Saul Williams "Saul Williams" Color:BLUE Most of the album was

Most of the album was recorded in December 2002 during a single 14-hour session in Patrick Carney's basement using an early 1980s Tascam 388 8-track recorder

From the opening note of the first track

Pink & White Swirl (Disc 1)

featuring songs such as “Your Favorite Thing” that endure as mainstays of Mould’s solo performances to this day

Waits’s ‘Closing Time’ began the career of one of the all-time greatest artists and an exploration of blues

Saul Williams "Saul Williams" Color:BLUE Most of the album wasFirst establishing himself as an influential poet, then an award winning screenwriter actor, Saul Williams then went on to become an MC. His approach to MCing, though, wasnt exactly in line with the traditional school of hip hop. His rhymes werent really rhymes, but rather his poetry delivered in a frenzied, spoken word manner that was more rhythmic than alliterate.