mp3: “Welcome”

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Today, we’re going to begin with a foundation of Native Tongues lyrical spirituality.

Add 1 1/2 Cups of The Roots circa Do You Want More???!!!?

Fast Forward to the chance meeting at a 2002 Open Mic.

Add 1 MC (Tumi), published in the American Literary Journal, Subterranean Quarterly.

Add The Volume, a multicultural band in an often segregated, post-Apartheid South Africa.

Viola! Tumi and The Volume. Yes, Flight 808 has been out of commission for a few weeks. Or have we just been waiting for a band really worth our time? Either way, we’re back with a treat so special it might as well be in the back of a pedophile’s Buick.

In case you missed the hook, it goes something like this: “It don’t take a rocket scientist to get to the moon/ Every man and woman got their own 10 minute zoom/ People of the light generate a glow in the room/ I hear the wind whispering, I’ll be coming home soon.”

In case you missed Tumi’s raspy, molten flow or the ephemeral twang of live instrumentation… watch it again fool! Or, proceed to peep some of these mp3s.

mp3: “Signs All Around Us”

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

mp3: “Learning”

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

For the time being, Tumi and The Volume’s main page is undergoing construction. If you want to learn more and purchase some music– I promise, it’s all as good as the above tracks– hit up their myspace.

…and– why not– here’s one last cut, one for the road.

mp3: “Afrique”

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.