Vocal by Unleavened, violin by Meredith Bates / Produced by Dj Gordski.
Buy vinyl : www.anightoncanopy.com/#!kunga-219/cedq

Kunga 219 - Could it be me ? feat. Unleavened

Released in 2000 on Goodnight Musics, A Night On canopy is proud to drop out for the first time on vinyl this Rap / Spoken word underground classic from Halifax, Canada : anightoncanopy.bandcamp.com/album/tharp…and-a-place

Kunga 219 - Aimless entrance feat. Sole(Anticon)

Extract from "Cannes à sucre" - 4th album by french producer As Valet.
Available on Digital & Vinyl : https://linktr.ee/anightoncanopy

Canne à sucre

Mornes

AS VALET "Mornes" (feat Raphaël Neblai & Jewice)

Mr. Len feat The Juggaknots - This Morning (junkos mood 2003 remix)

Originaly released in 2004 on CD by japanese imprint Tri-Eight Music, then by Def Jux in 2008, Sonic Sum's 2nd full length album is finally available on 2LP vinyl : https://anightoncanopy.bandcamp.com/album/films

Sonic Sum - Oscillator (Remastered 2LP Vinyl)

Originaly released in 2004 on CD by japanese imprint Tri-Eight Music, then by Def Jux in 2008, Sonic Sum's 2nd full length album is finally available on 2LP vinyl : anightoncanopy.bandcamp.com/album/films

Advice lighting track lightening stills
Breaking into hours ago draw in
Saw sin rotary grow to be raw skin
Showing off tin stars spurs and bed sheets
Turn said followers to new age chumps
Serving set needle head steeple chaser
Wash down mothers milk and other filthy Thoughts
Squat beneath the great electricity
Make pensivity 34 streets
Tour activity and murder more meat
Gel rigged and hitched configured switch
In the midst of somber arrows safe for
Men with out hats and dens with out mortars
Whys that recorder that's supposed to be on traffic
Facing you, facing you
Toward a stage of nothingness
Console console
Count bells counsel me things I won't use
Luge like used bike whose night was that
Cause I can't remember nothing but I take it
All back
Refund arranger rickshaw drive way install
Cranes but till it'	s all sideways
L.D. I see over thick rims low brow
Mighty and the choking victims
So how might we close open systems ?

Chorus

Dislodge distill
Quit job sit still
Blame it all on your head
The sharpest tool in the shed
If not this will
Still watch it fill
With rain that's falling instead
Obtain drawing of set

Misquote price soaked in precise Numeric
Order out takes bow breaks and plague
Posies migs slowly move show me two or more examples
Of commerative stampedes in honor of getting trampled
Me sitting cramped flanked by my forget its
Reminding you of how much better someone else
Said it
Finding out the only car to rent with out credit is
The madness wagon two door stretched out Lex Luther
Use your highly chosen risked
Limb for low brow mighty and the choking victim
So how might we close open systems ?

Sonic Sum - Choking Victim (Remastered 2LP Vinyl)

Cuts by Merlin, Trizzak, & Dj Soundmachine.

Representing the massive underground North Carolina Hip-Hop community, Koshface Jackson consists of rapper KoshFace and visionary producer Jon Jackson. Around this duo, gravitates a formidable combination of local and industry veteran DJs, emcees, street poets, and visual artists. Their first project, "Old Man Strength", delivers KoshFace's intensely powerful lyricism over Jackson's heavy, sci-fi influenced production, to form one of the most original debut records in modern Hip-Hop music.

