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Pieces of Change (Disc One)
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Product Description
State of the art spoken word performed by one of the most recognized contemporary poets in the world. This is performance poetry with live pieces recorded in poetry venues as well as studio pieces over dark, bluesy hip-hop beats.
Track Listing
- The Advent
- Rationale
- Metaphysix (live)
- Depth Poetry
- Heat
- True Lies (live)
- What You Deserve
- Love Yourself
- Judge Yourself (live)
- Prelude to Life
- Making Lives
- Depth Poetry (live)
- Soul Sale
- Go_s Work (live)
- Change
- Denouement
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #519938 in Music
- Released on: 2005-01-19
- Number of discs: 1
- Format: Explicit Lyrics
Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
Bleeding edge spoken word has brought this Newark, NJ native everywhere from Los Angeles to Amsterdam. He has toured extensively throughout the continental United States, Canada, Germany, Holland and the U.K. Taalam Acey has been a full-time performance poet since 1999 and boasts an award winning memoir entitled Eyes Free, a novel entitled What You Deserve, and 8 top-selling spoken word CDs. His video, "When the Smoke Clearz" was shown in film festivals in Los Angeles, New York, Amsterdam, and Rotterdam and was one of only 22 films nominated for a 2002 Sundance Film Festival On-line Award. "Crack the CIA," a film narrated by Acey, won the Audience Award at Sundance that year. Essence Magazine selected Acey to feature at the 2001 and 2002 Essence Music Festivals in New Orleans. He has also lectured on performance poetry at the University of California at Berkeley's GSE. Acey was also the subject of a segment on BET's Teen Summit. Taalam was the 2000 and 2002 Grand Slam Champion of London's Paddington Int'l Poetry Festival and the 2002 Slam Champion of the Austin International Poetry Festival. He was also the 2000-2001 NJ Slam master and the Washington DC Black Words Grand Slam Champion. He's won multiple slams in both the Nuyorican and the Green Mill Café in Chicago (both considered to be the int'l Meccas of slam poetry). Acey was also a member of the 1999 New York City slam team representing the world famous Nuyorican Café. BBC Radio One-London featured Taalam in their documentary on slam poetry. Prior to becoming a full time performance poet, he earned a BS in Accounting and an MBA in Finance. He was also a full time lecturer in senior level accounting at Rutgers University, and a principal partner in a small business consulting firm.
Customer Reviews
Judge Yourself
The CD is good. It switches from live performances to tracks accompanied by 'mood' music. Personally, I prefer the live or acapella tracks because Acey often speaks with a high level of energy. That energy coupled with intellectually stimulating speech makes for good work with every release. My favorites on this particular CD; Judge Yourself, God's Work & Metaphysix
