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Solitary Souls

by The 83rd

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Ellis Unit at Huntsville Prison,1966 - Texas 03:37
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Camp B Inmates of Parchman Farm, 1947 - Mississippi 02:56
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Odea Matthews & Angola Prison Inmates, 1959 - Louisiana 03:47
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This Juneteenth we’re releasing Solitary Souls, the documentary EP and web archival site that uncovers the history of systematic mass black incarceration in the United States. For too long, we’ve been alienated from one another, separated, put in social and economic caste systems, based on misinformation and stereotypes we’ve been fed thru government-fueled-propaganda to criminalize people of color.

Solitary Souls brings it back to where slavery supposedly left off with the Emancipation Proclamation, and proves thru archival footage, prison inmate songs, interviews, and other contextual links that slavery never ended in America, but only has become more complex and involved throughout the years.

Knowing this, we can shed predisposed positions about one another and start to reflect on how we got here and why we feel certain ways about ourselves and one another in the first place. Peeling back the layers of American history thru exploring post-slavery prison incarcerations in the deep south and repurposing those recordings thru new music by The 83rd, Solitary Souls aims to give us the sobering knowledge that we are not violent criminals, but instead black woman, black man and are our allies alike, we are resilient.

Solitary Souls full sonic and written documentary available at www.solitarysouls.net

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released June 19, 2018

Written and sung by:

The inmates of the Ellis Unit at Huntsville Prison, Texas in 1966 (Let The Hammer Ring, repurposed as Texas)

Camp B at Parchman Farm Prison, Mississippi in 1947 (Rosie, repurposed as Mississippi)

Odea Matthews and inmates of Angola Prison, Louisiana in 1959 (Five Long Years For One Man and Angola Bound, repurposed as Louisiana)

Texas recorded by Bruce Jackson, Peter and Toshi Seeger
Mississippi recorded by Alan Lomax
Louisiana recorded by Harry Oster
Produced, Mixed, Mastered and Arranged by The 83rd

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The 83rd New York

The 83rd is an experimental record producer, artist and founder of media news site and label, Sermon 3 Recordings, based in Brooklyn, NY.

His production, engineer, remix and songwriting credits include artists such as Alice Glass, Angel Haze, Dreamcrusher, Jamie xx, Tinashe & others.

The 83rd is known for his extremely experimental style of production & genre-less approach to music. ... more

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