ithaka "Get Up I'm Free" (produced by Siba Giba)

ithaka "Get Up I'm Free" (produced by Siba Giba) new collaboration between Californian poet Ithaka and Brooklyn hip hop legend Siba Giba

https://www.discogs.com/release/22670378-ITHAKA-Get-Up-Im-Free-produced-by-Siba-Giba

Flowers And The Color Of Paint - By Ithaka - $950usd (used) on Amazon.com

Flowers And The Color Of Paint - album by Ithaka currently selling upwards of $900usd (used) on Amazon.com

ithaka "Swamp King" {Album: Voiceless Blue Raven]

ithaka "Afternoon In Lagoa" 

[Album: Voiceless Blue Raven]

written and produced by: ithaka

Recorded in Brazil - for Sweatlodge Records (Los Angeles)

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/voiceless-blue-raven-vol-1/id630595720 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaka_Darin_Pappas

ithaka "Afternoon In Lagoa" [Album: Voiceless Blue Raven]

ithaka "Afternoon In Lagoa" 

[Album: Voiceless Blue Raven]

written and produced by: ithaka

Recorded in Brazil - for Sweatlodge Records (Los Angeles)

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/voiceless-blue-raven-vol-1/id630595720 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaka_Darin_Pappas

ithaka "Peace Palace Porridge" [Album: Voiceless Blue Raven ]

ithaka "Peace Palace Porridge" 

[Album: Voiceless Blue Raven - Volume One]

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ithaka "Technically A Failure" (Album: Voiceless Blue Raven)

ithaka "Technically A Failure" (Album: Voiceless Blue Raven)

Ithaka & Gabriel O Pensador "Who's The Enemy?"

Written & recorded in late 2003 to protest tthe wartime antics of U.S. President George W. Bush and other self-proclaimed ‘super heroes’, Californian hip hop artist and poet, Ithaka, teamed up with Brazilian superstar Gabriel O Pensador for a true collaborative meeting of the minds.
Ithaka adapted the lyrics of one of his early songs, Erase The Slate Of Hate (from the album, Flowers And The Color Of Paint) to mesh with the Gabriel O Pensador’s additional verses.
Musically, the song was pre-produced by Ithaka in Los Angeles, who later worked it at Studio Monoaural in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (Gabriel O Pensador’s hometown).
Note: The world renowned musician and producer, Liminha (from the Brazilian group, Os Mutantes) played the bass on this track.

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Lyrics for "Who's The Enemy?"


Ithaka:

Did ya ever notice that governments of the globe
Try to generalize each other as friend or foe ?

But what is a country, but a dividing wire
Of who pays taxes to which vampires ?

Just try to see that folk that live in tyranny
Ain't anymore the enemy than you or than me

I remember back when I was fourteen
Of the news on TV and of the films on the screen

Tried to have us all hatin' the Soviet Union
The Evil Empire, I believe was their slogan

But later on, when the heat began to cool
Russian exchange students arrived at our school

They dug computer games, rock and hip-hop
Studied hard, drank like fish, smoked a lot of pot

Two brainy dudes and four goddess like girls
Didn't exactly look to me like, Enemy Of The World


Ithaka & Gabriel O Pensador:

IS THIS THE ENEMY?
IS THIS THE REAL ENEMY?
DON'T LOOK LIKE THE ENEMY
NOW TELL ME WHO'S THE ENEMY


Gabriel O Pensador:

I learned once, now I try to unlearn
That some countries' flags should be shredded and burned

But I live in a country which by force of fate
Has developed a culture of more love than hate

It's a country where people vote peace, not war
And where any foreigner finds an open door

Here we have many colors and many religions
Many ways of seeing things and of thinking these visions

But sometimes you just see what they shove in your eye
And the easiest way of thinking is believing a lie

That's why some accept the unacceptable
And soldiers go, where no one has to go

And leaders tell just what they want us to know
But where the hell is the real truth they never show?

Talking about hell, where does the devil reside?
And in a war, how come god has to choose one side?

Don't be fooled by your pride, when a guy with no wisdom
Wants to be a super hero in the name of freedom

Even sacred words can be excuses for killing
What you really want to know is
Who's the real villian ?


Ithaka & Gabriel O Pensador:

IS THIS THE ENEMY?
IS THIS THE REAL ENEMY?
DON'T LOOK LIKE THE ENEMY
NOW TELL ME WHO'S THE ENEMY


Ithaka:

The commander-in chiefs of this planet
Put the population control on automatic

By planting the the seeds of hate in our lands
And watering the seeds with propaganda...

Among the black, the brown, yellow, red, and the white
The Muslim, the Hindu, Christian and Israelite

But the enemies of The Man, ain't my enemies
Just individuals trying to make ends meet

So please, don't believe everything you hear and see
Ulterior motives runs miles and miles deep

Basic need became basic greed
Globalizing economy, while ignoring ecology?

