Digable Planets - Blowout Comb Artist_Duke Ellington Centering Sparke’s powerful vocals throughout

Centering Sparke’s powerful vocals throughout

This concept is supported by the way much of the narration unfolds -- in the liminal spaces between radio frequencies

while the mix concludes with a spoken word piece by Tierney Malone

Tanna Leone) Mother I Sober (Feat

* For all fans of the Wamono series

Digable Planets - Blowout Comb Artist_Duke Ellington Centering Sparke’s powerful vocals throughoutBlowout Comb is named for the combs used to maintain an Afro hairstyle, and thats significant in itself. As the groups Ishmael Butterfly Butler explains, "It means the utilization of the natural, a natural style." Like with 1993s debut, Reachin (A New Refutation of Time and Space), "utilizing the natural" meant creating hip hop that blended jazz with the formidable rap skills of the aforementioned Butterfly, Craig "Doodlebug" Irving, and Mary Ann