RICHY PITCH- BLACKSTAR: FREE AFROMIX
North London based producer Richy Pitch created Blackstar to build a bridge between contemporary electronic hip-hop and African inspired raps. The producer teams up with Ghana born MC Manifest for the (almost) eponymous lead single, one of a number of West African MCs who features on the project sees the album as a chance for connection ‘Blackstar is somewhere between an artistic autobiography and a collage of snapshots of life as a youngster in Ghana.”it was all a dream, but i never had word up magazine.” It’s also an allusion to the name of Ghana’s beloved soccer team, the “Black Stars.” The entire country gets religious/fanatic when they play.
So being a black star to me, a diasporic Ghanaian, symbolizes doing things in my artistic journey to represent and thrill my people like the Essiens and Abedi Peles of our history. ‘ Glad to see i’m not the only one very excited about the World Cup this summer.
This Afromix eases the listener into the sound of the upcoming LP entitled Ye Fre Mi Richy Pitch, due out on BBE Records later this summer.
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