If you DON'T KNOW WHO ZO! is, use the search button up top or Google. Dope artist. He was a key part of the Foreign Exchange live album I recently spoke on...
Showing posts with label SunStorm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SunStorm. Show all posts
@Zo3hree5ive has revealed the artwork for his upcoming CD.."Just Visiting Three"....
If you DON'T KNOW WHO ZO! is, use the search button up top or Google. Dope artist. He was a key part of the Foreign Exchange live album I recently spoke on...
@FeOfficial presents..@Zo3hree5ive's"Greater Than The Sun"..video ft. @phontigallo dir. by @philthegod
Another dope video. Love the 'real World' touch of Phonte (Zo! tweeted me and said it was he that was driving so I stand corrected...) whipping a Kia 'cause lets face it, everyone isn't whipping a Bentley coupe..No faking. No fronting. Just real honest music and stories. I PERSONALLY dig that. This is off of Zo!'s album Sunstorm...Available on all over. (I got mine in Best Buy so...Yes, all over.) Melodic production by Zo!. Very talented cat indeed.
Cotdamm they are busy over there at @Feofficial..Video coming for @Zo3hree5ive 's Greater Than the Sun ft. @phontigallo
All you indie artists take notes... you gotta be on your 'grizzly' if you want to make it. None of this sitting on your material, waiting for things to pop. Get out there and push your product. Get to work. It can be done. You know when the video is released, we will have it here.
@Zo3hree5ive ....speaks w/@jodinescorner on his new album #Sunstorm in ATL...
It is good to see Lorenzo getting love for that masterful album of his.....Very well put together. Unfamiliar with it? Watch the video and then go pick it up! Good music.
I think every artist should do this in some form...Zo! breaks down the making of his songs..
I am only going to give one entry. That way you can go to HIS BLOG and read about the rest of the making of the tracks.
"10. Flight Of the Blackbyrd (ft. Phonte)
The actual motivation behind this song is pretty interesting. Those who know me personally understand that I am pretty laid back for the most part, but that I am very competitive. It is part of my personality, it's a motivator for me, and I guess it's simply just the way I am wired. Hell, I played baseball through college so it was a NECESSARY trait if anything and I definitely have not "grown out of it". The reason why I remember the exact date of my creating this song is because another one of my brothers and great friends in music, Nicolay released his excellent City Lights 2: Shibuya album. Where's the connection? Well, I haven't even told Nic this... But I remember sitting at the computer and logging on to Twitter and seeing everyone talking about the new City Lights 2 album. So I'm reading, retweeting the album link, checking out all the positive comments.... and it hit me. My competitive side began to talk shit to me...
"Uhhh... what the hell are YOU doing right now?! Your people are releasing dope albums and you're sitting up on TWITTER. GET yo punk ass in the studio!!" © My Competitive Conscience
This is yet another advantage to working closely with kats who are so great at what they do, because it causes you to HAVE to be on point at all times. I put my computer to sleep and walked into the studio and a drum pattern just kinda came to me (higher power) that happened to be written in 3/4... Hmmmm, that's kinda different already. The chord progression soon followed and not too long after that, a "B" part (a section where there is a change in the music - kind of a "part 2"). I laid the song out FULLY, the intro piece, main part, the piano solo, the percussion breakdown (where I used percussion instruments that I bought specifically for the "Perfect Angel" remake), and the B part. ...I got Phonte on the phone and told him I would be sending a new one through. I sent him the instrumental and heard nothing back...............
...The next morning, I woke up to a text at about 6:55am......
Phonte: You at the crib?
Me: Yeah
P: SENT.
M: Got it... putting it on the iPod and listening on the way to the craziness (a/k/a WORK)
P: Nigga, call/text/IM/two-way/smoke signal me as SOON as you finish that shit
Maaaan, look. There are some songs that you listen to the first minute or two of them and know you're sitting on something special... THIS was that song. As soon as I heard Phonte's vocals come in, I was like... "This is it, this shit is CRAZY." I called him right back on the way to work and we were hyped up about this new joint... and the ideas started pouring. The next thing I know, here's a final version of the song with trumpeter Stan Graham goin' off on the joint with Phonte doing horn arrangements. DOPE. Overall, this joint took us the least amount of time to complete... Less than a day.
Musically, this was my "show off" joint all because my competitive side took over for a minute. Thanks to my FE family for pushing me to make music like this joint in particular and not even realizing it! lol"
Get that album here
Looks like FEOfficial will be streaming Zo!'s whole album tonight at 12.
The album is called SunStorm.
You can listen to it at http://www.theforeignexchangemusic.com/
The album features the new single 'This Could Be The Night' ft. Rapper Pooh, Eric Roberson and Darien Brockington.
Zo- Sunstorm (7/27/10)
"SunStorm" is the latest album from Detroit-area born, DC-area based producer/multi-instrumentalist Zo!
Best known for his 2008 collaboration with Phonte on the cult classic "Zo and Tigallo Love the 80's" as well as his work on The Foreign Exchange's Grammy-nominated LP, "Leave It All Behind," "SunStorm" is an extensive 12-track set that shows the ever-expanding range and depth of Zo! and the entire Foreign Exchange Music family.
1. Greater Than The Sun feat. Phonte
2. Greatest Weapon Of All Time feat. Sy Smith
3. Say How You Feel feat. Carlitta Durand and Phonte
4. For Leslie
5. Be Your Man feat. Darien Brockington
6. Free Your Mind feat. Lady Alma
7. SunStorm feat. YahZarah
8. If I Could Tell You No feat. Jesse Boykins III
9. This Could Be The Night feat. Eric Roberson, Darien Brockington & Rapper Big Pooh
10. Flight Of The Blackbyrd feat. Phonte
11. All Is Well With Love feat. Chantae Cann
12. Make Luv 2 Me feat. Monica Blaire
