A Heap of Broken Images

A Heap of Broken Images
Studio album by Blue Sky Black Death
Released 23 June 2006
Genre Underground hip hop
Length 44:44
46:20
Label Mush Records
Producer Blue Sky Black Death
Blue Sky Black Death chronology

A Heap of Broken Images
(2006)		 Blue Sky Black Death presents: The Holocaust
(2006)
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Allmusic [1]
ukhh.com [2]
Tiny Mix Tapes [3]

A Heap of Broken Images is the debut album by instrumental hip hop duo Blue Sky Black Death. It was released on 23 June 2006 by Mush Records.

The album is a double album release, with the first disc featuring twelve instrumental tracks (with a mix of sampling and live instrumentation), and the second disc featuring one instrumental and nine of their beats matched with vocals from a number of guest rappers.

The guests include Jus Allah of Jedi Mind Tricks, Wise Intelligent of Poor Righteous Teachers, Sabac Red of Non Phixion, A-Plus and Pep Love of Hieroglyphics, Chief Kamachi of Army of the Pharaohs, Guru of Gang Starr, Mike Ladd, Rob Sonic, Holocaust, Myka 9 of Freestyle Fellowship, Virtuoso and Awol One. Later in 2006, the duo released a full-length collaboration album with Holocaust, titled Blue Sky Black Death presents: The Holocaust.

Title

The album title comes from the T. S. Eliot poem The Waste Land ("A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, and the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief").[4][5]

Track listing

Disc one

# Title Length Notes
1 Skies Open 4:33
  • Contains a sample from the film Primer
2 Days Are Years 6:02
  • Bass: Atiba Joshua Starr
  • Contains a sample from "Make The Night A Little Longer" by The Shirelles.
3 Chloroform 3:34
  • Contains a sample from "Turn Into Earth" by The Yardbirds
4 Not Here 4:34
  • Guitar: Michael Matais
5 They Came Around 3:20
6 Dream of Dying 5:04
  • Bass: Atiba Joshua Starr
  • Contains a sample from "Body through which the dream flows" by John Adams
  • Contains a vocal sample from the movie The Ice Storm
7 From Sun's Angle 3:33
  • Cello: Allie Van Dyke
  • Violin: Nancy Kuo
8 Rap Creature Land 3:34
9 Heroin for God 4:33
  • Contains a vocal sample from the movie Dark City
10 Guilty Ones 1:14
11 The Dead Tree Gives No Shelter 2:39
  • Cello: Mary Taggart
  • Violin: Nancy Kuo
12 Still Asleep 2:01

Disc two

# Title Length Notes
1 Engage My Words 4:08
2 Street Legends 4:21
  • First verse: A-Plus
  • Second verse: Pep Love
  • Third verse: Pep Love, A-Plus
3 Floor Chalk (Best Reprise) 3:33
  • First verse: Guru
  • Second verse: Chief Kamachi
  • Third verse: Guru
  • Fourth verse: Chief Kamachi
4 Scriptures 4:37
  • Performed by: Lil' Sci
5 Long Division 6:41
6 I Catch Fire 6:24
  • Performed by: Holocaust
7 Grimey Styles 4:19
8 Brain Cells 4:09
  • Performed by: Virtuoso
9 Everything 6:01
  • Performed by: Awol One
10 It Wasn't White 2:06

References

  1. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r832441
  2. ↑ http://www.ukhh.com/reviews/nonuk/2352.html
  3. ↑ Ranta, Alan. "Blue Sky, Black Death - A Heap Of Broken Images". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
  4. ↑ The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
  5. ↑ "MH-243 Blue Sky Black Death - A Heap Of Broken Images". Urabn Pollution. Retrieved 9 May 2012.