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  Full-color labels. Premium tip-on style sleeves. Designed by Ibrahem Hasan of Bless The Mad. Distributed by Potions Music. 250 pressed, and 30 copies left.
  
  Maxwell Street Flea Market, the famous open-air Chicago institution where the Chicago Blues was first heard, also, in no trivial way, gave birth to this:
  
  BLESS THE MAD
  
  Ibrahem Hasan and Matthew Rivera, Chicagoans through and through, a Palestinian and a Puerto Rican Jew, met there, during the market’s second iteration on Canal street, both digging furiously for records, books, and old recording gear.
  
  Hailing from opposite ends of the city, they connected at its center, every Sunday, rain or shine, among the forgotten objects that washed up there. Max was church; a living museum of old Chicago from which to learn and draw inspiration. For the budding beat-makers participating in hip-hop’s golden age, the flea was an important 6th element.
  
  BLESS THE MAD, the group’s self-titled debut, is an audio collage and musical tribute to those years in Chicago as they experienced them. It represents and connects all the dots, from their break-obsessed early years to their current roles as ambassadors of militant jazz, tough soul, and spiritual rap exotica. It is a loving homage to the past with an eye toward the future.
  
  Dig the music or don’t, but you must BLESS THE MAD.
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  released September 25, 2020
  
  Bless The Mad = Ibrahem Hasan + Matthew Rivera
  
  All tracks produced by Bless The Mad
  Most tracks recorded at Boobytrap Studios, Brooklyn, NY
  Mastered by Steven Berson at Total Sonic Media
  Artwork by Ibrahem Hasan
  
  BLESS THE MAD (Ibrahem Hasan, Matthew Rivera, Jorjão Barreto)
  
  Jorjāo Barreto- electric piano
  Alexandre Cavallo- electric bass
  Flávio dos Santos Silva- drums
  Celso Guimarães- electric guitar
  Matthew Rivera- synthesizer, percussion
  Diego Alzate- double bass
  Ibrahem Hasan- percussion
  Mixed by Matthew Rivera
  
  SHOW ME THE WAY (Larry Adams)
  
  Edson Sean- vocal soloist, electric bass, background vocals
  Matthew Rivera- electric piano, synthesizer, drums, finger snaps, background vocals
  ArinMaya- background vocals
  Ibrahem Hasan- finger snaps
  Mixed by Matthew Rivera
  
  ANCESTORS (PART ONE) (Matthew Rivera, Ibrahem Hasan, Jonathan Clifford Lee)
  
  Jonathan Clifford Lee- double bass
  Chris Rozik- electric guitar
  Matthew Rivera- electric piano, RMI piano, drums, percussion, hand claps
  Ibrahem Hasan- percussion, hand claps
  Diego Alzate- double bass
  Mixed by Matthew Rivera & Gerald Trotman
  
  MAMA'S LAND (David Andrew, Matthew Rivera, Ibrahem Hasan, Jasmine Mitchell)
  
  Silka- vocal soloist, background vocals, vocal chants
  D.A.P.- vocal chants
  Matthew Rivera- baby grand piano, electric piano, RMI piano, synthesizer, drums, flute, percussion
  Ibrahem Hasan- percussion
  Mixed by Matthew Rivera & Gerald Trotman
  
  FALL DEAD (Michelle Hicks, Gerald Trotman, Matthew Rivera, Arin Maya Lawrence, Ibrahem Hasan)
  
  Gaia Earthpeace- vocal soloist
  Edson Sean- background vocals
  Matthew Rivera- drums, electric piano, xylophone, percussion, synthesizer
  Ibrahem Hasan- electric piano, percussion
  Diego Alzate- electric bass, double bass
  Mixed by Matthew Rivera
  
  RIO DARKNESS (Matthew Rivera, Ibrahem Hasan, Jorjão Barreto)
  
  Jorjāo Barreto- electric piano
  Alexandre Cavallo- electric bass
  Flávio dos Santos Silva- drums
  Celso Guimarães- electric guitar
  Matthew Rivera- synthesizer, percussion
  Diego Alzate- double bass
  Ibrahem Hasan- percussion
  Mixed by Matthew Rivera
  
  INTERLUDE (FOR RA) (Matthew Rivera, Ibrahem Hasan, Gerald Trotman)
  
  Matthew Rivera- drums, electric piano, synthesizer
  Edson Sean- electric bass, background vocals
  Mixed by Matthew Rivera
  
  RA'S LAMENT (Matthew Rivera, Ibrahem Hasan, Gerald Trotman, Diego Alzate)
  
  Edson Sean- vocal soloist
  ArinMaya- vocal soloist
  Diego Alzate- double bass
  Matthew Rivera- drums, synthesizer, RMI piano, percussion, hand claps
  Ibrahem Hasan- percussion, hand claps
  Mixed by Matthew Rivera & Gerald Trotman
  
  
  INSIDE THA DANJA ZONE (Matthew Rivera, Ibrahem Hasan)
  
  Matthew Rivera- drums, synthesizer, RMI piano, electric piano, percussion
  Mixed by Matthew Rivera
  
  I WANNA GIVE TO YOU (Ibrahem Hasan, Matthew Rivera, Gerald Trotman, Jasmine Mitchell)
  
  Silka- vocal soloist, background vocals
  Diego Alzate- electric bass
  Edson Sean- vocal soloist, electric guitar, background vocals
  Matthew Rivera- RMI piano, synthesizer, sand, water
  Ibrahem Hasan- RMI piano, sand, water
  Mixed by Matthew Rivera
  
  RUSSIAN SUMMER (Ibrahem Hasan, Matthew Rivera, Gerald Trotman)
  
  Edson Sean- electric bass, electric piano, synthesizer, background vocals
  Matthew Rivera- drums, percussion, RMI piano, hand claps, background vocals
  Ibrahem Hasan- percussion, hand claps, background vocals
  Mixed by Matthew Rivera & Gerald Trotman
  
  ANCESTORS (PART TWO) (Jasmine Mitchell, Matthew Rivera, Ibrahem Hasan, Arin Maya Lawrence, Gerald Trotman)
  
  ArinMaya- vocal soloist
  Melodiousfly vocal soloist, chants
  D.A.P.- background chants
  Ibrahem Hasan- chants, percussion
  Matthew Rivera- drums, RMI piano, electric piano, synthesizer, chants, percussion
  Edson Sean- electric piano
  Diego Alzate- electric bass, double bass
  Mixed by Matthew Rivera
  
  LOVE ME (Matthew Rivera , Ibrahem Hasan, Gerald Trotman)
  
  Matthew Rivera- drums, electric piano, synthesizer
  Edson Sean- electric bass, synthesizer, background vocals
  
  WE MUST CARRY ON (Matthew Rivera, Ibrahem Hasan, Gerald Trotman, Arin Maya Lawrence)
  
  Edson Sean- vocal soloist, electric piano, electric bass, background vocals
  ArinMaya- vocal soloist, background vocals
  Matthew Rivera- drums, synthesizer, percussion, hand claps
  Ibrahem Hasan- percussion, hand claps
  Mixed by Matthew Rivera & Gerald Trotman
  
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