Anticon is pleased to announce a very special project. Bike For Three! is t… Read Full Bio ↴Anticon is pleased to announce a very special project. Bike For Three! is the well-lucked and mysterious cross-continental duo of Canadian indie-rap legend Richard Terfry (Buck 65) and budding Belgian electronicist Joรซlle Phuong Minh Lรช (Greetings From Tuskan). Shrouded in strange magic, anchored by the heavy stuff of life, and lifted by a mutual magnetism still uncharted, their music is a bright/stunning combination of downtempo textures, smart pop, and exposed lyrical bones.
Over 15 years, Richard has carved out a corner of hip-hop history by unraveling ornate and dust-caked yarns, often over beat-addled soundscapes, as on his seminal โLanguage Artsโ album series (Anticon released part three, Man Overboard, in โ01), and unadorned as well (he recently became host of CBCโs โRadio 2 Driveโ show). For his last record, 2007โs Situation (released on Sage Francisโ Strange Famous label), the man crafted an entire song-cycle around the narrative minutiae of 1957โRichโs love for a good story is famous. Considering, he couldnโt have found a better partner for his latest work.
Joรซlle was raised in Brussels by her Vietnamese mother, a painter and a chef, and remembers fondly the piquant scents sheโd chase around momโs restaurant. She was infatuated with the piano at her primary school, and took lessons when she wasnโt painting or tinkering with music boxes. She learned cello too, pursued photography (sheโs now a successful digital video artist), and studied music theory in college, where she discovered that art-making brought back her childhood memories in vivid detail. She has magic secretsโand perhaps a touch of clairvoyanceโthat she put to work in creating 2006โs striking Greetings From Tuskan LP debut, Lullabies For The Warriors. To this day, there are details that even Rich doesnโt understand about Joรซlleโs immaculate productions. Naturally, thatโs another detail that he loves.
Bike For Three!โs constituent parts have never met in person, and they might not ever. She found him, and their story unfurls in real time along with their songs. Joรซlle sends Rich music; Rich writes to the moods and movements that sheโs designed; Joรซlle nurtures each piece into an animate whole. Bf3! actually finds Buck 65 eschewing traditional narrative forms in favor of an intimate stream of consciousness (offset by tight rhyme cadence) that mines the craggier depths of romance both requited and out-of-reach, real and imagined (which perfectly befits Bf3!โs working relationship). The things Rich wouldnโt speak of in conversation thus become part of the conversation happening on record.
More Heart Than Brains, Bf3!โs album debut, is Buck 65โs first record to feature all electronic production. Of course, Joรซlle has a few acoustic tricks up her sleeveโthose music boxes from her youth, for instanceโand an approach that seats her comfortably amongst such mercurial beat auteurs as Boom Bip, Modeselektor, Michna, and labelmate Alias. That Rich returns to Anticon a nearly decade later to release his most personal album yet is both an honor and the logical continuation of the labelโs own story (Sage Francis did the same with Personal Journals in โ02). As for Bike For Three!, consider this Chapter One.
Over 15 years, Richard has carved out a corner of hip-hop history by unraveling ornate and dust-caked yarns, often over beat-addled soundscapes, as on his seminal โLanguage Artsโ album series (Anticon released part three, Man Overboard, in โ01), and unadorned as well (he recently became host of CBCโs โRadio 2 Driveโ show). For his last record, 2007โs Situation (released on Sage Francisโ Strange Famous label), the man crafted an entire song-cycle around the narrative minutiae of 1957โRichโs love for a good story is famous. Considering, he couldnโt have found a better partner for his latest work.
Joรซlle was raised in Brussels by her Vietnamese mother, a painter and a chef, and remembers fondly the piquant scents sheโd chase around momโs restaurant. She was infatuated with the piano at her primary school, and took lessons when she wasnโt painting or tinkering with music boxes. She learned cello too, pursued photography (sheโs now a successful digital video artist), and studied music theory in college, where she discovered that art-making brought back her childhood memories in vivid detail. She has magic secretsโand perhaps a touch of clairvoyanceโthat she put to work in creating 2006โs striking Greetings From Tuskan LP debut, Lullabies For The Warriors. To this day, there are details that even Rich doesnโt understand about Joรซlleโs immaculate productions. Naturally, thatโs another detail that he loves.
Bike For Three!โs constituent parts have never met in person, and they might not ever. She found him, and their story unfurls in real time along with their songs. Joรซlle sends Rich music; Rich writes to the moods and movements that sheโs designed; Joรซlle nurtures each piece into an animate whole. Bf3! actually finds Buck 65 eschewing traditional narrative forms in favor of an intimate stream of consciousness (offset by tight rhyme cadence) that mines the craggier depths of romance both requited and out-of-reach, real and imagined (which perfectly befits Bf3!โs working relationship). The things Rich wouldnโt speak of in conversation thus become part of the conversation happening on record.
More Heart Than Brains, Bf3!โs album debut, is Buck 65โs first record to feature all electronic production. Of course, Joรซlle has a few acoustic tricks up her sleeveโthose music boxes from her youth, for instanceโand an approach that seats her comfortably amongst such mercurial beat auteurs as Boom Bip, Modeselektor, Michna, and labelmate Alias. That Rich returns to Anticon a nearly decade later to release his most personal album yet is both an honor and the logical continuation of the labelโs own story (Sage Francis did the same with Personal Journals in โ02). As for Bike For Three!, consider this Chapter One.
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Bike For Three! Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by Bike For Three!:
All There Is to Say About Love Dragonflies and the agonizing blast from a gun. Under a mag…
Always I Will Miss You. Always You. Left to our own devices, preciseness, Weโฒve made something i…
First Embrace Pouring rain. Roaring pain. Girl meets boy meets holy ghost.…
Full Moon How did it bleed? It bled like fire. Je retiens l'รฉcume…
Lazarus Phenomenon The boy was an old cat and the girl was…
MC Space Where I come from, we never heard of bite We can…
Nightdriving Night driving. Faced my wheel. Both of my legs replaced by…
No Idea How Steady. Unbreakable. Consistent. Fast. Dirt. Everything beg…
There Is Only One of Us Whispering ghosts. Seduction unlikely. Just out of reach. T…
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@cheesecake134
"I cry for you every night. The lonely end. I love you. You're my only friend." Well goddamn, now I'm profoundly sad.
@Koniaku
just herd it on nme! wicked tune! thanks for video
@aaroozz
i love you
@sodypopy
i gave you the rose when you sang this song at the Troubador!! 11-4-07
@pilgrimbomb
i was there and i remember that . came back to this song today just for the feelz
@danieljoda
Dustin werbeski bring me here