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carlos nino & miguel atwood-ferguson - suite for ma dukes - mochilla - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Hip Hop - Instrumentals

1. Find A Way
2. Antiquity
3. Fall In Love
4. Nag Champa

Four tracks cover Dilla magic. From Antiquity to Nag Champa, from Tribe Called Quest’s (Dilla produced) Find a Way to the Slum Village’s Fall in Love the harmonic and melodic beauty of Dilla’s music is liberated. Early in 09 the project received the official blessing of Ma Dukes herself and part of the proceeds from the record will go to Dilla’s heirs. Tip!

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Carlos
Niño and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, have been working
together on a wide variety of projects for several
years now. They produced albums for Build An Ark
(Kindred Spirits,) Mia Doi Todd (City Zen,) Grace
Woodroofe (for Executive Producer Heath Ledger,)
Ariana Delawari (alongside David Lynch,) as well as
a duet album entitled Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-
Ferguson Fill the Heart Shaped Cup (Alpha Pup,) .
They have been a virtual production powerhouse.
The colloboration started when Niño hired Atwood-
Ferguson’s string quartet, Supernova, to perform on
the record Dwight Trible & The Life Force Trio Love is
the Answer (Ninja Tune) in 2004. On that same Dwight
Tribble album project, Niño first met, and befriend,
and then licensed a track from one of his heroes, James
“Jay Dee/J Dilla” Yancey. The song Antiquity came
from these sessions — it is a stand out from Dilla’s vast
and distinct catalog. Tribble brings his unique jazz vocal
stylings to Dilla’s jazz influenced hiphop. A circle
had been completed somehow.

Fast forward two years — in February, 2007, several
days after his 32nd birthday, Dilla passed away due to
Lupus related complications. After his untimely death,
Niño and Atwood-Ferguson chose to pay tribute to
Dilla by continuing the musical conversation that he
had started. But now in the contemporary chamber
music style that Atwood-Ferguson had been developing.
On, what would have been, Dilla’s 33rd birthday,
February 7, 2007, Niño & Atwood-Ferguson sent their
strings, brass and reeds only version of Common’s
“Nag Champa (Afrodisiac for the World,)” to DJs,
producers and fans, for free, via the internet. It caused
a big stir amongst fans and first time listeners alike.
Hiphop had never been given the Chamber music
treatment before and in such a reverential and rhythmic
way and there is no drums. They had written the
entire piece to accompany the record. Dilla was still in
the track not by his presence but by his absence.

At the end of 08 they put the finishing touches on the
first official release of this music — a four track EP
entitled Suite for Ma Dukes which will be released
by Mochilla in April of 09. It is hiphop as you never
thought in a way you have never heard.

Here three tastemakers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhg_fPD-Lhc
http:// http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE_WX72hNjs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onnB6q5427g