Sugahspank!
The Incredible The Invisible
Label: Cast-a-blast
Genre: Freestyle / Nu Jazz / Funk / Afro
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The album features fourteen tracks of a distinct space soul atmosphere, filled with a smokey funk-rock and hip hop mixture produced and arranged by Blend aka Mishkin.
Influences ranging from phycedelic soul (Golden chain, Big jello boy), retro moods (Lost that lovin’ feeling), 70’s heavy guitar funk-rock (Kill the bitch you got in ya), spacey blues
(Bad tooth, Dynamite, No roof), old school hip hop (The stink, Beat Junkie), and rhythm & blues (Invisible, The incredible) with an experimental tip.
Sugahspank’s rhyming snaps like hell in “The Stink” and “Beat Junky” while a more lyrical aproach can be found in tunes like “No Roof” and “Golden Chain”.
As her music encompasses various genres she expresses interest in, the lyrics adress social realism and personal experiences often with a bitter sence of humour
as interpreted by a skillfull vocalist, often described by the press as a “chameleon”, refering to her wide field of vocal abilities beetween genres and singing dynamics.
Sugaspank started working with producer Blend aka Mishkin for his latest album Misplaced (cab101) in the end of 2006, later released on their newly established record label Cast-a-blast. Soon after “Misplaced” was out, even trees knew they had to join forces in order to create a new record featuring Sugahspank’s songs with Blend on the production, mainly because of a high chemistry rising among them, both in songwriting and personal level. All recordings and mixes took place between November 2007 and August 2008 at their appartment at Pireaus with most of the vocals recorded while Sugahspank was in bed, recovering from a seveire back injury. Production-wise the tools that Blend used are limited and everything serves it’s purpose to the max. Analog recording sources, fat mpc made beats, loads of vinyls and vintage synths have most of the action here.
Most of the beats are raw and funky with Blend’s trademark elements in production.
Massive bass lines and sticky fat drums acompanied by creative sampling, vinyl cuts and dub alike teqniques often embodied with the talents of guests musicians, guitarists: Kostas Nikolopoulos of 60’s legendary band The Charms and Jason of Low Gravity, bassist: Kostis Vichos, pianist: Yiannis Dimitriadis (a long time partner and a usual at blend’s den) and highlitghed with the participation of Greece’s king of human beatbox: Bitman.
In our humble opinion, “The Incredible / The Invisible” has nothing in common with your average female “soul singer” album. Sugahspank! is not only armed with a talent in songwriting and singing, she also knows how to use these powers in order to deliver probably the sickest album coming out of south Europe in the hip hop/soul genre as we speak.
this one is not to be missed folks !