Vinyl and Digital : https://anightoncanopy.bandcamp.com/album/old-man-strength-2

(OH NO !)
ALL YOU CORPORATE RAPPERS NEED TO EAT A DICK
(OH NO !)
It’s THIRD WORLD CITIZENS back to smack bitch
(OH NO !)
Cause when it comes rap music we’re the shit
(OH NO !)
and when it comes to you ?
KoshFace
Fuck all that pretty rap/I’m tryin’ to make the heart of the city clap/Like Biggie did before all that Diddy crap/
Now every breathe I take, I’m tryin’ to get it back/
These suckas callin’ it dope, but they know it’s stepped on/So they get slept on/
I’m coming for your head, no protection/Matter of fact, I’m bout to start me a collection/Get gone/
There ain’t no need to put a vest on/Swinging for your necks till they’re spillin’ like Exxon/ya dead wrong/
Tryin’ to fuck wit me I’m headstrong/Mumble and curse/I put the wisdom of my life in this verse/
Y’all motherfuckers started triflin’ first/It's like this mic is my church/Manifestation of my light after birth/
You’ll see how much the touch of Midas is worth/A hustler’s life is the work/Don’t waste a minute of your time on this
Earth/
Don’t say it’s kind when it’s a dime of the dirt/Don’t say you rhyme, when line for line you simple simon wearing diamonds
and skirts/
King Poetic
(OH NO!)
ALL YOU CORPORATE RAPPERS NEED TO EAT A DICK/
(OH NO!)
It’s THIRD WORLD CITIZENS back to smack bitch/
(OH NO!)
Cause when it comes to rap, man, we run this shit/
(OH NO!)
OLD MAN STRENGTH, TRICK/
KoshFace
Then I flip into beast mode and reload/These bitches ridin’ my dick, they get a free load, tryin’ to freeload/
I keep it locked tight as a key code/Scopin’ my enemy through the peephole, like it’s a peep show/
And even though I’m rockin’ these sheep's clothes, the street knows/I’m a wolf that’s coming to eat foes/
I polish off a cipher like a bag of Doritos/I’m keeping’ it foul, can you handle the free throws?/
Sick of spittin' top dollar raps at these free shows/I’m better than that/Yeah, I said it, said I’m better than rap/
Said fuck Yo cheddar, you in bed wit a rat/I’ll put your head in a trap/Hit the release you’ll be dead in a snap/
I’ll eat ya heart and leave the rest for the cat/Shit, I’m already fat/Now that I’m weeded, need some head and a nap/
Don’t say you ballin’, when you settle for scraps/This ain’t your callin’/All in all you’re just a rookie/These are veteran
tracks.

Koshface Jackson - Old Man Strength (Oh No) w/ King Poetic (Vinyl)

“WHAT’S GENOCIDE?”

their high school principal
told me I couldn’t teach
poetry with profanity
so I asked my students,
“Raise your hand if you’ve heard of the Holocaust.”
in unison, their arms rose up like poisonous gas
then straightened out like an SS infantry
“Okay. Please put your hands down.
Now raise your hand if you’ve heard of the Rwandan genocide.”
blank stares mixed with curious ignorance
a quivering hand out of the crowd
half-way raised, like a lone survivor
struggling to stand up in Kigali
“Luz, are you sure about that?”
“No.”
“That’s what I thought.”

“Carlos—what’s genocide?”

they won’t let you hear the truth at school
if that person says “fuck”
can’t even talk about “fuck”
even though a third of your senior class
is pregnant.

I can’t teach an 18-year-old girl in a public school
how to use a condom that will save her life
and that of the orphan she will be forced
to give to the foster care system—
“Carlos, how many 13-year-olds do you know that are HIV-positive?”

“Honestly, none. But I do visit a shelter every Monday and talk with
six 12-year-old girls with diagnosed AIDS.”
while 4th graders three blocks away give little boys blowjobs during recess
I met an 11-year-old gang member in the South Bronx who carries
a semi-automatic weapon to study hall so he can make it home
and you want me to censor my language

“Carlos, what’s genocide?”

your books leave out Emmett Till and Medgar Evers
call themselves “World History” and don’t mention
King Leopold or diamond mines
call themselves “Politics in the Modern World”
and don’t mention Apartheid

“Carlos, what’s genocide?”

you wonder why children hide in adult bodies
lie under light-color-eyed contact lenses
learn to fetishize the size of their asses
and simultaneously hate their lips
my students thought Che Guevara was a rapper
from East Harlem
still think my Mumia t-shirt is of Bob Marley
how can literacy not include Phillis Wheatley?
schools were built in the shadows of ghosts
filtered through incest and grinding teeth
molded under veils of extravagant ritual

“Carlos, what’s genocide?”

“Roselyn, how old was she? Cuántos años tuvo tu madre cuando se murió?”

“My mother had 32 years when she died. Ella era bellísima.”

…what’s genocide?

they’ve moved from sterilizing “Boriqua” women
injecting indigenous sisters with Hepatitis B,
now they just kill mothers with silent poison
stain their loyalty and love into veins and suffocate them

…what’s genocide?

Ridwan’s father hung himself
in the box because he thought his son
was ashamed of him

…what’s genocide?

Maureen’s mother gave her
skin lightening cream
the day before she started the 6th grade

…what’s genocide?

she carves straight lines into her
beautiful brown thighs so she can remember
what it feels like to heal

…what’s genocide?
…what’s genocide?

