ESRAP & GASMAC GILMORE

...Weil Sie Wien Nicht Kennen

First joint album of the multifaceted project around the Austro-Turkish sibling duo EsRAP and the Viennese rock duo Gasmac Gilmore. Highly interesting Arabic melodies, arabesque and chanting meet danceable Balkan beats with Klezmer influences as well as indie rock. Growing up in the old Viennese working-class district of Ottakring, the siblings Esra and Enes Özmen deal in their mixed German / Turkish lyrics with questions of identity, being foreign in their own country as children of the third generation, the necessity of rebellion experienced in their own bodies, rap as resistance and also being a woman in the male-dominated hip-hop world. In contrast to the usual division of roles in this one, Esra contributes the hard and fast rhymes, while her brother Enes, with his delicate voice, takes on the more melodic vocal parts. After two highly acclaimed and medially acclaimed albums, which stylistically mix the Turkish oriental genre arabesque with rap and most recently modern trap beats, the two siblings now continue the collaboration with Gasmac Gilmore, which already started in 2019 with the anthem "Freunde dabei". The band around the current members Max and Elias Bern, which was already founded in Vienna in 2002 and has won several awards to date, enriches the sound picture with frenzied polka, hard guitar riffs as well as pulsating Balkan brass and also provides an additional boost of intensity live. The album ". . . weil sie Wien nicht kennen" (because they don't know Vienna) is the fruitful consequence of the collaboration of four impressive artists and brings over nine songs both musically and in terms of content an almost unprecedented genre-spanning diversity, experimentation friends with authentic expressiveness, which is much more than the combination of hip-hop and indie rock.

ESRAP & GASMAC GILMORE

...Weil Sie Wien Nicht Kennen

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World Music