Pre-order of That's what I been sayin'. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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releases May 24, 2024
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
High definition twelve inch black vinyl LP (33RPM, Stereo), shrink wrapped with a merchandising sticker.
Includes digital pre-order of That's what I been sayin'.
You get 2 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
That’s what I been sayin’
That’s what I mean
That’s what I been sayin’
All along
You can plow a field put up a cotton gin
You can clear out all them red Indians
The day feels short because the night never ends
You can’t throw a party if you ain’t got no friends
That’s what I been sayin’
That’s what I mean
That’s what I been sayin’
All along
That’s what I been sayin’ all along
You can’t build a house on a hollow log
You can save your prayin’ and your gaddin’ about
You can’t build a union on a broken house
That’s what I been sayin’
That’s what I mean
That’s what I been sayin’
All along
You can print money and let the immigrants in
You can make movies about original sin
You can talk loud and wave bazookas around
But there ain’t no way to keep history out
That’s what I been sayin’
That’s what I mean,
That’s what I been sayin’
All along
Making living after living
On some punk who croaked
Getting back together
For da lucre in merch
Old men in t-shirts and a sycophant row haha
Da record business made you all a joke
God-star sty-god liver and cod
Cartin' round manure in delivery trucks
Playmate placate futures in rent
You call it punk rock but its dollars and cents
7.
Love stop Hugo
8.
Ain't nobody move me
9.
Barely here
10.
Buzuq synth
11.
The best love
about
Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Rami Gabriel has been a motive force in rock n' roll, jazz, Arabic, and experimental music communities across North America for over twenty years. In that time, he has released numerous projects across genres and under many names. On his debut LP for Sooper Records, Rami trips all the breakers. In his own name and voice for the first time, That’s what I been sayin’ is not so much a debut as a conflagration in Rami Gabriel’s worldly underground.
Drawing on Punk, Krautrock, Dub, No Wave, and lo- fi, the territory occupied by That's what I been sayin' is astringent, minimal, and buzzing with the sound of machines dancing in the wind.
“I’m used to putting out records based on genre,” says Rami of his multiple endeavors. “I was listening to one of the ‘70s Brian Eno records where he took his experimental work and his songs and put it all together, and I was thinking, ‘Why don’t I try to put all the different ways I’ve been working for the last couple years onto one record?’” That’s what I been sayin’ ignites this vision with an album that ranges from the motorik-driven krautrock of “Like a monk” to the unexpected trance-like pairing of “Buzuq synth.”
That’s what I been sayin’ is a furnace of Rami’s insuppressible impulses, where he undertakes to ask and answer: what is left of punk but making do with what is at hand? At times direct and scorching, at others meditative and wandering, That’s what I been sayin’ compresses Rami’s understanding as a composer, musician, and singer into a restless, 11-track love letter to the underground.
For Fans of The Fall, Haruomi Hosono, Brian Eno, and Scientist.
credits
releases May 24, 2024
Written by Rami Gabriel
Executive Producer Rami Gabriel
Additional Production by Chris Grabowski (tracks 4, 5, 10)
Mixing by Alex Hall
Mixing by Alex Hall & Rami Gabriel (tracks 6, 7, 9, 11)
Mixing by Chris Grabowski (4, 5, 10)
Mastered by Alex Hall
Mastered for Vinyl by Steve Marek
Recorded in Chicago between 2020 and 2023 at Rami four-track cassette home studio (6, 7, 9, 11), padK-rAd studio (4, 5, 10), and Reliable Recorders (1, 2, 3, 8)
Performers:
Rami Gabriel (guitars, vocals, drum machines, keyboards, bass, buzuq, riqq)
Alex Hall (drums on tracks 1, 2, 3, 8, 9)
Chris Grabowski (analog synthesizers on tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10)
Scott Ligon (acoustic guitar on track 2)
Casey McDonough (bass on track 2)
Cover photography by Chris Ligon
Polaroids by Noor Shawaf
Watercolors by Rami Gabriel
Layout and Design by Izzi Vasquez
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