New York, NY (Top40 Charts) DJ/Producer Preservation has unveiled the music video for "I-78 Capillaries," featuring Mach-Hommy. It was filmed with Preservation and Mach-Hommy in late December in NYC's Chinatown and is from his just-released Eastern Medicine, Western Illness (Nature Sounds). The album, crafted by Preservation while living in Hong Kong for 3 years, has been deemed "a remarkable piece of work" by Stereogum and features Ka, Quelle Chris, Billy Woods, Navy Blue aka Sage Elsesser, Your Old Droog, Roc Marciano, Tree, AG, Grande Marshall and Young Queenz.
While living in Hong Kong starting in 2014, I witnessed the umbrella protest movement. During my 3-year stay, the negative news was coming in from the West. This experience fueled me and perhaps subconsciously influenced the sounds of the album. The act of creating was my solace. Once I returned to NY, the news came in from the East as the youth continued to stand up in Hong Kong and Covid-19 first hit mainland China. This video filmed with Mach-Hommy in Chinatown, NYC in December 2019, reflects the goal of the album to bring together the East and West in sound and culture. I never could have imagined that this music would be released in these times, but I'm grateful to be in a position to provide some form of medicine. Walk with me. -Pres
With the year we've had, December 2019 almost feels like a decade ago, and the imagery of Chinatown surreal. Six months ago, in the freezing rain of a typical winter Sunday on Canal St., my DJ and I walked through crowded streets that gave no hint as to how drastically the landscape would shift by Springtime. Some New Yorkers elect to say that we are living in the dawn of a new era; maybe there is some truth in that statement. You don't have to be from NYC to know what happened since then … last December.
Our visual contribution to the album may be the last portrait of life in Chinatown pre-Covid19. I am proud to share this motion picture snapshot of an excursion into the Far East by way of the Lower East. I suggest that you maybe take a brief moment to appreciate the changes to people, places, and things since … last December. Walk with me. -Mach
"I-78 Capillaries" first debuted as an Adult Swim Single last week.
Praise for Eastern Medicine, Western Illness
"Quentin Tarantino wishes the Kill Bill score was this fluid and artful" - AV Club
"It's the way that Preservation melds his production to perfectly fit his collaborators for concise and cohesive tracks that makes this album so special" - Hypebeast
"If you like your rap on the psychedelic, left-of-the-dial side, you should not sleep on it" - Brooklyn Vegan
Eastern Medicine, Western Illness was inspired by a self-imposed challenge: only craft beats from Chinese-issued vinyl he found in record shops during his stay in Hong Kong. He then assembled an incredible line-up of lyricists to participate. The "Eastern Medicine" is the old Chinese sounds he sourced in solace and turned into the remedy. The "Western Illness" is both the West's endemic issues and the MC's ill talents. While making the album he met a young rapper from Hong Kong named Young Queenz via a local record shop owner, who kicks off the album with "Dragon Town."
Eastern Medicine, Western Illness is available digitally, on CD, vinyl, and a special edition double cassette: https://naturesoundsmusic.com/emwi/
Track list:
Dragon Town (feat. Young Queenz)
A Scholar's Rock (feat. Grande Marshall)
Money In The Wild (feat. Tree)
Rose Royce (feat. Quelle Chris)
1-78 Capillaries (feat. Mach-Hommy)
Wan Chai (feat. Nickelus F)
North Bridge (feat. Navy Blue)
Lemon Rinds (feat. Billy Woods)
Medicine Drawer (feat. Roc Marciano)
Correspondence (feat. Your Old Droog & Mach-Hommy)
A Cure For The
Common (feat. Ka)
Children Of Never (feat. AG)
Mouth Of A River (feat. Michelle Siu)
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