Ithaka - Fishdaddy Flashbacks - on Napster

Ithaka - Fishdaddy Flashbacks - on Napster

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Saltwater Nomad

Ithaka’s travels have inspired albums, poems and stories. “Seabra is Mad” – one of the songs of the year in 1997 according to the newspaper Público is a theme of the surfing film Chasing The Lotus (2006) by Gregory Schelle – the result of a experimental surfing trip to the waves of Madeira with Portuguese big rider José Seabra, who one fine day went straight into the water while still an unknown. Somewhere South of Somalia, for example, is an album inspired by a two-month trip to East Africa. “I’m a storyteller and my music shows that, as do my articles [Ithaka has published fiction about surfing in specialist magazines like Surfer, Transworld Surf, Fluir and Surf Portugal]”.

After Portugal, Ithaka visited Brazil on the invitation of rapper (and surfer) Gabriel o Pensador. Recorded in Rio is one of two albums made in Rio de Janeiro. But his relationship with Brazil did not end there. Today, it is here, or more specifically the southern coast of São Paulo, that this multidisciplinary artist spends most of the year. His little hideaway, which he calls Akahtilândia, is surrounded by tropical rainforest and has good waves and deserted beaches to hand. Far from anywhere and anyone except himself, at Akahtilândia Ithaka continues to do what he likes most. He has recorded an album – Voiceless Blue Raven – and has not stopped sculpting, surfing, or taking photographs: “Did you know that I have photographed several insects I have never found in any encyclopedia?”

Art, music, photography. None is stronger than the other. “I am involved with all of them at the same time. They are multiple facets that define me not as an artist, but as a human being”. And travelling: “I love multiple realities! They make my world more colourful. I love the state of being between many worlds and between many careers. I’m a hybrid”.

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Links:
https://www.discogs.com/artist/468212-ITHAKA
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIZXy50yj_t9UuHqeOQhpGQ
http://planetithaka.blogspot.com/
https://genius.com/artists/Ithaka
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaka_Darin_Pappas
http://ithakaofficial.com/
https://www.facebook.com/IthakaBlue/
https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ithaka/69363540
https://store.cdbaby.com/artist/Ithaka2
https://www.instagram.com/_ithaka_/?hl=en
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5225987/
https://thehundreds.com/blogs/content/ithaka-interview
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaka
http://upmagazine-tap.com/en/pt_artigos/ithaka-2/

THE MOST EXPENSIVE PORTUGUESE HIP HOP ALBUMS

 

 

 

From the article: THE MOST EXPENSIVE PORTUGUESE HIP HOP ALBUMS by Hugo Jorge (Rimas e Batidas) [][][] "Flowers And The Color Of Paint" (1995) <> <> Best known for writing and vocalizing the poem, So Get Up - (the most sampled vocal acapella in the world) which was credited here in Portugal to the Underground Sound of Lisbon project, ITHAKA (Ithaka Darin Pappas) also left his mark on rap and chose Portugal to do so. The Californian with Greek ancestry recorded his first album, FLOWERS AND THE COLOR OF PAINT (1995) for the Portuguese label, Fábrica de Sons (1995), valued on Discogs at 59 €. [] Source: Rima e Batidas (Portugal) - http://www.rimasebatidas.pt/os-albuns-caros-do-hip-hop-portugues/

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Do Artigo: "Os Álbuns Mais Caros Do Hip Hop Português" por Hugo Jorge (Rimas e Batidas)<> [ITHAKA] Flowers And The Color Of Paint (1995)
Mais conhecido por compor e cantar o poema “So Get Up” – vocal acapella mais samplado no mundo e que por cá foi celebrizado pelo projecto The Underground Sound of Lisbon -, Ithaka também deixou a sua marca no rap e escolheu Portugal para o fazer. O californiano com costela grega gravou pela portuguesa Fábrica de Sons o seu primeiro trabalho, Flowers and the Color of Paint (1995), que o Discogs avalia em 59€. [] Source:  http://www.rimasebatidas.pt/os-albuns-caros-do-hip-hop-portugues/

 

 

 

 

Ithaka (Recording Artist) - Bio on Discogs

Source Discogs:

https://www.discogs.com/artist/468212-ITHAKA
Ithaka was born in Southern California. The half-Greek poet, vocalist and producer lived in Lisbon for a number of years in his late-twenties until early-thirties. There in Portugal (in 1993), he wrote and recorded a poem entitled So Get Up for a program on Radio Comercial, Lisbon. He later rerecorded it for a local progressive-house music project called Underground Of Lisbon (the finished song was also called, So Get Up). It was soon released internationally on a multitude of compilations.

Until today, almost 25 years later, the track is considered one of the most important musical exports in Portugal's history. Although in fact, the lyric-writer and voice of this iconic dance music anthem is a Californian of Greek descent.

So Get Up has since been remixed and re-released over a thousand times, with some versions by large scale EDM artists such as Armin Van Buurin, Cosmic Gate, Fatboy Slim and Miss Kittin. So Get Up is the current Guinness World Record holder for most re-mixed acapella.

Also in Portugal, Ithaka recorded two award winning hip-hop albums, Flowers And The Color Of Paint (1995) and Stellafly (1997). His song, Escape From The City Of Angels (featuring Marta Dias) from the album Flowers And The Color Of Paint was featured in Antoine Fuqua's first full-length feature film entitled, The Replacement Killers (1998) starring Chow Yun Fat and Mira Sorvino

Ithaka then returned to the U.S. for a number of years where he recorded Somewhere South Of Somalia (2001) with LA producer, Conley Abrams III.
The song, What U Gotta Do, from this album was featured in the soundtrack of the hit video game NBA2K7.

He later lived in Brazil (Rio and AkahtiLândia) for over ten years where he recorded three more albums, Recorded In Rio (2004), Saltwater Nomad (2007) and Voiceless Blue Raven (2013)...and also released a collection of career highlights called Fishdaddy Flashbacks (2011) with the Indy label Sweatlodge Records.

Although rarely returning to the dance music world since recording So Get Up,
in 2007, Ithaka wrote the lyrics and vocally recorded "You" with DJ Vibe, using his poem originally entitled, We Are The Players.

In early 2017, Ithaka released a collection of acapella poems including the original pre-Underground Sound Of Lisbon 1993 demo-version of So Get Up.
The album, entitled, So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas, was compiled using lost vocal poems from 1993 and new recordings made in Mexico City in 2016.

https://www.discogs.com/artist/468212-ITHAKA