The first Granada Doaba remix is from a Spanish MC named Yanng, who sharpened his canines performing every week with a live band at the Sunday JamSessions at BoogaClub in Granada (Spain).
Yanng came by the Gnawledge studio with his compañero Asis (video below) and freestyled over the instrumental "Bohemia Al-Andalus." Yanng went home with the beat his brain and scribed us a Doaba anthem:
"Eso no son rumbas de feria, es una fusión de músicas serias. Música antigua, ahora hecha nueva."
Much respect to Yanng for breaking the seal on the Granada Doaba remix project.
Kaya [aka Cat Gomez] is a French MC based in Granada (Spain) who collaborated with Gnawledge on Granada Doaba. For the anglophonos in the room, she's rappin in français until 1:38 and then reboots into espangñol for the finish.
Metaform's blenditure of instrumental hip-hop and old-school funk is right up my cup o'tea alley. Support the artist.
Gnotes, Afro DZ ak, and Elemental Zazen live+direct in Granada, Spain on July 17th 2008, playing with Richard Dudanksi on the drums. Big ups to CostaTropical.com for filming the show and posting the footage.
As part of the XXVIII Festival de Jazz, there's been live music in the streets of Granada every Saturday. The festival's organizers gave Gnawledge permission to record this week's performance, but while we set up in Plaza Nueva, the capricious ensemble rerouted themselves to Plaza Bib-Rambla instead.
Disappointed about a missed opportunity, me and my pair of Rode NT2-A mics caught the attention of a trio of musicians (below) who asked us if we'd be interested in recording their performance.
But Granada overprovides. Not 5 minutes later we met another group of musicians who were also performing in the street that afternoon. Stuck between a sofa and soft place, we decided to leave the didgeridoo and violin behind and record instead with Luzaire, who played a fusion of flamenco, arab, brasilian and afrocuban music.
The mp3s below were recorded live on the street on November 17, 2007.
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