Nubian Voyager: Echos : Poetry and Music from the Urban Edge - Softcover

Les Nubians

Softcover

ISBN 10: 193277176X ISBN 13: 9781932771763

Publisher: Mandala Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

Celebrating a new generation of underground poets, Grammy-nominated Afro-European World Music artists "Les Nubians" set twenty-one young, urban, international poetry competition winners to music in this amazing dual-language book and CD release. Representing the heart of an innovative, contemporary, urban, creative form and forum, this spoken word urban poetry fusion contains four distinct chapters, each addressing the issues of urban life, loves, and the spirit in human nature. The Grammy-nominated international Hip-Hop, R&B duo "Les Nubians'" multicultural sensibilities span from Afro-Jazz to British Break Beat to Cameroonian Hip-Hop. Their latest CD, included in the collection, was recorded all over the world; New York, Paris, Bordeaux, London, Marseilles, and San Francisco, and is a fusion of urban poetry from the most promising poets of the urban underground, and modern music, including World Beat samplers, Hip-Hop inspired rhythms, American rappers, global Afrobeat and R&B!

About this title

From the Publisher:

A music CD and book from the Grammy-nominated French R&B duo Les Nubians, presenting poems from 21 promising urban-underground poets. * Includes the latest album from Les Nubians, Les Nubian Presents Echos. * Published in both English and French.

About the Author:

LES NUBIANS (sisters Helen and Celia Faussart) are internationally renowned musicians whose multicultural sensibilities span from Afro-jazz to British breakbeat to Cameroonian hip-hop. They reside in Paris.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mandala Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 193277176X
• ISBN 13: 9781932771763
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120