“Carlos, what’s genocide?”

“Luz, this…
this right here…

is genocide.”

What's genocide ?

Carlos Andres Gomez "What's genocide" (Junkos Mood - 2006)

Kunga 219 - Fine Spirits (Prod. Sixtoo)

Released in 2000 on Goodnight Musics, A Night On canopy is proud to drop out for the first time on vinyl this Rap / Spoken word underground classic from Halifax, Canada.
Buy vinyl : http://www.anightoncanopy.com/#!kunga-219/cedq

Kunga 219 - Blue & Orange

Kunga 219 - Returned (prod. buck 65 & Greymatter)

French composer / musician from Rennes, Brahman proposes us a mysterious journey to unknown places. L'arche perdue is a 15 Future Jazz tracks project influenced by Hip-Hop and Electronic artists such as Bonobo or Amon Tobin. Available on Digital and Limited Edition Cassette : https://anightoncanopy.bandcamp.com/album/larche-perdue

Brahman "Hippocampes" (Cassette & Digital)

Brahman "Roses rouges" (Cassette & Digital)

Brahman "Poemetric system" (Cassette & Digital)

You’ve spent many days in the thick jungle waiting, but now you’ve started to wonder whether you really want to be rescued after all. The jungle has pulled you in. Surrounded by the airplane fuselage that formerly held you aloft like a winged suspension of disbelief, you grow your beard and eat fruit from the trees. Your shortwave radio buzzed out in a midnight rainfall yet with the dawn bird calls it has begun to play again. This time it radiates new transmissions. It has jammed on a broadcast that seems to float between frequencies. The music mirrors your surroundings. It sings in harmony with the thick canopy above your head and vibrant feathers fluttering amongst it. You take the radio to the edge of the ocean and it crackles out a symphony for the waves as they roll in and out. The blue sky is all brilliance and the radio sings back. This is your new world and it feels so right. 

http://dublab.com

Exotica

Chacun Sha Sha

ELECTRIC EGYPT (Tropical HiFi) "Chacun Sha Sha" (feat. Jonti & As Valet) - LP VINYL

Emerging from Amaechi Uzoigwe's Ozone collective (Anti-Pop Consortium, Company Flow, Mike Ladd, Mr Lif, Saul Williams), Sonic Sum has developed a unique formula which brought hip-hop to still unknown areas and level. Straight from the Bronx, the band features 2 Dj's / Producers, Fred Ones and Jun aka Preservation, Eric MO on bass, and the talents of MC / producer Rob Sonic, later Def Jux solo artist and half part of Hail Mary Mallon beside Aesop Rock.

Influenced by Kraftwerk, Public Enemy or Led Zeppelin, Sonic Sum worked out the perfect alchemy between musicality and lyricism, abstraction and retrofuturism.

Originaly released in 2004 on CD by japanese imprint Tri-Eight Music, then by Def Jux in 2008, a night on canopy records is proud to release for the very first time on 2LP remastered vinyl "Films", their follow up album to 2000's critically acclaimed debut "The Sanity Annex".

Buy vinyl : anightoncanopy.bandcamp.com/album/films

Films

SONIC SUM "Films" Feat. Mike Ladd (2LP vinyl)

"A.k.w.a" is a consciousness trip with multi-african inspirations featuring the voices of the future tribe. My Brother gave me this heritage and now this is your turn to pass it on.  Are you ready for something different ? AS VALET
https://anightoncanopy.bandcamp.com/album/a-k-w-a

A.k.w.a

Search for peace

AS VALET "Search For Peace" Feat. Deborah Jordan

November 17th 2017 on a night on canopy on CD and Digital :
http://www.anightoncanopy.com/white-from-black-where-is-africa

From As Valet's afro-futuristic hip-hop to Brahman's future-jazz, from Sonic Sum retro-futurist rap to Monte Smith's revolutionary poetry, a night on canopy continues its exploration of genres with Where is Africa ?, first album of the jazz trio White from Black.
 
Exploration of the genres also for this trio coming from the Conservatory of Rennes. Fusing Jazz and Hip-Hop, inspired by Armenian folklore and African music, Michaël Vigneron's compositions are as much a work on sound as it is an invitation to travel.
 
In 2017, the Trio performed at the festival Jazz à l'étage de Rennes and at the festival Jazz of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

Where is Africa ?

Loyse

WHITE FROM BLACK "Loyse" (extract from Where is Africa ?)

