Magnetic North x Taiyo Na Release the Deluxe Edition of ‘Home:Word’

It may have been a year and a half since Mag North & Taiyo Na released their Home:Word collaborative album but that doesn’t mean it can’t be given a fresh coat of paint and made bigger than ever. They’ve gone ahead and remastered the songs plus added 5 more tracks to top out the tracklist at 15. The new and improved package has been dubbed the “Deluxe Edition” and is available stateside starting today. Check below for your options.

Purchase: Amazon, Bandcamp, iTunes

Home:Word [Deluxe Edition] is a rerelease of Magnetic North & Taiyo Na’s 2010 US album Home:Word. Remastered, resequenced, repackaged with an exclusive lyric booklet and 6 new, additional tracks, the album was inspired by their recent single and album deal with Japanese hip-hop label Goon Trax (Media Factory). The title song “Home:Word” was featured on one of Goon Trax’s popular compilation albums In Ya Mellow Tone 6, released March 2011. Within a week the song shot up to #2 on Japan’s iTunes Hip-Hop charts and became a song of solace for many who were afflicted by the ongoing Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear crisis. Further moved by this course of events, one of their new songs on Home:Word [Deluxe Edition] is “Fukushima.” Released as a music video on September 11, 2011, “Fukushima” is a song dedicated to the victims of the tragedy in Japan as well as others.

Home:Word [Deluxe Edition] is a culmination of 3 years of creative partnership between artists Magnetic North and Taiyo Na. Without devaluing the concert tours, music videos or newfound international success, Magnetic North & Taiyo are proudest of their Holla Benefit Concert Series (2009’s Home for the Holla’Days, 2010’s Home for the Holla’Days II and 2011’s Holla For Japan) which have collectively raised over $30,000 in charity. Collaborating with other like-minded musicians to put on concerts to aid urgent causes have brought their passions for music and social responsibility together in the most fulfilling of ways.

The new songs on Home:Word [Deluxe Edition] feature many of the other artists who have shared the stage with Magnetic North & Taiyo Na at their Holla Benefit Concerts such as singer/songwriters Sam Kang, Cynthia Lin, Scooter Oyama and Ruth Cho, producers Jaron Lum and Chucky Kim and saxophonist Jonathan Lee.