[DJ Rupture presents CIAFRICA cover art, Dutty Artz/Soot 2010]
So the music of Abidjan’s CIAfrica crew does sound a bit like a grimey, glitchy elephant staring you down as angular new-money architecture burns or smolders or looms in the background and the sky’s color stumbles from white to black with a few lasers for good measure, because we’re not living in the future, they are.
(The original cover artwork pictured above is by Timothée Mathelin.)
Sometime last year the visionary ringleader, Amadou aka Green Dog (RZA to their Wu) gave me access to their deep hard drives — packed with singing, rapping & fwd-thinking beats. Thrilling material. I pulled out my favorite 17 songs for a CD which will be released physical/digital on August 24th, DJ Rupture presents CIAFRICA. This coincides with CIAfrica, Nettle, and myself performing at Gotenburg’s Sweden Way Out West festival next Friday, August 13th. I’ll be DJing separately from them, in a party with Sleigh Bells and Fool’s Gold (the band). It’s a 3-day affair, with folks like Wu-Tang, M.I.A., Jay Electronica, The xx, etc performing, so if yr in Scandinavia, might be worth the trip… & I’ve found that drunk Swedes tend to still be really nice, at least in Gotenburg.
It will be the first time the CIAfrica MCs and vocalists perform outside their Côte d’Ivoire/Ivory Coast home base! They have this awesome Pam Grier video for one of their female MCs, Nasty, but it keeps getting censored by YouTube. So here’s a vid from one of the guys coming over, Manusa:
and a placeholder vid for the Nasty tune:
Fellin the artwork (and ur descrition of it). Who made it?
updated post! its by Timothee of http://futurorg.com/
Will it be available as a disc? or download? I want the OBJECT, so I can clutter up my home entertainment center….
CDs are being shipped as we speak!!
nice! any info somewhere about the tracklist?
good to see the MCs performing outside of ivory coast, i was a little bit disappointed not to see them last year in mulhouse. i hope to see them in north america at some point (but i’m afraid canadian or US visas are much more complicated to get than the swedish ones).
Where can I buy the CD? I can only find downloads