Lo-Fi Exploits of a Misplant on Shaolin

by Bruce Mack

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1.	All That Gloom 03:56	info	buy track
2.	Transparent Matter 04:49	info	buy track
3.	Geese napping on Shaolin 00:25		buy track
4.	Double O Nobody 03:52		buy track
5.	Your Call 04:30		buy track
6.	1st Transformation 03:59		buy track
7.	Don't Lose Sight (feat. John Purvis - guitar) 01:33		buy track
8.	Some Kind of Friend 03:23		buy track
9.	Rough & Unfocused on 8:19:14 at 10:58pm 01:57		buy track
10.	Travel With No Hate 01:06		buy track
11.	No Regard (For Black Life) 03:19		buy track

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Listen carefully. Curious, wordless voices weave magical spells among electric investigations. Steady, heady hip-hop beats dance beneath thick, rich piano. An African water drum thumped under glassy, astral synthesizers speaks of ancient patience through passive catalysts. Glistening sympathies announce, "Now it is time to put aside all that gloom," and obedient ears prepare themselves for untethered revelations.

Sitting at the mouth of New York Harbor, all thoughts are welcome in the land of Shaolin, or Staten Island if you prefer, where roosting ruminations ponder truth-seeking seclusion. Choreographed passions balance woke emotions beside rhythmic premonitions. Wary prayers share cascading keyboards with liquid bass to shake off speechless demons, feeding parched hearts in heavenly speculation.

Exploring complex depths with deft reflexes, even the simplest phrases are backed by wise choices from Bruce's intuitive grooviness. Soulful impulses seek enlightened connections from unforeseen directions, unveiling karmic harmonies in a ripe fusion of deep jazz, funky rock and international beats. It makes sense instruments both old and new coexist in this meandering musical meditation as does the impromptu nature of the recording, for, "Lo-fi Exploits," burns with timeless concern as lyrics both personal and profound lounge grounded in sage outrage, tender questioning and cleansing surrender.

-John Noyd
Writer, Maximum Ink

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released April 12, 2018

All songs written and performed by Bruce Mack, except "Transparent Matter", co-written and performed by Bruce Mack & Ken Edmonds.
John Purvis - guitar on "Don't Lose Sight".
Ken Edmonds - electric bass on "All That Gloom"
Rene Ojeda - Acoustic bass on "1st Transformation"
Baba Andrew Lamb - alto sax on "No Regard"

"Lo-Fi Exploits of a Misplant on Shaolin" produced by Bruce Mack

All songs mastered by Diriki Mack (Fuzion Entertainment)

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Bruce Mack New York, New York

Award winning Music Conceptualist/Vocalist & Composer Bruce Mack the artist/band is a multi-genre vocalist, composer & instrumentalist who performs and fuses various styles of music with funk & space in mind, generating a sound he calls “alternative rhythm & blues”.
B-Mack is also an original contributing artist to Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber ... more

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