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COMP 527EP
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"I Rise" is the reflection of Emilie Nana's hatching and metamorphosis, based on the lyrics of the poem "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou. After Danny Krivit, who came up with the now classic re-edits for the initial release of "I Rise", it's now fellow New Yorker François K who's sharing this strong sentiment. Like Krivit, the opportunity to working with a personality is a big honor for Emilie Nana and of course for Compost Records in either way. I Rise Remix EP combines three different versions to play with; all brilliant and special in his inimitable manner.
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I Rise is the reflection of Emilie Nana's hatching and metamorphosis. With this record she makes you witness her transformation from a state of chrysalides to butterfly. I Rise is the synonym for self-assertion, as a determined African Black woman and an ode to inspiring women. Nana's levitating voice, almost whispered, will overwhelm you. She will bewitch you like a great priestess whereas the musical backing is deep, hypnotic and steady tones. She is a black woman who's expressing herself proudly. Danny Krivit, a true legend and NYC nightlife mastermind, provides "Vocal Dub Edit" and "Beatapella" versions.
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COMP 479EP
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Manoo moves Emilie Nana's '80s Janet Jackson & Prince inspired music, shaping a bouncy groove filled colorful exchange between vocal and melody. Building and burning as Nana's voice emanates out of this twisted 4/4 beat. Beanfield & Thomas Herb take this Nana-esque bass beast "Tolstoy' Changes", bending the range to deliver a dancefloor destroyer. Maintaining the original feeling of bewitchment, the extension of this production details a dark haunted house beat. Floyd Lavine stripped Black Panther Party inspired "The Meeting Legacy" and stamped his distinctive sound onto this slow stalking symbol of struggle. Lavine gives it a unique bunker feel.
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Emilie Nana, a Lyon-born, Geneva-based artist of Cameroonian descent, has immersed herself in a creative outpouring since 2012. With her debut album, The Meeting Legacy, she pulls together an eclectic selection of 11 tracks, including "I'm Childish, So What!", which first caught the attention of the music community in July 2015. The only track on the album with French-language vocals, it evokes a loopy, no-rules feel and is an absolute imaginative jewel. The album opens with "Off The Street," crashing through the implications of a girls night out before the warm, playful "Music," which bears influences from early-'90s Janet Jackson and Prince. "Nothing On Our Shoulders" features Toma Izzo and finds Nana signaling her soul to the audience with semi-audible sounds, in a uniquely authentic and direct approach to the interpretation of her being. It's the last track in the unofficial first part of this two-part album, before the second part begins with the title-track. "The Meeting Legacy" draws from Elaine Brown, an American prison activist, writer, singer, and former Black Panther Party chairwoman. The bass and vocals on this slow-stalking symbol of struggle poignantly position this track before "Black Like Me," a warm, melodic creation, with the simplest of lyrics and marimbas bobbling in the background, that embodies Nana's lived experience while serving as a musical interpretation of journalist John Howard Griffin's 1961 book Black Like Me. The Meeting Legacy is the outpouring of Nana's delicate yet vibrant being, successfully striving to transcend the rules that often limit art. Reimagining her life, Nana offers various perspectives on subculture, struggle, and social influences. Having spent four years producing this prized work, Emilie Nana delivers an album that matches her unique, playful, yet mature spirit, summing up her soul in The Meeting Legacy. Emilie Nana is also DJ and has been spinning regularly since 2008, with various residencies in Geneva.
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Emilie Nana presents the organically lush, bouncing "Like You" and the techy vocal-spiced "September 10th," perfectly completed with a magnificent remix monster by I-Robots, that's gonna hit you like steroids. Only few can claim to navigate as effortlessly between American, African and European music as Nana does. Originally from Lyon, France, she started producing at the age of 19. She has released a dozen of tracks on fine small underground labels such as Compost, Stattmusik, Raoul and St. Vitus.
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