{"id":13540,"date":"2017-11-27T05:30:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T10:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=13540"},"modified":"2017-10-11T15:44:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T19:44:42","slug":"new-release-foul-mouth-jerks-scofflaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/27\/new-release-foul-mouth-jerks-scofflaw\/","title":{"rendered":"New Release: Foul Mouth Jerk’s “Scofflaw”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Michael Capra \u2013 aka Foul Mouth Jerk \u2013 explains title and theme of his latest release, Scofflaw<\/em>. \u201c’Scofflaw’ is a prohibition-era term for someone flagrantly flouting the more petty crimes,\u201d he says. And Scofflaw<\/i> is a collection of party songs and more political ones.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m hiding a political stance under some party shit,\u201d Capra says, \u201cbecause I find that a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.\u201d So Foul Mouth Jerk is quoting Mary Poppins? \u201cThat’s what’s hot in the streets, man,\u201d he says with a chuckle. \u201cMary Poppins.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Scofflaw<\/i> project began as a series of phone calls between Capra and Gus Cutty; at the time, Cutty lived in San Francisco. \u201cThat Thanksgiving, I flew out to San Francisco,\u201d Capra says. \u201cWe had dinner at Gus’ apartment, and then spent the next two days eating leftovers and recording the whole album. So Scofflaw<\/i> was made over leftover ham and PBR tall boys.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recently, Capra has been working on new tracks with Asheville-based production collective Evil Note Lab; the product of those efforts will be Foul Mouth Jerk’s next<\/i> album. Still, Evil Note Lab will play a major role in the debut of Scofflaw<\/i>. \u201cSince I sit in on their weekly set at the One Stop, we figured a cool way to release the album would be to do it with them,\u201d Capra says. \u201cIt’ll be a mix of, ‘here’s the newest project,’ and ‘here’s a sneak peek of what’s coming in the next year or so.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Improvisation is a hallmark of Evil Note Lab’s musical approach, and that lines up well with Capra’s methods. \u201cWhen I perform with them, improvisation is a huge part of it,\u201d he says. \u201cBecause all of what they’re doing is completely off the cuff; it’s actually really amazing to watch.\u201d Capra likens the experience of collaborating onstage with Evil Note Lab to a jump rope game of Double Dutch. \u201cThey ebb and flow,\u201d he says. \u201cOne moment, there’s so much going on. And then other times, they strip it right down to bare-bones.\u201d<\/p>\n

That spontaneity is key to Foul Mouth Jerk’s own musical aesthetic. \u201cI approach things more in the style of the early 1970s days of hip hop,\u201d he says. \u201cBack then, the MC was not the front man; MC was a hype man for the DJ. So when I find those little breakdowns, I might just do a hook a few times and then jump back out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though Capra puts a great deal of effort into his rhymes, when it comes to live shows, it’s about dancing. \u201cAnd you don’t want to bog down dance music with thick, really wordy verses,\u201d he says. \u201cI drop verses here and there, but mainly I just try and find the spot where I fit in,\u201d he says. In a live setting like the release party for Scofflaw<\/i>, Capra says that \u201cthe vocals are really the hype man for the music.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Capra \u2013 aka Foul Mouth Jerk \u2013 explains title and theme of his latest release, Scofflaw. \u201c’Scofflaw’ is a prohibition-era term for someone flagrantly flouting the more petty crimes,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,41,49],"tags":[237,3244],"class_list":["post-13540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hip-hop","category-interview","category-new-release","tag-asheville","tag-foul-mouth-jerk","cat-36-id","cat-41-id","cat-49-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13542,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13540\/revisions\/13542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}