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BWLP December 2009 Podcast

December’s issue of Birds Who Like Pomegranate comes in two parts; a 2 disc cd set if you were to download it or find yourself as the lucky recipient of where they might be via gps locator. Yeah, we’re going there, because sometimes you need to get out and get your groove on in the name of seeing lovely places you might not have gone otherwise.
Or, maybe if you’re in East or West Oakland, you might find an autographed set at a bus stop. Play ‘em when you get back to the crib though... there’s no disclaimer on explicit lyrics- b’now!

There’s nothing but good music at our year’s end. Did we get it all? No. Is it all previous unreleased tracks? Pretty much. Some pieces are newer than others- but all the artists are some of our favorites: Finale, Scarlem D and Mr. Blue, Skyzoo, Kissey Asplund, Gwen Bunn, Presto, and 22 others.

Good dj’s tell stories in their mixes and compilations. Sometimes at a club, it’s an instance of instant- the crowd response dictating what gets pumped through the speakers, for when and how long...the ride is a product of place and time. But when it’s prepared for you in advance, like our podcasts, we get an opportunity to tell you a story. Most of the time you might not notice the tempo changes and subject matter. But believe us, it’s been quality crafted for your benefit.

For instance in part one, you might notice a perspective aimed from a season but winds and twists you through a 6 car deluge of mind. Real talk for real times. I’ll cut it out. But we just wanted you to know that for us, music is more than a show and a paper chase. For us, music is expression and the higher pursuits of life’s exactness.

We’ll be replacing Mike Dream’s birthday podcast and the Back to School edition to make room for these in our limited storage space. No worries, we’ll reprise them in the future as time permits.

Thanks for checking in.

-b.phlecksi parmella

Before Your Faculties Leave You

...believe that self-reflection can serve you well. There’s nothing like enjoying Thanksgiving with people with their own interesting bottles of perspective. And when the time comes to share the wealth and have a tasting of all outlooks, stances and reasoning- well it can get a little like Biggie’s Party and Bullshit.

I mean you find out who thinks Obama’s insistence on revamping health care is going to ruin the country- from someone like say, a lifetime nurse who is a cancer survivor. With rebuttals to confront the short term memory loss of the gradual and deliberate degradation of one said countries image and word through insufficient foreign policies as ingredients for our current political stew.

(I know, I know, I can hear all the "awwwwwww -isht"'s now..)

Or maybe it’s conversation about the social stratification across our nation that is surely finance based. Swaths of class position, determined by your annual income, inheritance, lineage and or place of origin that color our landscape from the Pacific to the Atlantic Oceanic coasts. Sound waves awash with sentences that tell of how two young black women would look a man like b.phlecksi parmella up and down at the World Trade Center, hone in on his Yale sweatshirt, and vehemently let him know, “YOU didn’t go there!”
(He’s let go of that, but sends a warm Thanks for the lovely introduction to the East, ladies.) In that simple statement, they let a young black man know so much more...
- whom was only in New York by invitation from a long gone art hero- Mr. Keith Haring.

Life most certainly has it’s challenges - our conviction is this:

No matter what your preoccupation or aspiration, if you can find the time to make sincerity, patience and introspection a priority- these practices will indubitably see you through the fires that will decimate your landscapes of safety.

The BWLP message at the dawn of 2010 is to adopt your heart with a conviction towards truth. Not a truth that so much bears your own stamp of approval- it's rarely that... but the truth of what is, right then and there- without thought immersed in pure experience-

and move with who you are- from moment to moment.

We understand that this philosophy doesn’t appear compatible with planning-
but we're convinced there’s a bigger one for each and every one of us.

BE about it y’all.
Blessings to you.

"..a rock on, and YOU don't stop!"

From the BWLP crew:
b.p. d’oiseaux, b.phelcksi parmella and dj frank niao

Tippet and the Angels: Thanksgiving Boy Howdy!

okay, okay, Phil Tippett- sir animation himself- crafts deftly movement endowed imagery here in our neighborhood in West Berekeley- meanwhile Hell's Angels' Sonny Barger has breezed around the way a few times on his blue saddle-boxed hog...reminding me that there's only one Bay Area.
And we're all about it.



from C.W. Nevius in today's SF Chronicle...
"On Wednesday, the local chapter of the motorcycle gang will be downtown at St. Anthony Foundation, helping the faith-based dining room prepare for its annual free Thanksgiving dinner. Are you sensing a photo op?

