OUATIS

Once Upon a Time in Shaolin

The Word

“Every once in a while, an object on this planet possesses mystical properties that transcend its material circumstances.”

Jarrod Rawlins / Museum of Old and New Art

  1. “This thing is going to have a life of its own, like a child.”

    RZA/Hot 97
  2. “Do people still value music in a digital era?”

    PleasrDAO/2024
  3. “There's not a world in which we don't own this album.”

    Jamis Johnson/Pleasr, 2021
  4. “There were tears coming through but I held them all back.”

    A listener/heard it in Tasmania
  5. “This was a protest against value being stripped out of music in the digital landscape.”

    Cyrus Bozorgmehr/Rolling Stone
  6. “Make music become a living piece, like a Mona Lisa or a scepter from Egypt.”

    RZA/2015
  7. “I thought I'd be dead before it was publicly released.”

    Hayden Kovacic/heard it in Tasmania
  8. “[Wu-Tang is] kind of the OG DAO. They bonded together to form a collective more powerful than any individual on their own.”

    Jamis Johnson/Rolling Stone
  9. “As music, it's good. As art, it's truly great.”

    Sian Cain/The Guardian, after hearing it at Mona
  10. “I don't know another song or album anywhere else in the world that holds that same value.”

    Cameron McBryde/heard it in Tasmania
  11. “To take these original works of art and figure out a way, in honoring the original vision of the artist, to get it into the hands of the people.”

    Camilla McFarland/Pleasr, The New York Times
  12. “Our direction right now is to get this open to the whole world.”

    Jamis Johnson/The New York Times

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