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KOKO DOZO
The Newest Project From Polarity/1

New York City is a wildlife preserve known for the aerial droppings of its winged inhabitants. KOKO DOZO is NYC's native belching honkbird that deposits upon the heads of its victims the collective musical droppings of Polarity/1, Amy Douglas (www.myspace.com/amybdouglas) and Rubio (www.ricamusica.com). This bird warbles in the key of GROOVE dipped in the house special surreal sauce and spiced with multi-layered, multi-lingual wordplay. The music defies all natural laws of genre categorization. We'll let others get more specific:

"Jazz from another planet."

"Political, Pointed, Unrelentingly Frank, Hilarious, Kooky, Avant-Garde, Futuristic Jazz....with a beat...."

"Like Beefheart with a beat..."

"By the time you realize you're hearing three very angry people, it's too late....you're dancing...."

"Glossy, Glassy, Brassy, Punk Attitude, Funk Delivery..."

"Music that makes you dance, and makes you think."

"Frank Zappa's out there brand of humour, with infectious grooves, stellar musicianship, and soulful singing..."

"A combo of world music, atmospheric electronica, funk, and beat poetry with a diva deliverin' it...."

"Oh god...the hipsters are gonna love this.  I might just shoot myself...."

"This was made by only 3 people?- DAMN!"

Don't wait, listen to the first track "DC Whore" and send a message to Polar with your thoughts!

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The music of Polarity/1 is exactly what the name suggests: conjoined opposites - a mash-up of new: cutting edge electronica/hip hop/nu-jazz and old: roots music of America (blues, funk, country, early jazz), Brazil (samba, pagode, etc.) and West African groove science. "Polar succeeds in his mission of forcing you to pay attention and not lull into the sounds you 'expect' to hear," noted StarPolish.com

After a few years of playing percussion in samba bands at S.O.B.'s and other venues, Polar landed in hip hop which combined his interests in grooves, samples and wordplay into one form. He and rapper D.A.V. became Medicine Crew. In the aftermath of 9/11 Polar was asked to do a remix for Nile Rodgers' We Are Family Project released on a compilation by Tommy Boy Records.

His experience of 9/11 which was perpetrated in his neighborhood led to a collaboration with multi-platinum Pakistan rock band Junoon resulting in their hit song 'No More'. Polarity/1's CD, 'Speechless', which was nominated Best Electronica Album by Just Plain Folks, included four instrumentals choreographed by New York's Battery Dance Company in November 2006. He's scored four feature-length documentaries directed by Danny Schechter, including composing and performing the theme songs.

Currently, Polarity/1 is best known for political songs which are a regular feature of Amy Goodman's globally syndicated Democracy Now, NPR and many other politics-oriented broadcasts.

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NOTABLES

1980's
* art shows Boston & San Antonio Texas
* artist-in-residence at Massachusetts College of Art's Studio For Interactive Media where Polar composed and produced multi-media performance art
* acted and composed for experimental theater in Boston
* composed for commercials and TV show themes in Boston & New York

1990's to Present:
* played in samba bands in clubs and parades
* composed and produced with rapper D.A.V. in Medicine Crew
* Polarity/1's first CD, Yankin' The Food Chain
* songs licensed for feature-length documentaries and often requested as teaching aids by college professors for their journalism and media classes
* Documentaries: Danny Schechter's WMD: Weapons of Mass Distraction (also scored) and In Debt We Trust: America Before The Bubble Bursts (scored and served as Music Supervisor); Pedro Carvahal's Subvertising
* regular air play on Amy Goodman's Democracy Now, NPR, WMBR in Boston and other political radio shows
* Speechless CD one of five nominees for Best Electronic CD by Just Plain Folks
* Created all kids samba school Battery Drumline
* in Rio de Janeiro, played in Mangueira samba school
* New York's Battery Dance Company choreographs four Polarity/1 instrumentals
* forms music production company Audioplasm and releases Audioplasm CD Heavy Meadow

This is a new collection of new avant/derriere songs. P1's further commitment to the idea of orchestrating with genre as well as instruments and sonics. Delirium, stories and op-ed are sung and rapped over funky electronica and surprising genre-blending recipes: a woozy blues/cha cha-from-hell paeon to a 1950's aging Jewish hitman, a blues rock/Afrobeat/samba about living in the blue light of tv addiction. A dirty folky country children's song is propelled by a groove from northern Brazil. There's a roots blues song about greasy love and infotainment that's full of jazz reggae; a cover of a Brazilian classic that Polar sings in Portugeuse in a traditional samba canção format with a smatter of electronic noise, metal guitar and electronically mutated metal wastebasket. Sweaty on the bottom and literate on top.

