El Michels Affair
The Abominable Ep (blue Vinyl)
El Michels Affair follows up the massive success of their full length Yeti Season with The Abominable EP. A collection
of unreleased tracks, alternate takes, and instrumentals from the Yeti Season recording sessions. EMAs blending their
signature cinematic soul sound with influences from Turkish Funk and the grittiest of Bollywood soundtracks yielded an
instant classic The Fader calls "a carnival of dusty funk and soul". The EP starts off with the unreleased gem "Messy
Grass" whose synth intro, peppered with distant yeti cries, gives way to a tremendous backing track that Tamer
Pinarbasis Qanun dances over. On "Cham Cham" EMA invites Piya Malik to the microphone again to share her styled
storytelling vocals over the instrumental track from Yeti Seasons "Perfect Harmony". Where some of the tunes on the EP
have vocals added, some of them have them removed letting the band take center stage; "Poison Song", "Uncut Gem",
"Smoked", and "Progress" are all instrumen- tal here giving them a wholly different energy than the vocal versions. The
EP is being released with two different covers, each one has two paintings from different Ghanaian mobile cinema artists
commissioned through Chicagos Deadly Prey Gallery and are interpretations of the original album artwork. One version is
paintings by Stoger and Heavy J, who also contributed cover paintings to the Return To The 37th Chamber album. The other
version of the cover is two paintings by Teshie and Farkira.
Price
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Format
LP - 1 disk
Release
26-11-2021
Label
Item-nr
1294753
EAN
0349223010657
Availability
Not in stock
Tracks
Title
Artist
1
MESSY GRASS
2
CHAM CHAM
3
POISON SONG
4
UNCUT GEM
5
IDHAR UDHAR
6
SMOKED
7
PROGRESS
8
RUNNING HOT
9
NASIR