STAY (FOR FATOU)

Another lowrider oldies ROLA, one to kick back and cruise on a Sunday afternoon. Don't be scratching those rims, homie, ride slow and low when your EN LA CALLE. Shout outs to Re-Animators Crew.

POOR LOSER

A lonely cosmic cholo, Smokey, travels warp speed in his intergalactic lowrider, a beaming spray-painted gold 2084 Grand Marquis, pondering heart-break, solitude, y amor while he traverses endless boulevards of star dust nearing una nueva frontera. 

He is in search of the mythical Aztlán, thought to be nestled deep in a scattering of stars thousands of light years away, más de allá in the Crab Nebula located in the Perseus arm of the Milky Way. There lies his dormant warrior princess, Izta Clara. 

With nothing but a few pinups of dreamy rucas floating weightlessly near his chrome dash, and an old roach laced with radioactive asteroid dust he picked up in Mars in the solar ashtray, he tunes between space station transmissions, searching for the perfect rola to soundtrack his spacy stoned sentimentos. 

Leaving Earth was hard, and space is an alien place for this extranjero. He knows if he finds his new home in the heavens, he will have to pay the ultimate price: His sangre, pulsing and flashing in his veigns like a boom bap beat, will spill out onto the vast speckled concrete of a distant galaxy. 

Melodías y ritmos swirl around like smoke as he closes in on this vacated homeland, awash in desinigrated memories that singe the crushed purple velvet of his alma olvidado. Stars bend into light beams and sounds give way into radio fuzz like a black vinyl comet disappearing into a deep gravitational pull. 

Is time racing forward from the Oldies of another siglo, or is the past just another dimension? Looking in the rear view, is Smokey just peering into another realidad? Will love last forever, or is it just another unfulfilled promise? Is it worth the price to reach home, when perhaps home has really been adentro all along? 

There are many ways to find out, but feel free to hitch a ride with Smokey as he searches eternidad for signs of life.

I Don't Wanna Cry

2084 Grand Marquis

Like A Fool (You Said You Loved Me)

The Gold Is Best, But The White Is Baddest (Interlude)

Too Many Goodbyes

Wishful Thinkin'

I Had A Choice

Que No

I Know I Need Someone (By The Way You Look At Me)

You Know A Long Time Ago (Interlude)

Pensamientos Vagos (feat. Fondo)

I reworked Dead to Me, the acoustic version by Kali Uchis for my bass heavy lovers.

DEAD TO ME (REWORK) SMOKEY WONDER

Gritos de Esperanza

Gritos De Esperanza

Transformative visions of time, space, and sound. Kick back and roll up another light year.





Any Emcees, Deejays, or Producers interested in collabs should send over a messenger pigeon or tag my bus stop...

Smokey Wonder

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