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C-mon & Kypski

The guys of C-Mon & Kypski (Simon Akkermans, Thomas Elbers, Daniel Rose en Jori Collignon) let their fantasies run free for half a year. After two years of intensive touring (from Amsterdam to Istanbul, South by Southwest to Eurosonic) with the material of the second album ‘Static Traveller’, it was time for something new. At the end of 2005 they decided to give their fantasy a helping hand. With unshaven beards they left with a camper van full of ideas and recording equipment to Morocco. Over a period of four weeks they created what is now their third and latest album "Where the Wild Things are."

The most concrete product of their journey is the new single, "Bumpy Road" (digital release October 6) which got its name from the circumstances of the recordings. It is by far the happiest C-Mon & Kypski song till now, and irresistibly invites the listener to explore the wide world themself.

Adventure, freedom and fantasy are C-Mon & Kypskis magic words. The journey to Morocco is a good example as well as the album title, which refers to the famous children book from 1963, written by Maurice Sendak with the same title. Little Max was sent to bed as a punishment and experiences all kind of adventures in the magic forest arising in his room.

No wonder the music of C&K does not have any musical borders. At first the group made it easy for themselves to be put under the genre hiphop/turntablism, but not anymore. C-Mon: “It really is a C-Mon & Kypski album, but some influences have decreased, some added. Especially rock plays a big part whereas we didn’t use guitars before. Most important, we don’t cut and paste anymore, we used less samples for this album and played a lot more instruments ourselves. We’ve grown in creating a sound.”

And so C-Mon & Kypski unite a whole lot of genres into their own sound, from Afrobeat to electro, a psychedelic dreamtrack that is coverted to a pumping rock song. Where do you find klezmer and tango seamless united into one song? Of course, C-Mon & Kypski.

Until now C-Mon & Kypski did every dirty job on the album themselves, but on their new album they thankfully make use of the services of rappers Sadat X (Brand Nubian, USA) Pete Philly en Kain (The Last Poets, USA) saxophone player Benjamin Herman (New Cool Collective) and from Amsterdam: Klezmer Band and the rockers of Voicst also collaborated on the album.

C-Mon & Kypski is:
Simon Akkermans: samples, production
Thomas Elbers: scratches, beats
Daniel Rose: strings, guitars
Jori Collignon: piano, keyboards

Discography
C-mon & Kypski:
Vinyl Voodoo (2002)
Static Traveller (2004)
Where the Wild Things Are (2006)

C-mon:
Cereal (2006)

Kypski:
Clocktaves (2005)