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10 augustus 2024

Battle Cry

 

 

I discovered this old anime television series, Samurai Champloo. It’s about two outlaw samurai who are more or less forced to help a young woman find a samurai who smells of sunflowers, I forget for what reason. It’s set in the sixteenth century but is full of anachronisms, it’s funny, thrilling and the action scenes are wild.

The opening of the series contains a groovy rap song, Battle Cry, by producer Nujabes and rap artist Shing02 that’s beyond cool and sets the atmosphere for the entire episodes. Nujabes died in 2010, when he was in the process of making an album with Shing02, finally released in 2015 under the title Luv(Sic) Hexalogy.

Here is an excellent live performance of Battle Cry by Shing02 in collaboration with the band OMA. It sounds even funkier than Nujabes original. OMA has a new album out, a live rendition of Luv(Sic) Hexalogy, also in collaboration with Shing02. It’s their second album this year, earlier they released Bread ‘n’ Butter, a proper studio album, filled with loungy instrumentals.

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