Track Listing
1. Falling Elevators
2. Killer Inside Me
3. Adventures In Failure
4. City Sleeps
5. O Zone
6. Hearing Voices In One's Head
7. Dali's Handgun
8. Dancing Barefoot
9. Meat Beat Manifestation #2
10. Killer Inside Me (long version)
11. Killer Inside Me (video)
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | Mark Griffin | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Proper | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes
This is an Enhanced CD which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.MC 900 Foot Jesus: Mark Griffin (vocals, guitar, trumpet, keyboards).Additional personnel: Chris McGuire (bass clarinet, tenor saxophone); Elon Bradford (Crucial Reed Technology); Steve Dirkx (bass); Al Emert (drums); Mike Dillon (congas, percussion); Patrick Rollins (turntables).WELCOME TO MY DREAM, by Texas artist Mark Griffin, better known as MC 900 Ft Jesus, is a collection of compositions that crosses musical and cultural borders while maintaining a unified sound and a singularity of purpose. The easy tag to lay on Griffin would be that of a "white rapper," but that would be both unfair and misleading. True, most of the lyrics here are delivered in a syncopated, urgent chant, but that's where the similarities between this and standard hip-hop end. Instead of the gangster bravado or carnal boasting that many rappers indulge in, Griffin combines a sense of alienation with a poetic craftsmanship that renders his paranoiac shaggy-dog tales doubly arresting. His odd-man-out persona sometimes recalls the stance of late-'50s Beat poetry, an influence laid bare on "Dali's Handgun," with Ginsberg-like raving over acoustic percussion. Griffin's poetic ambitions are possessed of a more modern air on "Hearing Voices in One's Head" and the starkly chilling "Falling Elevators," which find the narrator in a disaffected reverie that signifies without the aid of rhyme or meter.
Editorial Reviews
4 Stars - Very Good - ..The arrangements are grounded in funk but far more ambitious than the average hip-hop fare..
Down Beat (03/01/1992)
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