Believe, Sounds like you - Kumquat Orquestra, Yosi Horikawa, DJ CAM

YOSI HORIKAWA - For our second opus, we welcome you to the land of the Rising Sun. Yosi HORIKAWA is a self-taught sound designer who, from the age of 12, has spent most of his time and talent manipulating and grinding up all sorts of sounds. He puts no limits to his longings for acoustic explorations and mixes different genres, styles and instruments in order to plunge the audience into his very personal musical world. The eclecticism of his influences (Jack DeJohnette & Lester Bowie, Pete Rock ou encore DJ premier...) immediately appealed to us. When this young producer uses his samplers, electro, jazz, hip hop and experimental music rub shoulders with each other in the most natural way. "Skipping", the tune he produced for our "Eklektik Double Sides" series, is a delicate gem which perfectly reflects Yosi's superb creativity.

KUMQUAT ORQUESTRA -The songs interpreted by kumQuat orQuestra were composed in the mid-19th century by Antoine Brokenhurst, an Anglo-French explorer. Born in Manchester, he spent his life between the tropical jungles of South America and the opium dens of his hometown. Brokenhurst also composed poems and songs for his pleasure… 150 years later, his great great grandson, Florent L. Cavalcanti, a fan of hip-hop from New-York and of Serge Gainsbourg, decided to give a second life to his ancestor’s compositions : in 2005 he formed the group known as kumquat orQuestra with a few friends of his and asked for mancunian producer and multi-instrumentist Soul Purpose’s help. The result of their collective work is something between hypnotic soul and tropicalist trip-hop, as if Caetano Veloso was to meet Portishead in a David Lynch movie. The song What The Fuck represents a gospel parenthesis in this spellbinding and radically different musical world.

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