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Candlelight: 90s Hip Hop on Strings
Candlelight: 90s Hip Hop on Strings
Candlelight: 90s Hip Hop on Strings
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Candlelight: 90s Hip Hop on Strings
Candlelight: 90s Hip Hop on Strings
Candlelight: 90s Hip Hop on Strings
Candlelight: 90s Hip Hop on Strings
Candlelight: 90s Hip Hop on Strings
Candlelight: 90s Hip Hop on Strings
Candlelight: 90s Hip Hop on Strings
Candlelight: 90s Hip Hop on Strings
Candlelight: 90s Hip Hop on Strings
Candlelight: 90s Hip Hop on Strings
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Candlelight: 90s Hip Hop on Strings
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About the Artist
Candlelight: 90s Hip Hop on Strings takes the golden-era rap catalogue and rebuilds it for string quartet, played in a room lit by candles. Music made from sampled loops, drum machines and a rapped vocal line is handed to four acoustic instruments that have none of those things.
The translation is less strange than it sounds. Much of the era's production was itself assembled from strings, horns and soul records chopped into two-bar loops, so putting real strings back on the material returns it to a source it never entirely left. What a quartet cannot supply is the voice, and the arrangements deal with that by letting the vocal hook migrate into a violin line while the cello takes on the work the bass and kick drum used to share.
Heard unamplified by candlelight, the music loses its low end and gains its counterpoint. Hooks that function as chants on record have to survive as melodies. The result is neither parody nor mimicry but a straight reading of songs whose harmonic writing has usually been treated as incidental.
Upcoming Shows
16
Genre
Classical
Fort Collins
OCT 15 · United States of America
Phoenix
OCT 24 · United States of America
El Paso
OCT 24 · United States of America
Lafayette
NOV 06 · United States of America
Pittsburgh
NOV 06 · United States of America
Gainesville
NOV 06 · United States of America
Oak Park
NOV 06 · United States of America
Phoenix
NOV 08 · United States of America
Trenton
NOV 14 · United States of America
New Orleans
NOV 21 · United States of America
Phoenix
NOV 22 · United States of America
Oak Park
DEC 04 · United States of America
Cleveland
DEC 06 · United States of America
Cleveland
DEC 20 · United States of America
Lafayette
JAN 08 · United States of America
Pittsburgh
JAN 22 · United States of America
Fort Collins
OCT 15 · United States of America
Phoenix
OCT 24 · United States of America
El Paso
OCT 24 · United States of America
Lafayette
NOV 06 · United States of America
Pittsburgh
NOV 06 · United States of America
Gainesville
NOV 06 · United States of America
Oak Park
NOV 06 · United States of America
Phoenix
NOV 08 · United States of America
Trenton
NOV 14 · United States of America
New Orleans
NOV 21 · United States of America
Phoenix
NOV 22 · United States of America
Oak Park
DEC 04 · United States of America
Cleveland
DEC 06 · United States of America
Cleveland
DEC 20 · United States of America
Lafayette
JAN 08 · United States of America
Pittsburgh
JAN 22 · United States of America
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