Digified Funk, electro-soul, reggae heavy breaks with layered warm and emotive vocals.

10 MP3 Songs
ELECTRONIC: Trip Hop, URBAN/R&B: Soul



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Independent Recording Artist
Corduroy Kid
The Sleep Project

The Sleep Project, a concept album inspired by DJ culture, and the debut solo CD by Corduroy Kid aka Shawn Hall , is anything but sleepy. First intended as a soundtrack to follow the many moods of an evening, The Sleep Project reveals the varied musical cultures that have influenced Corduroy Kid. He fuses hip-hop with folk, funk with blues, passion with loneliness for an ecstatic wet dream of a disc with grooves that won't let you lie down.

The prolific Hall, wrote, performed and produced the tracks on the album through his Old Sofa Music production company. He also had some able assistance from Vancouver hip hop notables such as Sol Good contributing lyrics and vox to the reggae/consumer conscious People Sea, and veteran DJ Kilo Cee's inspired turntables spike Haji's Express. The oh-so-funky Ease At Ease benefits from the killer keys of Miami based Marc Geffrard and would make the Meters proud. Producer/musician Matt Rogers lends his considerable guitar skills to Corduroy Kid's mournful/tuneful Down Broke Down on which Hall's vocals bring to mind a grittier Peter Gabriel.

Over the past four years, in his incarnation as the brains and talent behind Old Sofa Music, Hall has produced a number of artists in genres including pop/rock, hip-hop, and electronica. In 2004, he was the sound engineer for a global music conference, "One World Multiple Dreams" in Jinja, Uganda. His many credits also include composing for radio, writing jingles for stations such as The Beat 94.5 FM and licensing his own compositions to television, such as his track "Flood This Town" to the series Godivas, in 2005.



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