Bombs kill folk and pollute the air both
Eradicate species, but guarantee market growth

Got money for arms, but not for schools and medicine?
Now you tell me, who's got the enemy doctrine?


Ithaka & Gabriel O Pensador:

IS THIS THE ENEMY?
IS THIS THE REAL ENEMY?
DON'T LOOK LIKE THE ENEMY
NOW TELL ME WHO'S THE ENEMY

WHO IS THE VICTIM HERE?
WHO IS THE ONE I FEAR?
WHO IS THE ONE I BLAME?
WHO PUTS THE WORLD IN SHAME?
WHO MAKES THE WORLD INSANE?
WHO MAKES THE BOMBING RAIN?
WHO MAKES ME CRY IN PAIN?
WHO MAKES ME DIE IN VAIN?


Gabriel O Pensador:

Who's chasing who?
You better think twice

Who's the hunter? Who's the hunted?
Who are the cats? Who are the mice?

I see politicians, how they speak so nice
I see how suspiciously they roll the dice

I see how they lie and control our lives
I see, I see they're just cold like ice

I simply can't stand all this sacrifice
In the name of the law, when the laws are lies

Don't rely on those who preach that same old speech
That many should be poor, so one or two can be rich

I've been walking and talking across the five continents
I've seen hunger and humility, anger and arrogance

The more I see
The more I feel this shame

The more I see we're different
The more I feel we are all the same

I've seen a lot places, a lot of faces
A lot of so-called races of humanity in front of me

I've seen some pictures on the wall
And on the TV screen
But I still haven't seen the real enemy


Ithaka & Gabriel O Pensador:

IS THIS THE ENEMY?
IS THIS THE REAL ENEMY?
DON'T LOOK LIKE THE ENEMY
NOW TELL ME WHO'S THE ENEMY

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Lyrics and Vocals by:
Ithaka & Gabriel O Pensador © 2004

Ithaka "Vinte Anos Atrås" (Twenty Years Ago Today) - [Album: So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas]

 

Twenty years ago today.

Twenty years ago today you saw the outside
world for the first time.Twenty years ago
today you saw your mother and father’s faces
for the first time.

Twenty years ago today, you began
a life full of sorrow and happiness.

Twenty years ago today you began to hear
something other than muffled sounds and
the sound of your mother’s heartbeat. You
heard yourself cry for the first time
...you heard others cry too.

You heard electronic devices and doors
opening and closing and a lot of voices,
some melodic, others harsh and ugly.

You have lost and found so much since that day,
but do no feel much smarter or wiser than you did then.
You feel absolutely childlike,  Absolutely childlike,
naive without experience.

But ironically, you are completely ready to handle any
success or failure the future will bring. Both of
which you’ve been avoiding like death itself

No more false expectations. No more lying to yourself.
No more waiting for life to begin. No more waiting
for things to be perfect, you know they never will be.

...you know they never will be.

 

............................

Ithaka Darin Pappas © 1993

“Twenty Years Ago Today”From the album:
So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas  [Sweatlodge Records]

ithaka: "Dine N Dash" As Featured in NBA2K7 Soundtrack

Ithaka "Dine N Dash" 

(instrumental version) 

as featured in the hit video game NBA2K7 (X-Box 360/Play Station)

PURCHASE HERE: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/voi...

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http://www.myspace.com/ithakamusic (ithaka myspace)


All licensing inquiries 
for the song "Dine N Dash" by Ithaka 
should be directed to: Scion Four Music (New York).

This track appears on both
Ithaka's album Voiceless Blue Raven
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/voi...

and 

on the hit X-Box 360 game soundtrack NBA 2K7 
compiled by Dan The Automator
along with:

Rhymefest 
Hieroglyphics 
Fabolous 
Aceyalone & Rakaa of Dilated Peoples 
E-40 & San Quinn 
Ghostface & A.G. of D.I.T.C.
Lupe Fiasco & Evidence of Dilated Peoples
Mos Def & Anwar Superstar 
Charli 2na of Jurrassic 5 
A Tribe Called Quest Zion I.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qZJCZGJDh8

Ithaka: SOMEWHERE SOUTH OF SOMALIA

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Ithaka is a hip hop adventurer. Somewhere South Of Somalia is one of the most original hip hop releases ever." -- bigbaer.com 11/2001

"Run, don't walk, and buy this CD Don't miss one of the most original hiphop releases of the year" -- Jack Baer 11/19/2001

About the Artist

Although originally from the United States, Ithaka began his recording career in Lisbon, Portugal where he lived for several years. Regarded as one of the most influential 'Portuguese' artists of the 1990's*, his first two albums, FLOWERS AND THE COLOR OF PAINT(1995) and STELLAFLY(1997), were nominated for a total of nine BLITZ PREMIOS (Portuguese Grammy's) and received numerous other awards.

