Souljacker (2015)

Сюжет кино: DO YOU LIKE ROCK MUSIC?
by DJ Killingspree

WHEN I FIRST VENTURED FORTH INTO MY CAREER IN RAP MUSIC, I was looking for a type of sound that personified the urban experience: the blood, the sweat, nay, the stink , if you will, of this "hood" we call AMERICA.

I never found it.
A decade later this new sound, this encyclopedia of love, God, Satan, pain and heartbreak - this Magna Carta of rock, at last surfaces. You're holding it now.

Welcome, friend, to the hardest rocking substance known to man: SOULJACKER.
EELS ARE NOT NEW TO ROCKING YOUR WORLD. Hell, they've been around since the 1900's. You dug BEAUTIFUL FREAK, you grooved to ELECTRO-SHOCK BLUES, and DAISIES OF THE GALAXY blew your collective minds. Here's the new sound from EELS - SOULJACKER. And this shit, y'all, this shit is Biblical .

At first listen, SOULJACKER purports to rock you and leave it at that. As if that's not enough in these times of corporate-video-product-tie-in-acceptable-to-the-mall-crowd "rock". Yeah, just rockin' it would be more than enough!
But listen again: E, Butch, and a funky Englishman named John Parish, come together to blow hard - HARD like a mystical trumpet playing from a hard rockin' land. HARD like a rock baking in the desert sun. HARD like the heart of a teenager stuck in Nowheresville.
JOHN PARISH, A PROPER Englishman that knows how to rock, met EELS leader E at a taping of the British television program "Top of the Pops." The two continued to meet up whenever they were in the same town and a mutual love of croquet and rock led to the making of much of the record you now hold in your hand. A relationship that literally started at the "Top of the Pops" certainly holds promise, don't you think?

It's been a lifelong dream of the boys to have Koool G Murder involved in a project. This dream finally becomes reality with this release: Mr. Murder rocks the bass and keys on several SOULJACKER tracks. Legendary guitarist Joe Gore pops up on the haunting BUS STOP BOXER as well as the celebratory WHAT IS THIS NOTE? And isn't that old bass playing pal Adam I hear on SOULJACKER part I?
D'wight Devil programs some crazy shit that will have the kids lining up at the record store for weeks to come. Drummer Butch, known to many as nothing less than the greatest drummer alive, kicks his usual ass.

They all played maracas.