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"​-​Turn your shadow into water​.​"

by Malik Ameer & The Invisible Ancestors aka The Dream-Beings

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chorus written in Karnak Temple Luxor, Egypt
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written in Valley of The Kings and in Karnak Temple in Luxor Egypt
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about

Hear listener/seeker:
This album is "strictly for the ancestors". I began recording the album in 2008 after returning from an inspiring journey in Egypt. Musically, this album is heavily inspired by the impeccable traditional, classical and contemporary Egyptian music I experienced while in Egypt, as well as endless explorations into the music of Hamza El Din, Ehtiopiques, Yoruba/Ifa Bembe Ceremonial Musics, Noh Theatre, Choctaw & Chickasaw Ceremonial music along with my usual inspirations= Sun House, Jelly Roll Morton, Henry Threadgill, Willie Dixon, Charles Mingus, Julius Hemphill, Curtis Mayfield, Last Poets and Sly Stone. The initial idea for this demo was to ask my musician friends in NY and the Bay Area to use these demos as foundations/ cornerstones for building Live improvisational ad spontaneous compositions on. Unfortunately, I lost the album, software and digital/ midi compositions before I could gather my musician friends to make it LIVE. Hence the demo/album was lost for one year due to a computer hard drive crash that destroyed the original 47 songs recorded for the triple album/ II act opera. Luckily, after seven months of being lost, I had a dream wherein some ancestors came to me (at/in the council), and demanded that I put the album out.
When I let them know about my computer crash and losing the songs, they laughed and told me where to find an unmixed cdR of my demos, in the apartment. I woke up, looked for it, found it, and uploaded it to my online art/ music/ literary journal, MadMensCalling.com for download only (by then it was Summer 2009). When madmenscalling.com ended in early Spring 2012, the album was gone again. In November 2012, I had another dream. Those "dream beings" returned (along with some Kmtians) and again demanded I upload the album. So, this is that initial 2008 upload (minus 2 songs I just couldn't bear to listen to anymore) and one new song "Let me prove it to you Hathor", that wasn't on the original but that I found from that period. Hence this is an "unfinished, unmixed, unmastered" album I.E. a RAW, naked, incomplete, deformed detailed confession of a particular auditory-realm accessed in Egypt and back in Harlem, New York "pre-Egyptian revolution/pre-Obama elected America, and so on". The few listeners who may know my music from 2000-2001 with The Aware and The Unseen may consider this album the sonic sibling of, "Drapetomania" or "The Nightmare". In that regard (running with the ancient civilizations metaphor), this is simply the remains of a vital hyper-creative period most of which is lost. Hence this album was predominately written in Arkansas & Heliopolis/ Luxor/ Cairo, Egypt and performed in Harlem via guided improvisations.

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released December 22, 2008

Malik Ameer and The Invisible Ancestors aka The Dream-Beings arranged, composed and played everything (except for the hard drive burnout that was facilitated by the DELL PC which in all actuality gave lemons to a lemonade-ist).

Recorded at Milarepa's Mind in Harlem NY (34 other songs were lost in the computer crash along with landscape recordings in Hot Springs Arkansas and Luxor, Heliopolis, and Cairo Egypt [although several landscape recordings are mixed in the background of these songs]).
Enjoy, if you know-how.
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All lyrics available in "Beneath The Underground: Collected Raps 2000 - 2018"=
blacknerdproblems.com/beneath-the-underground-collected-raps-2000-2018-by-malik-crumpler/

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/beneath-the-underground-malik-crumpler/1128985715?ean=9781387876211

The video for "Hoodoo Holler" (also a lost video in 240 p with no 480, 720 or 1080 upgrade available from the 2008 pixelation upload) is linked here as well=
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKVjTe-Etn4

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Malik Ameer Crumpler Paris, France

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Malik Ameer Crumpler is a poet, rapper, composer, music producer & editor that’s released several albums, short films, six books of poetry & one book of raps. His most recent chapbook of poems, The Rest Is Now, was published by Isolation Collection (2020). Those Whomyns (2021), is Malik's most recent collaborative album with Daniel Belquer, Paulo Brandao, & Murilo O'Reilly. ... more

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