He embarked on an international tour to support the record, performing concerts in North America, Japan, Australia, and the United Kingdom between September and April 2010. A widespread critical success, The Ecstatic was viewed as a return to form for Mos Def and one of the year’s best albums.
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Its sales benefited from its presence on Internet blogs and the release of a T-shirt illustrating the record’s packaging alongside a label printed with a code redeemable for a free download of the album. But by the shameful standards Mos Def set for himself, any album with some semblance of effort was bound to be heralded as a return to form, and The Ecstatic. Released on June 9, 2009, The Ecstatic charted at number nine on the Billboard 200 and eventually sold 168,000 copies. Mos Def titled The Ecstatic after one of his favorite novels-the 2002 Victor LaValle book of the same name-believing its titular phrase evoked his singular creative vision for the album. Its loosely structured, lightly reverbed songs used unconventional time signatures and samples taken from a variety of international musical styles, including Afrobeat, soul, Eurodance, jazz, reggae, Latin, and Middle Eastern music. Mos Def’s raps about global politics, love, spirituality, and social conditions were informed by the zeitgeist of the late 2000s, Black internationalism, and Pan-Islamic ideas, as he incorporated a number of Islamic references throughout the album. The Ecstatic was described by music journalists as a conscious and alternative Hip Hop record with an eccentric, internationalist quality. For its front cover, a still from Charles Burnett’s 1978 film Killer of Sheep was reproduced in red tint. Singer Georgia Anne Muldrow, formerly of the record label, was one of the album’s few guest vocalists, along with rappers Slick Rick and Talib Kweli. Flash, Oh No, and Madlib, the latter two of whom re-used instrumentals they had produced on Stones Throw Records.
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After venturing further away from Hip Hop with an acting career and two poorly received albums, Mos Def signed with Downtown Records and recorded The Ecstatic primarily at the Record Plant in Los Angeles. The Ecstatic is the fourth studio album by Mos Def. this could catch on.Mos Def’s fourth studio album. Pete Fowler's vinyl toys for the Super Furry Animals, Green Day Converse shoes, David Bowie coloured contact lenses, Black-Eyed Peas toilet roll. We'd love to see more of these avatars: physical representations of a virtual album. And the CD.Įven if you do stick to the CD format, you can even leave out the music, as Danger Mouse proved recently. Meanwhile, Tool drummer Josh Freese offered a range of packages with his Since 1972 album: $7 got you a CD, $50 got you the CD and five minutes on the phone with Josh, and if you spend $75,000 Josh gives you his drum kit, puts together a five-song EP about your life and becomes your personal assistant for a month. Each nifty-gifty set included the download of the album itself, and a giant poster of a psychedelic horse. Mr Def may be the biggest name to get shirty, but he's not the first: last year, neon quirkpopsters Of Montreal released the Skeletal Lamping long-player in the form of a CD, vinyl LP, tote bag, t-shirt, badge set, paper lantern and wall decal set. Digital music has freed artists from the shackles of the physical form, which means you can package your album however you like. It'll be available on 7 July for $40 (£25), or you can listen now at /mosdef. The idea began with a $60 (£36) compilation mix t-shirt by LnA clothing, Downtown Music and Invisble DJ, who are now stitching up The Ecstatic. The t-shirt features the album cover on the front, a tracklisting on the back, and a code on the tag to download the actual music. The Ecstatic will be downloadable with a special code when you buy the garment. Rapper, actor and former Bill Cosby sidekick Mos Def is to release his latest album on a t-shirt.
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