Ithaka "Escape From The City Of Angels"
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All licensing inquiries for the song ESCAPE FROM THE CITY OF ANGELS by Ithaka should be directed to: Scion Four Music (New York). This is a clip from Antoine Fuqua's feature film directorial debut, "The Replacement Killers"(1998) starring Academy Award nominees Chow Yun Fat and Mira Sorvino (Osca
r winner for Might Aphrodite). And also starred Clifton Collins Jr. (Capote) and Michael Rooker. Executive producer: John Woo. The film soundtrack featured Ithaka's underground hip hop classic "Escape From The City of Angles" (featuring chorus vocals by Marta Dias) from his first album, FLOWERS
AND THE COLOR OF PAINT, recorded in Lisbon. Only 1500 copies of the record were ever manufactured. Antoine Fuqua has since directed: Training Day (Best Actor Oscar went to Denzel Washington), Tears of the Sun (with Bruce Willis), King Arthur (Clive Owen and Keira Knightley) and Bait (Jaime Fo
xx), with major upcoming films such as "Brooklyn's Finest" and "Escobar" on the way. This scene featured was shot on location at the legendary (now defunct) Belmont Tunnel near downtown Los Angeles, an internationally recognized graffiti hotspot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . T
he album FLOWERS AND THE COLOR OF PAINT (produced by Pedro Passos and Joe Fossard) was considered by the respected Jornal Publico as one of the most important records of the 1990's in its home territory of Portugal and was nominated for three Blitz Premios (The Portuguese Grammy) for; Best New Artis
t, Best Male Vocalist and Best Album in its year of release, 1995. Ithaka's (aka Darin Pappas) third album, "SOMEWHERE SOUTH OF SOMALIA"(2001) produced by Conley Abrams III appears #10 on amazon.com's list of "BEST" rap records of all time. A song from this album was showcased in the 2007 hit X-Box
360 game NBA 2k7. For more Ithaka info see; http://www.surfline.com/surfnews/article_bamp.cfm?id=13958 http://www.myspace.com/ithakamusic http://www.bigbaer.com/ithaka.htm http://www.ithaka.cc
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Ithaka is an independent artist who sells directly from his own website or occasionally from E Bay. Drop me a reply if you'd like me to dig up the URL for Ithaka as well as the name of the album. The rest of the album is quite good as well - more than happy to help.
Please see above reply to BSkeltonProductions and I'm more than happy to look it up for you if you'd like more details.
Drop me a reply if you'd like me to dig up the URL for Ithaka's website. You can also get it from E bay at times as he does sell online.
Check my comment to BSkeltonProductions as above - any assitance gladly provided.