Hold Steady by Zerolex Trio

Many artists like Ezra Collective and Thomas de Pourquery already paid tribute to Sun Ra’s mythical anthem “Space Is The Place”. It’s time for French producer Zerolex and his trio to bring their stone to the cosmic edifice with “Hold Steady”, a wild audio trip progressing from laid back and lyrical hip-hop into a noisy soundscape of African percussions and free-oriented jazztronica.

Who else could do a better job than Cincinnati-based rapper Napoleon Maddox at telling this epic tale with Saturnian accents? An obvious collaboration for the rapper, as shows his activism as an African-American artist and his proximity with the trio in Besançon, his city of adoption.

The second guest on this release is Brussels-based composer and producer Marc Melià, who shares with Zerolex a strong passion for the Prophet synthesizer, and whose taste for spatial exploration is irrefutable. Marc offers a more ethereal vision of the track, with synthesizers calmly flowing into a delicate tension.

“Now all you need to do is know and hold steady.”

Artisan sonore depuis 2011

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