LADI DADI I & II EP

Frizzy P & Mr Cole announce the long awaited follow-up to their first EP "LADI DADI" released in 2017. Six new tracks between old school hip hop, trip hop and jazz complete the first part, the whole will be released for the first time on vinyl in March 2023 via Dramadôme.

For their new EP, soberly called Ladi Dadi II as a sequel to the first EP, the duo decided to burn the two opuses on the same vinyl. The release is scheduled for March 2023, through the distributor Kuroneko. For the occasion, artist Livio Bernardo, known for his hit french satires of La Vie Moderne, signs once again the art work ; freely inspired by David Fincher’s movie “ GONE GIRL”.

The main reference to this double EP is well known to hip hop fans: it all started in 1985 - Dougy Fresh and Slick Rick released the track "La Di da Di", which became a classic of the genre and one of the most sampled tracks in history. The track, which sounds like a catchphrase, is a perfect description of the singer's rhythmic and melodious flow, which effortlessly flows over Mr Cole's warm, organic beats. Almost perfect symbiosis. Tinged with heady refrains, the EP can be listened to over and over. The mix of the album keeps the voices at the same level or even in the background of the instrumentation, as a will to harmonize the whole and make the listening of the opus fluid.

"Is it sung rap, trip hop soul, or the return of New Jack? Frankly, we don't know. Composed of a singer and a beatmaker, Frizzy P and Mr Cole has just released a first EP that should be more viral than the flu this autumn. And it almost sounds like happy Portishead (a fine achievement)." Jack, November 2017

The new EP, which will be featured on the B-side of the vinyl, looks like a logical continuation of the first. The worlds follow each other with a few differences. The instruments are slightly different - you can hear rhodes, pianos, synths, where brass instruments had mainly lined the musical background of the first part. However, the flows of Frizzy P are still there, as are her intoxicating vocals accompanied by the deep soulful sound and dusty rhythms of Mr Cole.

You See is the first single released last November and is also the last track on the album. Set against a backdrop of trap and a bluesy sample, it evokes fears of the future, in a world where one's flaws are rarely shown and old wounds must remain hidden from the eyes of others.

"Strangers live in fictions, letting people know, how to hold a whisper when you hit a blow (...) Roll the dice, let me roll them twice, a kinder way to deal with a life I fear," says Frizzy P.

The video for You See was shot in Dunkirk, in the abandoned port between France and England, the two cradles of the singer. Perhaps, an attempt to find answers there.

Frizzy P & Mr Cole first got together in 2015 in the garage of a house in the Parisian suburbs and launched"LADI DADI", released on 21 April 2017. This house is Mr Cole's, where he grew up. Frizzy P, on the other hand, spent her childhood travelling and is now back in France after many years spent across the Channel. One is rooted, the other uprooted, and yet they get along night and day: while one plays his dusty vinyls on his MPC, the other narrates.

If there's an affinity, it may come from somewhere else: it's the blues of their childhood - the sound, but also the feeling. They begin to sample the pioneers of black American music, whom their respective fathers listened to over and over again on cassette tapes, the very people who would become the absent figures of their adolescence, like two ghostly shadows with whom the two artists unconsciously seek to reconnect. "58 years ago a man was born and we loved him so, how I remember his gentle attention.." thus Frizzy P opens the EP.

Hovering over their scores are John Lee Hooker or Mahalia Jackson, then what follows in the 80s and 90s - the boom bap of The Pharcyde, the Hip Hop of Nas, the beats of J Dilla, the amazing flows of singer Mariana "Ladybug Mecca" Vieira, from Digable Planets. For both, a common will to make these first two EPs "classics" of the genre still persists, with sounds that don't deceive. Frizzy P pays homage to the female rappers and singers who accompanied his youth - Yarah Bravo, Kate Tempest or Billie Holliday, whose sample is hidden in the track "Blue". The influence of these timeless artists resonates in this mix of rap and vocals, like a musical synthesis that defines the singer's interpretation.

Frizzy P & Mr Cole are two artists who tell their stories. In a musical landscape that is mostly defined by fashionable concepts, these two bare themselves with authenticity. There is little artifact - they talk about themselves, their ghosts, their flaws and their sorrows, against a backdrop of ever nostalgic sounds. It is in this vein that the duo mingle and give the project its obviousness. Frizzy P & Mr Cole reveal who they are. They plunge us into the depths of their melancholy, and it feels…great!