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V.A. The Silhouettes Project

Melting Pot Music | Item No: 1036488
Vinyl LP | 2020 / UK – Reissue | New
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The Silhouettes Project a new platform for up and coming Hip-Hop, Soul and Jazz artists from the UK. It is not a record label or management team, it is a community project. The Silhouettes Project provides an open space - a recording studio and live venue located within the Total Refreshment Centre in Hackney, London - where MCs, singers, musicians and producers can connect and create.The Silhouttes Project was founded by community organisers/artists Asher Korner (aka Kosher) and Jaden Osei-Bonsu (Eerf Evil) in 2019. When they told us about the project and played us some of the music we were instantly hooked and joined the collective as label partner. The art direction is executed by Sergio „SagaUno“ Alferez, an acclaimed designer and illustrator from Medellín, Columbia.Starting in September, we release a new single each Thursday from artists like Kofi Stone, Summers Sons, Enny, KeepVibesNear, Manik MC, Lex Amor, Louis The Hippie, Summer-Pearl, Joe Beard and many more.

Here is the story of the Silhouettes Project as told by its founders Jaden and Asher: „We started The Silhouettes Project in February 2019, to shine a light on the new generation ofunderground Hip-Hop, Jazz, and Soul music in the UK. Community is everything to us, and wewanted to show that with a proper support network, access to professional facilities, and theencouragement of a family of artists, our community could produce something incredible. We felt a joint frustration that the current music scene in the UK only had structures in placeto support talent of a certain genre whilst overlooking a buzzing alternative Hip-Hop culture.We wanted to unify artists who are making ground-breaking music but who are in need of asolid structure to work within - artists who we felt deserved more recognition. This led us tothe name ‘The Silhouettes Project’, as we wanted to shine a light on those artists in theshadows. The journey started by embarking on a collaborative album project which allowed us to bringtogether more than 30 artists on a single tape and to create a network of incredibly talentedartists of the same calibre. The album took more than a year, working almost every day at theRoot 73 studio, a community space in Hackney. We knew from the first few sessions that wewere on to something, and the energy around the project kept it moving. As artists ourselves we understood that the creative process can be challenging and sometimesisolating, especially when there is no clear support network to fall back on. This led us to bringour efforts into the physical realm by organising a series of free live music events for all ofthese artists to come to, showcase their work alongside our house band, and connect witheach other. These events take place at The Total Refreshment Centre in Dalston, anunderground studio complex and warehouse space, which gave the events an intimatecommunity feeling and the people a sense of belonging. There is a desperate need for spaces in which people can come together and develop theircreative potential, especially with the consistent withdrawal of funding from the arts sector inthe UK and with the constant threat of gentrification which has seen the closure of countlesscommunity and grassroots creative organisations. As we grew as a brand and organisation, webegan to fully understand the importance of what we were doing. From the studio sessions tothe events, we saw the impact on people’s outlooks on their own careers, we saw them growin confidence in performing and collaborating and even taking their own initiative to utilise thenetwork provided for them. We heard their feedback, we felt the excitement in theatmospheres at our events and studio sessions, and we saw the community grow every timewe brought it together.“
Item Details
Item No: 1036488
Artist: V.A.
Title: The Silhouettes Project
Label: Melting Pot Music
Catalog No: MPM288LP
Format: Vinyl LP, Vinyl, LP
Pressing: UK – Reissue
Release Date: 2020
Genre: Hip Hop
Style: US Hip Hop, International Hip Hop, Instrumental Hip Hop
Available since: 2023-07-27
Condition: New
Price: 22,99 €
Weight: 250g (plus 250g Packaging)
Tracklist
A1 Bel Cobain & Lex Amor - At The Bay
A2 Manik Mc & Elisa Imperilee - July
A3 Enny - For South
A4 Louis The Hippie - Blessings
A5 Summers Sons, Majical & C Tappin - Free Your Mind
A6 Keepvibesnear & Nix Northwest - What U Need
A7 Summer Pearl - Rising
A8 Natty Wylah - Eucalyptus
B1 Kofi Stone & Joe Beard - Like We Used To
B2 Elisa Imperilee - Closer
B3 Meron T & Pedro Retro - Standing There
B4 Eerf Evil & Kosher - Chase It
B5 Turt & Stephanie Santiago - The Process
B6 Kieron Boothe & Morgan Lorelle - No Peace
B7 Louis The Hippie - The Fruits
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