2024 ARTS QUARTER PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Here we are looking to develop new products that cater to the African American identity and spirit. That identity that existed not too long ago but which was so very impactful to culture and life. We’re now introducing—within the ARTS Quarter—wall art that encourages and inspires a resurgence of what was lost.

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“Vintage Black. Not So Vintage!”

As a part of our “The Dichotomy of…” theme for 2024, we’re revealing how music and those associated environments helped to fuel the creative passion of William B. Philpot to eventually change and transition into the creative professional now known as Liam Ian Black.

Jazz helped to lay the ground work and foundations of those ideas that would inform what it is to be an Artist, Designer and Photographer. The aesthetic of being a product of Jazz before Hip Hop and Rap, the world seemed to exist within sepia tones reminiscent of being Black and a product of the Earth. Thru music came and comes the truth of being tied to much more than we might ever know. We are guardians and stewards of Nature and Life and Peace.

Intellectualism and Analysis. We are much more than they would have us be.

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FROM MY RED BOOK FILES

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RSCH: TOP SONGS THAT INSPIRE ME…TO CREATE!

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CREATIVITY MOTIVATORS - MUSIC FILES

The Music [Imported from iTunes]

The Motor Is Running — Tall Black Guy

*This song is one of the most impactful of those that I listen to. I’ve become a big fan of TALL BLACK GUY.

Black Is... (feat. DSTL, Sareem Poems & Rich Medina) [Instrumental] — Tall Black Guy & Ozay Moore

*Of course this song embodies so many messages without having to say too much. The beat, the rhythm and the words are obvious and clear yet subtle and smooth.

Unchained — FKJ

*And Unchained caught me the minute I heard it in its entirety. FKJ is a pretty artist whether he’s a Caucasian dude or not.

Black Superhero (feat. Killer Mike, BJ the Chicago Kid & Big K.R.I.T.) — Robert Glasper

*Of, this one will always impact me. It will always amaze me that some of us fail to understand what this song says…and yet, I was blown over to hear anyone put this out there…in this way…so effortlessly and so blunt.

Viberite (feat. KUMBAYA) — Tall Black Guy, Ozay Moore & Malaya

*Just how this song was compared and arranged is so smooth. I could create to this for the longest time.

Introspection (feat. Theo Croker) — Ashley Henry

*And of course as my interests have always been heavily steeped within Jazz and that cool intermingling or inclusion of Hip Hop.

What's Ur Name? (feat. IsWhatItIs) — Tall Black Guy & CHRIS X

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This list was composed one night as I was in the midst of the creative process. Music has a way of guiding and informing me on the path of creative development…and I know…I’m not the only one. I hope this list adds at least one song to someones playlist.

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CONNECTED - PERSONAL NOTES OF LIAM IAN BLACK - © 2023 Liam Ian (LIAM IAN LLC)