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unIndian II

by pedestrian

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Manbeastmode
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Manbeastmode Oakland Hosanna is a masterpiece! Favorite track: Oakland Hosanna.
Ryan Riehl
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Ryan Riehl I have been waiting for more from Ped for YEARS! Thanks man... I was just playing some classics from you; Object Beings. Why? Who knows... Love your stuff man. Keep it up, you rock hard. Favorite track: Resurrecting Morning.
Dimxsk
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Dimxsk This reminds me of the Anticon I fell in love with back in 2004. Intricate, interesting and catchy production with a healthy dose of whimsical weirdness and a coating of dark cynicism. The beats are all on point, speaking for example of the drum break in Anything. Pedestrian does his thing and does it well, probably the best release I’ve ever heard from him.
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about

unIndian II is written by pedestrian, but consists of the voices and sounds of friends; Jel, Odd Nosdam, Sole, Josiah Wolf, Walter Gross, Bomarr, Telephone Jim Jesus, Robert Werner, and Paperbark are its heart.

Its compass includes a consideration of the meaning of songmaking ("Anything"), what it's like to wake up in Oakland the morning after witnessing state murder at San Quentin ("Volume of the Seven Seas"), an alternative history of Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg's "Lil Ghetto Boy" ("Oakland Hosannah"), post-Katrina police violence and disaster capitalism in New Orleans ("Resurrecting Morning"), and field recording meditations on hook-ups and other kinds of fugitive affections ("Songs Not Songs").

Every song on this record carefully varies an earlier song. "Anything," for example, cites sources as far-ranging as Neil Morris, Nas, Jeezy, Divine Styler, Woody Guthrie, and Large Professor, among others; one refrain in that song, for example, "Let's go; nobody move," is composed of the concluding lines and stage directions of Waiting for Godot, while delivered over a marimba solo by Josiah Wolf alongside a scratched sample from the Wild Style soundtrack.

This is other than, yet quintessentially, a hip-hop album, and one determinedly in dialogue with the dead.

Download includes a PDF of the lyrics and art by Walter Gross

credits

released December 1, 2017

words: pedestrian

1. "Oakland Hosanna"
music: bomarr
accordian: Matt Harrison

2. "Volume of the Seven Seas"
music: jel and odd nosdam
drums: josiah wolf
vox: pedestrian and sole

3. "Anything"
music: jel and odd nosdam
marimba: josiah wolf

4. "Resurrecting Morning"
music: telephone jim jesus
vox: sole and robert werner
collage: walter gross

5. "Songs Not Songs"
music: paperbark
vox: pedestrian and robert werner

art: walter gross
mix and master: odd nosdam

Dedicated to DJ Stef

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