Qui Seme le Vent Recolte le Tempo

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共16首歌曲

艺人: MC Solaar
语种: 英语
厂牌: PolyGram
发行时间: 1991年02月14日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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by Don Snowden

The debut disc from MC Solaar is a clear signal that quality hip-hop can exist outside the U.S. and the English language barriers. Most of his lyrics read as &I'm the man& MC boasts and shout-outs to the Paris hip-hop crew, but the French rapper has superb flow and a masterful producer in Jimmy Jay, an absolute natural when it comes to creating sonic pastiches/collages to fit the lyrics. It's French hip-hop and therefore a softer, gentler sound with the music more on the acid jazz tip to match the rhythm and flavor of Solaar's native tongue. The title track immediately s you to the difference -- the rapid but never rushed delivery works off the rhythms of active, chopping drums anchoring a full arrangement topped by organ fills and flavored by sax near the end. Solaar is far from one-dimensional, adeptly adopting a conversational tone (&Victime de la Mode& on a fashion victim theme), changing up vocal tempos (the low-key &A Temps Partiel,& a slick segue from the brief, jazzy-with-acoustic-bass &Interlude&), and leaving more open spaces in the forceful &Quartier Nord.& He whispers the lost-love tale &Caroline& while Jimmy Jay enhances the melancholy mood with mournful strings and his customary attention to detail and dynamics (listen for the near-subliminal organ). The producer's like that, very smoooove but also deceptive in that there's always a lot going on in the arrangements underneath. &Armand Est Mort& gets a laid-back feel from the sax solo, and a single, mood-creating piano chord echoes &Inner City Blues& enough to make you wonder if that's a fragmentary sample of Marvin Gaye's voice popping up there in the background. But the funk front isn't neglected -- &L'Histoire de l'Art& has clavinet licks and horns over turntable scratches, &Matière Grasse Contre Matière Grise& sports an early-'70s, JB-ish funk backing with wah-wah guitar and upfront drums (and a lyrical day-in-the-life reflection on Paris and the world). And the '70s funk groove for &La Musique Adoucit les Mouers& works from a bass/drums spine with scratching and keyboard sounds while &Bouge de Là& goes off from direct drum drive and bass funk before part two injects skank organ and dubbed-out toasting. It makes for a good transition to the quasi-duel of motormouths on &Ragga Jam,& probably good for lighting up audiences live, but just lightweight here, and it brings the momentum to Qui Sème le Vent Récolte le Tempo a halt. But it's an impressive debut and important historically -- by pairing a rapper and producer in perfect sync with one another, it gave early French hip-hop a sound and tone of its own from the beginning.

Qui Seme le Vent Recolte le Tempo

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