Celestaphone
{{For|the instrument|Celestaphone (instrument)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2015}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Celestaphone
| image = Celestaphone_-_March_2015.png
| birth_name = Joseph Murphy{{cite web|title=ACE Repertory|url=https://www.ascap.com/repertory#/ace/writer/888755065|publisher=American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers|access-date=February 21, 2024}}
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1996|10|04}}
| origin = Riverside, California, United States
| genre = Hip hop, instrumental hip hop, plunderphonics
| occupation = Record producer, musician
| years_active = 2013–present
| website = {{URL|celestaphone.com}}
}}
Joseph Murphy (born October 4, 1996), professionally known as Celestaphone, is an American musician and record producer.
Early life
Joseph Murphy was born in Riverside, California on October 4, 1996. Several members of his family are musicians,{{cite interview|subject=Celestaphone|interviewer-link=MC Paul Barman|interviewer-last=Barman|interviewer-first=Paul|editor-last=Stosuy|editor-first=Brandon|date=January 25, 2024|title=Musician and composer Celestaphone on being guided by your inspirations – The Creative Independent|work=The Creative Independent|publisher=Kickstarter|url=https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/musician-and-composer-celestaphone-on-being-guided-by-your-inspirations/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240125130519/https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/musician-and-composer-celestaphone-on-being-guided-by-your-inspirations/|archive-date=January 25, 2024|access-date=February 20, 2024}} including his parents.{{cite web|url=https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Q59pjJ8u0VpM61Mmv8x8H|title=Celestaphone {{pipe}} Spotify|website=Spotify|access-date=February 20, 2024|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230228074737/https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Q59pjJ8u0VpM61Mmv8x8H|archive-date=February 28, 2023|quote=Joseph “Celestaphone” Murphy was born in 1996 to a melomanic family with cleffer parents, an aura which instilled writing and producing music.}}
Career
= 2014–2017: Early recordings and instrumental albums =
Celestaphone released his first solo EP, Glorifying, in October 2014.{{cite web|url=https://www.sfexaminer.com/a-year-of-octobers-is-youngman-s-debut-album-produced-by-celestaphone/article_7cd7a5c5-4a1e-5dea-ae71-a1d6dc76802f.html|title="A Year Of Octobers" Is YOUNGMAN's Debut Album Produced by Celestaphone|date=October 10, 2021|website=San Francisco Examiner|access-date=February 24, 2024|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224033620/https://www.sfexaminer.com/a-year-of-octobers-is-youngman-s-debut-album-produced-by-celestaphone/article_7cd7a5c5-4a1e-5dea-ae71-a1d6dc76802f.html|archive-date=February 24, 2024}} His first collaborative effort was producing Dionté BOOM's single "Fish Market" the following year.{{cite web|url=https://soundcloud.com/naughtytapesrecords/fish-market|title=Fish Market|author=Dionté Boom|author-link=Dionté Boom|date=January 8, 2015|website=SoundCloud|accessdate=February 20, 2024|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304094548/https://soundcloud.com/king-boom/fish-market|archive-date=March 4, 2016}} The song was included in a 2015 edition of the Arkansas Times' Rock Candy journal.{{cite web|url=http://www.arktimes.com/RockCandy/archives/2015/02/11/new-music-from-the-wandering-lake-dionte-boom-radradriot-pepperboy-and-more|title=New music from The Wandering Lake, Dionte BOOM, Radradriot, Pepperboy and more|last=Stephenson|first=Will|date=February 11, 2015|work=Arkansas Times|access-date=February 20, 2024|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912055429/http://www.arktimes.com/RockCandy/archives/2015/02/11/new-music-from-the-wandering-lake-dionte-boom-radradriot-pepperboy-and-more|archive-date=September 12, 2017}}
In 2016, Celestaphone published a second EP titled Minappi's Last Wondrous Escapade,{{Cite web|url=https://cele.bandcamp.com/album/minappis-last-wondrous-escapade|title=Minappi's Last Wondrous Escapade|date=April 5, 2016|website=Bandcamp|access-date=2017-09-05}} and in 2017 he released three full-length albums: Robosoul,{{Cite web|url=https://cele.bandcamp.com/album/robosoul|title=Robosoul|date=January 9, 2017|website=Bandcamp|access-date=2017-09-05}} To Cite Psych,{{Cite web|url=https://cele.bandcamp.com/album/to-cite-psych|title=To Cite Psych|date=June 28, 2017|website=Bandcamp|access-date=2017-09-05}} and To Cite Fright.{{Cite web|url=https://cele.bandcamp.com/album/to-cite-fright|title=To Cite Fright|date=September 18, 2017|website=Bandcamp|access-date=2017-09-19}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/08/15/better-know-a-college-radio-station-georgia-techs-wrek/|title=Better Know A College Radio Station: Georgia Tech's WREK|last=Grossan|first=Ally-Jane|date=August 15, 2018|website=Bandcamp Daily|access-date=February 21, 2024|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240107144237/https://daily.bandcamp.com/college-radio-station/better-know-a-college-radio-station-georgia-techs-wrek|archive-date=January 7, 2024}} The aforementioned albums, consisting primarily of instrumental hip hop, were met with the creation of Celestaphone's record label Drumhex.
