Diaphra's Blackbook Of The Beats, by Alexandre Francisco Diaphra

Diaphra's Blackbook Of The Beats

by Alexandre Francisco Diaphra

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1.	O PREFÁCIO (intro) 00:01	buy track
2.	O PREFÁCIO 03:18	buy track
3.	NOTA DE AUTOR (intro) 00:01	buy track
4.	NOTA DE AUTOR 05:23 video	buy track
5.	O ROSTO - MASKHARAH (intro) 00:01	buy track
6.	O ROSTO - MASKHARAH 04:09	buy track
7.	EPÍGRAFE-CRIA, etc (intro) 00:01	buy track
8.	EPÍGRAFE-CRIA, etc 01:52	buy track
9.	MENINO NO RIO 01:55	buy track
10.	TODO O FADO É VADIO 03:39 video	buy track
11.	TRANSFER 02:57	buy track
12.	ÜBER 05:59 video	buy track
13.	BODE CUSPIA - THE ESCAPE OF KING GOAT 02:53 video	buy track
14.	PRIMEIRA PEDRA (intro) 00:02	buy track
15.	PRIMEIRA PEDRA 03:53	buy track

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“I may have no possessions, but here lies everything one needs”

This is Alexandre Francisco Diaphra’s motto as governor of his own life.

A multifaceted artist from Guinea-Bissau, based in Lisbon: rapper, poet, edutainer & beatmaker, creating music based on improvisation in which he blends his psychedelic, black music, afro ancestral influences and love for the non-quantized beats in the same way as with experimental jazz, mixed contemporary and urban styles.

Diaphra’s Blackbook Of The Beats is following the idea of building instrumental bases on the outside environment wherever Diaphra feels inspired. A backpack, some vinyl records, a portable turntable and a sampler for self deconstruction / recreation from which resulted this (mainly) instrumental album and which is documented in form of musical videos in the dvd.

The particulary of this project resides in the non-quantized beats over which the enlightening poetry is spoken, rapped and chanted in portuguese, where trial and error take part of the compositions which are enhanced with the use of instruments played by invited musicians and sometimes by Diaphra himself.

Add to this various carefully handcrafted editions – including a silkscreened reproduction of the real Diaphra’s Black Book Of The Beats – and you get the kind of artifact we love to bump into.

 "BAZZERK" is the multiform label project run by Jess & Crabbe.

‘Diaphra’s Blackbook Of The Beats” is released May 4th 2015 in digital, CD, limited vinyl and Deluxe “Moleskine” edition including both CD & DVD.

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released July 6, 2015

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