Biography
Multidisciplinary creator Jasper Marsalis channels his most severe abstractions and rawest sentiments through the alias Slauson Malone 1. His splintered verses confront mortality, defiance, and fragile optimism while drawing from left-field hip-hop, psychedelic soul, dub, modern composition, and additional idioms. For several years he belonged to the unclassifiable Brooklyn ensemble Standing on the Corner and formed the duo Medslaus alongside rapper Medhane. His inaugural full-length, the patchwork album A Quiet Farwell, 2016–2018, arrived under the Crater Speak imprint, and he has since lent his voice or production to projects by Pink Siifu, L'Rain, Nosaj Thing, and further artists. In 2023 the project joined Warp’s roster and issued its sophomore statement, Excelsior.
Born in Los Angeles, Marsalis is the child of jazz luminary Wynton Marsalis and celebrated performer Victoria Rowell, known for The Young and the Restless and Diagnosis: Murder. During his time in Brooklyn he fashioned abstract hip-hop instrumentals under the Slauson Malone moniker and entered Gio Escobar’s experimental jazz/hip-hop/lo-fi collective Standing on the Corner, assisting in the transformation of its early demos into the self-titled 2016 debut LP. As Medslaus, the pair delivered the woozy, dreamlike full-length Poorboy in 2017. Marsalis departed Standing on the Corner after the group’s second album, the widely praised Red Burns, yet received producer and writer credit when the ensemble appeared on Danny Brown’s 2019 release uknowhatimsayin¿.
Issued in 2019 as the opening chapter of the Crater Speak series, Slauson Malone’s first album, the disorienting and claustrophobic A Quiet Farwell, 2016–2018, featured contributions from Maxo, Pink Siifu, Caleb Giles, and Taphari. The series proceeded with the 2020 EP Vergangenheitsbewältigung and the 2022 ambient recording for Star. Marsalis also participated in L’Rain’s 2021 breakthrough Fatigue as well as subsequent recordings by Pink Siifu, Nosaj Thing, Jonah Yano, and additional artists. After signing with Warp in 2023 the project appended the numeral “1” to its name and unveiled Excelsior, a second album whose sharper focus still retained an air of mystery and which introduced orchestral and choral passages on select tracks.
Born in Los Angeles, Marsalis is the child of jazz luminary Wynton Marsalis and celebrated performer Victoria Rowell, known for The Young and the Restless and Diagnosis: Murder. During his time in Brooklyn he fashioned abstract hip-hop instrumentals under the Slauson Malone moniker and entered Gio Escobar’s experimental jazz/hip-hop/lo-fi collective Standing on the Corner, assisting in the transformation of its early demos into the self-titled 2016 debut LP. As Medslaus, the pair delivered the woozy, dreamlike full-length Poorboy in 2017. Marsalis departed Standing on the Corner after the group’s second album, the widely praised Red Burns, yet received producer and writer credit when the ensemble appeared on Danny Brown’s 2019 release uknowhatimsayin¿.
Issued in 2019 as the opening chapter of the Crater Speak series, Slauson Malone’s first album, the disorienting and claustrophobic A Quiet Farwell, 2016–2018, featured contributions from Maxo, Pink Siifu, Caleb Giles, and Taphari. The series proceeded with the 2020 EP Vergangenheitsbewältigung and the 2022 ambient recording for Star. Marsalis also participated in L’Rain’s 2021 breakthrough Fatigue as well as subsequent recordings by Pink Siifu, Nosaj Thing, Jonah Yano, and additional artists. After signing with Warp in 2023 the project appended the numeral “1” to its name and unveiled Excelsior, a second album whose sharper focus still retained an air of mystery and which introduced orchestral and choral passages on select tracks.
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