Serengeti Appreciation Week, Day One
Published on May 21, 2007 by corey · 2 Comments
About two years ago I got a CD in the mail by this cat Serengeti. The album was Gasoline Rainbow and it came out on Day By Day, which was the initial motivation to check it out. At first listen I didn’t get it; it wasn’t traditional rap by any means, but it had some elements like, um, rapping and scratching. I don’t know, it’s a crazy album and after a couple of listens I was hooked. The songwriting was dark, humorous, clever and kind of all over the place and so was the production. I ended up interviewing him for the album, and while I can’t find the transcript he explained that Gasoline Rainbow was his experimental album where he handled the production/vocal duties. The only quote I have kinda sums up our conversation, “I was so wrapped up in the album that I wouldn’t talk to anybody. I thought it was gonna take me out of my depression, and that if I could only make this record it would free me.”
Anyway, Gasoline Rainbow was the album that introduced to me Serengeti, and since then he’s gone on to release a bunch of albums, all of which are really dope and unlike anything else I’ve heard. Stay tuned the rest of the week as I will go in more depth into these albums. In the meantime check out these songs from the album
[...] the introduction with Gasoline Rainbows the next album I came across of Serengeti’s was Dennehy. While definitely more rooted in rap [...]
[...] P.S. There are three more songs from Gasoline Rainbow available from Synthesis Magazine’s Serengeti Appriciation Week: http://synthesis.net/2007/05/21/serengeti-appreciation-week-day-one/ [...]