Name: NO SHADE ON THE EAST by shane arnold
Duration: 19 min 41 s
Description: all tracks written, produced & performed by shane arnold

all tracks written, produced & performed by shane arnold

NO SHADE ON THE EAST

TIME SPENT (PROD. BY RANDY STARGATE)

TRACKLIST:

1. Seeds (feat. mary sue) [00:00]
2. Earned It (feat. EYESWIDESHUT) [01:47]
3. Plans (feat. Samad M.) [04:04]
4. Sculpting [06:01]
5. I Am (feat. Malcomtopaz & Anonymous Fred) [06:59]
6. Stay Strong (feat. JUNE!) [10:30]
7. Wide Awake (feat. mary sue & nOOn) [12:22]
8. Tussle (feat. Kip C) [14:38]
9. Bengals (feat. Oldman Freeman) [16:26]
10. Chiaroscuro (feat. mosiahadé) [18:41]
11. Shredding Letters (feat. domtavlor) [20:09]
12. At Last, I Rest [22:01]

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Produced, mixed and mastered by Swordbearer

Artwork designed by Swordbearer & Angus Muckersie

Available to buy on Bandcamp

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Thank you to the amazing artists featured on this project, who all did an incredible job and helped me to achieve my vision for this album. Thank you to my incredible friends and girlfriend who have supported every step. I hope you all enjoy!

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@sweetmarysue
@knowledgeofmydeath
@l4dm-samad
@user-744753670
@juneayth704
@1nside_out1
@kipzzz
@youngredcloud
@zziiaa
@domtavlor

HANDS OF THE ARTIST

TRACKLIST:

1. JOURNEY TO THE WEST (prod. Tony Bontana)
2. MY VISION IS CRYSTAL CLEAR
3. PAGE FROM THE BACK (prod. Tony Bontana)
4. LISTENING TO THE BUG IN NYC
5. BODIES OF WATER (prod. Tony Bontana)
6. PINK STAINS ON WHITE SALOMONS (prod. FatBoyDupree)
7. I WALK AS THOUGH IM BLIND (prod. kingayeo)
8. THE THINGS I SETTLE (prod. c0smon4ut)
9. I KNOW IM IN DANGER (prod. c0smon4ut)
10. CACTUS TACOS
11. OPEN SESAME (prod. kip c)
12. HOLD UR HEAD HIGH (prod. 010trick)


12 TRACKS
COMPLETED DURING MY 2 WEEKS IN NYC

SEWN TOGETHER BY VOICE MEMOS OF MOMENTS WITH:

GENG, KAYA, AND KUYA,
KINGAYEO
ABEL AND JOSHUA

GRATITUDE TO EVERYONE I MET WHO SHARED THEIR TIME AND LOVE!
credits
released May 26, 2022

PHOTOS BY:

LEON WONG

PRODUCTION BY:

MARY SUE
TONY BONTANA
FATBOYDUPREE
KINGAYEO
C0SMON4UT
KIP C
010TRICK

ADDITIONAL WRITING:

ABEL CHUA
JOSHUA FRIZELL

HIGHER SELF PRESENTS

VOICE MEMOS ACROSS A COUPLE BODIES OF WATER

SMILE! B4 THE SUMMER OVER! A collection of tunes made in recent years that make make me, and hopefully you, smile. Inspired by water, trees, Roy Ayers and the sun! Thank you.

1. All I Need! (prod, by dvnt)
2. Go On (prod. by a haunted house)
3. Big Back in '94 w/ Blackchai (prod. by Horus Ra Mindset)
4. Like Us w/ IllumiNateFrmMCK (prod. by Randy Stargate)
Outside (prod. by Khalil Blu)
mixed/mastered by Sekani 
Arranged by JUNE!

SMILE! BEFORE THE SUMMER OVER

Produced, mixed, and mastered by g.rola
https://soundcloud.com/grolamusic

Cover art by Ulises Valadez Contreras
https://soundcloud.com/veeapollo

1. Sweetest Sound (feat. Jay Cinema)
2. Inner Feeling
3. Uh Yeah
4. Every Night
5. Dollar and a Dream (feat. Pro Zay & JUNE!)
6. Ganas
7. Prove It Now (feat. Kip C & Animist)
8. Price to Pay
9. Losing Sense
10. Lost Sense (feat. metroworldpeace)
11. It's All Ideas
12. On My Mind

Credits (In Order of Appearance)
https://soundcloud.com/jaycinema, https://soundcloud.com/pro_zay, https://soundcloud.com/juneayth704, https://soundcloud.com/kipzzz, https://soundcloud.com/animistraps, https://soundcloud.com/metroworl
Track 7 co-produced by https://soundcloud.com/its_achille

I finished this album over a year ago. It’s been on my hard drive untouched and unreleased for 16 months. Some of the songs on here are over 2 years old, if not 3 (I’m losing track at this point).

I finished the album on November 2021, but it sounded, off, unfinished. The final product was so different from what I envisioned it to be, it gave me whiplash. I asked people for their thoughts and feedback, but I mostly heard positive things, not much in the way of improvement. I needed to know what was wrong.

I would try to work on the mix, rearrange some of the tracks, even try to replace some of the songs, but nothing stuck. None of it felt right. Nothing about this felt right. So I did what I’ve done countless times before, put it aside and tell myself “I’ll get to it later.” Except later never came.

“What if it no one likes it? Would they hate it? Would they even care?” This would echo in my mind every time I’d think to start working on it again. Rappers would ask me when their verse was coming out, “soon, real soon” I’d tell them, but deep inside I knew I was lying. Part of me felt felt like they knew too.

I’d continue to work on other music over the course of 2022, but even that didn’t feel right sometimes. Every song I made felt like I was procrastinating the album. Like I was in high school again, cleaning my room instead of writing the essay due at midnight.

February 2023. I’m cleaning out my Dropbox when I see the album files again. I hadn’t listened to it in god knows how long. I had actively avoided it; I didn’t want to be reminded of my failure. For whatever reason though, I decided to hit play on that mp3 file. I decided to listen to the music I had long ignored and grew resentment for.

I was amazed. I loved it. Every song, every note, every drum hit: perfect. It’s exactly what it needed to be.

The Weight Off My Shoulders refers to my anxiety around my art, the part of me that tells me the things I do “aren’t good enough.” As I get older I realize how just often my anxiety is wrong, and it’s freeing to let go of it piece by piece. This album is one of those pieces.

This version here is the raw untouched album back from November 2021. I hope you grow to love it as much as I do.

⁃ g.rola

g.rola - The Weight Off My Shoulders [Full Album]

@t6mikee

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/mike-poseidon/

MIKE// POSEIDON

https://ronee.bandcamp.com/album/uptwn-3-2
 ft mavi
https://soundcloud.com/mavi704

uptwn.3

WHEN PIGS FLY

a snapshot

https://amirbilal.bandcamp.com/album/xviii

1. ruby (prod. bart buurman)
2. honest eye feat. CRUZIN (prod. e)
3. and it was feat. 98PREEM (prod. riley lamarre)	
4. craft feat. ZekeUltra (prod. argov)
5. half sunny/salt in the wound (prod. nephew hesh & pepper adams)

Additional Production by e
Tracks 1, 4, and 5 mixed and mastered by e
Tracks 2 and 3 mixed and mastered by moonside
Artwork by Connor Rothe

Special Thanks to Granny and Nana.

XVIII

peace to my brother eyes
@knowledgeofmydeath

NO SHADE ON THE EAST

shane arnold

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