Rjd2 Collaborates with Aceyalone for Album, Tour

With his last solo album Since We Last Spoke fading quickly into everyone's memory of mid-2004, it's time for Rjd2 get the (mostly instrumental) word out again. In February, the beatsmith will head out on the road for a brief North American tour, accompanied by former Freestyle Fellowship MC Aceyalone. RJ produced the rapper's forthcoming album, Magnificant City, due February 7 on Project Blowed. (It will be preceded by the single "Fire", which will be released January 17.)

Of course, Rjd2 hasn't been completely silent since his last LP, contributing music to, among other things, Cage's Hell's Winter, the soundtrack to NBA 2K6, and the score for Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure video game.

As previously reported, Rjd2 will also appear at the Langerado Music Festival at Sunrise, FL's Markham Park, on March 11. The fest runs for two days and features the Flaming Lips, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, the Secret Machines, Drive-By Truckers, Lyrics Born, Kid Koala, and Wilco. You can also count on the spring/summer outdoor festival triple-threat of Ben Harper, G. Love & the Special Sauce, and Robert Randolph & the Family Band. Or you can go grab a beer. The rest of these tour dates probably won't have so much steel guitar:

02-04 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
02-16 San Diego, CA - Porters Pub *
02-17 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre *
02-18 San Francisco, CA - The Independent *
02-24 Chicago, IL - Metro *
02-25 Toronto, Ontario - Phoenix Concert Theatre *
02-26 New York, NY - Avalon *
02-28 Philadelphia, PA - 8th Street/Beyond *
03-11 Sunrise, FL - Markham Park (Langerado Music Festival)

* with Aceyalone

Magnificent City doesn't seem to have much steel guitar either, from what we hear. But it does have 14 tracks, including "Here & Now" which features a vocal performance by RJ. And they are...

01 All for You
02 Fire
03 Cornbread, Eddie and Me
04 Mooore
05 Supahero
06 High Lights
07 Disconnected
08 Caged Bird
09 Solomon Jones
10 A Sunday Mystery
11 Junior
12 Heaven
13 Here & Now
14 A Beautiful Mine

* Pitchfork Review: Aceyalone:

Posted by Zach Vowell on Wed, Jan 4, 2006 at 1:00am