Missing Links Issa Ibrahim 2012 music CD- Limited Edition, limited quantities collector’s item UPC 888174229331
With a desire to move on to something new and/or different I approached this recording as a largely acoustic affair. Quieter instrumentation and arrangements, and an adamant decision to forego any kind of conventional drumming (and even bass). This freed me up to experiment with different types of percussion and allowed me to flesh out the songs in more unique ways for me.
“BUM ON THE STREET (PIMP IN THE JOINT)” began as just jottings of indiscriminate but colorful anecdotes, intimidation, insults, and threats overheard while detained at Rikers Island, 1990-91. I revisited it years later and built the deceptively gentle song around it. It's all coded to the jail experience, almost inscrutable to those who haven't been. My favorite layered put down was "you'll see many a Soul Train" suggesting one stupid enough to take a bad plea and get served, do a lot of time, and wind up in front of that damned TV...watching Soul Train, a popular jailhouse favorite, as well as the long train of poor, black souls trafficked through the criminal justice system.
“LIVING PROOF” is fun for me to listen to this because I loosely quote Lesley Gore’s “It’s My Party” and The Who’s “See Me, Feel Me”. One of many “screaming to be heard from behind enemy lines” songs.
Recorded in a halfway house on the grounds of Creedmoor Psychiatric Center.
13 songs written, performed and produced by Issa Ibrahim. Limited quantities.
With a desire to move on to something new and/or different I approached this recording as a largely acoustic affair. Quieter instrumentation and arrangements, and an adamant decision to forego any kind of conventional drumming (and even bass). This freed me up to experiment with different types of percussion and allowed me to flesh out the songs in more unique ways for me.
“BUM ON THE STREET (PIMP IN THE JOINT)” began as just jottings of indiscriminate but colorful anecdotes, intimidation, insults, and threats overheard while detained at Rikers Island, 1990-91. I revisited it years later and built the deceptively gentle song around it. It's all coded to the jail experience, almost inscrutable to those who haven't been. My favorite layered put down was "you'll see many a Soul Train" suggesting one stupid enough to take a bad plea and get served, do a lot of time, and wind up in front of that damned TV...watching Soul Train, a popular jailhouse favorite, as well as the long train of poor, black souls trafficked through the criminal justice system.
“LIVING PROOF” is fun for me to listen to this because I loosely quote Lesley Gore’s “It’s My Party” and The Who’s “See Me, Feel Me”. One of many “screaming to be heard from behind enemy lines” songs.
Recorded in a halfway house on the grounds of Creedmoor Psychiatric Center.
13 songs written, performed and produced by Issa Ibrahim. Limited quantities.
With a desire to move on to something new and/or different I approached this recording as a largely acoustic affair. Quieter instrumentation and arrangements, and an adamant decision to forego any kind of conventional drumming (and even bass). This freed me up to experiment with different types of percussion and allowed me to flesh out the songs in more unique ways for me.
“BUM ON THE STREET (PIMP IN THE JOINT)” began as just jottings of indiscriminate but colorful anecdotes, intimidation, insults, and threats overheard while detained at Rikers Island, 1990-91. I revisited it years later and built the deceptively gentle song around it. It's all coded to the jail experience, almost inscrutable to those who haven't been. My favorite layered put down was "you'll see many a Soul Train" suggesting one stupid enough to take a bad plea and get served, do a lot of time, and wind up in front of that damned TV...watching Soul Train, a popular jailhouse favorite, as well as the long train of poor, black souls trafficked through the criminal justice system.
“LIVING PROOF” is fun for me to listen to this because I loosely quote Lesley Gore’s “It’s My Party” and The Who’s “See Me, Feel Me”. One of many “screaming to be heard from behind enemy lines” songs.
Recorded in a halfway house on the grounds of Creedmoor Psychiatric Center.
13 songs written, performed and produced by Issa Ibrahim. Limited quantities.