Londoner Henry Keen built an ark for his Soundspecies. The journey took him via organic sounds more hushed than Krushed, where Yusef Lateef's Eastern dream seems to hover a stone's throw away from the SP1200, and Black Spade raps a torch song for the girl just out of reach.
credits
from Various Assets - Not For Sale: Red Bull Music Academy Seattle 2005,
released January 1, 2006
Written & produced by Henry Keen (GBR) for Soundspecies productions (samples, drum programming, moog, fender, rhodes, tambourine, arrangement); lyrics by Veto Money (USA); vocals by Veto Money; vocals recorded & engineered by Tony Nwachukwu (GBR)
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