“HIP HOP AFTER ALL” is now Available:
>> http://bit.ly/HipHopAfterAll-HS <<
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/Guts-HipHopAfterAll
Heavenly Sweetness presents GUTS‘s new album “HIP HOP AFTER ALL”, available on September 8th, 2014
Without hip-hop, Guts wouldn’t be half the producer he is today. Hip-hop as inspiration, a gateway to so many different musical styles, the trigger for a continually expanding musical bulimia, the springboard from which he dived into a bottomless musical well.
Hip-hop – which has been Guts’ true love for the last 25 years, despite its taking futile, gangsta and materialistic paths.
Hip-hop – which in quarter of a century has driven him to spend whole nights with samplers, drum machines, expanders and vinyl, tapping on pads, adjusting the drums and honing his samples.
Hip-hop – which is often done remotely nowadays by sending digital files back and forth. Guts has opted to make it shine like when it was all brand new, decided after three entirely instrumental albums to re-establish contact with rappers, vocalists, jazz players and soul men by packing up his productions and heading across the Atlantic to record them in their home surroundings in New York and California.
Backed up on production by the inexhaustible DJ Fab (Hip Hop Resistance) and supported from Paris by his label Heavenly Sweetness (“A French label spreading colourful music for the soul”), Guts explores a host of styles, flows and atmospheres to build up a mosaic of 16 tracks, each nestling inside the other to form a single concept: Hip Hop After All.
TRACKLISTING:
01. Hip hop first of all
02. Open wide [Feat Lorine Chia]
03. The forgotten (don’t look away) [Feat Quelle Chris & Denmark Vessey]
04. Go for Mine [Feat Tanya Morgan]
05. As the world turns [Feat Rah Digga & Akua Naru]
06. Man Funk [Feat Leron Thomas]
07. A glimpse of hope
08. Forever my love [Feat Grand Puba]
09. It’s like that [Feat Dillon Cooper]
10. Want it back [Feat Patrice & the Studio School Voices NYC]
11. Enlighten [Feat Cody Chesnutt & Murs]
12. We are all africans
13. Innovation [Feat Masta Ace]
14. Come alive [Feat Lorine Chia]
15. Looking for the perfect Rhodes
16. Roses [Feat Leron Thomas]
Man Funk feat. Leron Thomas from ‘Hip Hop After All’
Watch the Making-Of video:
1st Single: Open Wide feat. Lorine Chia
Already available: Vinyl EP / iTunes
Featurings :
LORINE CHIA
Originally from Cameroon, but has lived in Cleveland since she was six. A bewitching voice that’s as comfortable chilling on a soul track as skipping to a reggae bass.
QUELLE CHRIS & DENMARK VESSEY
Precision mechanics with a falsely chaotic sound, two interlocking cogs in action: a duo assembled on the production lines of Motor City.
TANYA MORGAN
Donwill and Von Pea, a two-person team linking Cincinnati to Brooklyn with the lyrical freshness of De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest and company. Every beat has the hallmark of 90s’ hip-hop.
RAH DIGGA
In rap women are usually just a foil to knock off some r’n’b choruses, but not Rah Digga. Dirty Harriet, a member of the Flipmode Squad, claimed her place among the alpha males Busta Rhymes and Rampage with her ferocious flow.
AKUA NARU
Only another untamed feline could share a track with RahDigga without having to fear being eaten alive – and that’s Akua. This rapper hones her lines and tears up the beat with rhymes like claws and a snarling flow.
LERON THOMAS
Trumpet, vocals, songwriting, soul, jazz, rap or funk: the guy from Houston who moved to New York is a master of styles and disciplines, a one-man musical Swiss army knife.
GRAND PUBA
One-third of the mythical Brand Nubian crew. True school 90s classic hip-hop. His style’s is rounded and amiable, but is anyone crazy enough to stroke a grizzly that’s never hibernated?
DILLON COOPER
Back to Brooklyn. With only 20 years on the clock, Dillon’s the youngest MC in these credits. One of the satellite rappers in Joey Bada$$’s orbit, this rookie has taken to boom bap productions like an old hand who grew up to the sound of grainy drums and jazz trumpets.
PATRICE & THE STUDIO SCHOOL VOICES NYC
Half Sierra Leonean, half German, half reggae, half soul, used to playing pared-down acoustic, here Patrice changes tack and faces off against a New York City children’s choir.
CODY CHESNUTT
After starting out as a genial tinkerer who made a first album swarming with ideas and teeming with influences in his bedroom, Cody the soulman now walks in the footsteps of Marvin Gaye.
MURS
Murs can stand for a lot of things: Making the Universe Recognize and Submit, Making Underground Raw Shit, My Ultimate Rare Sit-down. His voice is husky, his style is raw and, as the only Californian rapper in a NYC cast list, Murs is cheating on his favourite producer 9th Wonder just this once.
MASTA ACE
The Queensbridge producer, at the controls since 1988. A model musician who never had to go against his instincts to earn the plaudits of purists who prefer their rap neat, no ice. Focused at the mike, immaculate in style.
Live Band with GUTS throught an European Tour
The Live band is a the reunion of 4 incredible musicians from the Heavenly sweetness label:
Florian Pellissier on keyboard ( Florian Pellissier Quintet ),
Slikk Tim on bass & Greg F on guitar from DopeGems,
and Leron Thomas on vocal and trumpet.
2014
EUROPE
15/09 (UK) London, Jazz Cafe
16/09 (NL) Amsterdam, Paradiso
17/09 (DE) Hamburg, Reeperbahnfestival
18/09 (DE) Berlin, Privatclub
FRANCE
— NOV/DEC
01/11 (FR) Venelles (13), Salle des Fêtes
Tickets: http://bit.ly/HHAATour-01Nov
07/11 (FR) Angers (49 ), Le Chabada – Les Nuits Zébrées NOVA
13/11 (FR) Toulouse (31), Bikini
Tickets: http://bit.ly/HHAATour-13Nov
14/11 (FR) Arles (13), Cargo
15/11 (FR) Lyon (69), Le Transbordeur – Riddim Collision
Tickets: http://bit.ly/HHAATour-15Nov
19/11 (FR) PARIS (75), La Maroquinerie //COMPLET//
20/11 (BE) Bruxelles, Vk*
Tickets: http://bit.ly/HHAATour-20Nov
21/11 (FR) Lille (59), Splendid – Père Noël est un rocker
22/11 (FR) Saint Germain en Laye (78), La Clef
Tickets: http://bit.ly/HHAATour-22Nov
…More dates coming soon !
2015
— AVRIL
16/04/ 2015 (FR) PARIS (75), La Cigale
Tickets: http://bit.ly/GutsLiveCIGALE
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