The Med Trip LP

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	1.	Marhaba 03:00
	2.	In Our Eyes (Introduction) 00:39
	3.	In Our Eyes 02:31
	4.	Rock The Casbah 03:02
	5.	Catch Me If You Khan (Part 1 & 2) 04:34
	6.	Shadows 02:40
	7.	Solitude 00:53
	8.	Carthago Disco Club 03:15
	9.	To My Mind 04:35
	10.	Kill Billal 03:02
	11.	Constantinople Ritournelle 02:20
	12.	Desert Eagle 03:02
	13.	Aquarius 03:20
	14.	Border Checkpoint 02:38

about

EN /////////////////
Rock the Casbah and smack the muezzin. KNMD (Kayo and Nakre Making Dinars) cut the magic carpet from under us, with intertwined rhythms, nods to Fairuz and Farid El Atrache, sampled violin from Oum Kalthoum and synth bass from the funk psyche maestro Baris Manço. Turkish delights meet the whispered song of the dunes. Crisp snare drums, Kayo’s snug beats and Nakre’s feisty loops give us “The Med Trip, a journey into Mediterranean flavor". Listen with a hot mint tea to hand. Strasbourg’s sampler-beatmaker duo head for the hills in a Lada, taking us on a restorative journey, introspective yet international, a musical homecoming (North African for Kayo, Turkish for Nakre), with a shout out to the early 90’s; Mo-Wax-like abstract hip-hop hand in hand with the Saharan shuffle of Imhotep, chief architect of the Marseille pyramids of IAM, smooching on the beach at Essaouira. “Ça doit être beau à entendre, une mer agitée.” Kayo and Nakre conjure up a sun-kissed landscape, as made-to measure breakbeats sprawl all over the East. 14 tracks wrapped up and slicked with harissa, an uninhibited universe without borders or guards. The soundtrack to a period film that doesn’t ignore the present: nostalgic exoticism doesn’t mean hiding your head in the sand for Kayo and Nakre, who while escaping to mythical cities like Constantinople, pause to sling a hammock on board the Aquarius, and spend time with the migratory peoples of whom they are a part.

Emmanuel Dosda

FR /////////////////
Rock the Casbah et break the muezzin. KNMD (Kayo and Nakre Making Dinars) nous met métèque et mat, entre beats qui s’entremêlent, hommages à Fairuz ou Farid El Atrache et échantillons sonores de violons d’Oum Kalthoum et bass-synthés du maestro psyché funk Baris Manço. Turkish delights et mélopées des dunes. Caisses claires et rythmes chauds de Kayo mixées aux boucles fouinées par Nakre sont le sel de « The Med Trip, a journey into Mediterranean flavor », à déguster un mug de thé à la menthe bouillant à la main. Le duo strasbourgeois digger-échantillonneur-beatmeaker prend la poudre d’escampette en Lada. Il s’offre un salvateur trip introspectif et international, un retour aux sources (maghrébines pour Kayo, turcophones pour Nakre), doublé d’un back to the roots nineties, l’abstraction hip-hop façon Mo’Wax, les Assaoira’s atmosphere et autres Sahara shuffle d’Imhotep, architecte en chef des pyramides marseillaises d’IAM, largement cité ici. « Ça doit être beau à entendre, une mer agitée. » Kayo et Nakre profitent du paysage ensoleillé tandis que les breakbeats groovement bien taillés du tandem envahissent l’espace de ces terres orientales. Quatorze titres et un emballage nappé de sauce harissa, un univers graphique sans clôtures ni préfectures signé Nakre. La BO d’un film rétro ne tournant pas le dos à l’actualité contemporaine : nostalgico-exotisme ne rime pas avec mutisme pour Kayo & Nakre qui, en s’échappant vers des cités mythiques telles que Constantinople, n’hésitent pas à faire escale à bord de l’Aquarius, à la rencontre des peuples migrateurs dont ils font partie.

Emmanuel Dosda

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released September 14, 2020

Produced, arranged and mixed by KNMD

Scratch on ‘Marhaba’, ‘In Our Eyes’, To My Mind’ and ‘Border Checkpoint’ by DJ Widsid
Trap production on ‘Carthago Disco Club’ by GSTN
Mastered by rectapestudio.com

Cover by Nakre
Photo Cover Front and Back by Anir Amsky
Photo Insert by Bartosch Salmanski (128db.fr)

Inspired by Fairuz - Barış Manço - Oum Kalthoum - Abdel Halim Hafez - Mohamed Adbelwahab - Farid El Atrache

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