'Anybody here remember Gary Clail? He's the guy who wasn't a rapper, wasn't a singer, he just blabbed on about whatever was bothering him -- usually politics -- and was compelling all the while. Circus could be his American brother, and his coconspirator on Gawd Bless the Faceless Crowds -- Andre Afram Asmar -- might remind you of Clail's old buddy, producer Adrian Sherwood. Asmar takes Sherwood's style of cramming every bit of available space with samples, loops, disembodied voices, and other sorts of muc...   [ read more ]

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"Gawd Bless The Faceless Cowards" counters the left of left-field raps of Circus (head honcho of The Shapeshifters) with Andre Afram Asmar's elaborate, dub inflected world-beats. The results? A collage of the socially relevant tones and playfulness of daisy-age hip-hop with the otherworldly word and sound barrage of space-rap. Asmar's bed of glitchy, expertly processed rhythms pulse and flow as Circus' stream of consciousness lyrics dissect religious dogma, political power struggles, alien abductions, rept...   [ read more ]

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The soi-disant mugician brings more global communication in this worldly-wise follow up to his self-released debut, Zombeats. Though the creaking signage and watery vocal that opens Asmar's sophomore album slots right into place at new label Mush, having much in common with hip-hop corrupters Dose One and Boom Bip, it is subsonic rumbles of dub bass rather than quick-witted lyrics that make up the keystones to this particular body of work. As likely to feature a distant cry of a muezzi...   [ read more ]

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