Nubian Voygager: Echos, Part 1

Celebrating a new generation of underground poets, Grammy-nominated Afro-European World Music artists Les Nubians set twenty-one young, urban, international poetry competition winners to music in this amazing dual-language book and CD release. Representing the heart of an innovative, contemporary, urban, creative form and forum, this spoken word urban poetry fusion contains four distinct chapters, each addressing the issues of urban life, loves, and the spirit in human nature. The Grammy-nominated international Hip-Hop, R&B duo Les Nubians’ multicultural sensibilities span from Afro-Jazz to British Break Beat to Cameroonian Hip-Hop. Their latest CD, included in the collection, was recorded all over the world; New York, Paris, Bordeaux, London, Marseilles, and San Francisco, and is a fusion of urban poetry from the most promising poets of the urban underground, and modern music, including World Beat samplers, Hip-Hop inspired rhythms, American rappers, global Afrobeat and R&B!