With a blooming expression Medline and Stéphane Carricondo are going to the roots of ATCQ in a quest for the tribe. A cultural print and school of sound that designed Hip Hop foundations.
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A Quest Called Tribe begins with the series of portraits drawn by Stphane Carricondo. The album is an ode to the band that marked both artist's life and mind. Medline plays most of the instruments himself, with lots of Afro. Medline added a hint of his magic, unique rhythms, improvisations, arrangements, original orchestration and inspired melodies. The classic themes are transformed into a polymorphic fusion, were jazz, funk and soul from the original sample sources converse with Tribe's characteristic beats. The alchemy of the dark ink on emptiness gives to them an impressive sparkle of life. Stéphane Carricondo's natural lines are highlighting each member's soul map. And it's the one we unveil today.ĪTCQ's portraits are composing the front cover and, assembled into a great scene, are printed on a colorful A2 poster. The best way to materialize this multidimensional tribute was obviously a vinyl. The idyllic blue Californian sky provides the unlikely backdrop - all may have seemed sunny, but trouble was brewing in Compton. The French-Chilean producer always works outside of boundaries and styles frames, and with this "Old Souls Carnival" Lp shows that extraordinary projects, shaking the actual music codes, can be expected from him for years to come.Ī Quest Called Tribe begins with the series of portraits drawn by Stéphane Carricondo in 2017 dedicated to Hip Hop legends.Īs close partner in art Medline proposed to create a soundtrack for them, and first interpreting ATCQ's classics with elements of the past, present and future. The cover to their landmark album perfectly encapsulated what they were about, the group encircling the listener, as you stare down the barrel of a gun held by Eazy-E. Rich with a wide variety of colors and influences, channeled by Medline's own hands, this first 12" record released on his label, My Bags, lives up to expectation. The fabulous and mysterious hand made drawings of Stéphane Carricondo, are the perfect traduction of Medline's mestized artwork, sealling many years of a rich collaboration. The entire album was composed, produced, mixed and mastered by Medline at the family's house, in Messac, offering a perfect immersion in his mental universe.
The natural flows of his expression speaks deeply and truely to the senses, traducing 6 monthes of gathering emotions, traducing feelings, during meditative recordings sessions on the world evolution and reality. Playing with shamanic and exotic harmonies, hybridized with distorded psych funk sound and solidely pulsed by live played drum patterns and awesome unique beats.
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The project is driven by a strong spiritual background with a deep 70's soul jazz fusion influence, raised into a movie soundtrack like dimension.Įach piece reveals a facet of Medline's music, origins, tastes and character. "Old Souls Carnival" is the most accomplished Medline album so far, presenting his new direction in composition and his multi instrumentalist approach.