Browse by Artist: DIVINE STYLER

Artist:	DIVINE STYLER
Title:	Word Power 2: Directrix
Label:	MO'WAX (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$28.00
Catalog #:	MW 122 CD

"Last heard from in 1991 on his Spiral Walls Containing Autumns of Light, Divine Styler returns, finally quelling rumors that he had moved to Mecca, done too much acid etc. in his absence even spawning a zine in Canada called In Search of Divine Styler. Let me back up a bit: first album in 1989 Word Power on Ice-T's Rhyme Syndicate imprint, musically in the style of the day with it's JB infected musical approach crossed with his psychedelicized Moslem lyricism, later heard in 1991on his Spiral Walls Containing Autumns of Light, which sort of alienated most headz with it's opaque production, strange live instrumentation (all played by himself) and it's general dusted atmosphere, dropped from his label and subsequently seemed to drop off of the face of the earth. Wound up producing Everlast's Whitey Ford Sings the Blues, but don't let that put you off, it probably afforded him the ability to record this, his latest, released on his own DTX records here in the states, and the ever prescient Mo Wax presents the UK version, 3 different tracks, and though lyrically his stuff is just as bizarre as ever, it's the music that's really on point here. From the muezzin call that starts off the record that goes on just a little too long, the twists and turns of this record are like the labyrinth of a great walled city, and what's around the next corner one can only guess. More bangin' than expected, this is an impressive return for one of the legends of the hip hop." -- Billy Kiely.

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