Egyptian Hip Hop are set to release their new single ‘Yoro Diallo’ through R&S on November 5th.
For a minute there, it seemed as though we had lost Egyptian Hip Hop. Teenage bright sparks, the Manchester band disappeared in a cloud of smoke, leaving fans non-plussed as to their whereabouts.
Emerging earlier this year, Egyptian Hip Hop tied the knot with R&S and unveiled plans for debut album ‘GOOD DON’T SLEEP’.
Now the band have confirmed details of a new single. ‘Yoro Diallo’ will be released on November 5th, and is seemingly inspired by the compex rhythms of West African music. Named in honour of a Malian musician discovered on the Awesome Tapes From Africa blog, the single is buoyed by an awkward, fidgety rhythm.
Alecsander Pierce explains: “There’s something about the West African, and particularly Malian, use of rhythm that really gets me going. I’m not a dancer but it’s pretty hard not to get infected by some of the grooves that these musicians create: in particular, a Malian musician by the name of Yoro Diallo. His tracks tend to have a fluid rhythm, seeming both on-beat and off-beat. There is no four to the floor. Even if the track is in 4/4, it’s also in 6/8 and someone else is playing 3/4 too. We wanted to create something with this fluid sense of pulse, that was still very danceable, and also poppy. People forget that this ‘world’ music is pop just as much as anything western and current.”
Listen to ‘Yoro Diallo’ below.
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‘Yoro Diallo’ is set to be released on November 5th. Egyptian Hip Hop have also confirmed the following shows:
October
6 Glasgow Hug & Pint
9 Manchester Soup Kitchen
11 London Corsica Studios
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