Malkovich Music
Skeletons
© 2005 Malkovich Music (809546021025)
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The bare bones of life, boiled down to the bare essentials of hip-hop music: raw, atmospheric beats and masterful, groundbreaking verses.
tracks
- 1 Searching (intro)
- 2 Innerview
- 3 Old Soul
- 4 Sinkorswim
- 5 Trippin
- 6 Quartertothree
- 7 Train
- 8 Skeletons (Malkovich Theme)
- 9 Eventually
- 10 To B. Or Not To B.
- 11 Everything's Perfect
- 12 Homecoming
- 13 4a.m.
- 14 Empty
- 15 In The Dark
- 16 Searching (outro)
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In 1979, the same year “Rapper’s Delight” birthed the Hip-Hop revolution, a young couple gave birth to a son after fleeing a real revolution in the streets of what once was their country. As the sound of America’s cities blossomed through the ‘80s before an indifferent government and the introduction of crack laid waste to those same streets toward the decade’s end, that boy also found himself a pawn to the same forces continents away, the U.S.’ global economic stranglehold sending the Third World into desperation and war. In the early ‘90s, after living all over the Middle East, the Mediterranean, North Africa and Europe, he finally immigrated to the country behind the revolution that drove his family from their home a lifetime ago, where he was introduced to the musical culture that he had unknowingly grown up alongside. Today he holds microphones as Malkovich: screenwriter, director and star actor of the twisted musical known as Malkovich Music.
Malkovich makes audio movies. An international traveler with a storyteller’s heart, he packs every verse with vivid visuals, delicate details and stray lyrical brushstrokes that all combine to set the mood as effectively as the narrative. A writer as much as he is an emcee, his lyrics are literate and poetic, chock-a-block with internal rhyme schemes and allusions that take repeated listenings to fully process. His penchant for raw, dusty beats and diverse topics and themes – many of which he has been known to stretch across entire albums - makes for a musical catalog that veers from mellow to hardcore to disturbing. Intimately involved in every aspect of his music’s creation, he personally selects, structures and arranges all beats, and sequences each album to be seen as well as heard.
Malkovich first brought his concise, precise rhyme style to disc as part of Gershwin BLX, the infamous L.A. hip-hop crew he co-founded in 1995, collectively pumping out the underground classics VocabuDrab Sessions 96-97, Sunch Punch and Veganz Want Beef, Vol.1. To date, G.B.L.X. has performed all over America, Hawaii, Europe, Japan and Mexico, opening for the likes of Wu-Tang Clan, Tha Alkaholiks, Hieroglyphics and Living Legends, to name just a handful. Malko is also co-founder of the Halifax All-Stars, a loose-knit Los Angeles-based collective that also includes emcee Fat-Hed and producer Nocturnal Ron.
His solo debut album Skeletons is an audio novel of an old soul’s first 26 years of life as a young man on Earth at the turn of the millennium. A project four years in the making, this sixteen-track, hour-long opus is the bare bones of life, boiled down to the bare essentials of hip-hop music: raw, atmospheric beats and masterful, groundbreaking verses.
Producers Nocturnal Ron, ABCDEFG, Earganic, Obi and Noble spin a cobweb of fractured blues chords, flowing jazz melodies and twisted soul licks over a dark, abandoned closet of dusty drums. Years of performing throughout the fifty-two states with G.B.L.X. has honed Malkovich’s delivery into a sharp, commanding flow that melds seamlessly with the sparse, hypnotic beats.
Lyrically, Malkovich is both method actor and methodical playwright on Skeletons, jumping from vivid road stories and all-out love songs to manic, unhinged verses of venom and dizzying contemplations on a world gone mad – a world that always was. This is not an album about the rap life, or the drug life, or the club life, or the fast life. This is an album about real life - that funny, scary, happy, confusing, painful, glorious thing we keep waking up to.
“Had Radiohead, Portishead or any other head recorded Skeletons, it would be hailed as an ambitious attempt to push the boundaries of hip hop.” -OKAYPLAYER.COM