Greentea Peng, the sun and the mother – Liberation
This album was not made under Champis. It is important to emphasize it as hallucinogenic substances were omnipresent in the manufacture of the previous and first album of singer Greentea Peng, Man madepublished in 2020. This time, failing to be the age -old album of maturity, this Tell Dem It’s Sunny is that of maternity. It is especially that of an artist whose life could have repeatedly changed in the dark but who, caught up in theft by beauty, refocused on essential values. Exit therefore the qualifier of Psychedelic r’n’b that she had mobilized herself to qualify her music, and the freezing free. Make way for assumed versatility and transformed into a solid sound base. This new album, like its predecessor, goes through many states. Launched by DUB, inherited from the Trinidadian origins of Greentea Peng, but also cut in radical electronic rock and inhabited by the Soul Music. There are many effects, many crossings, in a completely London approach, that which consists in mixing all its desires with a coherence of which British artists have the secret.
Tell Dem It’s Sunny is a disc of great freedom. If he tells the regrets of his author by an often heartbreaking song, he celebrates reparation and redemption. In the midst of doubts that recall the constant fragility of Greentea Peng in the face of demons of her past, hope messages arise. In this, it is a penetrating and moving album. It shows what the abuse and the thirst for artistic emancipation can cost who embraces them intensely and without a net. Because Greentea Peng, behind the tattoos and the beautifully debonary attitude, seems to be consumed by pain that only music really allows to express and that her new life as a mother obliges to tame. She also repeats it to envy on the excellent I am (reborn) :: « I AM NOT WHO I WAS YESTERDAY. » Of course.
The verve of English rap in all its splendor. A new way of diverting the codes of your favorite genres to create a completely different music.
At the crossroads of Noise-Rap, glitter sounds and nostalgia for the 2000s, here is another damn free album published at the beginning of 2025.
The DUB pearl of producer Bunny Lee, a compilation of songs recorded by the Dub Jamaican formation in the Mitan of the 1970s. Mixed by King Tubby, please.
