The Skull Eclipses - The Skull Eclipses | 12in Vinyl Record
Producer+Rapper collaboration between Spencer Stephenson (BOTANY) and Raj Haldar (LUSHLIFE)
The obscure 1997 movie Level Five by French artist Chris Marker isn’t visually confined to the decade it was made in. Pieces of the 90s appear like virtual reality, beige QWERTY keyboards, and bulging tube-screens, but the whole thing feels like it was shot in 1969 complete with film-grain, and post-WWII ideation. It is a reconfigured jigsaw of 20th century calling cards that add up to a deeply atmospheric, and inexplicably futuristic film. Something musically akin to this occurred when lyricist Raj Haldar and producer Spencer Stephenson sifted through their shared inspirations: 90s electronic music and hip hop, modern geopolitical tumult, 60s & 70s film and design, and even Cold War era paranormal accounts and conspiracies. The outcome is The Skull Eclipses, a heavy-hitting, eleven-track post-rap montage that seeks refuge from the present by opening doors to the past-- but inadvertently finds itself in the future.
Known respectively for their independent work as Botany and Lushlife, Stephenson and Haldar selected their collaborative mantle, The Skull Eclipses, when the album became more than just a one-plus-one combination of their individual sounds. The odd title was originally given to a demo beat that Stephenson sent Haldar back in 2014, but it quickly became apt for the subject matter and... more
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released March 9, 2018
WORDS, MAIN VOICE, ADDITIONAL SONGCRAFT & SOUND DESIGN, LORE:
Raj Haldar
PRODUCTION, ARRANGEMENT, SOUND DESIGN, MIXING, ADDITIONAL VOICE, INSTRUMENTATION, LORE:
Spencer Stephenson
Featured Artists:
ASHLEY CROMEENS (DEF RAIN): VOICE+WORDS, FELICIA DOUGLASS: VOICE+WORDS, TENDAI ‘BABA’ MARAIRE: VOICE+WORDS, OPEN MIKE EAGLE: VOICE+WORDS, LOJII: VOICE+WORDS, LARAAJI: ZITHER
MASTERING AND ADDITIONAL MIXING:
MATTHEW “MATTHEWDAVID” MCQUEEN
COVER ART:
CHRISTOPHER ROYAL KING
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12" LP pressed on gray vinyl, with black poly-lined sleeves. LP jacket features artwork by Chris King of This Will Destroy You.
Includes unlimited streaming of The Skull Eclipses via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Producer+Rapper collaboration between Spencer Stephenson (BOTANY) and Raj Haldar (LUSHLIFE)
The obscure 1997 movie Level Five by French artist Chris Marker isn’t visually confined to the decade it was made in. Pieces of the 90s appear like virtual reality, beige QWERTY keyboards, and bulging tube-screens, but the whole thing feels like it was shot in 1969 complete with film-grain, and post-WWII ideation. It is a reconfigured jigsaw of 20th century calling cards that add up to a deeply atmospheric, and inexplicably futuristic film. Something musically akin to this occurred when lyricist Raj Haldar and producer Spencer Stephenson sifted through their shared inspirations: 90s electronic music and hip hop, modern geopolitical tumult, 60s & 70s film and design, and even Cold War era paranormal accounts and conspiracies. The outcome is The Skull Eclipses, a heavy-hitting, eleven-track post-rap montage that seeks refuge from the present by opening doors to the past-- but inadvertently finds itself in the future.
Known respectively for their independent work as Botany and Lushlife, Stephenson and Haldar selected their collaborative mantle, The Skull Eclipses, when the album became more than just a one-plus-one combination of their individual sounds. The odd title was originally given to a demo beat that Stephenson sent Haldar back in 2014, but it quickly became apt for the subject matter and... more
credits
released March 9, 2018
WORDS, MAIN VOICE, ADDITIONAL SONGCRAFT & SOUND DESIGN, LORE:
Raj Haldar
PRODUCTION, ARRANGEMENT, SOUND DESIGN, MIXING, ADDITIONAL VOICE, INSTRUMENTATION, LORE:
Spencer Stephenson
Featured Artists:
ASHLEY CROMEENS (DEF RAIN): VOICE+WORDS, FELICIA DOUGLASS: VOICE+WORDS, TENDAI ‘BABA’ MARAIRE: VOICE+WORDS, OPEN MIKE EAGLE: VOICE+WORDS, LOJII: VOICE+WORDS, LARAAJI: ZITHER
MASTERING AND ADDITIONAL MIXING:
MATTHEW “MATTHEWDAVID” MCQUEEN
COVER ART:
CHRISTOPHER ROYAL KING
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12" LP pressed on gray vinyl, with black poly-lined sleeves. LP jacket features artwork by Chris King of This Will Destroy You.
Includes unlimited streaming of The Skull Eclipses via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Producer+Rapper collaboration between Spencer Stephenson (BOTANY) and Raj Haldar (LUSHLIFE)
The obscure 1997 movie Level Five by French artist Chris Marker isn’t visually confined to the decade it was made in. Pieces of the 90s appear like virtual reality, beige QWERTY keyboards, and bulging tube-screens, but the whole thing feels like it was shot in 1969 complete with film-grain, and post-WWII ideation. It is a reconfigured jigsaw of 20th century calling cards that add up to a deeply atmospheric, and inexplicably futuristic film. Something musically akin to this occurred when lyricist Raj Haldar and producer Spencer Stephenson sifted through their shared inspirations: 90s electronic music and hip hop, modern geopolitical tumult, 60s & 70s film and design, and even Cold War era paranormal accounts and conspiracies. The outcome is The Skull Eclipses, a heavy-hitting, eleven-track post-rap montage that seeks refuge from the present by opening doors to the past-- but inadvertently finds itself in the future.
Known respectively for their independent work as Botany and Lushlife, Stephenson and Haldar selected their collaborative mantle, The Skull Eclipses, when the album became more than just a one-plus-one combination of their individual sounds. The odd title was originally given to a demo beat that Stephenson sent Haldar back in 2014, but it quickly became apt for the subject matter and... more
credits
released March 9, 2018
WORDS, MAIN VOICE, ADDITIONAL SONGCRAFT & SOUND DESIGN, LORE:
Raj Haldar
PRODUCTION, ARRANGEMENT, SOUND DESIGN, MIXING, ADDITIONAL VOICE, INSTRUMENTATION, LORE:
Spencer Stephenson
Featured Artists:
ASHLEY CROMEENS (DEF RAIN): VOICE+WORDS, FELICIA DOUGLASS: VOICE+WORDS, TENDAI ‘BABA’ MARAIRE: VOICE+WORDS, OPEN MIKE EAGLE: VOICE+WORDS, LOJII: VOICE+WORDS, LARAAJI: ZITHER
MASTERING AND ADDITIONAL MIXING:
MATTHEW “MATTHEWDAVID” MCQUEEN
COVER ART:
CHRISTOPHER ROYAL KING
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12" LP pressed on gray vinyl, with black poly-lined sleeves. LP jacket features artwork by Chris King of This Will Destroy You.
Includes unlimited streaming of The Skull Eclipses via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.