Craft of the Lost Art is the first album by Jneiro Jarel

Jneiro Jarel

Jneiro Jarel is a United States-based music producer. For over a decade he has provided listeners with an eclectic mix of sounds ranging from hip hop, to electronica, to electro-pop, to Brazilian funk, to bass music. Noted for his abstract style, he is also known for his beat-making alias Dr...

 with his project group Shape Of Broad Minds. The group is Jneiro Jarel, three of Jarel's characters, and multi-instrumentalist Jawwaad Taylor. The group is partly make-believe, with Jarel really playing several members of the group, (much like Kool Keith

Kool Keith

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 under the Dr. Octagon alias, or Madlib

Madlib

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 and his Yesterday's New Quintet alias), but the schizophrenic nature of the group allows Panama Black, an MC from Atlanta, to explore alongside them.

The members of the group include:

• Jawwaad Taylor- multi-instrumentalist(Keyboards/trumpet), Northside Houston, TX native
• Rocque One (Jarel) a psychedelic West Coast singer- (Vocals)
• Dr. Who Dat? (Jarel) a beat-digger and studio maestro- (DJ/producer)
• Panama Black (Jarel) an MC from Atlanta- (MC/Vocals)

The album also includes cameos from DOOM

Daniel Dumile

Daniel Dumile is a hip hop artist who has taken on several stage names in his career, most notably MF DOOM, where the "MF" stands for metal face, and for tracks he has produced, metal fingers...

, Count Bass D

Count Bass D

Dwight Conroy Farrell , better known by the stage name Count Bass D, is an American rapper, record producer and multi-instrumentalist from Nashville, Tennessee...

, Stacy Epps and John Robinson

John Robinson

-Academics:*John Martin Robinson , English Officer of Arms and historian*John Alan Robinson , philosopher and mathematician*John Thomas Romney Robinson , Irish astronomer and physicist*John T. Robinson, paleontologist...

.

Track listing

1. "Gorilla Mash" – 1:33
2. "Light Years Away" – 2:53
3. "Let's Go" [Feat. DOOM
   Daniel Dumile
   Daniel Dumile is a hip hop artist who has taken on several stage names in his career, most notably MF DOOM, where the "MF" stands for metal face, and for tracks he has produced, metal fingers...
   
   ] – 4:24
4. "Changes" – 3:44
5. "Nahuma (Interlude)" – 0:43
6. "OPR8R" – 6:16
7. "Budda Fly Away" – 5:02
8. "Unnamed" – 0:49
9. "It Lives On" [Feat. Count Bass D
   Count Bass D
   Dwight Conroy Farrell , better known by the stage name Count Bass D, is an American rapper, record producer and multi-instrumentalist from Nashville, Tennessee...
   
   ] – 1:19
10. "So Much (Chaos)" [Feat. Lil Sci A.k.a. John Robinson] – 4:29
11. "Buzz Around Town" – 1:55
12. "They Don't Know" [Feat. Stacy Epps] – 3:04
13. "Bopper Blocker" – 1:16
14. "Electric Blue" – 4:26
15. "Mermaid (Outro)" – 0:55
16. "It Aint Dead!" – 1:48
17. "Beast from da East" – 1:36
18. "Lullabanger (Thelonious Dedication)" – 3:30
19. "Viberian Sun" - 2:10
20. "There 4 Me" - 3:03
21. "Stiff Robots and Drunken Horses" - 3:26
22. "Solo (Underwater)" [Feat. Deborah Jordan] - 3:48
23. "1 2 C" - 4:00