After a two-year layoff Polarity/1 recently reconnected with indie
music site BROADJAM. And already the NY-based composer and recording
artist is back on the their charts. "NILESTONES" (from the Speechless
CD) has entered their Top 10 for the New York, Northeast, United
States and North America regions as well as Production - Mid Tempo and
Electronic categories.
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"When my kid was eight he wanted to be the next Miles Davis," noted
Polar Levine aka Polarity/1. "He could already play "So What" on his
grandpas's trumpet. Nilestones sort of has the feel of Davis'
"Milestones." Mainly it was an excuse to stick my kid's name in the
title. Because I can."
Before his two-year vacation from recording he had placed eight
Polarity/1 songs in their Top Ten categories including Best Song All
Genres, Alternative, Electronic, Experimental Electronic. Four of
those had placed #1 in their respective charts.
Nominated Best Electronica CD by Just Plain Folks, Speechless has
licensed songs to the Tribeca-based Battery Dance Company as well as
several documentaries including the recently released "In Debt We
Trust," a feature-length documentary directed by Emmy Award winner
Danny Schechter.
The music of Polarity/1 is exactly what the name suggests: conjoined
opposites - a mash-up of new: cutting edge electronica/hip hop/nu-jazz
and old: roots music of America (blues, funk, country, early jazz),
Brazil (samba, pagode, etc.) and West African groove science. "Polar
succeeds in his mission of forcing you to pay attention and not lull
into the sounds you 'expect' to hear," noted StarPolish.com
Currently, Polarity/1 is best known for political songs which are a
regular feature of Amy Goodman's globally syndicated Democracy Now,
NPR and many other politics-oriented broadcasts, used in college
courses on media and licensed for use in documentaries.
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