SOUL PHUZIOMATI "SERPENTS IN GRAFFITI: Alleyways feat. Paul Vangelisti (Jazz, Spoken Word, poetry)

"'Serpent in Graffiti' is their debut and is a kind of contemporary interpretation of what the beat poets in the 60s were. Think of raps from a background of jazz and Electronica and experimental beats. But rap without the overdose of testosterone. It gives us some moments to think what the 'Buckshot Lefonque project of Brandford Marsalis was in its time, something really interesting...Soul Phuziomati is not just a little free samples thrown in together, but they actually know what they are doing. They bring ideas and impressions from all disciplines together and do their thing with a totally new contemporary style." -- Duke J (Rootstime.be)


"It's smart and soulful and covers the bases: elegant music, articulate language, funky and funny and rooted in the roots. It gets up and it gets down. Well done and rare."
--Lewis MacAdams, NPR and "Birth of the Cool: Beat, Bebop and the American Avant-Garde".

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