Celestaphone | |
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Background information | |
Birth name | Joseph Murphy [1] |
Born | October 4, 1996 |
Origin | Riverside, California, United States |
Genres | Hip hop, instrumental hip hop, plunderphonics |
Occupation(s) | Record producer, musician |
Years active | 2013–present |
Website | celestaphone |
Joseph Murphy (born October 4, 1996), professionally known as Celestaphone, is an American musician and record producer.
Joseph Murphy was born in Riverside, California on October 4, 1996. Several members of his family are musicians, [2] including his parents. [3]
Celestaphone released his first solo EP, Glorifying, in October 2014. [4] His first collaborative effort was producing Dionté BOOM's single "Fish Market" the following year. [5] The song was included in a 2015 edition of the Arkansas Times' Rock Candy journal. [6]
In 2016, Celestaphone published a second EP titled Minappi's Last Wondrous Escapade, [7] and in 2017 he released three full-length albums: Robosoul, [8] To Cite Psych, [9] and To Cite Fright. [10] The EP, along with album To Cite Fright received a nod from Raoul Rego, former webmaster at WREK, in an interview with the station published by Bandcamp Daily. [11] The aforementioned albums, consisting primarily of instrumental hip hop, were met with the creation of Celestaphone's record label Drumhex. [2]
Celestaphone broadened the musical repertoire of his songs in 2018 by including his vocals. [2] His inaugural vocal album, Tying Up Loose Friends, was released on July 30, 2018. [12] He continued this vocal trend into 2020 with his album Weevil in Disguise, featuring the lead single "Rewinders". This song is Celestaphone's first recorded collaboration with MC Paul Barman. As an ode to Barman, [13] who is a hip-hop artist particularly known for their incorporation of palindromes within rap lyrics, [14] [15] "Rewinders" was strategically published on February 2, 2020 (or 02/02/2020), a day uniquely recognized as an exceptionally rare global palindromic date. [16] [17]
A collaborative album between Celestaphone and MC Paul Barman (as alter ego YOUNGMAN) titled A Year of Octobers [18] arrived in August 2021. [4]
Paper Cut From the Obit followed in February 2023.
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Joseph "Celestaphone" Murphy was born in 1996 to a melomanic family with cleffer parents, an aura which instilled writing and producing music.
Unlike other palindromic dates, such as 10/02/2001, 2 February, 2020 is considered a global palindrome because it is exactly the same written both in the DD/MM/YYYY format as well as the US standard of MM/DD/YYYY.