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quiet nights & quiet stars

NALEN readers,
I present to you the Foreign Beggars, made up of MC's Metropolis and Orifice Vulgatron, Producer Dag Nabbit, Shlomo, and DJ Nonames, a medium-profile British hip-hop group who have made high-profile appearances with Bjork ('Medulla'), Corinne Bailey Rae, the Gorillaz ('Tomorrow Never Comes'), and UNKLE. Hip-hop enthusiasts, don't stop reading yet. Foreign Beggars have also collaborated with heavyweights Stones Throw’s OhNo, Guilty Simpson, Wildchild and Dudley Perkins, producer supreme DJ Vadim, Dabrye, Scratch Perverts, Skinnyman, Task Force and Spain’s Griffi and Tote King. They have also opened and performed with a more recognizable list of names: Snoop Dogg, Amy Winehouse, Public Enemy, Pharoahe Monch, Iain Brown, Femi Kuti, Mark Ronson, Talib Kweli, Roni Size, Asian Dub Foundation, Pendulum, K’Naan, Wu Tang Clan, Kano, Masta Ace, Herbalizer, East 17! and Roots Manuva.
... well that was tiring. If you read through all that, and recognized more than seven artists in the gray list, I applaud you, and encourage you to start a Hip-Hop major at your local university.

Oh I love them. I love them so.

I love them because they're one of the most versatile hip-hop groups I've listened to. They record and perform hip-hop influenced by bossa nova, power metal, glam rock, and drum & bass... weird, but definitely interesting, and always musically fucking HOT. They're the reason a petite little asian girl like me is into hip-hop at all, next to Mos Def and Atmosphere.

Artist background:

"Shlomo has also created the worlds first Vocal Orchestra, and was made an “Artist in Residence” at the South Bank Centre at the young age of 22, Curator of the 2007 world beatbox convention in London and judges at the UK Beatbox championships and has performed with the likes of Bjork, Dizzee Rascal, The Specials & Damon Albarn."
--myspace.com/foreignbeggars

The sample "quiet nights of quiet stars" originally comes from the song "Corcovado" by Antonio Carlos Jobim, bossa nova artist.:



This song is inspired by the Corcovado Mountain in Rio Janeiro, Brazil. Expect more bossa nova.

like the songs? don't like them? like one but not the other? like other? let us know.
museuk tonight: re llacs'd


muamua,
--j.

Labels: Astrud Gilberto, bossa nova, Foreign Beggars, hip-hop, j., Jobim, music, Stan Getz

posted by Artfoal @ 12:35 AM