Timeless - Mulatu / Ma Dukes / Verocai

Timeless: The Composer/Arranger Series es el nombre de una serie de conciertos que se organizaron en memoria / honor de compositores / arreglistas que han influenciado el hip-hop de manera profunda y marcada. Timeless ha sido concebido por la productora musical Mochilla ( compuesta por los fotográfos B+ y Eric Coleman), de Los Angeles durante Febrero y Marzo de 2009 e incluye la participación de unos 150 músicos que dieron todo ante un público extasiado y entregado. Estos tres conciertos fueron grabados y filmados con el inimitable e inconfundible estilo del sello Mochilla.

Se homenajea en estos tres dicos – conciertos- a tres artistas enormes : Mulatu Astatke ( músico etíope de jazz), J- Dilla ( mítiquisimo productor de hip hop fallecido en el 2006 y que también ha recibido un homenaje en el disco ya mentado Havana-Cultura de Gilles Peterson….) y finalmente el arreglista y compositor barasileño Artur Verocai. Mulatu y Verocai han tenido una influencia enorme en el hiphop y es la primera vez que se les rinde homenaje. Y Dilla……. Las cuerdas de orchesta liberan la energía de este mítico productor que siempre se mantuvo a la sombra. El disco-concierto que le rememora se llama curiosamente Suite for Ma Dukes ( Ma Dukes es la madre del difunto Dilla)

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Hoc n' Pucky

Mulatu

Pela Sombras

Mochilla? What the !?¿?! is that? Pues esto ...

Mochilla is a production company formed by photographers Eric Coleman and B+ in 1997. The pair were working together on a music video for DJ Shadow near the pyramids outside Mexico City – during a conversation with the Mexican producer in an attempt to explain their philosophy of shooting they had stumbled on the spanish word for backpack. In 1997 backpack was a an almost derrogatory term for independent hiphop. Backpackers kept their rhyme books or spray cans with them at all times and this required a bag. The bag would be slung across their backs so that they would be mobile. “If the equipment doesn’t fit in the backpack we wont shoot it” became the defining rule in the formation of Mochilla. It was part practical adage, part nod to the group of film makers called Dogma started by Lars Van Triers.Ten years later Mochilla has produced five music videos, four documentaries, several ad campaigns, a remix album and more than forty album covers and continues to grow. Both Coleman and B+ have taken their respective fields to new hieghts – selling films to the Sundance Channel, being distributed by Ninja Tune – touring Europe several times. They both have succesful solo careers but their continuing collaboration is housed at Mochilla.