Rakim's loop | Borys Kossakowski | Cities and Memory

+ add
stats
×
- See all results
- No matching results
  
  Try a different filter or a new search keyword.
Search all Bandcamp artists, tracks, and albums
cancel

partner
×
- See all results
- No matching results
  
  Try a different filter or a new search keyword.
Search all Bandcamp artists, tracks, and albums
cancel
sign up
log in

We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.

We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Borys Kossakowski - Rakim's loop

from Smithsonian Treasures by Cities and Memory

	/

Buy the Full Digital Album

about

Piece based on cordless microphone used by Rakim to record The 18th Letter from the National Museum of African American History and Culture (1997).

A piece inspired by the Item Number 61 - Cordless microphone used by Rakim to record The 18th Letter.

I dare to say that we are friends with Rakim now. For the last couple of weeks, we spent a lot of time together. Although we never met or talk.

Rakim was walking around the room, talking about his life. I was listening, noting, recording his words. We listened to the music. I showed him some old sketches of mine - ideas, improvisations, live sessions. Finally, he said: this one. What’s that?
‘Lately’ by Love Loopers - a live-at-home session recorded by my wife and me - said I.

Suddenly everything started to match and fit - just like in a puzzle game.

That’s Rakim’s Loop. Meet Rakim.

Rakim - William Michael Griffin Jr. (born January 28, 1968), better known by his stage name Rakim. American rapper, one half of golden age hip hop duo Eric B. & Rakim. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential and most skilled MCs of all time.

Samples used:
Rakim - Skits from album “The 18th Letter”
Rakim - excerpts from “An Evening With Rakim Allah Interviewed by Chuck D”
Tomasz Stańko Quintet - Dark Eyes
John Coltrane Quartet - Acknowledgement
Miles Davis - Generique
Tomasz Stańko live solo feat. Wisława Szymborska - Tutaj/Here
Love Loopers (feat. Anna Szuchiewicz and Borys Kossakowski) - Lately (live at home session)

credits

from Smithsonian Treasures, released June 1, 2020

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Cities and Memory image

Cities and Memory Oxford, UK

Cities and Memory is one of the world’s biggest sound projects, a global, collaborative sound art and field recording programme with the aim of remixing the world, one sound at a time. It covers more than 100 countries and territories with 5,000+ sounds and more than 1,000 contributing artists.
Thousands of field recordings, recomposed and reimagined by artists around the world. ... more

contact / help

Contact Cities and Memory

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Rakim's loop, you may also like:

The Music of Hildegard von Bingen | Live at Public Records
by Larum

supported by 6 fans who also own “Rakim's loop”

Very good album, quality sound, good combination of instruments! artilebalrog
go to album
Waves of Now
by Steve Roach & Robert Rich

supported by 5 fans who also own “Rakim's loop”

As someone who has also been actively working at various pursuits for 30 years (or more…sigh), it warms my heart to experience the freshness and creativity in this lovely tribal ambience while also seeing it remain true to lifelong artistic visions. Listening takes me deeply into the heart of the now, and actually makes me want to be here. Thanks to both musicians also for making this music available for free: may your gift of love be returned a thousandfold. Dave Aftandilian
go to album
Sanctuary of Desire
by Steve Roach

supported by 5 fans who also own “Rakim's loop”

One half more actively hypnotic, one half more passively meditative, Steve Roach has done it again. Leterren
go to album
SAD GODS presents "Singing for Survival - a Compilation for Project Onward"
by Various Artists

A stellar compilation featuring shoegaze and indie favorites like Drowse, Midwife, and Mount Eerie benefitting Project Onward in Chicago. Bandcamp New & Notable May 11, 2023
go to album
bivouac of the avant-garde: contemporary minimal, electronic and experimental music, vol.2
by Difficult Art And Music

The 17 mindbending songs on this compilation represent minimalist experimental music at its best, a collage of blips and static. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 3, 2022
go to album
Loss Less
by KAMRAN SADEGHI

Recorded inside a nuclear cooling tower, this 25-minute album is distinguished by innovative sound design and musical ingenuity. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 18, 2020
go to album
ISOLATION AND REJECTION VOL 3
by Front & Follow

supported by 4 fans who also own “Rakim's loop”
go to album

Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Beans joins the show to discuss his album release, "ZWAARD".