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Rewd Adams
“I can’t really see myself as a 40-year-old guy called Skandal,” says the newly re-named Rewd Adams.
Check out the UK hip-hop dude on Rewd Awakening, his debut album under his new moniker. Confusingly enough, it features several tracks from when he known as Skandal.
“If people could hear the music I’ve been making behind the scenes and the music I can make, it far supercedes what you’ve already heard.”
[Page 22 Echoes March Edition for more]
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Ibrahim Maalouf
“It’s not that I’m only looking for new sounds, but I’m responsive to new sounds,” insists ace trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf, a man who has already used bursts of laughter within his music to create an effect.
The French-Lebanese musician has been received by the jazz community into a loving embrace and his most recent album, Diachronisme, broaches the subjects of cultural duality and displacement.
“I grew up at the French School in Beirut. I really feel 100% French and 100% Lebanese; that’s the only way I can explain it.”
[Page 34 Echoes March Edition for more]
Etana
She’s ‘The Strong One’. And now she’s making her bid for musical freedom. Etana is the finest female singer/songwriter in reggae, a superstar on the rise and a great interviewee.
“As long as you have politics in Jamaica there will always be war,” she observes of the current condition of her homeland. “That’s why I wrote that song War, because there’s always going to be somebody fighting for power and as soon as they get rid of one don… another one comes up.”
[Page 30 Echoes March Edition for more]
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