CRISIS TALES by Curse Ov Dialect
“Ambitious and brilliant, there’s not a false step on this album”
**** four stars - ROLLING STONE
“As legitimate and original as Australian hip-hop gets” – THE VINE
“A fearless, challenging achievement” - MESS + NOISE
“Hyper-sharp, anti-beige, hip hop allsorts gang Curse Ov Dialect have been upping the ante for nearly ten years now from their home city Melbourne. Their sound is a musicologist’s delight, as diverse and worldly as their bottomless musical appetites” - TRIPLE J HOME & HOSED
“Unhinged synth-pop… brutal, Suicide-esque electronic dirge… The flourishing folk hooks of Media Moguls and Conscious Terror are two of their finest moments”
**** 1/2 four and a half stars – MUSIC AUSTRALIA GUIDE
“Curse Ov Dialect’s fourth long player is breathless, upbeat and frenetic; a very left-field take on hip hop; the kind of insane, creative, weird and wonderful burst of eccentricity that’s so accomplished that it actually sounds like a world unto itself.”
- CYCLIC DEFROST
Curse ov Dialect’s new album is a dizzying, multi-dimensional carnival of conscious hip hop. Inspired by surrealistic grappling with questions of identity and evolution, Curse ov Dialect have collectively created Crisis Tales: a psychedelic, kaleidoscopic scrawl of mercurial rage and spasmodic humour, flowing freely into the void of consumer culture.
The alien yet familiar sounds of Crisis Tales reflect the psychological and geographical adventures of the five-strong Melbourne crew (MCs Raceless and Vulk Makedonski, vocalists August the 2nd and Aturungi, and DJ/producer Paso Bionic). Having toured extensively throughout Western and Eastern Europe, Japan and North America, fostering connections with musicians met on their travels, Curse ov Dialect know no borders.
Crisis Tales is the most impressive product yet of the band’s restless creativity and degenerate mindscape. A hybrid gumbo of musical mutations and bending of genres, the album climaxes with an epic, 11-minute transnational posse track featuring guest rappers from Macedonia, Germany, Poland, Indonesia, Switzerland and the United States.
Produced by Curse ov Dialect and mixed by DJ/producer Danielsan (Koolism), Crisis Tales sprawls a wide-spectrum, organic sonic palette with a solid hip hop foundation. Special guests include Joelistics (TZU), Elf Tranzporter (Combat Wombat), Kaigen (Japan), RKS, Hugo 1, Eytan Messiah, and Trillion (NZ).
Equal parts empathy and theatricality, Crisis Tales is at once a strident call to arms, challenging society’s restraints of conformity, oppression and religion, and a dreamy contemplation of all things metaphorical and metaphysical.
With an armoury of lyrics both sharp and thoughtful, inscrutable and existential, and a mindblowing, hyper-authentic musicality, Curse ov Dialect is conclusive proof that Australian hip hop is a genre worth infiltrating and subverting.
Tracklist
| 1. | Identity | 3:57 |
| 2. | oo | 2:32 |
| 3. | Paradigm | 3:52 |
| 4. | Media Moguls | 5:50 |
| 5. | Missionaries (feat. MC Hernan Yoia) | 3:21 |
| 6. | Connections | 2:12 |
| 7. | Honesty in Monasteries | 4:28 |
| 8. | 85 Percent | 2:42 |
| 9. | Concious Terror | 4:29 |
| 10. | Vanishing Point | 1:06 |
| 11. | Bh | 3:05 |
| 12. | Aegean Ghosts | 6:29 |
| 13. | Draindrops (feat. Kaigen) | 4:28 |
| 14. | Colossus | 11:21 |
| 15. | Runaway Tears | 3:42 |
Credits
on Staubgold (World) / Mistletone Records (Australia)
ALL tracks Produced by Curse Ov Dialect
Mixed by Danielsan (Koolism)
License
All rights reserved.Tags
Formed in 1994, The surrealist multicultural rap group Curse Ov dialect has been an anomaly in the music scene .Paso Bionic ,Raceless,Atarangi,August 2 and Volk makedonski use ethnic samples and avante garde music married to rap in their songs and dress in folk costumes live.Curse ov dialect were the 1st rap orientated Australian act signed in the U.S in 2003 on L.A based MUSH records.