Founded: 2009
Location: United States
Shabazz Palaces is an American hip hop group from Seattle led by Ishmael Butler a.k.a. Palaceer Lazaro (formerly Butterfly of jazz rap group Digable Planets). Much of the Butler's work as Shabazz Palaces has been made in collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Tendai "Baba" Maraire, son of mbira master Dumisani Maraire. Active since 2009, Shabazz Palaces has released five studio albums on Sub Pop after self-releasing two EPs. Their most recent album, The Don of Diamond Dreams, was released on April 17, 2020.
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Animal Collective's re-work of Shabazz Palaces' #CAKE is a sprawling ambient bass-trip.. Animal Collective have hopped on board to remix Shabazz Palaces' #CAKE or as they've phrased it a 'premature deflirt mix' and for once that terminology actually fits the restructuring of the song. Animal Collective's touches have unravelled the density and instead of 'flirting' with the track like artists may Animal Collective have added their own ambient, almost hallucogenic twist. At first we're presented with this highly electronic landscape, full of distortions and beeps before the vocals of Animal Collective form into a call and recieve. Then some clever editing of the original sampling provides a sonic springboard into a sprawling bass-driven merging of Animal Collective with Shabazz Palaces. Check out the video below that utilises an insane visualiser created by Christian Peterson of I Want You Magazine: Follow Shabazz Palaces: FACEBOOK Follow Animal Collective: FACEBOOK
Mulholland-Drive meets Boogie Nights in new video for trippy avant-rap duo Shabazz Palaces.. Who are Shabazz Palaces? Tendai Maraire and Ishmael Butler from Seattle. What do they do? Make trippy avant-raps with wild drum beats (Ishmael’s on vocals and is the face of SP, while Tendai plays ancient instruments from his homeland, Zimbabwe). What do they do on a par with making trippy avant - raps? Make some of the most engaging, dark and cinematic video clips around, that push the very boundaries of video. We know you’re super busy and only have a limited amount of time each day for music video watching (if any) but you won’t regret using your procrastination allocation to watch the clip for Shabazz Palaces' new track Motion Sickness, directed by TEAN. The clip is cinematic in scope, and Lynchian in style. The narrative follows the daily struggle of a female drug dealer and reality star. She drifts around a vibrantly coloured 70s poolside film set, wrangles with an unrelenting drug addict
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