Omer Saar – “THE GREEN ALBUM” (free download)

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Here it is world.  My first release.  I hope it becomes the soundtrack for your summer.  That was always the intention.  Nothing would make me happier than people listening to this 5, 10, 20 years down the line and remembering the Summer of ‘08.

There are AT LEAST 6 more tracks that will be leaked one by one over the next few months, so stay tuned!

FREE DOWNLOAD: THE GREEN ALBUM (produced by Omer Saar).zip (sendspace) 

or  THE GREEN ALBUM (produced by Omer Saar).zip (megaupload)

or THE GREEN ALBUM (produced by Omer Saar) (sharebee)

Please remember that I’m giving this album away for free with an encouraged and much appreciated donation to STAY TRUE, a non-profit my dear and cool as Iceberg Slim brother, Nir Saar, started in Philadelphia.  I strongly encourage you to check out what he is doing via the website link above and get involved in any way you see fit.

 

Al Green has long-been my favorite artist of all time along with Bob Marley.  I’ve been listening to his music for years and I love it as much today as ever.  

About 4 years ago, I was laying on my brother’s porch in Ann Arbor, MI after a long night of partying.  Everyone was already asleep and I just put on Al Green’s Greatest Hits.  I’m layin’ there thinking I could probably make a beat out of every single one of these songs.  

So I did.

I knocked out 15 or so songs in less than 2 months.  This was around March/April of 2005.  I remember visiting my brother around my birthday and thinking that a year from “now” I want to drop the album on my birthday, so the world has it for the Summer.  

Well… it’s a couple years late, but it’s all happening thanks to Al Green & ?uestlove making “Lay It Down”, and releasing it ON MY BIRTHDAY!  I mean, what kind of “coincidence” is that?  That’s the kind of magic life occasionally blesses us with, if we are conscious enuff to recognize it.  That “sign” was all I needed to get back to finishing this project.

In the last 2 weeks, I’ve produced 7 new songs for the album!  After 3 years of not doing anything with it.  Crazy huh?

Another AWESOME  alignment with the universe was meeting Tony “T. MONEY GREEN“, who started playing bass with The Dramatics (one of my all-time favorite soul groups) at the age of 17!  Then, he went on to play with George Clinton, writing and playing songs with that crew, and later did a bunch of work with Dr. Dre, Snoop and many others.  Check that link for more on T. MONEY GREEN!  Now, I hope you see where this is going…

I wanted to add some depth to a few of these songs with some new bass-lines.  So, you guessed it, the legend T. MONEY GREEN laced a bunch of these songs with bass-lines with the help of my good friend and exceptional musician himself Miko.  Miko works at a really nice studio in Birmingham, MI where he engineered that recording of Mr. Green.  We all sat there while I played one song after another of THE GREEN ALBUM and we’d decide whether we should touch it or not.  Then MONEY would do his thing.  Miko actually helped a lot with the tuning.  It was tough since there had been pitch changes to the original Al Green songs.  Then I added my two cents here and there on how I wanted the bass-line to ride… mostly MONEY did what he does best.  Aside from Mr. GREEN being a super dope bass player, his last name is GREEN if you haven’t noticed.  Well… nuff said.

Support T-MONEY any way you can.  I wish I could send him some money from the album, but there is NON being profited.  I put a lot of time, effort, and even money into this album, and I’m not making any of it back.  Not bad for someone who is 100% BROKE right now.

The two songs with FINALE (one of which will be leaked after the album release as a bonus track) were recorded in my basement in Oak Par, MI.  FINALE was living with me at the time and I helped him record a lot of stuff for other producers (no credit on anything).  Anyways, that’s where those tracks came from.

Check the crib set up at it was when I lived there.  You can imagine the parties, freestyle sessions, music being made, and good times overall that went down there huh?

 

This second picture is of Bill (My partner in crime fo’ real!  We started making beats, skate video, started UniverSOUL Productions together, and plenty more.  He also designed the album art).  Where he’s sitting is where I produced 3/4 of THE GREEN ALBUM and a lot of other stuff.  That’s my DJ booth behind it.  There’s a sound booth BIll and I made there too.  This picture isn’t the nicest of the crib.  You got Steingold’s (DJ Goldfingers) ugly ass couch in there.  I was glad to get rid of that.  Haha.

 

That’s pretty much the story.  DJ Haircut did all the mixing and mastering.  My homey Bill Kamphausen did the album artwork.  Noelle Scaggs helped me quite a bit with the order of the songs.

I want to thank Al Green above all for being such an inspiring artist.  I want to thank all the Hip Hop cats I remixed for the same reason.  You guys were and continue to be a significant part of the soundtrack to my life.  I want to thank T. MONEY GREEN, DJ Haircut, Miko, Noelle Scaggs, and Bill Kamphausen for helping me directly with this project.  I’d like to thank my brother, Nir Saar, for being the coolest mutha-luva in the world, my best friend, and a man of action.  I’d like to thank my parents for always being supportive.  I’d like to thank all my friends and family for being who you are.  I love yall!  I wanna thank the people who actually posted THE GREEN ALBUM on their blog, emailed their friends about it, sent texts, posted on Myspace or Facebook (no one has yet!), etc.  That kind of support is not only appreciated but admirable.  As of now, NONE of my friends have done any of that (Hopefully that will change.  I still love y’all).  I want to thank Lindsey Crowder for making an incredibly generous donation to STAY TRUE.  Lastly, I wanna thank everyone who is checking for this!  I made it for y’all!  I hope you love it and share it with as many people as possible.  I hope this shit bangs for you ALL SUMMER.

 

Holla at ya boy!  Leave a comment.  Let me know what track you like the best.  Whatever… Do what you feel!  LONG LIVE THE GREEN!

FREE DOWNLOAD: THE GREEN ALBUM (produced by Omer Saar).zip 

or  THE GREEN ALBUM (produced by Omer Saar).zip (megaupload)

or THE GREEN ALBUM (produced by Omer Saar) (sharebee)

Here are some links to previous posts that have information that’s not in this one about the album:

Lindsey Crowder donated $250 to STAY TRUE!!!

*** BIG UP Baby Grandpa for being the FIRST to donate to STAY TRUE due to THE GREEN ALBUM! ***

THE GREEN ALBUM

THE GREEN ALBUM: Pharcyde – “Passin’ Me By Remix” (free download)

Ghostface – “Mighty Healthy Remix” THE GREEN ALBUM (free download)

THE GREEN ALBUM update

THE GREEN ALBUM (cover art)

Al Green “Lay It Down: Sampler” & THE GREEN ALBUM

**** Omer Saar – THE GREEN ALBUM coming out May 27th ****

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