Album Genre Electro-Folk Track Listing Love Is Hard * Prettier Than You * There's Music * Swing That Kaddish * KaChing * Duck * Garbage Man * Seventy Virgins * Dança Da Solidão * Free Money * Charge It Licensed Songs Seventy Virgins: documentary — WMD: Weapons Of Mass Distraction Free Money: documentaries — In Debt We Trust; A Work In Progress: The Journalism Of Change Swing That Kaddish: choreographed & performed by Battery Dance Company, NYC

SPEECHLESS changes the colors of the room. Things happen. Cheesy cultural artifacts sprinkled on sarcastic spaghetti. Mood music for non-linear equations and unlikely postures. Doesn't require drug-ingestion... IS drug ingestion. The grooves moves and the sex is textural. Beat science for curved dancefloor. Speechless was one of five nominees for Best Electronica CD of 2004 for indie music organization JFP (Just Plain Folks) that covers music from 85 countries in over 60 different genres of music. It's been remastered and re-released with a new track.

Album Genre Alternative Electronica, Acid Jazz, Funk & Downtown New York Jazz Track Listing Bring On The Sudz * Senhor Softee * The Marvin Stomp * Speechless * The Eagle Has Descended * Nilestones * Blues For Chucky * The Sumo Glide * Land O' Debbies * Munton's Revenge Licensed Songs Speechless: documentary — WMD; choreographed & performed by Battery Dance Company, NYC The Marvin Stomp: documentary — In Debt We Trust; choreographed & performed by Battery Dance Company, NYC Senhor Softee: choreographed & performed by Battery Dance Company, NYC

Audioplasm is Polarity/1 (Polar Levine) and Rubio. HEAVY MEADOW is Audioplasm's first album. It's got the strangest, hottest grooves on Planet Earth. And that's a fact. A stew of sliced & diced voices and scraps of lost & found sonic trash along with live playing - marinated in delerium. Track Listing Guillermo Ate My Lunch Heavy Meadow * Naddy Waddy * Pa La Lucha * Egg-shaped Egg * Bob Smith Of The FBI * Miss Bunnel's Holiday * Many Thanks To You Jack * Ass Licensed Songs Pa La Lucha: documentary — In Debt We Trust

PRESS COVERAGE

POLARITY/1 is From the Mind of POLAR LEVINE. Which is Just About As Fevered As The Brain of RadioMike But This Runs The Gamut Of Politics in All of Its Forms Among Other Things and This Runs Into Every Genre. Here Is Something For Everyone To Listen To. — Radio Mike

Review of CD Speechless: "Polar succeeds in his mission of forcing you to pay attention and not lull into the sounds you 'expect' to hear." StarPolish.com

Review of CD Speechless: "Polarity/1's Speechless immediately strikes you as a lost soundtrack to some latenight & long forgotten acid trip. Highly recommended." TheRecordIndustry.com

Review of Song "Di Hard": "We'd like to hold this track up as an example of several successful techniques: Vocal treatment, drum programming, track building, using eq as a dynamic tool — do we have all day?"—Review of CD Yankin' The Food Chain, Recording Magazine

Review of CD Yankin' The Food Chain: "Polarity/1 is a musical force unleashing some of the hippest beats and timely lyric on the scene."—Review of CD Yankin' The Food Chain, MediaChannel.org

Review of CD Yankin' The Food Chain: "Chuck U. here. A friend of mine dropped by my show with a copy of the News Goo CD that he got at the Media and Democracy conference. It's way wicked cool, and I played 4 tracks of it on the air in the course of my 2 hour show. I would love to put it into heavy rotation in the course of the up-coming Friday nights. The name of my show is No Censorship Radio. — Chuck U., WMBR Boston"

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