ithaka "The Plot" ft. Mimi Tavares

"The Plot" by Ithaka (ft. Mimi Tavares)

from the album Stellafly (1997) Vocals/Lyrics: Ithaka Darin Pappas Chorus vocals: Mimi Tavares Music by: Ewan Butler & Joe Fossard Instruments: Ewan Butler (member of the band Bradford) Programming and production by: Joe Fossard Recorded in Portugal (1997) Albums: Stellafly (1997) & Fishdaddy Flashbacks (2010 promo) Lyrics published by Ravenshark Music/ASCAP Administered by North Music Group (USA)
 

https://open.spotify.com/track/1VtH1mVWanrrv9jnifKEy1 "The Plot" by Ithaka (ft. Mimi Tavares) from Ithaka's second album Stellafly (1997)   / stellafly   Ithaka "THE PLOT" (featuring Mimi) Vocals/Lyrics: Ithaka Darin Pappas Chorus vocals: Mimi Music by: Ewan Butler & Joe Fossard Instruments: Ewan Butler (member of the band Bradford) Programming and production by: Joe Fossard Recorded in Portugal (1997) Albums: Stellafly (1997) & Fishdaddy Flashbacks (2010 promo) Lyrics published by Ravenshark Music/ASCAP Administered by North Music Group (USA) "The Plot" Under a tree Out of the Sun A place to rest from a world far gone Happiness comes to those that wait Don’t take your own Or your’s you won’t get Dividing the goods Not like Christmas at all More like a garage sale of the dead More forms than tax time More certificates than tying the knot More 'how ya doings?' than you ever get More “I’m sorry’s” than you’d ever want Under a tree Out of the sun A place to rest from a world far gone Maybe 'better off' Is the way to put it Free from the binds That’d hold down a giant Under a tree Having some fun Away from the hate Of a world far gone _____________________________________­_______ STELLAFLY, the second album by California songwriter and alternative hip hop artist, Ithaka, received the "ALBUM OF THE YEAR" award (1997) by Jornal Publico and was also nominated for four BLITZ PREMIOS (Portuguese Grammy) for BEST ALBUM, BEST MALE VOCALIST, BEST SINGLE (for "Seabra Is Mad") and BEST VIDEO ("Seabra is Mad"). All lyrics and lead vocals by Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas). Joe Fossard & Ewan Butler (music) with special guests; Sergio Nascimento, Hi Fi Jo, Marta Dias, Ace (Mind Da Gap), X-Sista, Red Beans, Mimi. Track list: 1. The Bum With Blue Blood 2. Substance-free Exile 3. The Plot (featuring Mimi) 4. Eden By The Sea 5. Ain't No Breeze 6. Butterfly Of Wisdom 7. Seabra Is Mad 8. Stay Strong Little Brother (featuring Jôsette) 9. Capricorn and Cancer (featuring X-Sista) 10. King Tardy 11. Sunny The Bunny (with Red Beans) 12. Sushi-Pack Subway (with Red Beans) 13. Alabama cave Party (featuring Ace from Mind Da Gap) 14. The Rise And Fall Of A Fortune 15. Spiritual Graveyard 16. Ursula Of Ithaka (featuring Marta Dias) 17. Stellafly Ithaka instagram: @_ithaka_ https://music.apple.com/us/song/the-plot/1350015173

ithaka - Butterfly Boogie (new instrumental single)

ithaka - Butterfly Boogie (new instrumental single)

Thirty years after his first full alternative hip hop album, Flowers and the Color of Paint (and subsequent seven records), Ithaka is pre-releasing a solitary instrumental track this month from his upcoming project Voiceless Blue Raven: Volume II

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Flowers and the Color of Paint é um álbum de hip hop, downtempo e spoken word de 1995, voltado para viagens, do letrista, vocalista e artista visual californiano, Ithaka (também conhecido como Ithaka Darin Pappas). 

Ithaka criou o conteúdo lírico narrativo de suas músicas esporadicamente nos dois anos que antecederam as gravações de estúdio. Elas geralmente são baseadas em suas próprias aventuras pessoais na Europa Ocidental, Norte da África e sua cidade natal, Los Angeles. Elas cobrem diversos assuntos, como astrologia, violência nas ruas e viagens de surfe (como retratado na música "Somewhere South of Gibraltar")

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"Sleepdriver" by Ithaka Darin Pappas - 1991 poem book reissued

Sleepdriver consists of eleven 1991 poems by artist-songwriter Ithaka Darin Pappas written in a car during a road trip from Los Angeles to Phoenix with his older brother to visit the grave of their recently deceased father. The highly personal poems in the Sleepdriver collection delve into the world of the Southwestern United States and Pappas' interaction with the region throughout his young adulthood. The works include themes such as; life and death, love, loneliness, freedom and ambition. In 1995, Ithaka utilized three poems from this early collection as lyrics for songs on his debut alternative hip hop album, Flowers and the Color of Paint (Sleepdriver, She Makes Good Cookies, Flowers and the Color of Paint). In 1996, renowned Portuguese vocalist, Marta Dias, used the poem Look To The Blue as lyrics for a song of the same title for her album, Yué (the song also featured Ithaka as a guest vocalist). Dias also recorded a song using the poem Look To The Blue, but this song was not included on her album. In 1997, Ithaka used The Plot as the lyrical base for a song featuring artist-vocalist Mimi Tavares that appeared on his album, Stellafly. In 2004, a musical version of Brother Barstow was released on Ithaka’s album, Recorded in Rio. In 2017, a remastered 1992 a cappella version of Who? (entitled Who Made The Grass Green?) was included on Ithaka’s album, So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas. When first released independently in 1991, this series of poems was original entitled Brother Barstow. 1. Brother Barstow 2. Tonapah Joe’s 3. Sleepdriver 4. The Plot 5. Who? 6. Look For The Blue 7. Learn To Fly 8. She Makes Good Cookies 9. Santa Fe Roulette 10. Oasis Of Love 11. Flowers And The Color Of Paint written while driving from Los Angeles to Phoenix in a rented Dodge Caravan with my brother Stuart, April 27th 1991

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

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/

Ithaka "The Plot" Album: Fishdaddy Flashbacks

Ithaka "The Plot" Album: Fishdaddy Flashbacks

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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/