Philantropiques Guts

• 1 Voyaging Bird 07:34
• 2 Mucagiami 03:48
• 3 Já Não Há Mais Paz 06:46
• 4 Groove ma poule 03:54
• 5 Daddy Sweet 06:19
• 6 Li Dous Konsa 05:59
• 7 Sa Ce Kado 03:50
• 8 Kenke Corner 06:27
• 9 Shake It and Rise Up 04:06
• 10 Nosso Carimbó é do Mundo 03:52
• 11 Matadou 03:37
• 12 Sé Nou Menm 04:06
• 13 Bougé Bagay La 04:24
• 14 Penda 03:51
• 15 Dans la vie, j'aime 12:59
• Total Runtime 01:21:32

Info for Philantropiques

Afro trance, Brazilian jazz funk and frantic percussion are all explored over this 13 track offering...

Lead singles Kenke Corner and Mucagiami step effortlessly between the dancefloor to ballad, the latter featuring a stunning vocal performance from Angolan vocalist, Vum Vum. Now five albums deep into his recording career, he's built a loyal fanbase and following from his early days as a beatmaker. Guts' initial spirit of sampling, sequencing and programming still remains but it has now morphed into something of a full-on musical opus.

Philantropiques is an experimental yet sunny outing, comprising longer tracks that open up into carefully considered arrangements. One strong theme that runs throughout is the vibrations of the Southern Hemisphere, somewhere Guts has been so well associated with over the years. His compilation series, Beach Diggin, now in its fifth volume, brings together highly sought-after rarities, lovingly curated with long-time friend, collaborator and visual artist, Mambo. To help him realise this new musical plan, Guts set up a brand new live band featuring:

Pat Kalla, vocals
Brazilian legend Pinduca, vocals
Nazaré Perera, vocals
Catia Wernec, vocals
Kenny Ruby, bass
Christiane Prince, drums
Cyril Atef, percussion
Adelaide Songeons, trombone
Ben Abarbanel-Wolff, saxophone
Jowee Omicil, saxophone
Lameck Macaba, guitar
Djeuhdjoah, guitar
Lieutenant Nicholson, guitar
Mario Canonge, piano

Guts
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.

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