Yeah.
I haven’t payed any attention to my tumblr. I’ll change that this week folks. Peace for now.
Sketch T.C. & The Furor Poeticus presents…
Acoustic Cafe. Bridgeport, CT 2/10/12
What a crazy night. Awesome opening sets from Big Moon (who closed their set out with a cover of Notorious B.I.G.’s “Ten Crack Commandments” lol doooope) and Darian Cunning backed by Kenny Owens on drums. Mo Niklz paid tribute to Dilla and we rocked a meaty 20 song set as a 9 piece band. DJ Sir Cumference made his debut as a percussionist and Workforce, Roc Doogie, and Expertiz made guest appearances.
Setlist:
1. Busking & Speeding Tickets
2. Re-Introductions Aren’t Necessary But Fuck It
3. Beware! Witness!
4. If
5. Place To Be
6. Sketchforce (feat. Workforce)
7. Words And Numbers
8. Kidney Stones
9. Get Over You (feat. Expertiz)
10. Revolution Will Not Be…
11. Love Is
12. No Answers Will Be Found Here (feat. Roc Doogie)
13. Yesterday Is For Suckers
14. Sleep Deprivation And The Artist
15. Love Poems To My Impending Poverty
16. Furor Poeticus
17. The Venue
ENCORE
18. Rebel Music / Whole Lotta Love
19. Song For The Malnourished
20. Virginia Slim / Apache
Lowered the price of physical copies of my newest album today. Visit the site to stream the album and if you like what you hear… pick it up. You also immediately get a download of the project.
If you lack the loot, you could download “Get Over You” and “Kidney Stones” for free! Peace and blessings folks. Spread the word.
http://sketchtc.bandcamp.com/album/indie-rappers-do-it-for-gas-money-2
Just some words.
“Make product worthy of purchase at prices that are purchasable instead of attacking folks for piracy in acts leading to censorship.”
If I didn’t spit bars, I’d be locked behind them
—@SketchTC (via iareconscious)
(via dovetailjay)
The band is back!
My full band The Furor Poeticus is going to be hitting the stage at Acoustic Cafe as a ten piece once again on the evening of Friday February 10th. I’m very very excited about this. We will be performing a gang of material for the first time, keyboard bad ass Steve Detroy will be joining us for the first time, and Phenetiks’ DJ Sir Cumference will be making his debut as a percussionist this evening.
Its going to be a family affair as the opening sets of the evening will be performed by my drummer (and fantastic singer/songwriter) Darian Cunning and my guitarist Will Vega’s band Big Moon.
This will be the first time we have performed together since (I believe) last June.
Be there folks… and tell everyone to do the same.
FB link: http://www.facebook.com/events/137448493030957/?ref=ts
2011! Very thankful for you! I wanted to compile a lot of the places my album was featured in the last quarter of the year so that you folks could check out a lot of the kind words in one place (was looking for the unkind but I haven’t really encountered them lol) I want to thank all of the writers that pushed the album into sight for folks.
This Is Book’s Music: (Album review)
“What makes this work for me is this. In these songs, there’s a sense of lyrical and musical freedom that I love to hear, one I feel has almost disappeared in hip-hop”
http://www.thisisbooksmusic.com/2011/10/01/review-sketch-tha-cataclysm-indie-rappers-do-it-for-gas-money-volume-two/
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Indiefeed Hip-Hop: feature of “Get Over You”
“Get over the other songs on your playlist and get with this.”
http://indiefeed.com/2011/09/sketch-tha-cataclysm-get-over-you-ft-expertiz/
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Fairfield Weekly: Voted Best Hip-Hop Act
http://www.ct.com/entertainment/music/grand-band-slam/fairfield/wtxx-grand-band-slam-fairfield-county-2011-best-hiphop-20110824,0,1766567.story
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CT.Com: The Best Albums Of 2011
“One of the best hip-hop artists to flow out of CT in…well, in a long time…offered up his newest opus. Hip-hop fans take notice!”
http://www.ct.com/blog/wcct-blog-guitar-best-albums-of-2011-by-connecticut-bands-20111214,0,2122077.photogallery
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The Madbloggers: Feature of “Get Over You” & “Kidney Stones”
http://www.themadbloggers.com/2011/09/sketch-tha-cataclysm-get-over-you-feat.html
http://www.themadbloggers.com/2011/10/sketch-tha-cataclysm-kidney-stones-prod.html
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CT Post’s Culture Cache: Favorite albums of 2011 & Favorite Songs Feature
Laden with finely-wrought beats, complex lyricism and indefatigable soul, “IRDIFGM 2” trumps many of the records peddled by the rap mainstream this year.
http://blog.ctnews.com/culturecache/author/scottgargan/
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Rap Reviews: 2011 Year in View Album Feature
By the time folks will have gotten to “IRDIFGM” at track nine it will have made them a fan of hip-hop and Sketch.”
http://rapreviews.com/year/11adamb.html
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iHeartDilla “Kidney Stones” feature
http://iheartdilla.com/ihd/2011/10/sketch-tha-cataclysm-indie-rappers-do-it-for-gas-money-vol-2.html
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aboveGround Magazine “Kidney Stones” feature
http://abovegroundmagazine.com/the-leak/singles/10/07/sketch-tha-cataclysm-kidney-stones-prod-willie-green/
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Ct Hip Hop feature of “Get Over You”
“I respect the hell out of this dude”
http://www.cthiphop.net/2011/09/16/sketch-preps-album/
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Rock the Dub features “Kidney Stones”
“Sketch goes buck on this beats, with loads of words and lines flying by you. Definite rewind track here.”
http://www.rockthedub.com/2011/10/sketch-tha-cataclysm-stones.html
Indie Rappers Do It For Gas Money 2 is now streaming on my bandcamp for all of you silly folks who have yet to hear such things and for you folks that have and want to help spread the words (that rhyme).
You could also purchase physical copies direct from the site and automagically receive a download of the full project! Amazing right? (Kinda) Anyway yeah… http://sketchtc.bandcamp.com
Performing “If (The Possibilities)” with DJ Mo Niklz at Kenny’s Castaways in NYC.
A Pleading For Return
Please answer me… Exhale… anything. The smallest reverberation formed from your lips can resuscitate the remembrance of your skin against mine, where all converges and feasts upon the heavens’ blinding light. There can not be anything more beautiful than that place right there by your side and your lungs hone the ability to breathe our us into fruition once again… so… … Please answer… Just… a word. One fucking enticing word or even just hello. Once a greeting, now amorous, hello could level me into the man I should be; ashes of truth dancing in the wind wishing to one day return to your grace. That wondrous warmth once bestowed; oh how I miss your grasp of my frame that I’d search for a thousand similes for “paradise” and discard each failing trying to describe such… so… Please… say… anything. Force your air upon my thoughts so I can once again dance amongst those lips I somehow know were built for me. Built for me to taste serenity’s moment of sunset, bask in its corona and die twice swimming in the current of your raindrops. One syllable can allow these fingertips to run trails through follicles traced crown to waist and allow you to be nestled in my arms where you should be. Come home… I miss you.
