RZA has attributed his microsonic acuity to losing his hearing for a spell as a child; when it returned, his auditory nerves were on some bat-shit, straight-up Daredevil style. As his production for the first salvo of Wu releases proved, RZA also had band-leading and arranging skills of the Ellington/Clinton stripe, where music is developed with a very specific understanding of orchestra members' idiosyncrasies: stark loonytunes for cutup cartoon cutout Ol' Dirty, highly detailed operatic stage dressing to complement the hermetically verbose Raekwon, clinically incisive backbeats for rhyme researcher GZA, pulse-pounders for goofball lover-man Meth, heart-wrenching project dirges for the surprisingly lachrymose Ghostface Killah.
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