BLACK EraSURE part 1
I’m watching blackness get erased
We are a part of the earth like graphite
And now the written books don’t even say our names
What were our names
Who is we
Where are we from
where are we now
Where are we going as black people
Do we have a home?
I can’t see
It’s like I’m snow blind
White out
White washing
White papers
White People are coming
The white people are coming
In every urban area they are coming
In droves
And they are driving us out
The suburbs begin to resemble The areas outside of Paris where brown folks are trapped and have no mode of transportation - there is a disconnect
Geographically and experientially
if you don’t see us .. do we exist?
Detroit and dc will no longer be majority black
What happens when chocolate cities turn into almond milk Metropolitan areas exclusive to the empowered and elite?
You say that I sound like an angry black man
Well what black man in his right mind wouldn’t be angry
Are the police an occupying force in your neighborhood
Have the history books erased your experience
Do we own your sources for news, education and healthcare
Do we poison your food?
Did we make laws that said that you are 3/5 s of a person and only for the purpose of taxation
In modern day, prisoners are going to be counted as living in the county of the jail incarcerating them , giving areas more money for more prisoners - yet those prisoners when released often times will not be able to vote
How is 50% of a prison black when only 8 percent of the population of that county is black
Two answers -
you think black People are somehow actually that deviant - either due to poverty or abject neglect
or we have an inherent inability to assimilate …
which is racist
Or you say that the system is racist
Now what?
Do you keep working for the system
With the system
In the system
Do you say burn down the system
Or do you realize there is no system
Just chaos and people
and every decision you make matters…
So now what
Shoot from the hip
hop turn style war of the world
Hypnosis
Gnostic gospels
Garrulous
Hypochondriacs
Over active Hypocsmpus
Hypocratic oath from a hypocrite
I pose an hypothetical hostile
How does a hyper creative make everything under the sun except for a reasonable honest living
From seasonal single streaming?
Do you have a conceivable single inkling
That's not how you buy housing on Houston
His residential situation is an Unreasonable price in comparison to income
So what’s the outcome
Yin, yang, as above, as below
You win some and lose some
I do dort only on my lonesome
Wholesome
Have to face the facts even if the truth of them is gruesome
But don’t force the fabrication
The fascination with the farce of the tower of Babel
Babes in toyland
Land of the lost
20000 leagues under the surface you find the value
Venture capitalismh
Vaccinations
Vandettas
Vindication
Vin diagram
Vassals
Vin diesel
True to the ventricle
Valadictoriam
Variance
Vision
Like marvel
Vision like women in parliament like Markel
Crabs in a barrel that are internally soft but you only see the hardshell
Black men carrying weight and strain of trauma like barbells
The right hand angel
Of god was the morning star so now speak to Lucifer about how far he fell
It ain’t hard to tell
Casting spells
I got more bars than a cell
Cell block
Cell phone
Cellular walls that replicate improperly
And my battles with eukaryotic cells
aren’t a metaphor but literally waged at the level of immunology immunotherapy
And the unseen like
Immigrants
Migrants
Litigants
Planetary Alignment
Illegitimate
Bitterness
Solitary confinement and
Literature that connects bone muscle and social continents like ligaments with significance
Society doesn’t work like a machine and the sum of the parts constitute more than the constituents
As a compliment
The constitutions illegitimate to a mendicant
Trying to keep my constitution mellow with out barbiturates
See a circular hole with a square hardwood third peg leg trying to fit in it
Off the grid where paupers are princes
Off the hook off the hinges
With no mechanisms for defenses
5 days binges that includes nights on park benches
Don't throw the book at my friends they already get judged for use of syringes and being the splendid image of what fringe is
Drug abuse is wicked like the East wick witches and wenches
The mental Machinery sabataged by the wrenches
Catalogue the external dialogue rough like the tempest Relentless my intensive care model for harm reduction is farm production
That profitable
Control the means of construction like yarn and buttons
Barn And mutton
Be responsible
The honorable Constable of the implausible
Captain impossiblen
Master of the illogical
Mahajaraja of the
Horrible idea
The mob says Don't think just take action
Starving with no prospects for growth you wind up with no moral cyompunction towards plate snatching
You Ain't asking
Compulsions with nabbing and grabbing steak rations
And brake all contraptions
Lacking what you need and not having what you want, a rolling stone can't get no satisfaction
That's the solid bass of passion
you need the lamp of Aladdin
Open seasame and sim sim Salabim in
Incense and pollen stems and king Solomon
Ten friends at the entrance follow them
Bottled in the metropolitan
Bribes brides wives
Side by side
Eye to eye
Knives
pried pride wide
inside a divide that
Hides lies
Spy vs spy
Fried Chives , scythes ,
Nine to five
Surprise surprise
I've arrive
The formally idolized
Itemized
Atomized
I surmised
Survived thrived
Stock supplies
Time fly's
I observe with my minds eye
Await high tide
And ride the wave, wave say bye bye
Fly skies
A micro organism can halt all global travel
With enough dynamite
The system splinters into fragments and shrapnel and gravel
Unravels
And the kings and queens can never leave the castle
The vassals fight serfs
And the human chattel cattle
Win wars, and epic brutal battles
Then troubles double like police presence
Piggies all up in my pie crust
Another person fits a description
getting picked out of a line up
The everyday struggle and hustle
We wanna keep it peace and pleasant
Ur how long you expect the oppressed
Not to rise up
Keep your eyes wide shut
Times up
Jeapordy
What's class warfare for a thousand
It's me owning the land and your housing
It's people getting moved out of Brooklyn
Out of Compton
Out of Austin
Protest is patriotic as tea parties in Boston
Riots happen when people fell like they have no other options
The response is bring more cops in to stop them
Look at Portland
When the state has no recourse but violence
Won't that teach people to be violent
They want us not to speak and be silent
Quiet and compliant
While we make moves like migrants
Vibrant with a live set up close and personal
Yvain gwain and percebal
Romance literature in person , digital and virtual
Straight like that horizontal and vertical irreversible
about
Snowblind a collaborative project featuring music by Kanizzle and lyrics by Stonehenge Parnhashnakovsky.
