Ithaka
Somewhere South of Somalia
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Alternative hip-hop called one of the most original hip-hop albums of the year...
tracks
- 1 So You're Going There?
- 2 What U Gotta Do
- 3 My Mind and My Body (interlude)
- 4 Dugout Canoe
- 5 Snakes in the Rafters
- 6 Three Shots (interlude)
- 7 Rana Linda
- 8 Mr. Mosquito
- 9 Ugly American
- 10 Dear Hillary (interlude)
- 11 Black Rock
- 12 Lapis Lazuli
- 13 Visit With Nagawa
- 14 Upendo
- 15 River Road
- 16 Nagawa's Revenge
- 17 Endless Bummer
- 18 Mwajuma
- 19 My Mind and My Body (reprise)
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notes
ITHAKA's storytelling lyrics often reflect his personal global travels and were taken to a new level when the artist disappeared into East Africa to write new material for his third coming album, SOMEWHERE SOUTH OF SOMALIA.
Two months later, he reemerged in Lisbon with a travel journal full of adventurous rap-tales exploring; tribal folklore, urban dangers, elitist foreigners, epidemics, lives of war journalists, near death experiences and voodoo.
ITHAKA then flew back to Los Angeles to work with producer/engineer Conley 'Conman' Abrams.
Abrams has worked for TuPac, Queen Latifa, Heavy D, Montell Jordan and Snoop Dogg, and produced the hit 'No Woman' on Polybeat/Virgin artist General Grant charting at #6 on Billboard's Rap Chart.
Together they are musically recreating Ithaka's experiences in a cinematic Afro hip-hop vibe.
SOMEWHERE SOUTH OF SOMALIA stretches hip-hop in fresh directions both musically and lyrically and ITHAKA's laid-back narrative rap-style lays smoothly in the cut.