KIP HANRAHAN: The Inspirer

The "artist behind the artists", writer, percussionist, label-man, producer, composer, world-art director... Kip Hanrahan.

(portrait by Ritchard Rodrigues)

the visionary man among half-light and darkness
(characteristic pose with Kip's face partly in shade)

An introduction to the world-art universe of Kip Hanrahan
and his record label...

01 Whatever I Want

( KIP HANRAHAN "Coup De Tete", 1981)

02 Bitter Chocklate

(CONJURE "Cab Calloway Stands In For The Moon", 1988)

03 Velasquez
(KIP HANRAHAN "Desire Developes An Edge", 1983)

04 Milonga for Three
(ASTOR PIAZOLLA "The Rough dancer & The Cyclical Night", 1988)

05 La Distancia Entre Los Dos
(ALFREDO TRIFF "21 Broken Melodies At Once", 2000)

06 Far From Beirut
(H. HERNANDEZ & R. AMEEN "Robby & Negro At The Third World War", 2002)

07 Hollywood In Harlem
(PIRI THOMAS "Every Child Is Born A Poet", 2006)

08 Poem for Gretchen Ruth
(PAUL HAINES "Darn It!", 1993)

09 Gillian's Folk Song
(KIP HANRAHAN "Tenderness", 1990)

10 Me Vuelves Loca
(SILVANA DELUIGI "Yo!", 2002)

11 The Moon Shows Red
(H. HERNANDEZ & R. AMEEN "Robby & Negro At The Third World War", 2002)

12 Discepolin
(SILVANA DELUIGI "Yo!", 2002)

13 Negro & Andy Run This Very Night Into Rumba
(DEEP RUMBA "This Night Becomes A Rumba", 1998)

14 Oye Familia!
(PIRI THOMAS "Every Child Is Born A Poet", 2006)

15 Mindtrances
(ALFREDO TRIFF "21 Broken Melodies At Once", 2000)

16 Unobtainable Days, Unobtainable Nights
(KIP HANRAHAN "Days & Nights Of Blue Luck Inverted, 1988)

compiled by LaFolieDuJour

KIP HANRAHAN - No One Gets To Trascend Anything (1981)

American Clave compilation (16tracks, approx. 1hour)

see more at: www.americanclave.com