Potatohead People & Slippery Elm / Emerald Tablet LP

SLIPPERY ELM, a Vancouver hip hop fixture, teams up with fellow Canadian duo POTATOHEAD PEOPLE (STAR CREATURE, BASTARD JAZZ) for the debut release on their new label MYSTERYBOX RECORDS. The jazzy hip hop vibes reflect their work with DE LA SOUL, REDMAN, DJ JAZZY JEFF, and T3 of SLUM VILLAGE.

Emerald Tablet is the new album from Vancouver production duo Potatohead People and emcee/singer Slippery Elm. As the title suggests, this tablet is full of gems, taking the listener on a starry journey to a unique world of hip-hop, jazz fusion, and neo-soul. Accessible yet innovative, melodically lush yet never formulaic, Slippery Elm’s groove-centric vocals and evocative story telling over PHP’s signature blend of horns, rhodes, off-kilter drums, and slamming bass lines, is a pairing like fine red wine and rich dark chocolate. From lead single “Nightbird”, with its hypnotic soulful vocals over a smoke-filled jazzy groove, to “Up Close” which features a masterful verse from Bahamadia over an instrumental that sounds like late-night quiet storm but in a hip-hop vernacular, Emerald Tablet is sonic soul food for the body, mind and spirit.

Tracklisting:

A1. Chandeliers (As Above)

A2. Nightbird

A3. Memory

A4. Jazz in the Rain

A5. Up Close (feat. Bahamadia)

A6. Compass Rose B1. Red Thread (feat. Taraneh)

B2. Wishing Well

B3. Miracles

B4. Otha Side

B5. Sub Rosa (feat. Kapok) 

B6. True (So Below)