Gondwanaland

In 2001 Michaelis Constant had over 20 songs in various stages of completion. They shot for an eight song mini-album released by the end of that year. They failed. Instead their 13-song CD 'Gondwanaland' went into shops on the 9th of February 2002. The very next evening they played to a crowd of 500 as the supporting act for Dilated Peoples, an acclaimed rap group from California.

They began to regularly perform with the musicians who now make up Carina Round's live band [www.carinaround.com]. In their last 10 months together Michaelis opened up for Task Force, shot a music-video for their album opener ‘Lifeblood’, played at Latvia's first hip-hop festival and released a vinyl version of Gondwanaland.

The www.ukhh.com review: "From the eerie classical stylings of ‘Heavy Light’ to the heavyweight piano stabs of ‘Lifeblood’, Michaelis weave humour, religion and life into tight bursts of first class rhyming. Proudly leftfield, fantastically produced, intelligent and unafraid to wear their faith on their sleeves, Michaelis Constant were never going to be middle-of-the-road boom-bap. Strictly limited, this slab of wax will be (quite rightly) worth serious cash in years to come and is a fitting farewell to one of the UK’s most original and innovative crews."

To read Michaelis lyrics go to - http://theadventproject.net/mc/words/words.html