This all came about because, although St. Anthony's has a large and enthusiastic group of volunteers, slicing up hundreds of turkeys takes some serious elbow grease. Trying to think of an organization with muscular guys who wouldn't mind doing some carving, someone suggested the Hells Angels.

"When we reached out to get some help carving turkeys this Thanksgiving, the Hells Angels stepped up immediately and graciously," said St. Anthony's media manger, Francis Aviani.

But the dinner is still short about 1,000 pounds of turkey. If you'd like to contribute, St. Anthony's has curbside drop-off beginning at 8 a.m."



Happy Thanksgiving to you and Yours

Sickness Video, Kid

get, well...

ill abilities crew turned -isht out.
as well did New Style Motherlode International
as did One Step Ahead
and DS Players
along with Loose Change
with Mind Over Matter
Future shock Bay Area
and the CRAZY MJ tribute by Kenichi Ebina
Plague
some truly BACKINTHEDAYREALNESS from Last For One from South Korea...
and although each of these crews
repped their mother f&%n ass off..
my personal favorite was Deep Down Dopeizm from Norway
because they took me back to Richmond, California in 1977 when the only people I knew getting down that hard were neighborhood crews and Bay Area funksters like the Criminons and Poppatrons, the GLOBE Boys, Close Encounters of the Funkiest Kind in the 80's...
hip hop dance is in good hands world-wide.

wow.

So you now go to our myspace page and listen to the Sickness demo.

get well.
-bpp

'bout to bounce to this...

so i get a call,
"yo b, we gonna see if we still got tix on this.."
i've wanted to check this out in the past; Palace of Fine Arts is
a truly bangin' place to see anything...
so, i'll thow on the furry K and something slightly tippish and slide on through!

peep the techniques...go bang.

more to come on the recording session this next holiday week on the the first cut of the EP: Sickness.

-bpp

sickness preview at myspace

just hashing out a demo of a new cut for the xmas thang.
it's up along with a Saturday morning memo from me buggin' out
and doing some voice warm ups...(tee,hee!)
-bpp

www.myspace.com/hiphopmakenice

"Now, 'S' Come Steppin' Up..."

Like, Yo Kangol. (style, right?)

Throwback...

we've got a really interesting new EP for XMAS
so it's cool that we take a look back at our mAkE nIcE stuff and
post some of those underground efforts...
before we got our isht together.
you'll see what we mean in December.
we'll leave stuff up until November 15th.
after that, it's all new 2009 slash 2010 BWLP

word life.
-bpp

www.myspace.com/hiphopmakenice

Setlist November 2009 BWLP

it's like this:
karriem riggins doing see, Terry Devos doing greatest love, soul clap doing cookie, gwendolyn bunn doing turn the lights out, chris rumble doing pro active, hopper doing SAU spiritually active, lemy shorte lisika doing lemy, amanda diva doing supasonic supanova, Eddie McCaskill doing 126 am, slakah the beatchild doing kj-repeat remix, vintage suprise cut ** lucini**, visioneers doing 55 dollars - mr. marc mac hollahatchaboy!!, Phil Ranelin doing black on the nu, mark tate doing street lights, artifakt doing start today, camp lo doing on smash with styles p & pete rock, charles hamilton doing brooklyn girls, slakah the beatchild doing the answer with melanie durrant, karriem riggins doing sexy mama, paco sounds doing MM take it easy, abstract genius doing abstract super genius, Falty Dl doing made me feel so right
fin.

and you don't stop..
sureshot.
you go
out
to...

Something, Fo My Homegirl, E. Holman

Hold ya' head, sweetheart.

Coming Soon...

we should be good to go by the 10th.
"bwlp November 2009 The x-wing fighter sentry edition. soundstation bwlp cockpit system in Elana’s x-wing fighter sent on a mission to investigate territory previously unknown to her species. Her particular quad rolls engined vehicle has been modified with compression fuel tanks and a vendetta sound modifications audio unit; a future development between meyer sound system and ilm that merged in 2225. Elana, born into a pilot family- her mother was lead wing in the apocracy north american extinctions under 12th regime..."

stay tuned.

Nice.

q-tip still telling it like it is.