I LOVE YOU HOE (w/ 9lives)

Honour - U&Me (decemeberseventeen)
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 121S
Release Date: 06 September 2023
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/U-Me

Honour shares ‘U&Me (decemberseventeen)’, the first single from the upcoming full-length album ‘Àlàáfíà’ out via PAN on November 3rd.

Built and destroyed by Honour
Mixed by Honour
Mastered by Jason Goz
Artwork by Honour

Honour - U&Me (decemeberseventeen) (PAN121S)

THE AM3RICAN DREAM

Pull Up (feat. Ty Dolla $ign)

Money In The Bag (feat. Leven Kali & Big Body Bes)

Honour - Àlááfíà
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 121
Release Date: 03 November 2023
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Alaafia

Honour’s debut album is a ligament stretching from Lagos to London and to New York, curling across the diaspora and brushing the darker hues of blues, hip-hop, free jazz, ambient, gospel with Christian mythology and Yoruba folklore. As cinematic as it is painterly, Àlááfíà is a meditation on themes of life, death and love that pulls inspiration from the unexpected poetic profundity of casual conversations, field recordings, literature, ephemera, or personal archives. The result is an impressionistic vision in Black and Blur that both exhausts and implicates language—substantiating a mythos proposed by Fred Moten that sublimates boundaries between everywhere and nowhere; history and the present; the individual and the universal.

Àlááfíà delineates a gothic landscape cut by overdriven beats, swooping orchestral blasts, choral bursts and ear- splitting fuzz, where the fleshly and spiritual realms commune. Dedicated to Honour's late grandmother, the title track began to take form after their last embrace and remains steeped in her influence and spirit—a tape-saturated composition that starts in Lagos and ends in London's smoke-stained cityscape, the song’s dream-like quality developed out of the artist’s grief and PTSD coping with this loss. Beneath the stretched guitar drones and stuttering loops, their grandmother's shared faith bubbles to the surface.

“When Angels Speak of Love,” borrows its title from two works by Sun Ra and bell hooks, respectively. Sculpting echoes of praise music into disorienting spirals perforated with syrupy DJ Screw-inspired breaks and sharp splinters of melancholic guitar, “When Angels Speak of Love” engages a conceptual dialogue with the spirits of both late thinkers, folding them into Honour’s pantheon of ancestral guides. The album’s ninth track, “Giz Aard ($uckets),” is a dirge of regimented drums which anchor this somber melody as it whirls into a blizzard of heartache, uncertain if its consequence will be death or eternal joy.

The album’s sole lyrical offering, “Pistol Poem (Lead Belly),” begins with a darkly humorous bar, “He went thru hell and back/ came back/ 2 get the strap,” that swells into a haunting allegory based on the life of Philip “Hot Sauce” Champion. A modern take on the Blues, Honour’s lyrics reify the artist’s status as a student of both literature and popular culture, crossbreeding the artist’s clever wordplay with additional references to Richard Pryor, Robert Johnson, Kelly Rowland & Bryon Gysin.

Setting core principles of hip-hop, R&B, jazz and gospel music to atemporal soundscapes and compositions, Honour crafts a record that marinates in its own knotty contradictions. The ghosts that sit on the artist’s shoulders have never been more tangible than with this emotive debut.

Built and destroyed by Honour
Additional production by Bridgegroom
Mixed by Honour
Mastered by Jason Goz
Artwork by Honour

Honour - Seven Trumpets (PAN 121)

tell that bitch to go run me my fuckin check
if that nigga come up short then imma shoot below the neck
imma beat a nigga ass then take his rollie off and flex
imma crazy ass bitch, leave a nigga in a wreck 

imma shoot that nigga
imma pull the trigga
got my hand up on a gun
breaking boddies bigga

im the biggest hitta
im the biggest hitta
i dont do well well with lames
imma pull the trigga

youre the lamest nigga
youre the lamest nigga
wishin you for me
bitch i aint no nigga

g g gold digga
g g gold digga
only reason why youre know 
is cuz of me bitch

'Cuz of Me - Foodieti (Krushclub Song)

Producer: pxiqzes
Artist: Karmadiesz
Artist: prodkaz

HexxedLove 2 (w/ prodkaz x pxiqzes) OUT NOW ON ALL PLATFORMS

Forts, Tiffany Aris, 2WEI - Still Here 2024 League of Legends Cinematic

For my canine son's 9th birthday, I'd like to introduce the audio component to my Winter 2023-24 Installation
 "(re)generations" 
[ www.flow.page/re.generations ]

"
(re)generations is a sonic archetype of growth and complexity. A “Birkinian-Bodleyan” definition of complexity was used:

“complexity is understood in terms of the quantity, order, and variety of musical elements or patterns”
(Guy Birkin/Sun Hammer “Complexification”, 2015);
adding in the variables: visual elements*, increase*, and time*; 6 iterations were generated along 1 composition. From simple (seed, sperm, spore); to complex (plant, animal, fungus).

——

Includes archaeological sonic research of a modified Vito Leblanc alto sax (ca. 1980) [body, mouthpiece, and reed] that belonged to Chem XP's (Chaz's) late father, Clem Washington. 
One interpretation of the artist’s moniker can be a portmanteau of his and his father’s names, who suddenly died when the artist was 15. Apocryphally, leaving behind little but an old saxophone from abandoned dreams in Gonzales, Louisiana (apart from countless memories). 
The artist formed a makeshift neck for the saxophone from a recycled water hose to allow his ancestors to breathe in this project—with the help of a little LFO.
"

Thanks to KiTbetter (Korea) for inviting me back for another release this year at SXSW 2024. We met last SXSW, following which my film Language of the Birds (along with the whole soundtrack) was released on their cutting-edge product. 

This year, my latest installation will be presented in a similar manner. On March 13th, the 14th anniversary of my dad's passing, we’ll be releasing the KiT at the SXSW Convention Center Expo (and online): come stop by, I’ll have free copies and business card art. In the small chance I’m not present, see (re)generations posters around Austin, TX for QR code art in homage to one of my favorite paintings— Jean-Michel Basquiat’s “Tuxedo” (1982).

[(re)generations will officially release on date TBD, open to art gallery and independent label collaborators[email me]; including remix/edits by Ehsan Saboohi, Victor Moragues, and more TBD; 2024] 

Independently made in partnership with 
Noise à Noise [Berlin] & Post-Orientalism [Tehran]
[Recorded in Austin, TX]

[ www.flow.page/re.generations ]

(re)generations

KiT Link (updates)

(re)generations [music for plants, animals, and fungi]

Link to "Myself" (Remix) Video Below
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xTmxpVPmMo

Buy on iTunes

Myself (Remix) Ft. ILOVEMAKONNEN & Key! [Prod. By Polo Boy]

MadeinTYO teams up with Harry Fraud to bring you "Rabbit" - their brand new collaboration!  Additional production by Adrian Lau, John Sparkz, and Heffty.

(re)generations [music for plants, animals, and fungi]

✮Chem♱XP✮

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