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Divine Styler: Spiral Walls Containing Autumns of Light (Giant, Epic and available as a download from MP3.com).(Sound recording review)(Brief article)

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| March 01, 2007 | Kalamka, Juba | COPYRIGHT 2007 Color Lines Magazine. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Having sustained a rabid cult following years after its 1991 release (through dubs of scarcely available originals), Divine Styler's Spiral Walls (1989) is now widely available through legal download sites. An original member of rapper/actor Ice-T's Los Angeles-based Rhyme Syndicate crew, Styler (Marc Richardson) converted to Sunni Islam shortly before recording Word Power (Rhyme Syndicate/Epic, 1989) and began work on Spiral Walls with unprecedented artistic leeway. (He was Giant's first rap signing.)

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More a sprawling, cinematic opera than a simple collection of songs, the album veers wildly from dreamy spoken-word ...

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