[ Sub Pop / LP ]
Release Date: Friday 14 September 2018
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Knife Knights were born of the love of mystery. From the start of Shabazz Palaces - the ground-breaking project launched in 2009 by former-Digable Planets leader Ishmael Butler - confidentiality seemed essential: Butler wanted Shabazz Palaces to stand on its own strength, not his outsized reputation, so he adopted a nom de plume for himself. As the project's network expanded, though, he needed new monikers for his partnerships. Knife Knights is the name he gave to his work with Seattle engineer, producer, songwriter, and film composer Erik Blood, a vital force in the Shabazz Palaces universe. Now, after more than a decade of collaboration and the development of a rich friendship, Butler and Blood have made a proper full-length record together as Knife Knights.
Recorded in three fertile sessions interrupted by Shabazz Palaces tours and Blood's recording projects, 1 Time Mirage is a profound fulfilment of the partnership, realized at the crossroads of Butler's and Blood's mutual enthusiasms. Their shared interests have been split into pieces and fused together with enviable imagination. In the decade since Butler launched Shabazz Palaces and first christened his partnership with Blood as Knife Knights, much of the external mystery has, of course, fallen away. And 1 Time Mirage is a very public step forward for the pair. The early sense of secrecy has given way to a spirit of friendship and creative candour, to the doors of experimentation being thrown open by old pals thrilled by the prospect of testing new ideas.
01. Bionic Chords (Feat. OC Notes & Darrius Willrich)
02. Drag Race Legend
03. Give You Game (Feat. Marquetta Miller & Stas Thee Boss)
04. Light Up Ahead (Time Mirage) (Feat. Porter Ray, Gerald Turner, Darrius Willrich, OC Notes & Shabazz Palaces)
05. Seven Wheel Motion
06. Low Key (Feat. Shabazz Palaces)
07. My Dreams Never Sleep (Feat. OC Notes, Marquetta Miller & Shabazz Palaces)
08. Light Work (Feat. El Mizell)
09. Can't Draw the Line (Feat. OC Notes)
10. Come On Let's Go (Feat. OC Notes & Marquetta Miller)
11. Mr. President