Cadence Weapon launches new "Forager" album at the Forager Market

Since Rollie Pemberton's seventh Cadence Weapon album Forager focuses on fashion, he's launching it with a thrift market today. 

Here's the scoop on Forager...

Tinker, tailored: award-winning rapper/author/producer Cadence Weapon puts on a new suit with Forager, an album that centres fashion history and design. From a Paris mansion overflowing with flowers to the high-end denim collectors of Tokyo, from washing instructions for silk to chromatic devotion as deep as the colour it inspired, Forager is about showmanship and craftsmanship, dedication, the pursuit of beauty and things built to last.

Forager finds Cadence Weapon as archivist and lyricist, curator and collector. The new songs are the work of keen eyes and ears, a restless curiosity for depth of knowledge and appreciation for detail. Written alongside his second book, forthcoming “Ways of Listening,” the songs are the natural extension of a curious mind set to the task of expressing the essence of our relationship to music, and how that is changing.

Grappling with questions of technology and artistic agency, it’s no surprise that Cadence Weapon found himself seeking the same ‘all natural, not synthetic’ approach to this project. Produced by Junia-T, whose adventurous touch brings new dimensions to Cadence Weapon’s notable flow, Forager trades the artist’s signature experimental synth sound for a more organic direction. With his first album featuring completely live instrumentation, the Forager Band includes Scott McCannell (bass), Daniel Espina (guitar), Mark Anthony King Edward James (keys), Adrian Irvine (violin), The Chmst (trumpet), Joseph Callender (flute/saxophone) and Chino DeVilla (drums).

Get a copy of Cadence Weapon's new Forager album via Bandcamp right here. Check out the tracklisting and credits below. For one-day only, The Forager Market involving multiple vendors selling clothes, books, records, etc. takes place at Standard Time (165 Geary Ave, 2nd Floor) on Sunday, April 26 from 11 am to 5 pm. For more info, visit the FB page here. 

Cadence Weapon – Forager

1. Honus

2. Babymoon

3. Raghouse (feat. Ariel)

4. 501XX

5. Alpenflage

6. Step Out (feat. DijahSB)

7. Yves Klein Blue

8. Toronto Zoo (feat. James Baley)

9. Line Dry

10. Barabbas (feat. Ariel)

11. Niagara Region

12. Fall 2012 Couture

Credits: 

Recorded at It's Ok Studios and Dream House Studios in Toronto, Ontario Canada.

Produced and engineered by Junia-T with additional production by Knowuh and Cadence Weapon.

Mixed and additional engineering by Calvin Hartwick. Mastered by Nik Kozub.

Cover photo by Vonny Lorde

Styling by Bobby Bowen

Layout by Henry Cox

Limited pressing out of 250.