Rhymesayers to Release New Album, ‘Waste-Age Teenland’, From Eyedea’s Group Face Candy
The Minnesota indie label prepares the release of what may be the final posthumous album from the late Michael Larsen.
In a recent e-mail, Rhymesayers revealed that they’re preparing for a 2011 release of the newest album from the group Face Candy, an experimental hip hop group fronted by the St. Paul MC, Eyedea.
“By the time we decided to record [the newest album,] Waste Age Teenland, we knew what we were attempting to create; we finally figured out that performance art was an inherent quality of Face Candy and we made it a point to exercise that,” wrote Minnesota MC and musician, Kristoff Krane, in an e-mail to aboveGround. “The first record captured Face Candy in its less refined and experimental form, while the new record captures a much wider emotional range and more deliberate approach.”
Waste-Age Teenland will be second album from the, “free-jazz and freestyle rap,” group, comprised of Krane, J.T. bates, Casey O’brien and Eyedea. The group’s first album, This Is Where We Were, was released in 2006.
Kathy Averill, Eyedea’s mother, confirmed — also in an e-mail to aboveGround — that the record was recorded in January of 2010, approximately 10 months prior to the Eyedea and Abilities rapper’s passing in October. Averill said that the album was originally slated for release in November 2010 and is now scheduled to come out in May.
Both Krane and Averill shared what they wanted fans to take from album, given the somber tone placed on the release after the MC’s untimely passing. “I want people to feel like they are part of the story that we’re attempting to share. I want people to feel connected, to know they’re not alone, to laugh and to cry,” wrote Krane.
Averill added, “For me, what I hope is everyone really listens to what is going on between all the parties. The instrumentals, the sound, the musicans, the space, the crowd, the feel, the air and then enjoy the fun, the moment, the real energy that is filled in the music. Each has in it’s own unique qualities and together they become a connection to greatness.”
Krane also spoke briefly on how Eyedea saw the music of Face Candy. He called the work therapeutic, both for the artists as well as the listeners. “He believed that [because] of the “in-the-moment” nature of the band, that Face Candy could serve as a means to release inner-tension and assist in the resolution of psychological conflict,” wrote Krane. “He believed that when we, as musicians, put ourselves out there and make ourselves vulnerable, that we were closing the illusionary gap between listener and performer and therefore creating a more ‘connected’ dynamic, which therefore leads to people not feeling alone.”
Rhymesayers has yet to announce an official date for the Face Candy release.
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