A two song project. Black Erasure and Fringe
Black erasure is an excerpt from the book “Thoughts of an Angry Black Man” that addresses the historical marginalization, ostracization and oppression of Black folks.
If people and communities are not recognized as existing then are their experiences, their lives and the products of their being.. meaningful?
Black Erasure is a critique of the ways in which Africans and people of African descent have been dehumanized, dispossessed and removed from the western awareness.
It's about more than gentrification, it's about more than dispossession of land, it's about more than the police being an active executioner for the state in an attempts to eradicate black men.. it's about the continued system that allows all of those aforementioned barbarism to continue and all the people that are complicit in the destruction black civilization. How could anybody with any awareness of how our prison industrial complex works not want to reform it? Do people care about the lives of black people disappeared by the carceral system ?
What role do we all play?
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The second piece "fringe" is a three part examination of metaphysics, epistemology, contemporary economic theories, personal prospects for prosperity and the possibility of developing of sustainable living practices. The content ranges from the esoteric such as the existential question of why we are alive to the very pertinent and corporal such as police misconduct, expectations for the oppressed and liberation movements.
The reality of being fringe is the experience of being marginalized, overlooked, dismissed and how that can motivate a person or group of people to seek autonomy, to make themselves visible and to be intentioned about affecting the world around them
Presented in a tangle of polysyllabic word play, no choruses and dense internal & external rhyme schemes, you get a lot of heart, emotion and curiosity.
- what is seemingly free association, is not - the rhyme pattern and literary devices are purposeful and arranged as a puzzle of sorts for the listener to decipher. Each set of lyrics has a thematic thread tied very closely to the recurring notions of hegemony, inequity, iniquity, identity construction, the conflicts inherent in billions of people living, and the human capacity for resilience, adaption, and collective partnership in solving problems.
FROM JOSH (KANIZZLE)
As I reflect on my time in music and art, it’s easy to see that one of the biggest hurdles to ‘success’ has been a sort of fierce individuality, DIY aesthetic, and zero desire to play ‘the game’ for the sake of getting more fans. At the end of the day, I’m way more interested in pushing culture, an identity and voice that are mine and no one else’s, and feeling a level of integrity as an artist that I can fall asleep at night knowing I always did ‘me’ to the best of my ability. This path, albeit not one that has brought me glory and fame, has brought into my own circle phenomenal lifelong relationships with like minded individuals who I happen to see as the most talented people the world has ever brought into existence. Chris, aka Christoph aka Christopher aka Parnhashnakovsky, is definitely one of those magical humans…
Chris and I have been in pretty consistent contact over the past decade and a half, with definite lulls and highs in communication yet in general there’s always been a mutual admiration and respect which has kept us in each others lives since meeting many moons ago. Over that time we have collaborated artistically once, yet have said over and over and over that we were going to do something again. So over the past year we’ve both ‘utilized’ the pandemic to catch the Eurorack/Modular synth bug, and this has become a topic of conversation from time to time. When Chris shared with me some spoken word pieces by Annie R U OK which he had co-created with the help of his own Eurorack setup, it immediately put me into the headspace of ‘Yooooooo let’s get a spoken word piece from you on top of one of these drones I’ve done’! Chris had just recently released his book, ‘Thoughts of an Angry Black Man’, which I found particularly powerful AND needed to get in front of more eyes so immediately suggested we do a piece from the book as a promo piece. I sent Chris a ton of things to choose from, he picked two, recorded one from the book and one original one, sent the vocals back, I made it weird, and…..here we are, with two pieces I think we’re both grateful to share with the world!
Both of these pieces are fully ‘generative’ patches in Eurorack, where they have been patched in a way in which the synth ‘plays’ itself. They were also one take, not-multitracked-stereo-in experiments in meditation, learning, and letting go…..and unpatched immediately after recording.
I am absolutely fascinated at the idea of modular synth as an instrument you design, yet an instrument in the classic sense of something you’re actually ‘playing’. It’s an even greater challenge to figure out how to make something interesting which will play itself (shoutout to Jeru) without you even touching it. You’re literally guiding the electricity into its own neural network, creating new connections which never existed prior and will take on a life of their own.
These patches have long since been pulled apart, but after a quick listen some modules that were definitely used -
Make Noise Rene 2
Make Noise Wiard Wogglebug
Make Noise Mimeophone
Make Noise Morphagene
Make Noise Echophon
Make Noise FxDf/RxMx
Rabid Elephant Natural Gate
Divkid/Instruo Ochd
LiveWire Electronics FrequenSteiner
Moog DFAM
TINRS Wobbler
Erica Synths Fusion VCO2
Erica Synths Octasource
Erica Synths Black Wavetable VCO
Noise Engineering Desmodus Versio
Steady State Fate Quantum Rainbow 2
Ieaskul F Mobenthey Dunst
Ieaskul F Mobenthey Sprott
Ieaskul F Mobenthey Fourses
credits
released March 4, 2021
Production, instrumentation, mixing and mastering by Kanizzle.
Lyrics, performance, and album art by Parnhashnakovsky
hyper creative -anti corporate.. been making music for over 20 years. Its an expression of self and connectivity to the universe. My goal is to spread love - the music is a conduit. you and I are one in the same..