= 2018–2020: ''Tying Up Loose Friends'' and ''Weevil in Disguise'' =
Celestaphone broadened the musical repertoire of his songs in 2018 by including his vocals. His inaugural vocal album, Tying Up Loose Friends, was released on July 30, 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://cele.bandcamp.com/album/tying-up-loose-friends|title=Tying Up Loose Friends, by Celestaphone|date=2018-07-30|website=Bandcamp|access-date=2018-12-15}} 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,{{cite web|url=https://genius.com/19192426|title=Celestaphone – Rewinders Lyrics|website=Genius|access-date=February 24, 2024}} who is a hip-hop artist particularly known for their incorporation of palindromes within rap lyrics,{{cite web|url=https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/articles/2007-06-22/rapping-in-palindromes/|title=Rapping in Palindromes|work=Brown Alumni Magazine|first=Jake|last=Miller|date=April 2003|access-date=May 20, 2023|archive-date=May 20, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230520004530/https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/articles/2007-06-22/rapping-in-palindromes/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/2/21/sometimes-cerebral-rapper-mixes-palindromes-politics-paul/|title=Sometimes-Cerebral Rapper Mixes Palindromes, Politics|work=The Harvard Crimson|first=Michael|last=Hoffman|date=February 21, 2003|access-date=May 20, 2023|archive-date=May 20, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230520003538/https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/2/21/sometimes-cerebral-rapper-mixes-palindromes-politics-paul/|url-status=live}} "Rewinders" was strategically published on February 2, 2020 (or 02/02/2020), a day uniquely recognized as an exceptionally rare global palindromic date.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/03/world-celebrates-palindrome-day-on-02022020|title=World celebrates palindrome day on 02/02/2020|last=Siddeek|first=Amaani|date=February 2, 2020|website=The Guardian|access-date=February 24, 2024|quote=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.}}{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2020/02/02/802015917/why-a-day-like-sunday-hasnt-been-seen-in-900-years|title=Palindrome Day: Why A Day Like Sunday Hasn't Been Seen In 900 Years|last=Held|first=Amy|date=February 2, 2020|website=NPR|access-date=February 24, 2024}}
= 2021–present: ''Year of Octobers'' and ''Paper Cut From the Obit'' =
A collaborative album between Celestaphone and MC Paul Barman (as alter ego YOUNGMAN) titled A Year of Octobers{{cite interview|subject=YOUNGMAN|interviewer-link=MC Paul Barman|interviewer-last=Barman|interviewer-first=Paul|editor-last=Stosuy|editor-first=Brandon|date=October 21, 2022|title=Rapper and comedian YOUNGMAN on turning your everyday into art|work=The Creative Independent|publisher=Kickstarter|url=https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/rapper-and-comedian-youngman-on-turning-your-everyday-into-art/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021112535/https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/rapper-and-comedian-youngman-on-turning-your-everyday-into-art/|archive-date=October 21, 2022|access-date=February 24, 2024}} arrived in August 2021.
Paper Cut From the Obit followed in February 2023.
Discography
=Solo=
- Paper Cut From the Obit (2023)
- Weevil in Disguise (2020)
- Tying Up Loose Friends (2018)
- Portrait of a Harlot (2018)
- To Cite Fright (2017)
- To Cite Psych (2017)
- Robosoul (2017)
- Minappi's Last Wondrous Escapade (2016)
- Trust (31–60) (2015)
- Menu (01-30) (2015)
- Glorifying (2014)
= Collaborative albums =
- Cult Subterranea (2025) {{small|(with Dealers of God)}}
- A Year of Octobers (2021) {{small|(with YOUNGMAN)}}
References
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Category:American hip-hop record producers