Lifesavas – Gutterfly: The Original Soundtrack, CD

Gutterfly’s narrative includes 14 tracks with a thread of interludes, and traces the fictional deeds of a trio of ghetto superheroes – Bumpy Johnson (played by VURS as if his life depended on it), Sleepy Floyd (a character wholly inhabited by JUMBO) and Jimmy Slimwater (personified by SHINES) – who fight their way out of the perilous confines of a mythologized Portland, Razorbade City, in a way that’s reminiscent of the creation myth behind many a great hip-hop partnership in the history of the genre (from Outkast to Tribe Called Quest). Inspired by an obscure, long-forgotten film project from the `80s of the same name, Gutterfly draws its source material not only from Baraka Feldman’s original concept but also from the blaxploitation films of the `70s, such as “Coonskin” and the Zatoichi series of Japanese cult films, and the desire to shatter fans’ expectations about what Lifesavas represent.

Tracklisting:

1. Intro-Welcome To Razorblade City
2. Double Up
3. Gutterfly – (with Camp Lo)
4. No Surprise-Scene 1-Fly Paper
5. Shine Language
6. Take Me Away
7. Serpent’s Love-Scene 2-Jimmy Slimwater’s New Orleans Funeral, A – (with ISH)
8. Dead Ones-Scene 3-Revenge – (with Fishbone)
9. Warning, The
10. Superburn-Scene 4-Trouble
11. Night Out-Scene 5-Connects – (with George Clinton/Meganut)
12. Squeeze, The – (with Smif ‘N’ Wessun)
13. Long Letter – (with Don Blackman)
14. Freedom Walk-Scene 6-Marvelous The Mouthpiece – (with Dead Prez/Vernon Reid)
15. Celebrate-Finale