The offspring of a Greek father from the Bronx and a mix-blooded mother from Chattanooga, ITHAKA's life has been one of contrasts since day one. Spawned in the cultural crossbreeding grounds of Southern California, ITHAKA (aka: Ithaka Darin Pappas) grew up with one foot in the street and the other in the sea. Discovering both photography and surfing at the age of twelve, he spent his teen years ditching school to either surf or take photos, constantly listening to both rap and hard rock.

ITHAKA's curiosity of places and people (combined with early ability as a photographer) motivated him to begin traveling at a young age. After several visits to Europe and Africa and a major excursion to the South Pacific, Ithaka found himself in Lisbon, Portugal where a brief stint as a radio host led to a record deal on a local subsidiary of EMI. His original, 'nomadic wanderer' school of lyricism and laid-back narrative rap style soon brought him both praise from the critics and a solid fan base.

In 1998, he released the ep, 'ESCAPE'(Nortesul-EMI/Portugal) which featured a remake of his hip-hop dance track 'ESCAPE FROM THE CITY OF ANGELS' from the first album. The song earned Ithaka a SCYPE AWARD(European Radio Listeners Choice Award) and later appeared in the sound track of Columbia Film's THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS starring Mira Sorvino and Chow Yung Fat. Soon after the single's release, Ithaka assembled a high-spirited team of professionals and crusaded on an ambitious concert season, including the prestigious PRINTEMPS DE BOURGES FESTIVAL in France and the World's EXPO '98 in Lisbon. Shows consisted of a five-piece band, synthesized sequences, a female vocalist, a performance artist, slide and film projections and spoken-word interludes. Audiences ranged from 100 to 10,000 people.

http://www.amazon.com/Somewhere-South-Somalia-Ithaka/dp/B00005UDIK

Somewhere over the.......

By octavio brown on August 6, 2002

Format: Audio CD

This is unusual territory for a rap record. It's definitely hiphop but not restricted by trying just to work only within
those confines. The beats are phat. The lyrics meaningful.
Ithaka has a great voice and his use of female vocalists
add a nice melodic but not formula flavor. Highly recommended.

Ithaka's rap is touching!

By Ayako Matsuda on September 5, 2007

Format: Audio CD

This is a really good Album. His music has diffrent elements like rock, jazz and some ethnic sound.
That's why I like it. My all time favorite is Lapis Lazuli. It's a beautiful song.
Others like River Road have some serious stories.
I Like It!!

LAPIS LAZULI

By Andreia Pires on August 24, 2002

Format: Audio CD

Ithaka is a good story teller and has a really nice voice,
reminds me a little of Tupac. For this album he actually
went to deep Africa for inspiration.
I've never heard of anyone doing anything like that before.
This record will expand
your mind of what you think modern day Africa is all about.
This is a very full album, it's actually more like a movie.
Reoccuring charcters appear and the songs all line up like
chapters in an adventure novel. The song Lapis Lazuli is
a true classic, I can't believe it isn't all over MTV.

http://www.amazon.com/Somewhere-South-Somalia-Ithaka/dp/B00005UDIK

CD Reviews: Ithaka "Saltwater Nomad"

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Are you doing in life what you was meant to? Are you doing in life what you was sent to? Are you living the life that you wanna live? Are you living your life in a way to win? --Ithaka from "The Life You Wanna Live?"(Saltwater Nomad) The Chinese philosopher, Confucius once said that a wise man doesn't feel the need to differentiate between work or hobby. And more importantly he doesn't feel the need to reveal to others whether or not he is working or playing. Observing from distance at the effortless way the multi-artistic Ithaka (aka Darin Pappas) traverses at ease between all of his chosen mediums of expression; [music, sculpture, writing and photography] it appears his life's journey is a soulful balancing act somewhere between the worlds of euphoric creation and aquatic diversion. But on closer inspection, looking at the expertise and attention to detail of any Ithaka project, it becomes evident the man is getting down to first-degree serious business, even if he himself isn't aware of it.

