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The Arrest-the-President All-Stars is an ad hoc collaboration between sole, jel, and the pedestrian in the tradition of the forgettable issue-based coalitions of rap's distant past: the We're All in the Same Gang All-Stars, the H.E.A.L. Movement, and the Stop the Violence All-Stars. Taking Intelligent Hoodlum's "Arrest the President" (released during the elder Bush's administration) as a jumping- off point, the trio channels the radical spirit (but not the sound) of the early '60s folk revival along with the collage-mindedness of classic hip hop, taking quotes and vocal bits from across a wide spectrum, including Black Panther Bobby Seale, televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, and pre-WWII folk singer Bascom Lamar Lunsford.

The vinyl-only B-side "Resurrection Morning Sermon" features music and cuts by jel and a live recording of a fiery political sermon delivered by pedestrian (performing under his real name and assumed title, Evangelist J.B. Best) on Easter Sunday, 2004, in which he takes a litany of news items from the previous week and identifies their historical precedents with an eye on the usually troubled role, whether in complicity or negligence, of the United States.

• Long awaited lead single to the debut full length release by anticon co-founder pedestrian
  
• Features vocals by sole and jel and production by jel and odd nosdam
  
• Debut song by new anticon super group, The Arrest the President All-Stars (sole, pedestrian and jel)

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  go to iTunes to browse downloads for Pedestrian "The Toss And Turn"

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History looms large in pedestrian's vision, both aesthetically and thematically. His excavation of history rethinks and reckons with hiphop 's last thirty years through samples, direct quotes, and stylistic references. A beautiful variety of accents in cultures across time and space is present, with nods to Dylan Thomas, Lorca, Reverend J.M. Gates and the southern "shouter" tradition of preaching, pre-WWII American folk music, Biblical and gospel imagery.

If his omnivorous appetite makes any sense, it's because of the detail and thematic coherence of his writing, and the musical contributions of his collaborators. The music's hard rhythmic swing-- particularly undeniable in jel's gritty SP1200 beats, but also in the approaches of alias and matt chang-- gives the album kinetic momentum. A synthesis of sampler and instrumentation is the album's norm and the songs' structures can only be described as dynamic. The hand of why?, whose early songs are marked by brevity and capacity to surprise, is evident on six of the album's songs. Not a song goes by without a couple voices from a revolving cast of characters chiming in dose's refrains on "O Silent Bed," sole's frequent interjections, why?'s harmonizing presence. Onetime anticon colleague and current Ninja Tune artist Sixtoo sums up unIndian songs as "the definitive anticon album," despite the obvious fact that it takes a dramatic turn away from the kind of music usually associated with anticon.

• Contributions from members of clouddead, subtle, and every member of anticon, including why?, sole, doseone, jel, alias, odd nosdam, passage, and telephone jim jesus (of restiform bodies).
  
• Co-founder of anticon along with sole, appearing on a shortlist of important anticon albums
  
• Performed with Isotope 217, Freestyle Fellowship, Fog, DJ Krush, and the like
  
• Sixtoo calls it "the definitive Anticon album"

  30-second MP3 excerpts:

  Sermon On The Subject Of Death I
  O Hosanna
  Lifelong Liquidation Sale I
  Lifelong Liquidation Sale II
  Sermon On The Subject Of Death, II
  O Silent Bed
  The Dead Of A Day
  Arrest The President
  The History Channel
  Anticon
  Field Reports From The Financial District
  The Toss And Turn
  Jane 2: Electric Boogaloo
  Blind Dates

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  Pedestrian "Unindian Songs, Vol. 1" (anticon)

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