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Small Plate / Rid Them EP

by Piper Street Sound

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    This 7" 45 RPM vinyl features a 7" vinyl friendly cut of Small Plate on the A side and Addis Pablo's melodica version of the rhythm on the B side. Created with 100% recycled vinyl at Kinder Core Vinyl in Athens, Georgia and mastered by Joel Hatstat at High Jump Media.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Small Plate / Rid Them EP via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Small Plate 04:44
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I scraped my face across the skyline Blaming witches and congress For bloody wrists seized By judgemental, metal cuffs, branding Snow-covered hearts legislate the ghettos Decorative blue and red lights notify The runners course the winds for shelter Beneath the laughable moon, tripping Over stories lost in the sidewalk In screams constructing the wilderness Piercing my faith in messiahs and ages Coming and going without an ear As prayers and shell casings reach landfills Neatly compiled as anthologies that I walk through Hearing one million words, crashing Into the thick night air A man offers obscenities to Edgewood Something about star spangled fabric Sewn by corporate profiteering Something about the blood of slaves That line the walls of the Capitol Something about facial expressions magnetized To touch screen based algorithms That stitch the fabric of the status quo The people, they laugh as they pass As they misunderstand his language It translates only to; welcome to the city He might as well be taking swings at the smell Of freshly laid concrete displacing the natives He thanks me for the leftover pizza But I don’t have a cigarette for him He curses the cold and stomps away Offering obscenities to Edgewood Somewhere in time just after seven I left my place in the morning Greeted by an old wooden box Rested at the foot of the stairs My gaze meets with the blue dome Trails of condensation envy the clouds Making a plaid mess of the scape Curtain covers the cold November Cars stretched along Moreland Drivers under the rule of break lights A man clutching a warm drink Drives his workers, without a grasp A gust drags the leaves Across unforgiving concrete Brushing the shoes of bystanders Waiting on a day's wage to collect them They are all but witnesses To the day's creep crawl manner It sneaks in the midday warmth That blemishes the seasonal temperament Without a lesson, or change of heart Evening pours in slowly From the celestial tap I can hear the night wise, feathered Perched and questioning With unknown questions Only to abandon the perch To engage the evening sky With nothing more to teach
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Rid Them 03:39
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This is the city Stone and steel And everything packaged in smog Birds perched on the wire Dropping on your thoughts People finding food in the trash Learning from the things that we trash While we trash the things that we learn This is the city The brick and blood The pervasive concrete ensemble Overpriced coffeehouse talk About the bridges and the hopes Are they as sound as they seem? A man with no tongue, preaching Pointing and screaming Even his song has a reason Capitalism is not born from love or devils Ringleaders notwithstanding, seeping Systemic luring to chained food, traps Heads within boxes Mother's milk canned I am Iron Deficient and cold hearted More often than not Seeking nourishment wrapped in metal A costly war waged with wages I can't afford a perspective There seems to only be refuge in faith As I consume elements to further my skin A mother holds her child Standing in line Driven into prayer by prices Commercial goods have answered As overpriced gods Filling the shelves Markets are temples Bells, chants, jingles, chings Every purchase awakens a ritual
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About the EP:

Atlanta producer Piper Street Sound has created his most accessible and organic offering to date. These songs grow from the traditions of Dub Reggae but gently expand in new directions; with under-spoken and up-punching poetry from street photographer John Arthur Brown, a gracefully slinking Melodica instrumental by Augustus Pablo’s son Addis, and a refreshing Marimba de Chonta version by Jhon ‘Pitufo’ Cortes of Colombia’s Afro-Pacifíco and Reggae welding Plu Con Pla. An all-star cast of Atlanta and Athens musicians, with a full horn section, are the musical foundation on which Piper Street Sound constructs and demolishes soundscapes of ever-shifting echoes and sprawling-while-decaying tone shadows.

A limited edition 7” 45 RPM vinyl of Small Plate b/w Addis Pablo’s Melodica Version is available now.

credits

released February 21, 2020

Drums - Brian Daggett
Percussion - Matthew Mansfield
Bass - Matthew Mansfield
Guitars - Matthew Mansfield, James Keane
Keys - Matthew Mansfield, Christo Case
Melodica - Addis Pablo
Marimba - Jhon ‘Pitufo’ Cortes
Trombone (horn section) - Erin Cundiff
Trombone (lead melodies) - Jonathan Lloyd
Tenor Sax - Chandler Greer
Trumpet - Michael Meo
Vocals - John Arthur Brown

Drums Recorded by Brian Daggett at his home studio
Guitar Recorded by James Keane at his home studio
Key Recorded by Christo Case at his studio
Horns Recorded by Jay Rodgers at Full Moon Studios
Melodica Recorded by Addis Pablo at his home studio
Marimba recorded by Michael Alfred Wagner aka Biomigrant
Birds and wind and rain courtesy of Jah
All other instruments recorded by Matthew Mansfield at Piper Street Sound in Clarkston, GA
Mixed by Matthew Mansfield
Produced and Arranged by Matthew Mansfield/Piper Street Sound
Mastered by Joel Hatstat at High Jump Media in Athens, Georgia
Cover Artwork by Nuino Design

All Songs Composed by Matthew Mansfield except otherwise stated
Melodica written by Addis Swaby
Marimba written by Jhon ‘Pitufo’ Cortes
Lyrics written by John Arthur Brown

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Piper Street Sound Atlanta, Georgia

Matt Mansfield is a musician, producer, and sound engineer with a focus on Dub Reggae. He maintains a studio in Clarkston, Georgia, on the outskirts of Atlanta, where he uses the techniques of Dub and electronic production to explore global soundscapes. Matt is co-owner of FrutFull Space a sync hub and artist friendly publishing company representing the global underground and avant-garde. ... more

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