ialive & The Custodian of Records Join Forces for Non-album/Stand-alone Collaborative Single "INTERVALS (Cold Rhymes Records)

"We got something special for you today. ialive & The Custodian of Records teamed up to bring you this one-off gentle heat. Make it rain on the boys with half dollars," Cold Rhymes Records ecstatically posted on their Facebook page early Tuesday morning. ialive & The Custodian of Records' (TCOR) debut collaborative stand-alone single together, "INTERVALS," was quietly released late Monday night into Tuesday morning. It appears as though "INTERVALS" came to fruition rather organically, as ialive & The Custodian of Records are, simply, fans and mutual admirers of each other's work; "I believe, I reached out to ialive after peeping "THE OUGHTS" video and then, purchasing TIME WAVE ZERO and enjoying the album. He may have expressed interest in a possible collaboration, so I sent him a couple tracks and this is the one he chose," TCOR recently explained to The Witzard, via email.


"Custo hit me a while back about doing a track together and he sent me this loop and we went in. I heard a track he did with Darko [The Super] and also, a project with my guy, Sleep Sinatra, so I was aware of his work. Glad we could connect to do a track together," ialive continued. TCOR & ialive are, of course, talking about each other's respective projects, Height Keech-produced TIME WAVE ZERO, Qwuickieleaks Challenge: Darko The Super - "Bike Spokes," and SOURCES OF NATURE with emcee Sleep Sinatra. The Witzard regulars may well remember, we first covered The Custodian of Records & Sleep Sinatra's pre-SOURCES OF NATURE collaboration, "B.I.E." Prior to "B.I.E." TCOR & Sleep Sinatra previously worked together on the awesomely-named "Anchorman Fight Scene" alongside Vic Spencer from Flashius Clayton's 2018 EP, Wolf Moon. "INTERVALS" is currently available to stream, purchase, or download for just $0.50 directly from ialive's Bandcamp page, while TCOR's The Collection Plate, Vol. 1 and ialive's DON'T DO NOTHING are now available from Chopped Herring Records and Cold Rhymes Records, respectively.

"F*ck this woe is me /
How can we openly /
Move on as a society /
without respect for the ovary /
Riding this broken dream /
Hoping the oceans clean /
But never sowing seeds /
Just blowing trees, like Dopamine /
Blowing trees like fires gone wild /
And I ain't never smoke, not once in a while /
And I don't ever hope, since I retired /
It got [too] much to cope, when rope is required /
I keep quiet and try to keep on /
And go all night like closed signs in neon /
You ain't a professional, you ain't no Leon /
Best open eyes and do your recon /
'cause it's coming as wide as your peripherals /
Higher than the ceiling and liver than your visuals /
Dividing us up like old religious rituals /
Finding the time is tougher than fighting off the sentinels /
F*ck Joe Biden, MacGyver, and these criminals /
I'm looking for an island in my mind to spend the interval /
violence and the rising tide a sign of where were getting to /
Where [we're] coming from and where [we're] heading to..."

- "INTERVALS" Lyrics By: ialive (@ialive_)