Ithaka : So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas

ithaka : So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas

Collection of vocal poems recorded in Europe in 1993, which had been completely lost until being rediscovered in early 2017 (on a damaged cassette tape in a Los Angeles garage). These are the companion works for the iconic, So Get Up.

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Californian-born writer and vocalist Ithaka (aka Ithaka Darin Pappas) relocated from his native Los Angeles in 1992 to Europe where the artist entered of six year period of hyper-creativity. There he wrote, vocalized, created sculptures and photographed among other activities.

In 1993 he wrote a collection of poems for a daily audio segment he hosted on a program called Quatro Bairro on Rádio Commercial, Lisbon. After reciting some these poems live on Rádio Comerical in 1993, he later recorded them as a collection of demos with a producer friend in the UK.

The next year he recorded one of these poems, So Get Up, with the progressive-house project Underground Sound Of Lisbon who achieved massive international success with the track via distribution by Tribal/I.R.S. Records in New York.

Between a series of moves and career developments, the original 1993 vocal poem demos recorded in England were lost. Neither studio technician or artist could find the original, or copies.

So Get Up went on to become an international EDM anthem remixed by greats such as; Miss Kittin, Fatboy Slim. Mert Yücel, Dave Seaman etc.


Later in 2013, the song saw yet another chapter of fame when top DJ's both Hardwell and Armina Van Buuren endorsed a new version of the So Get Up rleased by German trance music stars Cosmic Gate using Ithaka's original lyrical/ vocal acapella)

Ithaka himself went on to record a series of critically acclaimed hip hop albums.

Here together on this disc are two new vocal recordings of Ithaka's iconic poems "So Get Up" and "We Are The Players" (recorded in Mexico - 2017) along with the complete collection of vocal-poem acapella demos made in 1993, some with their original proposed instrumental sketches. Please note: These are not intended to be finished songs, but instead are included to demonstrate Ithaka's early musical direction prior to both Underground Sound Of Lisbon's version of So Get Up (1994) and his own solo album, Flowers And The Color Of Paint (1995).

So Get Up

 

So Get Up by Ithaka (1993)

So Get Up

 

"SO GET UP"

 written and vocalized by  Ithaka (aka: Ithaka Darin Pappas)

 was rereleased in 2017 on his all acapella album

So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas

[Sweatlodge Records (USA)]

So Get Up (video) 

Ithaka - Saltwater Nomad

Ithaka - Saltwater Nomad (Recorded In Rio De Janeiro)

1. Ith Intro
2. Split Personality
3. A Million Light Years
4. Lust The Power Supreme
5. The Life You Wanna Live ?
6. N' Portugal
7. One Month Stand
8. I Ride 2008
9. Greencard
10. Six Years (Time To Move On)
11. The Cameraman
12. Roommates From Hell
13. Ninety-Eight In The Shade

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/saltwater-nomad/id276021453

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

Ithaka recicla os foguetes

Músico californiano Ithaka promove exposição Reencarnação de uma Prancha de Surf em Costa Mesa, Califórnia (EUA). 

Cartaz da mostra Reencarnação de uma Prancha de Surf. Foto: Reprodução.

Entre os dias 5 e 12 de junho na cidade de Costa Mesa, Califórnia (EUA), o músico e artista californiano Ithaka promove a exposição Reencarnação de uma Prancha de Surf.

Surfista, fotógrafo, rapper e escultor, Ithaka é norte-americano de descendência grega. A ideia da mostra surgiu depois que o artista quebrou acidentalmente sua prancha em 1980.

Vinte anos se passaram e Ithaka continua usando pranchas recicladas como a principal matéria-prima para o seu trabalho. Já são mais de duas centenas de obras produzidas desta maneira.

“Este trabalho consiste em dar vida nova ao descartados. Além de ser um objeto como outro qualquer, uma prancha de surf retrata um dos estilos de vida mais privilegiados do mundo", diz Ithaka.

A exposição Reencarnação de uma Prancha de Surf já passou por Europa, Ásia e América do Sul.

Ithaka, invited artist at Night of a Million Waves (Los Angeles Times)

Ithaka Darin Pappas, better known as Ithaka, is an American hip-hop artist, sculptor and surfer who placed this piece up for auction at the Night of a Million Waves Gala and Art Auction on Saturday in Huntington Beach.

Photograph by: Ani Yessayan, Los Angeles Times

Source:

http://www.latimes.com/tn-2026405-tn-hbi-me-surfboards-1-jpg-20141013-photo.html