Mowgli - The Historian Himself

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The Historian Himself (a.k.a. Brian Engh) is awesome. This dinosaur enthused artist/musician/monsterologist has given the world an entire concept album of prehistoric themed hip-hop FOR FREE. Called Earth Beasts Awaken, it's seventeen tracks of dinosaur groove. Get it from his site. Now.

Our personal favorite slice of the album is a little track called Mowgli.

Mowgli is a chilling piece of music. With winding organs and echoing plucked strings (sampled from animated short Slim Pickings) the song wrenches out the spine of Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli and sews it into a hypnotically terrifying allegory of the unstoppable force of nature.

The lyrics are equal parts measured scientific terminology and the fever dream ranting of a paleontologist caught in the apocalypse. Anyone who can pull off the word 'chromatophoric' and not only make it sound cool but kind of scary as well deserves a medal.

It's great, it's unusual, it's dinosaurs. You have no excuse.

Here's that download link again.

The Historian Himself Main Site

Slim Pickings directed by Anthony Lucas, music composed by Chris Copping.