tendai maraire

Here's the long-awaited first track to be unveiled from Shabazz Palaces' lush, dizzyingly brilliant new full-length, Lese Majesty. Not necessarily the most representative track on the new record, "They Come in Gold" kicks off with the kind of diamond-hard beat and ominous flow that made Black Up the best album of 2011, but the comparison with the last record ends there. When taken out o

An absolutely gorgeous short film collaboration from the members of the mighty Black Constellation. Shot on location in the Methow Valley, Cascade foothills and Carnation, Washington.

Here's the extremely uplifting and heartfelt new single from Tendai Baba Maraire (that kalimba may sound familiar, as Maraire's also one half of Shabazz Palaces). Maraire's "gift to his native home," "rhodZi" is a celebration of Zimbabwe's Independence Day and a tribute to the Zimbabwean people's fight against Cecil Rhodes and European imperialism...