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“ Minimal Friends” NOX (prod. By Kev Brown) [March 2018] https://soundcloud.com/kingnox/minimal-friends-ft-allone Nox in full-form performing NOX is a fellow Long Island rapper and was a relatively new friend at the time of this collaboration, after catching him live a handful of times, it was clear we both had a verbose and intellectual approach to writing with an insistent emphasis on our strange sides and leaning into our interests. He's a fantastic freestyler (Here are some episodes of my Spontaneous Sundays with AllOne we did together: Ep. 55   ep. 60 , ep. 90 ) as well so we bonded on our love for the improvised craft. Nox, like Jesse, presented the ideal preparedness for a guest request, bringing the lo-fi Kev Brown instrumental to me as well as his fully formed verse and a solid intention for my role in the track. When he told me the theme and that he intended on calling it “minimal friends”, a sort of anthem for the outsider, a confessional tribute to...

Hey AllOne Family,      As we continue into early 2019 I thought it might be another fun retrospective weekly series to highlight some of the music I shared a role in throughout 2018. This year and 2015 were the only two years since 2010 that I didn't release some sort of full EP or LP project since I started sharing music publicly in 2010. However, Two-thousand and Collaborateen this was appropriately a relatively fecund year for quality collaborations and as a bonus, nearly all of them were unprecedented collaborations with artist friends as well!      Here is the start of an overview of a few of the songs that made it to the public ear (some that I wrote and recorded are still in behind-the-curtain stages). I felt it may be interesting to know the origins of relationship that spawned them and perhaps to know a brief comment on my intent and experience writing them.      I genuinely enjoy writing guest verses and answering t...

“Call Your Mom” Criminal Episode 4 written by Bruce A. Pandolfo 4/8/2017 Among the idle chatter the officers had to stifle laughter despite the graphic aftermath at the crime scene when Casey said “I'll try to reach my Mom” at 3 O'clock, she's on the homicide team. Alright see, this isn't your ordinary morbid fairy tale a story carrying a portrait pairing well with an altered rearing skill absorbing love in a horrid scary world where the corpses can be held among hair-raising awful hellishness then when the day is done with just act normal, head home hug infants cuddle and kiss your husband tiptoeing a befuddling balance of the love of your bloodline and comfortably shrugging off puddling lines of blood that your day is covered in sometimes. Etched in a family tree, name signed in mortal coil cursive twisting like a double helix, genes twist tales from toiling Vernons Bill and Linda spend a lifetime near li...

The Perfect Specimen (Criminal Episode 36) written by Bruce A. Pandolfo 4/3/17 The Treaty Oak For more than five centuries, A Southern Live Oak set the scene an Austin Texas centerpiece as long as memory, Treaty Oak elder's seen this entire country get its feet, rooted long before we were ever seeds. An ancient arbor of immensity, average canopy can peak capped at 50 feet but its sprawling branches broadly spanning a brawny massive hundred feet across, its contortionist form twisted, tinseled in Spanish moss, The rings it's got, can you imagine all the things it saw, The trials and tribulations of tribal natives the languid limbs swaying waving in winds bereft of industrialization, spied tribes of Native Americans assessing it with reverence, Seen Steve meet chiefs achieving land possession taken and make a state that became Texas and it was there in '22 that one of its brethren was chopped and tattooed to...

The Portrait (A Lawsons Murder Ballad) (Criminal Podcast episode 25) written by Bruce A. Pandolfo 4/2/17 An injured Charlie Lawson's Tobacco tender bought Children's toys and pricey clothes, for his family to be shot... The rustic regal-garbed group, expressions grave although Marie gleamed with teen beauty, and perhaps a mother's glow? A pretty penny portrait, portrayed for holidays, Foreshadowed short-changed futures for the family he betrayed One read “No one to blame but...” abrupt there-ends the note The other scrawled “Troubles Can Cause...” shown with those snuffed and smote... A fortnight from the photo, when Christmas Day arrived Fanny baked a Yuletide cake, that no one lived to try Arthur asked his Pa for shells to go and hunt some hare Charles spared and sent him off as though he'd none to spare Art returned to find his ma, and slain siblings arranged, Gored, respectfu...

Hey AllOne Family,      I hope this finds you well... I don't know if "Notes From The Studio" will be a recurring series but I wanted to do a little more talking about the craft and details/decisions behind what I do because I do put a lot of time and effort and mental energy into my creative process and I do love "talking shop" so much that I had this experience and I thought to write about it and invite you into this little window of my world and perhaps you could get something out of it, either as a creator yourself or just perhaps a nugget of information to satisfy any generous curiosity you might have. A few weeks ago, I tracked a new verse for a guest spot on a song from DRENT and Kleen Kut's next "Illiterate Wordsmiths" project "Edgar Allens Ave" .  The song is about bullying, suicide and loss and each rapper on the song plays a different character and role in the drama.  The incredible Ceschi of Fake Four Inc. is also...

“I've Been Thinking...” behind the songs “THOUGHT PROCESS SERIES” My latest full length album,  “I've Been Thinking...”  released on the Savannah based label  Dope Sandwich Records and Tapes  May 3 rd  is a collection of concepts and narratives that I've written over the last few years featuring instrumental contributions from coast to coast and outside of the country as well. Looking over the collection I'd opine that it is some of my finest work to date (one would hope). What have you been thinking? Over 12 days I had planned on be releasing a behind-the-music sort of blurb for each track.  I got a little off schedule due to a series of crazy life changes and distracting obstacles, but I'm back to finishing up this series! If there are any questions or comments regarding the songs please submit them and I'll do my best to answer and fulfill them! I hope this series is of interest and that the music does something for you! As a short aside before w...