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Born in southern California, the hip hop visionary and visual expressionist spent his early youth surfing LA and Orange Counties, but soon began his global wanderings - not only in pursuit of higher quality waves but of profound cultural experiences, both shore side and deep in the cities. For Ithaka, marriage of surf and street comes naturally. Listen to a track from Ithaka's Album, Saltwater Nomad. PORTUGAL After long blocks of time in Greece, Japan and other exotic locales, Ith arrived in Portugal in July of 1992 with a surfboard, wetsuit, Nikon FE camera and very little else. In addition to sampling the region's wealth of epic surf and making friends, he started exhibiting his photographs, creating new sculptures, publishing his short stories, and even began working as a radio host on a national music program. He left the region six years later with two studio albums under his belt and nine Portuguese Grammy nominations. An unlikely place to start an international music career, but Ithaka has not only been influenced by his many Siddharthian journeys, he has become a product of them. And he doesn't exactly reinvent himself at each intercontinental stop along the path, he merely keeps adding layers, carpet-bagging along the way newly learned skills and infinite wealth of mental archeology, the bases for most of his songs, stories and visuals. But even though global as they come as a human being, artist and surfer, he'll be the first to tell you it's not necessary to go far away to get away. He says, It's all about perception. How you look at things. How you absorb things. Some of the wisest and most interesting people I've ever met have barely even left their home state. It¹s about breaking routine And breaking routine is what Ithaka and his bag of tricks is all about. In contrast to his last audio work,Recorded in Rio (a melodic, mostly live-instrument hip hop album released in 2004), the new cd,SALTWATER NOMAD, his fifth full-length, goes to the polar opposite and is largely an electronic production. Recorded in Brazil with producer Tito Gomes, the two serve up twelve clean, bumping, minimalist hip hop story-songs. Vocal-wise, Ithaka's fluid punctuality can be considered in outstanding company like Everlast, Michael Franti and the late Tupac. And although sonically, Saltwater Nomad will be considered a pop/rap record, lyrically don't expect generic Pimp & Ho/22"-rim/gansta-stylin' references. Ith successfully personalizes the genre, using it as a soundtrack for his straight-up, no bullshit, autobiographical story-telling, walking new ground across subjects like spirituality, global politics, nostalgia, lust, immigration, positive thinking, diabolic roommates (comedy), the intricate complexities of long lasting boy/girl unity and his passion of choice,wave-riding. All scribed with the Ithman's patented crafty, post-Beat Generation urban lyricism. Breaking routine is what Ithaka and his bag of tricks is all about. I ride since I was a small fry Sine the day mammy multiplied I ride to keep my soul alive I'll ride until the day, the day that I die I ride 'cuz I like the view from the tube I ride 'cuz I like the color blue I ride to keep my mojo intact So I got the goods to deliver When my baby gets back Ithaka's music has been featured in several surfing films (including the award winning, Timmy Turner's Second Thoughts), and the hit basketball video game NBA 2K7. His hip-hop classic, "Escape From The City Of Angels"? appeared in Columbia Picture's feature film, The Replacement Killers. For more info see: www.myspace.com/ithakamusic Saltwater Nomad (and other Ithaka releases) may be purchased at: http://cdbaby.com/cd/ithakamusic2 A major retrospective from Ithaka's body of sculpture work entitled, The Reincarnation Of A Surfboard (1989 until present) is currently being shown at the prestigious WOA gallery in Lisbon, Portugal. MORE SURF NEWS SURFLINE HOME PAGE

Ithaka "Voiceless Blue Raven" Album Cover

Cover for Ithaka's all instrumental album called, Voiceless Blue Raven. 

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VOICELESS BLUE RAVEN : Volume One

 C   Californian-born songwriter, Ithaka, has spent the majority of his musical career as a vocalist/lyricist, but recent years have found the multi-faceted nomadic expressionist spending more and time with the composing, construction and recording of the music itself. Voiceless Blue Raven (his 7^th full-length release) represents the integral transition from being a backseat musical collaborator on his early vocal releases in the mid-1990's, gradually evolving into a progressive, cutting-edge ambient hip hop producer and sonic craftsman.

Ithaka, (who is also contemporary artist, photographer and writer), currently divides his time between Southern California and Recanto Akahti, his jungle-shack art and music studio in AkahtiLândia, Brazil [state of São Paulo].

1. Coffin Alley Confinement

written & produced by ithaka at coffin alley studio - california

2. Punch Drunk Syrup Suckers

written & produced by ithaka at recanto akahti - akahtiLândia, brazil

3. Peace Palace Porridge

4. Swamp King

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5. Roula’s Revenge

6. Monday In Mongaguá

7. Red Gravel

8. Dine N Dash (instrumental version)

9. Seabra Is Mad (instrumental version)

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10. Betty’s Feathers

11. Brother Barstow (instrumental version)

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12. Jungle Shack Dementia

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13. Who’s The Enemy ? (instrumental version)

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14. Blackstar Canyon

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15. Afternoon In Lagoa

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16. Technically A Failure (instrumental version)

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17. Same Room Blues (instrumental version)

18. ‘N Portugal (instrumental version)

19. I Ride (RnR instrumental version)

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20. Stingray Shuffle (intrumental version)

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21. What I Ask Of Myself