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Artist: | DANCE CRASHERS |
Title: | Dance Crashers The Rawtown VINYL LP |
Released: | 20/01/2023 |
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Format: | VINYL LP |
Country | EU/US |
Barcode: | 8437007553314 |
Catalogue number: | BR054LP |
Store location: | pre-order |
SKU: | WLF00074 |
Condition: | BRAND NEW & SEALED |
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Young Valencian band that favors a pure style, remaining faithful to the origins, but with a powerful and contemporary sound. ?Rawtown? is a conceptual album, musically shielded by a succession of songs in which the band walks through many of the Jamaican styles always with a reason and devoted to their own roots. After two years of intense work, The Dance Crashers release "Rawtown", their second album. It is a concept album divided into four chapters inspired by the lunar phases, in which the action takes place in the fictitious neighborhood of Rawtown. These 4 phases illustrate a cyclical process that goes from darkness to light, being darkness the reflection of individualism and light the symbol of the fullness of collective feeling. The storyline is musically shielded by a succession of songs, sung in English, in which the band goes through most of the styles of Jamaican music, ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub, dancehall... always in a justified way and firmly devoted to their own roots. 1.- In the first phase, the new moon, the city is too big, and the individual is too small. The air and the noise suffocate him/her. Follows the routine, does not stop doing things and needs to flee. "Concrete Jail", "A Day in Your Life" and "Cry" reflect these feelings perfectly: individualism, precariousness, and indifference. 2.- In the second phase, shaped by the tracks "Spoiler", "Riot" and "What If", we enter the stage of transformation. The crescent moon illuminates the awareness, the anger against the elites, against racism. As a consequence, the need to show empathy towards sisters and brothers and to fight collectively. 3.- In the third phase, the full moon phase, the fullness of collective brotherhood is reached. With "Unity", "Now and Then" and "Dirty Paradise", the individual stays in the same space, in the same streets, but perceives them differently. He/she makes a shelter of the environment and the people, with their lights and shadows, where he/she is not alone. 4.- Finally, the phase of renewal and closing of the cycle, "Keep On", "Still Here" and "Manifesto". Inevitably one has to learn to live with contradictions and what is really important is this new beginning, in which no one is better than anyone else. A point of liberation, of harvesting what has been sown by previous generations and in which the way is made for the generations to come. We open the door and make our existence something that benefits the community. We were not alone; we just did not know how to find each other. The Dance Crashers put on the turntable a cyclical record (both conceptually and musically) and just as happens in the plot of "Rawtown", the band builds a rich musical universe and shares it with fierceness and passion. They drink from the legacy of the originators of ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub, dancehall... that preceded them and put everything they have collectively learned at the disposal of current and future listeners in a surprising album of impeccable pro
format | vinyl |
artist | DANCE CRASHERS THE |
Year of Issue | 2023 |
Recently In Stock | No |
Forthcoming | No |
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