| About MINROO ARTS | More than a year ago, a CD single crossed my desk, unidentified: The song contained therein -- "Hold the Cocaine, Pass the Cyanide" -- turned out to be the work of one Robert Merrill Armstrong, a UPS truck driver who just happens to have one the most acute cases of funkitis in the area. A vocalist with a baritone that makes the singer from Alabama sound like a choirgirl, Armstrong is easily one of Denver's most curious artists. This fact is well-documented on his first full-length album, Forget Me Not the Funk!, a nine-song affair that Armstrong recorded with his band, the Funkomanation (try saying that five times fast), and friends from the local outfit Uncut. It is one of the strangest recordings I've heard in quite a while -- a puzzling effort that suggests what might have happened had Wesley Willis and Prince gotten together and consumed copious amounts of over-the-counter allergy medicine. That is to say: It is fabulous, a delicious blend that is always a little odd (a sample lyric from "(We Need a) Woman in the White House": "United we stand, united we fall/Please, please give that woman a call...You can Rhumba, you can dance/Please, please give that woman a chance") and sometimes simply confounding (tracks two and three are barely decipherable, sub-auditory noisefests that may well be there by accident). It is also sometimes perfect: "Fear Affair" is a sweet love song with an island vibe and a climbing, spindly guitar (vocals by K.D. Bryant); "Hatching of the Clones" is a busy, sample-heavy beat-driven blast (with a fabulous title). I suspect this album would be enjoyed by those who just like to shake their booties -- Bootsy style -- and also those who have a taste for left-of-center, "outsider" music. CANNADELIC 1937 lie THE 1937 LIE 420FUNK MINROO ARTS PRODUCTIONS 420FUNK is a concept of revealing 420Funk as yin yang, truth false, good bad, reality fantasy, love hate, hot cold, and peace war. Whichever way you look at any of these units each one is hook together. Just like the Yin and Yang there's a field of light and a field of darkness, but in the field of darkness there's a dot of the light as in the light there's a dot of darkness. There is no purity in anything. So no one is above the truth. Governments, Corporations, and Religions. It's your life question all, study all, but please don't follow all.Description: CANNADELIC II ... GARDEN OF MISS MARY'S LOVE Sit down U-B TRIPPIN DAWG.Sit back and let me tell you a story. While UNDER INDICA'S SPELL I seen one of the first acts of MEGA CORPORATE RULE. With act to destroy the GARDEN OF MISS MARY'S LOVE.So there goes a PASSING OF A WARRIOR.Hey PASS IT DON'T BOGART the joint.Just TOKE-N- CHILL, Then to Big Woofs for BBQ where we'll SMASH IT there. Back to the story, the people seen the falsehood,and seen it as the MAGICAL HEALING HERB, not just the BASS MINT HAZE. So git I'm goin to hit the LAST BOWL BEFORE BED. Beware of the SNAKE PIT as you pass thru the doors [reality] |
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