Artist: Kammerflimmer Kollektief
Song: Lichterloh
From album: Absencen
Genre: Organic Instrumentartifice [Buy This Album][Site]
The song starts like the dawn, stirring as stars wink out, and you realize you are at sea. You hear the ropes of your tempest-tossed transport, creak-like in relaxed and satisfying ways. Your thoughts are arrested by an exquisite breeze and your gaze begins to focus on a distant verdant slope, luscious to the eyes as a sparkling fruit and circled in mist.
Oddly fearless though memory lost, you incline and bubble up all awkward manner of excitement like a newly sprung sandy spring. You drift closer, detecting hints of waterfall and cliff. The weights of time and age crumble from your shoulders as you fall deeply in love with breathing.
You are a once sinking-ship captain, reborn.
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Being rather interested in linguistics, I can’t help but find hip hop/rap in different languages to be quite intriguing. It’s very impressive how far the genre has travelled in such a relatively small period of time, and how people are adapting it to their own societies and cultural elements. Who would have thought? I really have no clue what most of these people are saying but a good subwoofer and an open mind will probably help you to enjoy them. If all else fails you can just imagine that they are talking about rolling on dubs and imbibing malt liquors.
I’m pretty busy with work recently, so I’ll just give you the guts of what I gots without a whole lot of jibba jabba:
I really like the mood of the subdued background instruments in this titular track, it feels like walking through some extravagant underground cavern. There are other samples here.
“In recent years the X Plastaz have become known for being the first hiphop crew to use Maasai music and culture in their performance. Maasai singer Yamat (also known as Merege) is now a full member of the group who has joined on tour and in the recording studio.” Very cool.
“…their lyrical content, though pro-Israel, is not militant or anti-Arab and has no specific political agenda, though it is sometimes described as right-wing. With occasional Arabic lyrics and songs like “Peace in the Middle East”, they take a stance that can be described as desirous of a better future but unapologetic about the present.” Nice mixing in of traditional instruments and chanting.
“(“Fat/Phat Bread”) from Hamburg, one of the first successful German hip-hop groups. Their raps are usually humorous and of late they have experimented with different crossover sounds.” Fun. German. Hip Hop.
“The third album from French hip-hop artists, produced by DJ Sek, Alsoprodby, DJ Duke, Diesel & Manu Key. Oxmo has sold over 300,000 units of his previous two albums in France.” This song features Casioesque opera-vocals.
You Can Make Our Album Yourself ! Fuck Record Labels ! Fuck Fat and Dumb Producers ! On this page you can download the full version of “Not For Amerika” album in mp3 and original design for it, which you can print out on any printer. We don’t need your money for our music – listen free !
Download the other songs here. Thanks guys. I like the creepy nursery-rhyme-sounding chorus. Most of the other songs are a bit more “normal” sounding.
All songs are now also available in a solitary zip file, if that tickles your fancy. And that’s about it, more to come in part II (Probably Greenlandic, Icelandic, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Polish, and Hungarian). What do you think?
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