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from Alternate African Reality – Electronic, electroacoustic and experimental music from Africa and the diaspora, released January 29, 2020
Yao Bobby & Simon Grab (Togo-Switzerland)

The outstanding Togolese Rapper Yao Bobby spits his phrases in the moment, firing his rhymes through the sound to the public, while Simon Grab produces energetic but unpredictable technoid and noisy Pulsations with an absolutely incorrect wired mixing desk. An intense sound battle between hip hop, industrial techno and dubby noise. Yao Bobby. Since the 1990s, Yao Bobby has been making his mark as an activist in African rap and has participated in building up a pan-African hip hop movement. Among artists like Awadi, Xuman, and Smockey, today Yao Bobby is one of the most productive and prolific rappers in Africa. His artistic earmarks are strong lyrics in French and Ewe, a surprising flow, and the constant accompaniment by traditional instruments and styles. From the kora to Afrobeat, deeply rooted in tradition, Yao Bobby’s hip hop is an image of African musical history.
www.yaobobby.com
norient.com/stories/yao-bobby-browse-the-past-to-build-the-future/
norient.com/blog/115-tracks-from-lome-wakeup/

Simon Grab is the co-founder of ganzerplatz soundstudios has been an active musician and producer in a wide range of musical contexts. He likes exploring new grounds by negating existing borders, though staying addicted to dub and noise, with an everlasting punk attitude. By drastically reducing his live equipment to a simple analogue no-input mixing environment Simon Grab is searching for the ultimate bass pulsation within notorious and barely controllable feedback loops. From minimal clicks to short bursts of noises to maximal bass feedback, Simon Grab squeezes the electronic components of the mixing desk inside out, letting them dance to their own beat. simongrab.ganzerplatz.ch
www.norient.com
www.motherland.ch
www.facebook.com/yaobobbysimongrab/

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