Guz Khan & generational jazz rap
James Acaster's Perfect Sounds
BBC
4.8 • 798 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Guz is up for giving the self-titled project by Sélébéyone another chance. The album features two saxophonists and two rappers, Senegal's Gaston Bandimic and HPrizm from the US.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | This podcast may contain strong language and adult content, if it's any good. |
| 0:09.1 | Hopefully it will. |
| 0:14.6 | My name is James Acaster, and in 2017, I had a breakdown. |
| 0:19.6 | I dealt with that breakdown by buying as much music from 2016 as I possibly could. |
| 0:24.6 | As a result, I now own over 600 albums that came out in 2016 and I'm convinced that it is |
| 0:30.6 | the greatest year for music of all time. |
| 0:33.6 | But it's not enough me being convinced, I also want to convince each and every single one of you, plus a guest every single week. |
| 0:39.5 | I'm going to send him an album in advance. |
| 0:41.2 | We're going to listen to that album, and we're going to talk about it. |
| 0:43.8 | This week, my guest is Gus Kahn, and we're going to talk about the album, so that'd be on it's done. Steve Lehman is the bandleader. He's a jazz saxophonist. And this album fuses jazz music with hip-hop in that order, I would say. |
| 1:14.8 | These are jazz musicians, him and an ex-student of his, collaborate together with all the music. |
| 1:19.9 | They're both sax players. |
| 1:21.1 | And then they bought rappers in. |
| 1:22.4 | They each bought a rapper in each. |
| 1:24.3 | So H-Prism from the Anti-P consortium which is a New York based rap collective he was |
| 1:29.5 | brought in by Steve Lehman |
| 1:30.6 | some never see it but I'm standing and it's something in the structure helps me in a double |
| 1:34.6 | over interference when I'm in a state of mine to make a movie it's a motion picture first I fixed |
| 1:38.8 | the left and Gaston Bandemic a young Senegalese rapper was was bought in by, I think this is how he pronounces his name, Masiac Laceray. |
| 1:49.0 | If it's not how you pronounce his name, I really, really apologize. |
| 1:52.0 | I've tried to find out how to pronounce his first name all over the shop and I couldn't do it. |
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