New Sacred Cow
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New Sacred Cow is the debut album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Kenna
Kenna
Kenna Zemedkun, known professionally as simply Kenna, is an Ethiopian-born American musician. His track "Say Goodbye To Love" was nominated for Best Urban/Alternative Performance in the 2009 Grammy Awards.-Personal life:...

, released in 2003. Kenna created something of an underground buzz with the release of his first single "Hell Bent" in 2001. The album was leaked to the internet over a year before its final release, as it was delayed by record company politics. "Freetime" was chosen as the single to lead off the release of the album. A video was shot, and appeared sporadically on MTV2
MTV2
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 along with the video for "Hell Bent". "Freetime" peaked at #19 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play charts. In late 2004, "Sunday After You" was remixed by Chad Hugo and released as a single. The single version differs greatly from the album version.

Track listing

  1. "Within Earshot"
  2. "Freetime"
  3. "Man Fading"
  4. "Sunday After You"
  5. "Vexed and Glorious" / "A Better Control"
  6. "Red Man"
  7. "Hell Bent"
  8. "Yeneh Ababa (Rose)"
  9. "War in Me"
  10. "New Sacred Cow"
  11. "I'm Gone"
  12. "Siren"
  13. "Love/Hate Sensation"


On the CD, "Vexed and Glorious" and "A Better Control" are placed on the same track, allegedly due to an editing mistake.
Tracks 8, 9, and 13 were produced by Kenna alone, and all others were with Chad Hugo
Chad Hugo
Charles Edward Hugo is an American musician and record producer. He is best known as one half of the music production and writing duo The Neptunes and as a member of the funk/rock band N.E.R.D. He is a saxophonist, pianist and guitarist...

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Although "New Sacred Cow" was leaked to the internet a year before the actual album's release, the song, "Siren", wasn't available to downloaders until the official release of the album in record stores. Also, the tracks, "Vexed and Glorious" and "A Better Control" were merged into a single mp3 file, as opposed to two separate tracks.

A music video to the stop motion short film More to the song of "Hell Bent" was aired on MTV2 in 2001, and the Toonami
Toonami
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 Midnight Run. It was created and directed by one of the future directors of Kung Fu Panda
Kung Fu Panda
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, Mark Osbourne
Mark Osborne (filmmaker)
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"Freetime" is used in the TV show CSI.

Personnel

  • Kenna
    Kenna
    Kenna Zemedkun, known professionally as simply Kenna, is an Ethiopian-born American musician. His track "Say Goodbye To Love" was nominated for Best Urban/Alternative Performance in the 2009 Grammy Awards.-Personal life:...

     - vocals, producer, keyboards, logo, fonts, Illustrations, Art Direction
  • Chase Chad
    Chad Hugo
    Charles Edward Hugo is an American musician and record producer. He is best known as one half of the music production and writing duo The Neptunes and as a member of the funk/rock band N.E.R.D. He is a saxophonist, pianist and guitarist...

     - Producer
    Record producer
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    , keyboards, Saxophone, performer

David Davidson (String Arrangements), John Haynes (Engineer), Ethan Johns (Bass), Serban Ghenea (Engineer), Serban Ghenea (Mixing), Sean Murphy (Photography), Otto Price (Bass), Sean Evans (Art Direction), Matt Pinfield (A&R)
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