Palaceer Lazaro: Top Things

Vid frågan om årets bästa svarar Palaceer Lazaro (aka Ishmael Butler) från Shabazz Palaces nedanstående och jag är väl inte den enda som kliar mig på huvudet och tänker ok vad hade jag förväntat mig av en man som tycker om att gå sin egen väg och göra tankeskapande musik oavsett om ingen annan lyssnar.

Jag hade inte förväntat mig att någon arrangör skulle våga ta hit Shabazz Palaces när dom var i Europa och turnerade för någon månad sen, men att "Black Up" är ett av årets bästa album kvarstår ändå. Fuck´em.


saxat från Pitchfork:

"Shabazz Palaces' Ishmael Butler: Top Things 2011

01. Belaynesh

02. Weekend: All American

03. Kola Boof

04. All of Toyin Odutolas work

05. Boom Clap Bachelors: "Lob Stop Sta" [ft. Coco O]

06. November 5th

07. Black bean burger from Zippy's

08. The view from Saul's rooftop

09. The Mavs

10. The alien I saw working in a kebab shop in Berlin. He looked like a slightly melting Arab Gary Shandling. I knew something was funny by watching him move, it was something in the way it poured the tahini. Then a weird incandescent light was pouring out of his ears, sort of like honey. He peeped me noticing, saw the confused horror explode through my expression and moved in a time folding way, like a film jumping. It looked shocked like a young boy that was discovered stealing quarters from his moms purse to play Galaga at the corner store. I backed away into the door and almost broke through it but then it said something that sounded like "xeeulis" or something and I felt comfort like never before. We spoke for about an hour but everything it said I immediately forgot. Except this: that Kanye West was the greatest artist of any kind in the history of man."

Palaceer Lazaro: Om frihet

saxat från en intervju i LA Record:

"I don’t know if I understand freedom. I just kind of know what the word is supposed to mean, and that’s kind of my point. I don’t know if I believe in the word as an absolute. I haven’t figured out what it’s supposed to mean, but I do know what it means to the world and I used that to shape the way I use it in the music. But freedom? It’s all relative. I think it means having the confidence to pursue your instincts at any quote unquote cost. There’s so much power in belief. And when you do believe, then you can be what you believe and there isn’t any doubt about it. Other people can look at it and think you’re a fuckin’ nut! But you feel it and it is so. There are so many roots to freedom. Even if you just look at physical slaves—emancipation comes in all kinda ways. It’s like—it’s a mixture of things both in the realm that we live in and in realms that we don’t dwell in that get together to emancipate and free somebody. I don’t really know, and you never know how it’s gonna happen, or if it even will. The important thing is that you can kinda help yourself to it. But some people try to help themselves to it but they still get blocked—they still remain confined by things. You never know how things are gonna happen but you can have a courage and a strength and a bravery about life that puts you in the position when these things do fall into line—you can capitalize on the exits and escape routes and fight your way to a little bit more light." - Palaceer Lazaro (från Shabazz Palaces)

SHABAZZ PALACES- "BLAST IT" from Village Beat on Vimeo.