2023-11-04 13:03:00
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The discovery: Irko and Amne, sound bomb
What will remain of all this? Irko and Amne ask themselves this question throughout their music. New faces of the French underground rap scene, this duo composed of a producer (Amne, heard with the Lyonzon collective or, in a more mainstream register, Disiz) and a rapper (Irko, born in Albania then arrived in France in Lyon) has been trying for three years to translate the uncertainty that surrounds them while shattering the sonic limits of French rap into a thousand pieces. After having collaborated for several years, notably for solo pieces by Irko, the two musicians decided to sign together at the beginning of autumn a work as chilling as it is fascinating which they called Close Danger.
In twenty-three minutes and ten tracks, the rapper’s lyrics and the melodies drawn by his producer seem to become one, to give a feeling of constant danger to their compositions. By drawing threatening sounds from rap, industrial music, techno and even rock, Close Danger tells the story of the pessimism of a generation which, faced with omnipresent conflicts, today takes refuge in music which translates its torments and that the Irko/Amne duo decided to call “warfare music”, in other words, war music. From the martial rhythms of techno to the shrill sirens of industrial music, including the menacing flow of Irko – very inspired by military metaphors – this first ambitious duo mini-album seems to want to send a message: if the future is far from being rosy, we will have to try to celebrate it. Even if it means tinting it entirely black.
Irko, Amne Close Danger (Sublime /Scarpackage)
To the playlist
Jewel Usain I stay here
Extract from the first album Where the boys grow up by the rapper from Argenteuil. A manifesto in chiaroscuro. The melancholy of the beat gives a nice relief to a sensitive voice where poetry often takes precedence over realism.
Calling Marian My Sisters
The electronic producer has just released an album from which this title is taken which sums her up perfectly: inventive, melodic with synthetic 70’s influences, and it makes you dance. That’s the main thing.
Matias Enaut Dancing on water
A title not easy to put into practice except for fans of levitation. One tip: the dreamy electronic song of this Basque based in Paris is certainly a good way to get there.
Taste Pants Shitter
Very clever who knows how to define the Taste quartet, initiated by the French Yan Wagner and La Mverte. The Pants Shitters EP sounds like Inspiral Carpets meets Suicide in a cellar. An entire program.
Mock Media Madness
It goes a bit in all directions, like on the great first album from these Canadians capable of oscillations like here between Talking Heads, Clash, and country pastiche. New York punk freshly reinvented.
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