Volume One: Unindian Songs

Pedestrian synthesizes different forms- spoken, preached, sung, rhymed and unrhymed. His sense of language is classicist, and the album evokes a warm spirit of collaboration among friends and artistic equals. History looms large in pedestrian's vision, both aesthetically and thematically. His excavation of history rethinks and reckons with hiphop 's last thirty years through samples, direct quotes, and stylistic references. A beautiful variety of accents in cultures across time and space is present, with nods to Dylan Thomas, Lorca, Reverend J.M. Gates and the southern "shouter" tradition of preaching, pre-WWII American folk music, Biblical and gospel imagery.