I'll sleep when you're dead remix

Smithereens (stop cryin)

EL-P X Leonis "Smithereens" (Stop cryin)- Leonis Remix

Extract from YAMMS by Dre Trav and Tall, Drk. Available on Digital, Vinyl and cassette : https://anightoncanopy.bandcamp.com/album/yamms

Yamms

My Ppl

DRE TRAV x TALL,DRK "My Ppl" • "Authentic Ones" (feat. Chuuwee) - Vinyl

Extract from "Wolves of the World" available on digital and vinyl : https://anightoncanopy.bandcamp.com/album/wolves-of-the-world
Remixed by half part of Crossmods : Feather Phaser

Wolves of the world

I loathe you for sentimental reasons (Feather Phaser Remix)

BEANS (Anti-Pop Consortium) "I loathe you for sentimental reasons (Crossmods Remix)"

Dre Trav "Omnipresent" remixed by french producer Haunted Days.
Vinyl available on a night on canopy records : https://anightoncanopy.bandcamp.com/album/yamms

YAMMS

Omnipresent remix

DRE TRAV "Omnipresent" (Haunted Days Remix)

32 mn of Soul Funk for your Mind, Body and Soul !
Mixed by North Carolina duo Muzzle Flash Radio (Monte Smith + JJ The Genius).
Also available on CD : https://anightoncanopy.bandcamp.com/album/sunday-service-vol-1
Listen to the whole Sunday Service Series :
https://smarturl.it/sunday-service

A Tribe Called Quest "Problems"
Muzzle Flash Radio "Intro"
Thee Lakesiders "Parachute"
Doris & Kelly "You don’t have to worry"
Atlanta Rhythm Section "So into you"
Gene Harris "Put on train"
Janko Nilovic "Drug song"
Steely Dan "Black cow"
Ronnie Laws "Tidal wave"
Little Ann "Deep shadows"
Sven Libaek "Misty cannon"
Eddie Kendricks "Keep on truckin’"
Ohio Players "Ecstasy"
Mandrill "Mango meat"
Dr. John "Right place wrong time"
James Brown "Funky president"
The Junkyard Band "Sardines"
Trouble Funk "Drop the bomb"
Sly & The Family Stone "Thank you"
Average White Band "Pick up the pieces"
The Barkays "Holy ghost"
Curtis Mayfield "Future shock"
Boz Scaggs "Lowdown"
Gino Soccio "Try it out"
Manu Dibango "Soul Makossa"
Brass Construction "Movin’"
Cold Blood "Down to the bone"
Bus People Express "Augusta Georgia (Here i come)"
Spencer Davis Group "I’m a man"
Gil Scott-Heron "The bottle"
Jestofunk "Fly love song"
Bobby Oroza "Should i take you home"
Kansas City Express "This is the place"
The Electric Prunes "Holy are you"
Pierre Alain & Slim Pezin "Slim Bertha "
Ann Peebles "Trouble, heartaches & sadness"
Curtis Mayfield "Hard times"
Ramp "Daylight"

Sunday Service Vol.1

MUZZLE FLASH RADIO "Sunday Service Vol.1"

Inner Journey is the first single from "Inner Journey", 3rd album by parisian producer As Valet. Inner Journey is a voyage to his ancestral land, La Martinique, and his late friend Ras G.
https://anightoncanopy.bandcamp.com/album/inner-journey
Video : youtu.be/BGQIEZoVAZ8

Inner Journey

Inner journey

As Valet "Inner Journey" (extract from Inner Journey)

Inner Journey is the first single from "Inner Journey", 3rd album by parisian producer As Valet. Inner Journey is a voyage to his ancestral land, La Martinique, and his late friend Ras G.
https://anightoncanopy.bandcamp.com/album/inner-journey
Video : https://youtu.be/VeOWNukWeeg

G-Beat

As Valet "G - Beat" (Ras-G Tribute)

a night on canopy is a DIY label dedicated to abstract Hip-Hop, alternative rap, and Jazz : 
- Beans (Anti-Pop Consortium) (USA)
- Dre Trav (USA)
- As Valet (Fr)
- Sonic Sum (Rob Sonic) (USA)
- Elucid (USA)
- Darez & Chance (Fr / USA)
- Kunga 219 (Ca)
- Koshface Jackson (USA)
- Monte Smith (King Poetic) (USA)
- Brahman (Fr)
- Electric Egypt (Tropical HIFI) (Au)
- White from Black  (Fr)

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