Dead Flowers & Cigarettes

Made in 2018 with my friend Ryan Forever 

Official music video drops on Glass.xyz at 12:00pm PST friday 1/20

https://glass.xyz/watch/7jbZ7pcijDAnZ36RSwQpr26LAg4KiEbwDcGXpew9G3Ve

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Dead Flowers & Cigarettes #60

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The Fear (Mija Cover)

in my feels

original song by Lily Allen

free mint

The Fear (Mija Cover) #74

Conversations

Last one of the year... 

This was fun.
Enjoy.

Conversations #10

gasoline (instrumental)

gasoline (instrumental) #26

Exit Plan

This song describes a point in time at which I felt like the odds were stacked against me and my back was to the wall. Coming from where I"m from, this isn"t a space that"s foreign to me. I had to learn to remain level headed and accountable for my role in getting to the position I found myself in and patient. No matter how bad it gets I always find a way out. I"m covered by the source.

I wanted to offer this to anyone who needs to hear it at a time line this. No matter how heavy things get you"ve got the tools to get the weight up off you. 

Enjoy

Written & Performed By Scolla Fungwe
Produced By Scolla Fungwe & Olin Troutman
Engineered By Olin Troutman
Mixed & Mastered By Scolla Fungwe
Artwork By Scolla Fungwe

Exit Plan #54

i'll be home for christmas

happy holidays. 

this was always a top three christmas song for me.

i hope you get to spend this season surrounded by people you love, not only in your dreams.

i"ll be home for christmas #94

Natural

Natural was the first song that I wrote and produced for PAISLEY, but at the time of creating it, I didn"t even know I was going to be making an album. 

For 2-3 years preceding, I wasn"t creating music every day as I"d been accustomed to for most of my career. In making this song, I was beginning the long path of healing from overthinking and getting back to doing what comes most natural to me. 

This song was an effort to feel the music instead of writing it. 

More about PAISLEY....

In 2017, I had a thought, patterns prevail. It was derivative of a quote from my best friend and frequent collaborator, Sky Welkin, which read passion prevails. Sky is a talented cartoonist that embeds profound messages like this throughout his work.

During our college years, hed often come by and draw while I made beats, this was our ghetto co-working era, and in these sessions wed smoke, engage in discourse, and share ideas about the respective worlds we were building in our art. In fact, I was very much into doing something new each album, but Sky was the primary influence for me to get into world-building and having a particular sense of style that was cultivated over time.

In one of my college apartments, I decided that to let Sky use all of the walls in my room as a canvas - the few hundred dollars that Id spend to have the room repainted when I moved was minuscule compared to the living art piece around me. Every so often I would discover some new character scene or phrase that hed drawn without me noticing, but one of these phrases was placed in such a way that I couldnt miss it as soon as I woke up, passion prevails.

Web3 has offered much in the form of expansion for the experiential qualities and monetization of my art. We always say things like, time passes quickly in web3.

As much as I agree, I find it interesting that time also seems to stay still - art is appreciated for its beauty regardless of age and with the possibilities available to me with NFTs, something like my debut album, can no experience a new form of appreciation.

As I begin to release works from the PAISLEY collection over time, it was only fitting that I began with the short film.

When I was working on the album, I connected with my friend and collaborator, Dawit N.M. to share the pattern theories I was creating from and what I was aesthetically into at the time. Dawit went on to handle the art direction for the album, as well as bringing my convoluted story concept to life as a film.

The story of PAISLEY exists in a universe in which we"ve all been made to forget true selves. Though, there are those of us that break free and reawaken, remembering all the knowledge of self that was once lost. A human that knows who they are can no longer be controlled and is thus a threat to those in power.

This is the case for our protagonists Figaro and Paisley. The pair, bound by fate, seek each other out in parallel universes with the hope to awaken their companion and continue their journey towards freedom. Our short film finds Figaro, moments after being awakened by Paisley, and follows them towards their attempted escape.

The PAISLEY album and short film are an allegory for patterns at every level of life. Just as cells make up organisms and organisms make up the planets, and the planets the universe, and so on - patterns, appear, reshape, and reappear until their purpose in your life is realized. In my album I explore the different patterns in my relationships and my relationships as patterns, that were required for me to grow individually.

This year marks the 3 year anniversary of the PAISLEY collection, with the short film has only been screened at live performances and intimate talks. Now it will all be immortalized on the blockchain.


Natural #41

DISPOSABLE

6 years ago I received a package from 5,000 miles away. My ex-girlfriend from Buenos Aires had shipped me a shoebox full of mementos from our relationship and a goodbye note. I remember receiving the package and sitting with it for a few minutes in silence before picking up my guitar. I sat on the floor at the base of my couch, and this song came out in a matter of 15 minutes or so.

Disposable is the first song that I wrote and released as a solo artist in 2017. Throughout 2017-18 I hosted artist showcases in my basement to spotlight student artists at my university - the cover art for this drop is a photo from one of the first of those shows where I debuted my EP "Purple Line". The golden egg is the album artwork of that EP - my first and only release as Oddentity. That night was my first time ever performing original music - it was an intense and beautiful moment that I will never forget.

Written and Produced by AL3C
Add. Vocals by Ogi
Keys by KEYON
Saxophone by Louis Danowsky
Mix by Rat City Sound
Master by Classick Studios

DISPOSABLE #96

I'm Not Sad (Instrumental)

https://www.sound.xyz/pjsaputo/i'm-not-sad

I'm Not Sad (Instrumental) #13

i can't sleep

"i can"t sleep" is our first free drop.

we made it late at night and hope u enjoy it.

more on our web 3 journey:  

in 2020 we found ourselves unable to tour for the first time since we started playing together and we began taking interest in web 3 and all the possibilities it could lead to within the music industry. 

in the beginning of 2022 we were selected as one of five artists to be part of the LNRZ freshman class and work on music nfts alongside founders Reo Cragun and clear eyes, and the rest of the freshmen (Madalen Duke, Tate Tucker, Lackhoney and Mark Jonhs).




i can"t sleep #33

Criteria: Prequel 

Criteria: Prequel  #89

GYU: PREQUEL

GYU: PREQUEL #59

Criteria  Official Sample Pack

Official stems from Criteriathe EP project by Daniel Allan and Reo Cragun. Recorded largely in Joshua Tree National Park in California on a TLM 103 running through an apollo for vox. Everything else was composed in Ableton; the project is super in-the-box and synth-heavy. Most everything was made from scratch with the Serum plugin. Mint the Arpeggi token to download the stems and upload remixes, plus get access to our taken-gated #criterion channel in Discord to chat with collectors, Daniel, and Reo.

Criteria  Official Sample Pack 10/200

Lies To The Grave

Produced by the incredible Daniel Allan

"Lies To The Grave" marks the end of the Glory Road playlist album..

Thank you to everyone who has collected each and every week since my genesis drop in October 

Hope to see you in 23"