Sulu & Excelsior Share First Single & Official Lyric/Music Video for "Run & Hide" from Upcoming Third Album So Ends The Honeymoon (Slow Jam King Productions)
Long-time friend, collaborator, and one of our favorite artists here at The Witzard, Steven "Steve" E. Mallorca AKA Sulu has returned with the first single from his latest solo project/band, Sulu & Excelsior's third album, So Ends The Honeymoon. "Run & Hide" is the first piece of the musical puzzle that will soon be revealed to be So Ends The Honeymoon and So Ends The Honeymoon is the final album in a what has become a three-part sonic trilogy; directly preceeded by The AntiMatter Suite (2019) and Eddie Romero (2016.) In-between Eddie Romero/The AntiMatter Suite and So Ends The Honeymoon, Sulu has graciosuly gifted us a couple non-canon projects including 2017's "The Over Under" holiday single, Refinished (Remix Album) featuring new, slightly updated versions of all of your favorites from both Eddie Romero & The AntiMatter Suite, and XLCR Instrumentals (Instrumental Remix Album.)
Both Refinished & XLRC Instrumentals were exclusively released on Bandcamp and recorded, created, and masterfully orchestrated through The 2020 Pandemic. Lo and behold, So Ends The Honeymoon was hand-crafted during those earliest aughts of The Pandemic, as well. Additionally, on top of all that, Sulu wrote within a recent email: "this third album is a big one for me, not only writing and recording during The Pandemic, but even more so, having to, literally, re-learn how to sing, rap, and play horn after having lung surgery in 2020." Mallorca says he diligently started writing and crafting the beats in the months after his surgery and playing all the instruments afterwards. However, all the singing, rapping, and trumpet parts were a big challenge for someone, like him, who, literally, had to have a piece of their lung surgically removed.
Sulu adds: "the breath had to come with time and a lot of hard work to physically and mentally get back to performance shape." It sounds like there's plently more backstory and video content that will be revealved and shared during the album roll-out and release. With all that said, Sulu & Excelsior sounds great on "Run & Hide," their first taste of So Ends The Honeymoon; needless to say, The Old Sulu is back and in full-force! Sulu himself directed, photoographed, edited, and supplied motion grahics with help from his son, Jasper, for the "Run & Hide" music video, which duals as an official lyric video, as well. Sulu & Excelsior's So Ends The Honeymoon is now available for pre-order on Bandcamp. So Ends The Honeymoon will be exclusively released on Bandcamp 12/2 with a digital stremaing release to soon follow just a week later on 12/9.
