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HIGH PRIEST
Composer/Improviser/SoundDesigner/MC
High Priest is known for "Evoking images of Sun Ra and Africa Bambatta at once (Jesse Sewer XLR8or). As the founding member of the critically acclaimed Antipop Consortium, Priest has consistently challenged the boundaries of traditional hip-hop, winning the praise of taste makers across the globe. In the course of his career, spanning nearly a decade, Priest has shared the stages with a wide array of artists ranging from The Roots to Radiohead ,Mos Def and others. As a composer his pieces have been installed in the Whitney Biennial (NYC) as well as the Mazzoli Gallery (ITALY)-
Born Identity LP Sound-Ink in stores now-2007 Selected discography Antipop Consortium-Tragic Epilogue -2000 Antipop Consortium-Arrhythmia -2002 Antipop Consortium-Shopping Carts Crashing 2003 (Japan Only) Matthew Shipp LP Thirsty ear Recordings -Producer 2004 Gotan Project â€œLa Lucha Remix 2005 (BBC Gilles Peterson worldwide radio)
At the Controls Volume one Featuring SizzlaKalonji, Anthony B, Mr Easy and more 2006
Born Identity LP Sound-Ink in stores now-2007
Selected Performances
Solo Performance -LemurPLEX Brooklyn2007
-Group Performance with Airborn Audio Generiq Festival-Besancon,Dijon (FR) 2007 -Group Performance Villette Numerique/Parc de la Villette -Walker Gallery DJ/Sound Installation (2006) Paris (FR) 2004 -Group Performance Montreal International Festival of New Media (FCMM) 2001 PS1 Sound Installation in collaboration with SOUNDLAB-

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/16/2006
Band Members: HPRIZM-
Influences: The whole NYC The Wailers, Sun-Ra,Admiral Bailey,Tiger,Scientist,Lee Perry G-Rap,Rakim,MarleyMarl,(Juice Crew)UltraMagnetic-Paul Sea Organized Konfusion, MATTDOO My Family, My Crew,Earl Blaize MSayyid Mr BallBeam Greg Tate Vernon Reid Timbaland Tricky Rza-WUTANG Bad Brains Minutemen Sonic Youth John (Coltrane) cage, bell hooks Richard Wright,Yabby Yoo Big Youth, NAS,Basquiat, Fab 5, Futura 2000 ESG Sir IBU DelaSOUL Native Tounges,Dres-Blacksheep BRUCE LEE Kahlil Gibran, The Bomb Squad(Sophia Stewart)- ORIGINAL AUTHOR OF THE THIRD EYE TRILOGY,Gordon Liu, Run Run Shaw John Carpenter, Amiri Baraka, Zecheria Sitchin THE FIRE man Capelton, SIZZLA KALONJI etc
Sounds Like: The truth
Record Label: PRIZMaudiovisual
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

ANTIPOP CONSORTIUMw Public Enemy

Party people your dreams have now been fulfilledGet out your seats and lets gets ILLThe forefathers of radicalism PUBLICENEMYwith ULTRAMAGNETIC Frontman KOOL KEITHand US?WHAT?????????????...
Posted by HPrizm aka HIGH PRIEST on Mon, 19 May 2008 10:27:00 PST

Born identity reviewed

The OWL.comHigh Priest (of Antipop Consortium) sounds a lot like Eric B. & Rakim meets Dr. Octagon mixed into a highbred sonic explosion. Born Identity features guest appearances from L.I.F.E. Long, T...
Posted by HPrizm aka HIGH PRIEST on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:33:00 PST

Born Identity Dispatch

Born Identity Dispatch-In producing the album (Born Identity) , I've spent a large amount of timein the lab in front of a computer monitor figuring out latency issues, cable routings, drivers compatib...
Posted by HPrizm aka HIGH PRIEST on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:01:00 PST

High Priest at the Controls

In continuance of an on-going apprenticeship in DUB, High Priestreturns from the hills of Jamaica with "..At the controls."Recorded in part while in Jamaica with family in tow, At the controlsis a dis...
Posted by HPrizm aka HIGH PRIEST on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:23:00 PST