Musician and Creative Director of the Elementz Hip Hop youth center Akhe Abdullah hosts a listening party tonight for his new album, Journey: The Sound of Life. Abdullah will speak about the album and give a short presentation before spinning the new, all-instrumental recording which mixes Jazz, Hip Hop and other elements (pun neither intended nor unintended). Click here for more details about tonight's 6 p.m. event.
Abdullah is the son of a music-loving father who played sax with Rick James and the Stone City Band and also worked with Stevie Wonder, Destiny's Child and many others. Abdullah's done production work with area Hip Hop artists like Moxy Monster, Ill Poetic and Holmskillet, as well as New York's Infinit Evol.
Abdullah is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati's Electronic Media program and was the subject of a brief documentary put together by current E-Media students at U.C. In the well-put-together doc, he speaks about his family, his music and his life as a Muslim. Check it out below (it runs about six minutes). Find out more about Abdullah and his journey here.