LET THE GHOST SING (double vinyle)

Description

Trying to label Al'Tarba is a bad idea. Because he's a joyful mess who, despite being 28, would already confuse exegesis oubiographers trying to trace his path. Chinese Man RJD2 DJ Shadow Almost 10 years of career, 5 albums and 2 EPs, countless collaborations, and almost everything has been said about him. Often true, statements about the hyperactive artist are only so if we accept them as partial. In summary: A member of a rap group since primary school, the young Toulousain was immersed in the varied music of an ancestrally music-loving family. Punk took hold of him: from the Damned, New-York Dolls, or Ramones, he moved via skateboarding, which he practiced, and the accompanying Californian culture, to punk rock bands like Rancid or NOFX. During this time, he met his future friends from Droogz Brigade. They liked what was happening on the other side of the USA, in New York: Mobb Deep, Necro, Wu Tang. Al'Tarba thus discovered American Hip Hop, and went from a (bad) bassist in a punk band to his first solo explorations in the East Coast style. From then on, as this naturally curious individual took musical strolls, he was successively considered a pure Hip Hop beatmaker, dark even horrorcore, in the vein of Necro and Stoupe, then as a lively electro swing composer — a genre — with the successes of Mushroom Burger, Petite Maline or Sexy Coccinelle, before softer incursions placed him alongside abstract hip-hop artists like or . One might be lost if all these facets didn't, when viewed from a distance, paint a coherent and nuanced universe. Far from being a beatmaker under influence, Al'Tarba definitively proves to be a cultivated solo artist, embracing complexity and forsaking the "purist" label too often attached to punk or hip-hop.