
KEF 33 (SCALLOPS HOTEL HOSTS A READING OF THE PURPLE MOONLIGHT PAGES)
What is KEF 33? The paranoid ravings of the shamanic? The delusional grandeurs of the prophetic?My first attempt at an album under my birth name, R.A.P. Ferreira. Produced entirely by Scallops Hotel except the final track, #11 enoch light, which is produced by the vision seer, E L U C I D. At this time, I'd had Soulfolks Records awhile and was more than proficient at digging for samples and mixing my own work. I began growing confident in the statements I wanted to make as an artist but there still felt something missing. Perhaps breath. I would play this project for a number of advisors and elders. The most memorable feedback I received was from Erykah Badu and I do appreciate her ears. Ultimately I was led to contacting my close collaborator, Kenny Segal and beginning to mold the project anew as Purple Moonlight Pages. I elaborated and sculpted on many of the KEF 33 rhymes, enough to where this project felt fully formed in that version. However now, looking back, I hear important thi