Musicians, arrangers, and producers Dan Ubick and Todd Simon, who go by the unlikely name Connie Price & the Keystones, make warm, artfully layered hip-hop with an organic sound that draws equally on vintage 1970s funk and the postmodern collage aesthetic. TELL ME SOMETHING is both heady and rootsy: guest rappers like Big Daddy Kane, Percee P, and Ohmega Watts lay down intelligent, on-point rhymes while Ubick and Simon provide horns, guitars, and other live instrumentation, as well as more general atmospheric sound-painting. The result is groovy, surprising, and eminently listenable.
Recording information: Lion's Den Studios, Topanga, CA (2007); Nu-Fi Studios, Van Nuys, CA (2007); Sun King Studios, Atwater Village, CA (2007).
Authors: Lalo Schifrin ; Big Daddy Kane.
Photographers: Robin Laananen; Dan Ubick.
Personnel: Connie Price & the Keystones (vocals, drums, percussion); Fanny Franklin (vocals); Dan Ubick (electric guitar); Steve Kaye Quartet (violin, viola, cello); Tracy Wannomae (flute, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone); Todd M. Simon (flute, trumpet); Kevin Lightening (flute); Dwayne Kelly (melodica, Clavinet, organ, Wurlitzer organ); David Ralicke (tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, trombone); Joel Bowers (tenor saxophone); Barry Bowers (baritone saxophone); Jordan Katz (trumpet); Hoagie Haven (flugelhorn); Sgt. Harvey Pepper (French horn); Jeremy Ruzumna (mini-Moog synthesizer); Richard Lee (electric bass); Sean O'Shea, Pete McNeal (drums); Davey Warf Rat Chegwidden, Ricardo Rodriguez (percussion).
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