Chamber Music [PA]

Performer: Wu-Tang Clan
Engineer: Jeff Rameau
Producer: The Revelations
Distributor: E1 Distribution (USA)

Notes: Personnel: Wes Mingus (guitar); Borahm Lee (keyboards); Josh Werner (bass instrument); Gintas Janusonis (drums). Audio Mixers: Arnold Mischkulnig; Noah Rubin. When Wu Tang Clan exploded all over the hip-hop scene in 1993, as clich� as the following phrase has become, their sound was truly like no other out there: nine drastically different MCs (with a supporting cast that tripled the count) tied together by love of kung fu, old movies, their home Island (aka Shaolin, aka Staten), and RZA's obtuse, otherworldly funky beats. While it's near impossible to tab any rappers of the day as influences, with 2009's CHAMBER MUSIC, the legendary squad celebrates some of their favorite rappers from back in the day, featuring all of the surviving players collaborating with other innovative rhyme merchants like AZ, Kool G Rap, Masta Ace, and Sadat X. While there's a level of vanity about the proceedings, the collection ultimately works, mainly thanks to the pure fun these major hitters are having as they push each other's game up line by line.

Pitchfork - "There's an organic old-soul crackle to the incendiary trumpet-bursts on 'Sound the Horns'..."

Arriving in the early 1990s, when rap was split between gangstas and bohemian jazz-rappers, Staten Island's Wu-Tang Clan promptly reinvented intelligent hardcore hip-hop. A unique contract deal, allowing the group's individual members--including Ol' Dirty Bastard, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon, and chief sonic architect RZA--to pursue solo careers on the side, made them the most prolific rap crew of the late-'90s and beyond. In addition to their various individual projects, Wu-Tang's love of Asian martial arts cinema led to them presenting various Hong Kong classics and to RZA's collaborations with filmmakers Jim Jarmusch (GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI) and Quentin Tarantino (KILL BILL).

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