Main - part 2

This is a track from our new album, just a rough mix to share with everyone for now!

04 Funk 48 091714

Back To Black

Me & Mr Jones

Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!

Fashion Nugget

Daria

Comfort Eagle

Short Skirt / Long Jacket

Dreams In Rock Vol. 1

Total Eclipse of the Heart

Bigger Than Both Of Us

Rich Girl

August And Everything After

Mr. Jones

Too Rye Ay

Come On Eileen

Middle Cyclone

This Tornado Loves You

The debut album of cellist and composer, Bryan Charles Wilson.

www.bryanwilsoncello.com

Beater

Our new live album "Live at MGM Music Hall at Fenway" is out NOW! 💃 🕺 

Here: https://soundcloud.com/ripemusic/sets/live-from-mgm-music-hall-at?si=acbdb848396e492eb93c31788e5687ee&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

February Florida Tour Dates:
2/16 - Ft Lauderdale, FL - https://www.ripetheband.com/tour
2/17 - Jupiter, FL - https://www.ripetheband.com/tour
2/18 - Jacksonville, FL - https://www.ripetheband.com/tour
2/20 - Bonita Springs, FL - https://www.ripetheband.com/tour
2/22  - Deland, FL - https://www.ripetheband.com/tour
2/23 - St. Petersburg, FL - https://www.ripetheband.com/tour
2/24 - Cocoa, FL - https://www.ripetheband.com/tour

O.A.R. Summer 2024 Tour Dates:
5/31 - Morrison, CO - https://www.ripetheband.com/tour
8/27 - Lewiston, KY - https://www.ripetheband.com/tour
8/29 - Columbus, OH - https://www.ripetheband.com/tour
8/30 - Newport, KY - https://www.ripetheband.com/tour
8/31 - Indianapolis, IN -  https://www.ripetheband.com/tour
9/1 - Nashville, TN - https://www.ripetheband.com/tour
9/4 - Cedar Rapids, IA - https://www.ripetheband.com/tour
9/5 - Kansas City, MO - https://www.ripetheband.com/tour

Ripe on Audiotree Live

Ex-Life (Audiotree Live Version)

Toussaint Morrison had a plan. It was to release 5 mixtapes and then immediately release original (non-sampled) material alongside his producer & adventure capitalist Dr. Wylie. Then, 2015 happened, (several anxiety attacks, the loss of his grandmother, acting alongside Judy Greer and Woody Harrelson in the movie Wilson, etc.) dumping said plans into a vat of floating good intention, heartbreak, and self-sabotage. This pitted Morrison with the challenge of finishing the songs he wanted to put out, or confronting matters at hand and writing the songs he had to. Alas, it was the latter. 

Lesser Restoration is a short album consisting of 10-song recollection surrounding Morrison’s past year and handful of months. Littered with lamenting his birthplace of New Orleans, owning several years of belligerence, and speaking to “sittin’ in a room full of white smiles, waiting for permission to hope”, Morrison’s new album speaks to the vulnerability of reconstructing your identity apart from who you selfishly thought you were and exploring whiteness in Minnesota. Lesser Restoration considers the advantages of being heartless rather than heartbroken, unlawful than law-abiding, and dying black & proud rather than living submissive through a forced smile. 

Although his considerations may never reach definitive resolutions within the context of the album, Morrison still pressures the legacy of whiteness in America having forged the myth of black skin being an ultimate threat to society. That legacy fully encapsulated in “Minnesota” as Toussaint measures it no further than the largest mass execution in U.S. history taking place in Mankato, MN, the lynchings in Duluth, and the murder of Jamar Clark, Philando Castiile and Terrance Franklin in the Twin Cities- all scenarios where a person of color was deemed unworthy of life at the hands of white authority. 

To any mind unbeknownst of role playing games, “Lesser Restoration” sounds to be some form of carpentry or a slick-slight-of-hand maneuver originated by contractors. As cool as we’d sound if it were the latter, it is not- also, confirming the author of this bio is not that cool- “Lesser Restoration” is something to tide over an adventurer who has been wounded. In Morrison’s case, it merely satiates the nerves before bigger things yet to come.

Lesser Restoration

Toussaint Morrison - Last Day Of School (feat. Jimmy & The Threats)

Let's Talk About Love

My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme from "Titanic")

Thanks to The Jangle Sheep! 
https://thejanglesheep.bandcamp.com/album/leave-me-satisfied

youtube: https://youtu.be/XgM9loMb-W4
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MurphysHorizon/
bandcamp: https://murphyshorizon.bandcamp.com/track/the-jangle-sheep-indigo-vertigo-murphys-horizon-remix

The Jangle Sheep - Indigo Vertigo (Murphy's Horizon Remix)

Songs That Saved My Life

Bullet With Butterfly Wings

Toussaint Morrison is a hopeless romantic and a super-villain. Sadly, in a world where definitive genres are ever-shrinking, Morrison still hasn’t been invited to any of the parties (which is where the super-villain part comes in). Abandoning a decade of front man’ing for live bands The Blend and Lazlo Supreme, Morrison joined forces with the evil Dr. Wylie, producer and confidant. The collaboration between the two has already generated this past year’s #1 Album on RapReviews.com’s Top Ten Albums of 2011, and looks to establish a national tour while depleting the monthly limit of free downloads from their bandcamp site. 

The 3-time national slam poet has not only paid his dues, he’s insisting on paying more than his tab; sampling an unconventional ensemble of sounds from Feist to Chicago to Weezer and on. Relaying tales of relationships doomed by bar-close, requited love thru emasculating reconciliation, and a run-in with a 2nd grader at a café over coffee & chemotherapy; the adventures of Toussaint Morrison Is Not My Boyfriend could warm even the hearts of the most cynical (Ann Coulture and winter in Minneapolis included). 

Funded by friends, family, and perfect strangers via Kickstarter, his new mixtape is the 1st in a series of 3 (consider it the first piece of the triforce). 17 stories/tracks/titles long, "Toussaint Morrison Is Not My Boyfriend" is the largest piece of literary work he has ever laid to sound. Also, as a rule of warning, when Toussaint isn’t crooning to women on campus or freestyling in character as Luke Cage, he’s busy concocting bonus tracks to follow an album such as the one before you, somewhat like low blows after the bell.

Main - part 2

Ben Nedzvetsky