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QUELLE CHRIS/CHRIS KEYS - Innocent Country: Season Two (Blood Moon Edition)

Sold Date: June 1, 2020
Start Date: May 19, 2020
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Free delivery on many items.   Same-day despatch, no-question returns.   Authorised dealers - full technical support.   Online since 1997. Shop categories Information QUELLE CHRIS/CHRIS KEYS Innocent Country: Season Two (Blood Moon Edition)(gatefold coloured vinyl 2xLP) Mello Music Group US

Cat: MMG 001451. Rel: 11 May 20
Hip Hop/R&B


Side 1 - Track 1. Intro/Recap Side 1 - Track 2. Outro/Honest (feat Marcella Arguela) Side 1 - Track 3. Living Happy (feat Joseph Chilliums & Cavalier) Side 1 - Track 4. Sacred Safe (feat Merrill Garbus, Cavalier & Homeboy Sandman) Side 2 - Track 5. Horizon Side 2 - Track 6. Moments (feat Gondelman) Side 2 - Track 7. Bottle Black Power Buy The Business Side 3 - Track 8. Grease From The Elbows (feat Pink Siifu & Billy Woods) Side 3 - Track 9. Black Twitter (feat MoseEL & Nelson Bandela) Side 3 - Track 10. Ritual (feat Dr Tennille) Side 4 - Track 11. Sudden Death Side 4 - Track 12. Make It Better (feat Starr Busby) Side 4 - Track 13. Graphic Bleed Outs (feat Merrill Garbus & Melanie St Charles) Side 4 - Track 14. Mirage (feat Earl Sweatshirt, Denmark Vessey, Merrill Garbus & Big Sen) Side 4 - Track 15. When You Fall (feat Nappy Nina, Fresh Daily & 5ILL) Side 4 - Track 16. Fifoalsa/Credits

While MC/singer Quelle Chris and beat-maker Chris Keys' first collaborative album, 2015's "Innocent Country", was a meditation on isolation and pessimism, this belated sequel is an altogether more positive and outward-looking affair. It's a rather ironic twist given the global lockdown we're all enduring, but musically what they've delivered is exactly what we need: a brilliant collection of soul-fired hip-hop cuts rich in beats that variously doff a cap to J Dilla, gospel, jazz, reggae and neo-soul. It's a breezy, summery and life-affirming collection all told, with the assembled cast-list of guest MCs and vocalists reading like a who's who of the US hip-hop underground. It's the album we all need right now.