2 April 2021
Suggestion jar for Teiji Mack”‘Cus really, no rules or Long as you ruling upon you”What a great perspective — on art, on living — that Columbia artist and producer Teiji Mack offers on “Time, inch the three-and-a-half-minute, no-need-for-a-hook manifesto he released as a one in January — plus performs in front of Osamu Kobayashi strikingly colorful “Middle associated with Nowhere” mural in the cardiovascular of Columbia’s bustling Windows vista for this week’s “1 or even 2” session. Mack lifestyles up to this ideal — on the song, morphing via winningly arcane boasts, truthful talk about needing more money plus humble come-ons with a soft and flexible flow — and across his remarkably large catalog — in which the beats incorporate a wide variety of indie/electronic-leaning flavors and his vocal shows play fast and reduce with the boundary between rapping and singing. I hope a person take this latest “1 or even 2” episode as a reminder there are moments when the best way ahead is to ignore the outside sound, and let your own convictions about your art, your projects, your life guide your strategy. Nobody can tell you how to become your best you better than your self — take advice within stride, and find your own method forward. In other words, be like Mack. The “1 or 2” socially distanced performance collection was started in April 2020 to connect Columbians with nearby artists during the pandemic, and also to give those artists an opportunity to get a paycheck when this kind of opportunities have become more uncommon. Free Times remains thankful to our partners in this effort — One Columbia, Richland Library and SceneSC — for helping us retain it going. To check out more “1 or 2” videos, all of these are freely accessible with no online subscription, head to free-times. com/1or2. (SHOT AND MODIFIED BY DAVID STRINGER)
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