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Selected Tracks:
News Goo
The Blood
Jam Inya Jammies
Track Listing:
News Goo
Jam Inya Jammies
The Blood
Di Hard
Salesman
Look At Your Shoeshine
Boomers Blues
Bag Of Bones
Cincinnati Pink
broadjam.com has placed eight Polarity/1 songs in
their Top Ten categories including Best Song All
Genres, Alternative, Electronic, Experimental
Electronic. Four of those have placed #1 in their
respective charts.
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ALBUM GENRE: Electro-folk, Alternative, Singer/Songwriter
YANKIN' THE FOOD CHAIN is a genre-bending organism with a head full of singer/songwriter and a butt full of groove science
from funk/hip hop to pan African World Beat. One song — News Goo (The More You Watch, The less You Know) has found its way on
the soundtracks of two films about media. It's been played regularly for the past seven years by Amy Goodman on her Democracy
Now syndicated broadcasts and has been downloaded by numerous college professors as a teaching aid for their classes on journalism and media.
Composed, performed and produced by Polar with guest appearances by The Greatest Guitar Player In the World Pete McCann, exPrince bass player Scott Parker Allen, percussionist Joe Cardello and Brazilian Girls vocalist Sabina Sciubba.
ABOUT POLARITY/1
INFLUENCES: hip hop, funk, every kind of jazz & country, blues, soul, gospel, Brazil, West Africa, Cuba, reggae, zouk,
John Cage, Steve Reich
The music of Polarity/1 is exactly what the name suggests: conjoined opposites — a mash-up of new: cutting edge electronica/hip
hop/nu-jazz and old: roots music of America (blues, funk, country, early jazz), Brazil (samba, pagode, etc.) and West African groove
science. Polarity also describes the dual streams of Polarity/1's musical output: songs and instrumentals
After a few years of playing percussion in samba bands at S.O.B.'s and other venues, Polar landed in hip hop which combined his
interests in grooves, samples and wordplay into one form. He and rapper D.A.V. became Medicine Crew. In the aftermath of 9/11
Polar was asked to do a remix for Nile Rodgers' We Are Family Project released on a compilation by Tommy Boy Records. His experience of 9/11 which was perpetrated in his neighborhood led to a collaboration with multi-platinum Pakistan rock band Junoon
resulting in their hit song 'No More'. John Hollander has choreographed four Polarity/1 compositions for New York’s Battery Dance
Company's fall season opening in November 2006 and has been touring extensively with the piece. In 2008 he scored “The Other
Side” for The Quorum Ballet from Lisbon, Portugal. P/1’s new collaboration — KOKO DOZO released their first album ILLEGAL
SPACE ALIENS in Feb. ‘08.
“We’d like to hold this track up as an example of several successful techniques: Vocal treatment, drum programming, track building, using eq as a
dynamic tool — do we have all day?”—Review of CD Yankin’ The Food Chain, Recording Magazine
“Polarity/1 is a musical force unleashing some of the hippest beats and timely lyric on the scene.”—Review of CD Yankin’ The Food Chain,
MediaChannel.org
“This is from the old FCC Commissioner, Nicholas Johnson, who just listened to your News
Goo… and wants to thank you for that. News Goo is really terrific! I'd like to share some of
it with some of my colleagues here at the law school.…However that may be, thank you for
all you are doing. Regards, Nicholas Johnson”
“Chuck U. here. A friend of mine dropped by my show with a copy of the News Goo CD that
he got at the Media and Democracy conference. I played 4 tracks of it on the air in the course
of my 2 hour show. I would love to put it into heavy rotation in the course of the up-coming Friday
nights. The name of my show is No Censorship Radio. — Chuck U., WMBR Boston”
WOULD OPEN FOR: Brazilian Girls, Ani DiFranco, Bjork, Los Lobos, Michael Franti,
Ozomatli, Gilberto Gil, Tom Waits, Manu Chao, Jazz Passengers, Joseph Arthur, Peter
Gabriel, David Byrne, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon
LICENSED SONGS
News Goo: documentaries – Subvertising, WMD: Weapons Of Mass Distraction
– A Work In Progress: The Journalism Of Change
www.polarity1.com • www.myspace.com/polarity1music
Contact: Eric de Fontenay, MusicDish LLC • Tel: 718-278-0662 • Email: ecfont@musicdish.net