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Rapper Baba Brinkman Releases World's Most FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Vera Sheps Two Sheps That Pass… 401 Broadway, Suite 804 New York, NY, 10013 [email protected] 646.613.1101 RAPPER BABA BRINKMAN RELEASES WORLD’S MOST CONSCIOUS HIP-HOP ALBUM On October 13th, Music, Comedy, Theater, and Science come together in Brinkman’s Mangum Opus, The Rap Guide to Consciousness Stream on Bandcamp | Stream on Soundcloud | Download Mp3s September 12, 2017 (New York, NY) – Canadian hip-hop artist and playwright Baba Brinkman has officially announced the release of his new album, The Rap Guide to Consciousness, due October 13th. Over the course of thirteen mind-bending tracks, this album takes you on a journey through the modern science of human experience, the link between your physical brain and what it’s like to be you. “Leave any Vanilla Ice expectations in the cloakroom and imagine if Eminem had read philosopher Daniel Dennett.”-- London’s Evening Standard Brinkman recently performed The Rap Guide to Consciousness at London’s 2 Northdown Comedy Club following a hugely successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The live show combines songs from the album with projected video and stand-up comedy routines. Baba’s upcoming studio album takes all the excitement of this critically-acclaimed show, and condenses it into fifty four minutes of provocative (and scientifically peer-reviewed) hip-hop. The result is a collection of songs that is as artful as it is intelligent, less a musical textbook than a heartfelt look at who we are and how we perceive the world around us. Enter the present moment, and really notice it How hot or cold is it? The details are so vivid It’s encoded in your cells in a coalition That's what your soul’s composed of, if it's no fiction Baba Brinkman has been using hip-hop to educate the masses since his 2009 production, The Rap Guide to Evolution, which was hailed as “astonishing and brilliant” by the New York Times, and has earned co-signs and features from some of the country’s brightest scientific minds, from Bill Nye to Steven Pinker. Baba’s latest album features production from UK hip-hop super-producer Tom Caruana, with scientific input from neuroscientist and TED Talks star Dr. Anil Seth. Over the course of his music career, Baba has given the hip-hop treatment to a wide array of topics, from climate change to religion, from medicine to wilderness. Now, in The Rap Guide to Consciousness, Baba turns to the foundations of all human experience, from suffering to joy. How does it all come together in your brain? Listen and find out. ABOUT BABA BRINKMAN Baba Brinkman is a Canadian rap artist and award- winning playwright. To date, Brinkman has written seven hip hop plays and released more than a dozen rap albums, toured the world, and enjoyed successful runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and off-Broadway in New York. Brinkman is a pioneer in both science-based rap and also "lit- hop" or literary hip hop, and he’s known for his adaptations of The Canterbury Tales, Beowulf, and Gilgamesh. However, he is best known for his “Rap Guide” series. The first of those, The Rap Guide to Evolution (“Astonishing and brilliant” - NY Times), won a Scotsman Fringe First Award and a Drama Desk Award nomination, and was featured on US national TV on The Rachel Maddow Show and at the Seattle Science Festival opening for Stephen Hawking. Baba is a recent recipient of the National Center for Science Education's "Friend of Darwin Award" for his efforts to improve the public understanding of evolutionary biology. His play, Rap Guide to Consciousness, was a hit at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe exploring the material basis of brain science in hip hop form. His clever and distinctive style has earned him the attention of the New York Times, Time Out New York, The Village Voice, NPR, Macleans, CBC, and the BBC. When he is not on tour, Baba Brinkman resides in New York with his wife, neuroscientist and Discovery TV host Dr. Heather Berlin, their daughter Hannah and son Dylan. ALBUM TRACK LIST 1. Real Recognize Real (feat. Aaron Nazrul) 2. Good Bayesian (feat. MC Lars and Mega Ran) 3. Zombie 4. Dylan 5. Forget Me Not (feat. Aaron Nazrul) 6. Mary 7. Cephalophile (feat. Alice Andrews) 8. Wizard of Odds (feat. Aaron Nazrul) 9. Room 10. Ready for Implants 11. Can’t Stop 12. Memes Up 13. Still Here (feat. Tymisha Harris) BABA’S ALBUM CATALOG The Rap Guide to Consciousness The Rap Guide to Climate Chaos The Rap Guide to Religion The Rap Guide to Evolution The Canterbury Tales Remixed The Rap Guide to Medicine The Rap Guide to Wilderness The Infomatic EP The Rap Guide to Business The Rap Guide to Human Nature Apocalyptic Utopian Dreams in the Western Wilderness Rapconteur Lit Hop Swordplay The Rap Canterbury Tales .
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