Genius / GZA 2 x LP Liquid Swords Instrumentals / White & Black Vinyl Silk Scree
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Genius / GZA 2 x LP Liquid Swords Instrumentals / White & Black Vinyl Silk Screen
2LP from 2014 on Get On Down records, GET54049. Housed in silk screen sleeve and one white and one black vinyl LP. LP is in excellent condition, the odd faintest of marks here and there but would def grade as excellent. To have the complete instrumentals is essential for any GZA and Wu-Tang fan and collector. For the vinyl portion of this bundle we have GZA Liquid Swords Instrumentals in never-seen-before packaging and presentation. These instrumentals, peppered with frequent interludes of dialogue from the classic samurai flick “Shogun Assassin,” became the core of the GZA’s 1995 sophomore LP. The full Liquid Swords instrumentals are available for the first time on white and black vinyl as nod to the chessboard art synonymous with the album cover. All tracks have been restored, with re-mastered audio from the original source tapes. There are many reasons why Wu-Tang Clan rapper GZA's second solo album Liquid Swords is considered one of the greatest hip-hop records of all time. Critics and historians point to GZA's raw, and starkly poetic lyrics which featured references to chess, crime and philosophy, as well as superb guest performances from his Wu-Tang Clan contemporaries. One can't comment on Liquid Swords' brilliance however without touching upon the production, courtesy of Wu-Tang's own mastermind RZA. Behind a hazy and murky backdrop of rare samples and classic boom-bap beats, RZA crafted a bleak atmosphere of urban dystopia for GZA's esoteric rhymes to flourish in,cribbing from a wide panoply of sources ranging from the dusty soul of The Bar-Kays and Ohio Players, the nostalgic jazz of Cannonball Adderley and Willie Mitchell, and even the experimental weirdness of Mothers Of Invention. In a retrospective 5-star AllMusic.com review of Liquid Swords, writer Steve Huey said of RZA’s production: “The Genius' eerie calm is a great match for RZA's atmospheric production, which is tremendously effective in this context; the kung fu dialogue here is among the creepiest he's put on record, and he experiments quite a bit with stranger sounds and more layered tracks.” These instrumentals, peppered with frequent interludes of dialogue from the classic samurai flick Shogun Assassin, became the core of the GZA’s acclaimed sophomore LP. The full Liquid Swords instrumentals are available in a white and black vinyl pressing. All tracks have been restored, with re-mastered audio from the original source tapes. A1. Liquid Swords A2. Duel Of The Iron Mic A3. Living In The World Today B1. Gold B2. Cold World B3. Labels C1. 4th Chamber C2. Shadowboxin’ D1. Killah Hills 10304 D2. Investigative Reports D3. I Gotcha Back
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Vinyl posted out with extra card protection in LP thick mailer books
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