Breath of fresh air in the contemporary hiphop world! 

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Recorded as a quick solo session with Aaron Molho in San Francisco on August 23, 2008 before heading off on my Miles to Knowhere trip (www.milestoknowhere.com).  

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from the upcoming album Oddisee "The Good Fight" (5/5)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-good-fight/id969829649

In a landscape overrun with abstract indulgence and shallow trend-chasers, the Prince George’s County, Maryland artist Oddisee has created 'The Good Fight', a record that reminds you that it’s music before it’s hip-hop. Due May 5th on Mello Music Group, it’s for the fans and for himself. It finds the musical heavyweight balancing between craft, career, and successfully growing into the world around him. Stream the first single, "That's Love".

Album Description:
Oddisee makes music that rattles in your bone marrow. It’s imbued with love, honesty, and selflessness. It’s virtuosic in its musicality, direct in its language, and infinitely relatable.
 
In a landscape overrun with abstract indulgence and shallowtrend-chasers, the Prince George’s County, Maryland artist has created “The Good Fight,” a record that reminds you that it’s music before it’s hip-hop. Released on Mello Music Group, it’s for the fans and for himself. It finds the musical heavyweight balancing between craft, career, and successfully growing into the world around him.
 
For Oddisee, “The Good Fight” is about living fully as a musician without succumbing to the traps of hedonism, avarice, and materialism. It’s about not selling out and shilling for a paycheck, while still being aware that this is a business requiring compromise and collaboration.
 
It’s music that yields an intangible feeling: the sacral sound of an organ whine, brass horns, or a cymbal crash. It’s not necessarily the syllables, but rather what they evoke. A song like “That’s Love” is more than a declaration; it’s a meditation on our capacity to love and the bonds binding us together. Ambition and greed war with our sense of propriety. “Contradiction’s Maze” offers a list of paradoxes we all face (“I want to tell the truth when it hurts/but when it comes to me, I want the blow softened.”)
 
Oddisee’s production simmers in its own orchestral gumbo. You sense he’s really a jazzman in different form, inhabiting the spirit of Roy Ayers and other past greats.  The Fader’s compared him to a musical MC Escher, calling hailing his “grandiose and symphonic sound” and “relevant relatable messages.” Pitchfork praised his “eclectic soulful boom-bap.”
 
“The Good Fight” acknowledges the stacked odds, but refuses to submit.
 
It’s both universal and personal. The child of a Sudanese immigrant highlights the rigors of his own upbringing: his pregnant mother working the register until she was about to burst, his pops’ shuttered diner that couldn’t survive Reaganomics—the one that Oddisee drives past every time he returns home, just to remind him how quickly the world can turn bad.
 
It’s these minor details that add into something major. It’s testament to the indelible nature of art: when you can turn what you love into something that lasts.


Oddisee - That's Love

This song is available for purchase on BandCamp:
goldcountry.bandcamp.com

This is currently a limited release of only 200 downloads*

Words and music by Emily Saliers © 1992
Mechanical License issued by www.easysonglicensing.com - LPA078413

Artwork incorporates "Love Heart" from iProzac on www.flickr.com under a Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Creative Commons License:(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode)

Lyrics:

Love Will Come To You

Guess I wasn't the best one to ask
Me myself with my face pressed
Up against love's glass
To see the shiny toy I've been hoping for
The one I never could afford

The wide world spins and spits turmoil
And the nations toil for peace
But the paws of fear upon your chest
Only love can soothe that beast
And my words are paper tigers
No match for the predators of pain inside her

Chorus
I was born under the sign of cancer
Like brushing cloth
I smooth the wrinkles for an answer
I'm always closing my eyes and wishing I'm fine
Even though I know I'm not this time

Chorus

Dodging your memories – a field of knives
Always on the outside looking in on other's lives

Chorus

And I wish her insight to battle love's blindness
Strength from the milk of human kindness
A safe place for all the pieces that scattered
Learn to pretend there's more than love that matters
credits
released February 15, 2018
Produced and performed by Gold Country, featuring Hannah Jane Kile on accompanying vocals)
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Love Will Come To You (ft. Hannah Jane Kile)

Evan Daldegan - Rhythm Guitar and Vocals 
Jeff Dejohn - Drums 
David Frediani - Bass and Backup Vocals 
Matt Newhard - Lead Guitar 
Matt Schooley - World Percussion and Electronic Drums 
Mike Windham - Tenor Saxophone, Keyboards and Synthesizer 

joined by: 

Tanner Robison - Trumpet 
Leah Concialdi - Baritone Saxophone 
Alicia Aubin* - Trombone 
Cory Swift* - Trumpet 
Walter Hannah** - Rhodes 

*Track 1 
**Track 5 

Recorded at AK Studios 
Mixed by Aric Johnson at AK Studios 
Mastered by Lee Putnam with Rockfan Records

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