
he penned them in the bone orchard
then spun these tales onto magnetic tape.
that right there is the Simon pure.
callous like sunned hide,
he seen his fair share of steely eyed crooks and the shoot
ace high stories contained in this collection of tales
visceral textures
shoddy production
this nighthawk lays some flannel-mouth poetry over it all.
the big guns will want him in the hoosegow soon enough after hearing this.
he'll give you the west
but it could be anywhere I guess 

I've included a tracklist after jump.  Favorites include track three on side A, 'Weezies Kitchen' (7.27), and and track five on side A, 'Frank Ocean Approximately' (11.45).


1. Go Slowly to Your Successful Man
2. How The West was Won VI+VII+VIII
3. Weezies Kitchen
4. Wanted: Dead or Alive
5. Frank Ocean Approximately

Side B
1. How The West Was Won I+II+III
2. Carytown Blues Again
3. How The West Was Won IV+V+IX
4. How The West Was Won XV+XVI+XVII